I always thought that the municipality should own the last mile. FTTP for every unit, then the ISPs could run their lines to a local POP and just cross-connect to the house, apartment or whatever that wants their services. That way it would reduce the infrastructure that an ISP needs and also increases the available choices for a customer.

Payment for the municipal last mile could either be leveraged via your taxes or a fee that is paid by the ISP (which inevitably would be paid by the customer anyway)

I had a late 80s Plymouth that I had to keep my foot slightly on the throttle and revving about 1000rpm because if it dipped to idle speed (around 600rpm) it’d just crap out. So I’m sitting at the light with my foot on the brake and feathering the accelerator.

Anyone else notice that thumbs down is back, there just isn’t a counter. I’ve seen it for a few weeks now.

Here’s a simple one. On PC, a lot of games let you use the keyboard/mouse or a controller. On some games it’ll switch the prompts to the layout of the last type of input you used. However I tend to use a controller for everything, except I’ll use a mouse for more fine tuned control since I suck at aiming with a joystick. But then what happens is the input notifications switch to keyboard/mouse and sometimes don’t switch back.

I’d love to see an option to force which input style gets displayed on screen. Keyboard/Controller/Auto

+1 to the Windows Internal books. Mark Russinovich knows the inside of Windows better than Microsoft did, to the point they picked him up.

The interesting thing you’ll discover when you start getting in to low level Windows internals is how close things are to Linux and how many parallels there are.

I won’t get started on the networking stack since both Microsoft and Linux stole that from BSD!

I was so bummed to learn that pumpkin spice doesn’t contain any pumpkin in it and instead it’s what you use to season pumpkin pies.

Once upon a time it was a good way to help build a community and to help pass along social knowledge of living in groups, however people very quickly learned it could be used for control and since then has been another means of exerting power over gullible people.

Part of what ticks me off is it trying to say that successful women can’t have love unless they give up their career and life to be subservient to another and follow their dreams and live a “simple life”. You never see any where they go back to the “big city” and she continues with her career.

Been there, done that. It really depends on how you travel. I very much will drop myself in the middle of a foreign place for an extended time, make friends and talk to them to understand what is going on. You don’t have to live there for a decade and still not understand things (I’d argue you’re doing it wrong at that point).

But even a short term visit can greatly expand someone’s world view with access to the arts (museums, architecture, food, music) that they normally would not get in their own bubble. And there is a vast difference between just seeing it on a screen vs being there in person that opens up minds much more than they normally could.

So please don’t try to gatekeep traveling. It can have more a profound impact for people than you realize.

Two words: lawn darts.

Yes. Stay at home in your closed off little bubble. Never experiencing other cultures or places to help expand your world view and instead reinforce it with the echo chamber of those around you.

I’d actually argue they do. Look at how often posts and comments mentioning Lemmy get removed. If they didn’t care about them, they’d leave them up like they didn’t matter.

I read “She was 26” and kept trying to figure out that math because I didn’t like the answer I was coming up with. Turns out it’s just my reading comprehension that wasn’t working out.

The phrasing makes it sound like there’s a regulation preventing disclosure so they can’t post in states where a law says otherwise.

Either means your business is running Pro, or your admins don’t have the GPOs configured correctly. That’s something that’s easy to remove on Enterprise.

I think part of the problem is they all use Win 11 Enterprise, which actually isn’t that crappy because all of the bloat can be configured and disabled and most likely their IT department has done that.

They should be forced to use Win 11 Home for a while to see how everyone else is viewing things.

I generally have an issue with Christmas decorations coming out early and stepping on Thanksgiving. But that kinda works out better.

I started on .ee since they felt like the most open and least restrictive, leaving me to chose what instances and people I wanted to block. Then when they closed down I moved to .zip for the same reason.

I wanted an instance that would help police things like spam and bots without getting into their own personal political ideologies.

For those who don’t know, this was a fake ad made up by TopGear.

Edited. My point still stands.