One small change can lead to a totally divergent path. Think about it this way. You are supposed to meet your SO today at work. But you forgot to brush. No big deal. Right? Well your SO says hello, so you say it back and then she gets a whiff. Well end of conversation and that’s that. No wife. No kids. Not with her.
Or maybe you miss that buss that you barely caught. Or maybe you win the lotto at 19 and that changes everything for you.
You’re thinking wrong if you think lives have to be drastically different in every way for it to manifest as a whole new life. It can be the smallest thing but that tiny, infinitesimal thing can lead to a cascade of change or shunt people down an entirely different path.
Lastly, your ancestors would also be subject to these events, making all their lives very different as well.
As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop, I swear) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍...
You don’t sound like you weren’t around the Windows Vista/Longhorn development days when they promised a successor to NTFS and then over the course of the next couple of years, would bail on that (and nearly every other promise made).
And FWIW, they are developing ReFS, which looks like it will finally supplant NTFS, but given MS’ business model, don’t expect NTFS to ever really disappear.
Just one, one drop in a sea of lunacy and megalomania. But that’s Elon. Now if this guy took over a company that directly impacted your profits, what would you do?
The real sad thing is that even if he is the Yahoo to Tumblr, it won’t impact him one iota. He’ll still be rich as all creation and people will still fawn over him and listen to what he has to say.
Funny how no one ever considers this. It’s like they think some 12 year old can one day on a whim go to their doctor and ask for a sex change and they’ll start them on meds that day like hey I didn’t see my kid for the afternoon and now he’s got breasts what the hell!
I don’t really get why anyone would do this to their bikes. They aren’t built to tow things. Also that one on the gold wing or whatever it is is so suss, like pretty sure you’d get looked at sideways by the cops in most places.
In 2005, Sony BMG installed DRM software on users’ computers without clearly notifying the user or requiring confirmation. Among other things, the software included a rootkit, which created a security vulnerability. When the nature of the software was made public much later, Sony BMG initially minimized the significance of the...
Yeah it made pretty big headlines. It wasn’t so much the DRM but more the way they went about sneaking it onto people’s systems. And even after people were exploiting the kit, Sony did this:
“Russinovich noted that the removal program merely unmasked the hidden files installed by the rootkit but did not actually remove the rootkit.”
There are few companies I will never support. Sony is one of them. They have absolute seething hate and disrespect for their customers.
There is no ecosystem as mature, polished and integrated as Apple’s. I am all in with them and the way all their devices and services work together is just marvellous.
But the answer to your general question is you will need to go all in on a single company. And TBH, you should. They are all bad to some degree. But cobbling together a pipeline of various manufacturers will always result in a terrible experience, and you’ll be generally paying the same for it anyway.
The way they put back these street tiles (i.imgur.com)
installing windows in a nutshell (sh.itjust.works)
The Simpsons: Hit and Run Fan Remake Is Complete, but It Will Never Be Released - IGN (www.ign.com)
Even the developer cannot be bothered to release physical copies or pretend to sell them as blank disk copies.
This got me thinking which button to click (lemm.ee)
Diablo 4 Patch 1.1.1 Campfire Chat: July 28th - Icy Veins (www.icy-veins.com)
Link above will livestream and have summary once the chat has completed....
FOUR whole parking spots (i.imgur.com)
Shrodinger’s Megamind (lemmy.world)
I can hear this post in their voices. Maybe I’ve seen the movie too many times…nah
After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe (petapixel.com)
TL;DR:...
What is the most popular thing in the world?
Music?
NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 (en.wikipedia.org)
As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop, I swear) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍...
Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing (www.msn.com)
WTF??? (sh.itjust.works)
Wayne (lemmy.world)
Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2399016...
Are all calories created equal? Your gut microbes don’t think so. (www.washingtonpost.com)
"X.com now points to https://twitter.com/"
https://i.imgur.com/blYSnyR.jpg...
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This was a fun read, Revzilla’s me take on moto-camping (www.revzilla.com)
if you tweet on Twitter, what do you do on X ?
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Diving subreddit has new mods who promise to put an end to the protest, commentors are not happy. Is this the end of SCUBA??? (old.reddit.com)
https://i.rdrama.net/images/16901308825202575.webp...
TIL that In 2005, Sony BMG installed DRM software without knowledge or consent of the user, that included a rootkit which created a security vulerability (en.wikipedia.org)
In 2005, Sony BMG installed DRM software on users’ computers without clearly notifying the user or requiring confirmation. Among other things, the software included a rootkit, which created a security vulnerability. When the nature of the software was made public much later, Sony BMG initially minimized the significance of the...
Coming from nestle of all people (lemmy.world)
Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail (par1.iv.ggtyler.dev)