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So this is why AMDGPU can't reset properly? Because Digital Restrictions Management hardware built into it intentionally can't be initialized more than once after a power cycle or hard reset, for "security reasons"???? Fuck that shit. #amdgpu #enddrm

Fricking Netflick SKIP CREDITS bs. My parents want to pause on the cast names, and the fricking Watch Credits or Skip To Next Episode buttons keep popping up, blocking the pause button. #netflix

Email subject from ZDNet:

> MacOS 26 perks Windows already has ✨

But, what if I want to use "Literally anything but Windows". I'll even take less functional OSes. Or OSes that took years to catch up.

Cool, I just thought to test #steam on #macostahoe and found that I can't launch any games. Everything either crashes or says Steam isn't logged in. And Steam gets stuck thinking that the last game is still running.

I guess I get to buy my entire library over again from the Mac App Store. Or just use a PC for games.

So #macostahoe is the new Windows Vista? Instead of Aero Glass we have Liquid Glass? And lots of bugs?

But it's still a first developer beta. And I like it.

I also liked Vista. Even with 1GB of RAM and a cramped partition made next to the XP partition I hated still using.

Why the hell does Privacy have daily spending limits across the whole account? Aren't the limits per card sufficient? Why the hell is this even considered security? How hard is it to simply call your bank and ask them to reverse the charges? This shit is meant to simplify security by giving me burnable card numbers, not protect me from myself. Well, there's one more vendor who now directly has my debit card number all because I needed to spend more than $500 at once.

This pisses me off: I can't use Waydroid from Plasma here. Starting Apple Music makes my GPU reset. This does not happen from wlroots compositors.

First world problems: I am using my AirPods, OG, first gen, still roughly high capacity batteries. Because my AirPods Pro are still charging, because the left one decided not to make contact with the case the last time I put them away, so it never charged. And not using my usual favorite, AirPods Max, because they're getting uncomfortable due to the heat and the fact they're a fricking airtight vapor chamber over my ears. And it somewhat bothers me that they reek of a combination of earwax and fungus. I *guess* nobody normally uses headphones all day, every day?

Wherein I vacate all Apple related chats because one annoying person can't stop complaining about how Apple is constantly rescanning his data for OCR and/or object identification purposes.

I can't explain why they do it, when the processes of scanning apparently never change, so therefore they should produce the same results given the same input data, so why does Apple ineptly re-scan your data nonstop, day-in, day-out?

I can't explain it. I don't want to explain it. I don't even want to concern myself with the reason.

I simply turn off Apple Photos syncing on my desktops and delete the local libraries so the desktops aren't constantly scanning my photos for changes that aren't happening.

I'm already annoyed enough that this person pointed out that they're running on an aging Intel machine. Guess what, intelligence models existed in CPU back then. It just wasn't called "Apple Intelligence". Intentionally running old versions of macOS to avoid "Apple Intelligence" doesn't buy you a reprieve from the OS trying to outsmart you and spend your electricity.

Okay, straight up, wtf: The #bcachefs dev just changed his channel topic to a link to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. As if straight up Harry Potter wasn't bad enough.

"You mean you find IRC distracting?" I say as I probably spend hours waiting on internet chats with bated breath, not getting anything productive done as I try to maintain my end of a conversation simultaneously across dozens of different chat rooms I happen to be interacting in.

Hmm, I really do end up my most productive when I'm tuning out the world for a while at a time.

I myself tend to be very annoyed by people I depend upon stopping at any time to take a break. Mainly because I myself find it annoying to have to take a break from any task whatsoever, lest I never be able to get started again. I will work for myself or others until I pass out dead. Maybe this is also why I am so burned out on working that I hardly feel like doing it ever any more. Yet somehow, I still haven't eliminated my expectations of the same from others.

Meanwhile, while waiting for the developer I am working with to fix my rootfs issues on one of my machines, instead of proceeding to take a break and play some games on my other machine, I am instead sitting here, staring at an IRC client, waiting for the developer to wake up again.

I have a current backup of that rootfs, so I could say screw the developer and reformat my machine to a more stable filesystem. I would also spend the entire night sitting there, staring at the rsync output, waiting for it to finish. But then I'd also worry that the developer thought I'd given up on getting the actual issue solved, which won't just go away because I wiped my computer and restored from a backup. I would just be absolving myself of all responsibility for it, and let some other poor sap discover it a few years down the line.

I do have to wonder how poor a person has to be, that when their elderly relative is in the hospital, the young visitor who spends every day there is eating the elderly relative's hospital food. Don't the staff have to write down how much the patient is eating on their charts?

Damn. There used to be this shred remix of Stairway to Heaven, and nobody bothered to preserve it, and it got DMCA'd off YouTube years ago. And there's zero reference to it on Google. It basically ripped off the stems to the original wholesale and just had remixed/resung lyrics.

"And she's buying a cafe in Devon"
etc.

I don't live in #eu #europe region, so I can't sign this, but I can spread it, and so can anyone. There's not much time left, sign this to end the spread of evil known as "conversion therapy" - https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home #banconversiontherapy

I swear, there must be something weird with my brain. I always used to think the lyrics to Stayin' Alive went:

"Oh, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman now, no time to talk."

And for some reason, this made extra sense because of the falsetto.

Cool! Microsoft Excel now has Copilot sentiment analysis! Just what I needed my Spreadsheet app to do, analyze the mood of the verbose, long form text. That I am typing into my budget sheet.

Nobody will stop using Windows 10 just because it's going EoL. Patching is already a hostile action anyway, they'll view the lack of patches as a godsend. Uptimes will be yuuuuge.