If you don’t have admin rights on your work pc, you can install fancyzone by installing powertoys from the microsoft store.

That “small subset” is hundreds of millions of devices made in the last 5 years alone.

The problem with Linux (not their fault), is that most of the problems appear in hardware made in the last 3 years.

Most of the hobbyists I speak to that have failed linux desktop experiences mostly switch back to windows due to:

1. Hardware compatibility issues.
2. Microsoft office interoperability limitations of the web based office.
3. Display scaling issues on multi-monitor setups and some linux applications.

Personally for me the list is:

1. Bluetooth not being detected on my particular asus laptop. (The same bluetooth chip works in other laptops)
2. Multi-monitor scaling and resolution issues when 3 external monitors are connected via thunderbolt doc.
3. Lack of good alternatives to fancyzones

That’s because you are sending your Fucks to the wrong key. You are missing the /feedback folder under system

Yes, I recall at the time experts saying it was a terrible mistake and Elon saying Machine learning will bridge the gap.

The real reason was to increase margins.

Because a laptop waking from sleep while in a bag is a fire hazard.

Agree, he is not taking a principled stance. He is playing the “I am being oppressed because of my race” card, despite his extensive privilege.

One correction, it’s not the state that officially takes ownership, it’s politically connected private individuals who get the ownership. The public gets zero benefit.

I agree with you that he is being a racist asshole about it. He is emphasizing the race part of the legislation over the bribe part of it, because that is more politically useful to him.

It does not make the legislation less problematic. The ANC is begging the world to invest in the country, but not because that is what the country needs, but because it feeds the state mandated corruption.

Both parties are in the wrong here.

You never learned about the robber Barons of the 1880’s in school did you?

Only net neutrality and a ban on exclusivity agreements are required. Otherwise you get the US internet hellscape of local monopolies.

Just a bit of South African context. In South Africa, in order to get a telcoms licence, you have to comply with BB-BEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment) requirements. Basically, you have to sell 30% (soon to be 51%) of your company to a local black owner. This is in addition to DEI requirements for employment.

For most businesses, these requirements are not mandatory to exist or operate, but gives you a bidding advantage for government contracts. For example, Microsoft, amazon and Temu can operate here, because they dont need any special licences. But for some sectors, companies need to aquire a license.

It can be argued that such legislation was necessary to incentivise business to diversify their employment and ownership to those previously excluded.

BUT, the way it is implemented, there is a huge emphasis on black ownership for various sectors. What will basically happen is a business needs to acquire a license from a government department. These licenses would only be granted if you give ownership of your company to the “appropriate” investor. Invariably someone connected to the government. They determine the price and basically get gifted portions of companies.

So what has basically happened is that this legislation only effective portion these days, is to enrich the politically connected.

So basically Elon is not wanting to pay the bribes necessary to get the required license to operate.

I Hate the buffoon, but on this he is correct.

We have an Island for people like him. It’s small, windswept, covered in bird and penguin poop. Civilization and freedom is close enough to see and swim for, but it is surrounded by great white sharks.

But we stopped sending people to Robben Island, instead of sending the right types of people there.

Tribbles!

Virus running in wine: “WTF is this place. It’s familiar, but it’s all wrong!”

Actually because of the density you wont be able to sink more than about 1/6th of your body into it.

Come on, Call of Duty is not that old! /s

The problem is people keep buying new versions of the same games released around 2000.

You are likely not old enough to remember windows 2000. It had the NT kernel and did nothing more than expected. It got out of your way so you could do work.

There have been some improvements over the years, but Microsoft’s goals for windows changed after that, which is when enshitification started.

1 hrs and 0.1hrs played.

Best to ignore both.

I would think that farmers were experienced and smart enough to know which crops would hybridize and which don’t. They would not need the clergy to tell them that.

We don’t see farmers today getting farming advice from the church. They get it from other farmers. I don’t see any reason for it to be different back then.

I do see however that the church wanted to sound important and wise. So they wrote things down, but without having a full understanding, so a lot of the advice they wrote down is too simplistic.

Or some priest or political leader took revenge against a pig farmer who slept with his daughter.

And the mixed crops this was more likely to make sure farmers are not self sufficient.