Evkob

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I listened to House MD on crappy "watchtvforfree.net" type websites over a decade ago, and I only just realized now that the theme wasn't supposed to change every episode. I just checked YouTube for the intro and I'm super familiar with all three versions haha

I like them all in their own way, but Teardrop obviously stands out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I can definitely see this argument, but I strongly suspect the inverse will be true; finding results for MS sudo which aren't about Linux might be difficult.

After all, sudo has existed for a long time. Also, I assume over 90% of people who use Linux uses or has used sudo, whereas a tiny fraction of Windows users will ever use MS sudo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Linux subsystem for windows

If you wanted to talk about EEE regarding Linux subsystem for Windows, you probably should specify that. I share your misgivings about WSL, but this thread is about sudo for Windows which is another thing entirely.

Making it easier to stay off Linux, adding similar elements to Linux to appeal to Linux users.

I have a hard time imagining Linux users switching to Windows because of a feature Linux has had since its inception. Of course MS won't do anything that doesn't increase their profits, that's what corporations do. Implementing "new" features is a way of attracting more users, sure, but I still fail to see any way in which sudo for Windows fits the EEE scheme. "Embrace, extend, extinguish" refers to specific predatory business practices, it's not shorthand for "everything I dislike about capitalism and the tech industry" and using it as such kinda dilutes its original meaning.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (14 children)

...what?

I'm always aboard the Microsoft hate train, but I don't see how them adding sudo fits within EEE. Here's an excerpt from microsoft/sudo on Github:

Obviously, everything about permissions and the command line experience is different between Windows and Linux. This project is not a fork of the Linux sudo project, nor is it a port of the Linux sudo project. Instead, Sudo for Windows is a Windows-specific implementation of the sudo concept.

As the two are entirely different applications, you'll find that certain elements of the Linux sudo experience are not present in Sudo for Windows, and vice versa.

Despite sharing a name and features, they're for two completely separate platforms and offer no interoperability. If MS decided to release their version of sudo for Linux, maybe we could talk about EEE. For now, all they've done is implement a useful tool from another platform into theirs, and that's a (rare) positive for MS, even if this feature should have existed like 30 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One of the news sources I follow with RSS decided to publish a recipe for "apple nachos" for some godforsaken reason. I honestly kinda hope it's AI-generated garbage, because I'd truly be saddened if a human person used up some of their limited time on this Earth to redact this "article".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I totally get that the couple of bucks a month is worth saving any headache from doing tech support for family members.

However, if you want to try switching them to pirated sources, Stremio + Torrentio add-on and a Real-Debrid sub (which is paid but much cheaper than a streaming service) is great for giving you a Netflix-like interface for pirated content. It's easy enough that I coached my dad on how to set it up via text.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Okay, and? Sorry if I have a bit of a snarky tone throughout this comment, but it frankly annoys me when people bring up stuff like this. Yes, richer people exist, and mathematically the Swift family net worth (pre-Taylor's career) was surely closer to a minimum wage family than to Jeff Bezos. I don't expect anyone would suggest Mr. and Ms. Swift to be first at the guillotine if the revolution comes. I don't even begrudge them using their wealth to help their daughter's career. I bet most would do the same if they had the resources. But...

Minimum wage earners have more in common with her parents than her parents did with the truly wealthy.

Being able to invest anything, let alone 120,000$ into something as unsure as a pop music career, is very foreign to me, a minimum wage earner. From my perspective, the Swift family had a heck of a lot more in common with the elite than with my peers. Sure, they didn't have "buy-private-islands-and-tickets-to-space-Musk-Bezos" type money, but they clearly had enough money to never need or even want anything.

Comparing this with minimum wage earners is pretty shortsighted, even if mathematically their finances are closer to minimum wage earners than to the 0.0000001% of ultra wealthy. The leap from "closer in net worth mathematically" to minimum wage earners than the ultra wealth to "have more in common" with minimum wage earners than the ultra wealthy is just plain wrong. The math doesn't represent the reality of these different financial situations. In reality, their lives were much closer to that of the elite than to the poor fucker buying their groceries in quarters at the Dollar Store.

The existence of people who have so much wealth the human mind can't even conceive of it doesn't negate the wealth the Swift family clearly had, and it certainly doesn't mean their economic and social lives are closer to that of minimum wage earners than to the ultra wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (7 children)

In what world does investing roughly 3x the median yearly income in the US into your child's potential music career not count as "quite rich"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Installing an emulator (and an app on that emulator) for something you can achieve more easily either with a native app or a website is already convoluted.

Doing so on a PC when the UI of the emulated app is meant for a mobile phone with touch controls and a fraction of the screen size of a desktop computer? Very convoluted.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Body camera video equivalent of 25 million copies of "Barbie"

Is this a typical unit of measurement in journalism? Like what even is this? Crappy in-article advertising? Some weird SEO shit? An odd attempt to be cool and hip?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I don't self-host (...yet. I do have a couple of things I'd like to play around with eventually) but honestly, for my use case I don't feel any need to sync RSS. I mostly read articles on my phone, and if I'm on my PC I just remember which articles I've read. I can see how fetching RSS locally on each device might fall apart if one follows a large number of feeds, though.

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