It’s been the right’s spin for a few years. Eg: it was peaceful, until an ex fbi guy told them to go in the capitol. The idea being the Biden fbi did this. While Trump was in office.

Also somehow antifa did this. And the violence was made up and exaggerated.

I’m just echoing talking points I’ve heard from friends who listen to the right wing channels.

People are unaware of this degree of spin.

It’s been the right’s spin for a few years. Eg: it was peaceful, until an ex fbi guy told them to go in the capitol. The idea being the Biden fbi did this. While Trump was in office.

Also somehow antifa did this. And the violence was made up and exaggerated.

I’m just echoing talking points I’ve heard from friends who listen to the right wing channels.

People are unaware of this degree of spin.

Certainly very old school.

Side note: this makes me wish the windows handhelds had a phone form factor and 5g

Very unfortunate. Thank you for the wonderful moments. You created so many.

If this were valid, more people would be making their own meals and their own furniture.

And I don’t think the friction in vibe coding is that different.

I’d pay good money to disable that feature and keep my pc as is. Or I’ll have to swap to Steam OS

Just do it really. Most people just say it, and will be back for the next feature to complain again

I’ve done it a few times. The gaming experience was lacking. I’m not a fan of virtualization and containers everywhere either, or having to enter my admin password every day.

I’ll wait for the Steam console OS to be live.

That's fedora with proton and some tweaks. No reason to wait

I don’t want to deal with terminal. I don’t want to deal with entering my password. I don’t want to deal with snap. I don’t want to think about what aspects of my nvidia card won’t be supported. Those QOL aspects matter to me a lot.

That’s why I’m waiting for specifically the console version of Steam OS, all usable via gamepad.

> This feature is completely optional and is never turned on by default.

You only need to pay $0.

Let me fix that:

This feature is completely optional and is never turned on by default UNTIL MS DECIDES OTHERWISE.

Sorry, I wouldn't take any chances.

Not “off”, but “null”.

Pay someone to install and configure Linux then.

I’m perfectly capable. I find windows better overall. This might be the tipping point

Try LTSC in case you haven't already. It's the essence of Windows, without most of this user-facing bullshit. They release it for environments where people expect their things to actually work, "like hospitals or kiosks". But, I can attest that it works for gaming as well.

Activation can work with Massgrave, or by you spinning up your own activation emulator, or by pointing your Windows to the myriad other activation emulators across the web. You download the image from Microsoft, install, a bunch of console commands, and you're good to go. Long support and no bullshit.

Oh interesting, never heard of it. I do a bunch of emulation and gaming that sometimes requires esoteric drivers, does video streaming and ofc the latest nvidia driver. Does that windows let users mess with that part of the stack?

LTSC is basically a trimmed-down version of Windows. Whatever is possible in Home, Pro, Enterprise etc, is possible in the LTSC as well. Most of the LTSC surprise comes from the lack of features. For example, I installed the "LTSC N" version back in the day, and that didn't even had codecs, so when I opened Reddit in Firefox, the videos didn't play. But even that was easily amended by just installing a specific update.

In case you want a community around it as well, Reddit was helpful for me.

Thanks! If you have any extra pointers I’ll definitely explore.

Turns out all the Xbox UI stuff require the latest windows insider. If there’s an LTSC version that covers that, it’d be absolutely perfect for my use case!

https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsLTSC/ for sure, massgrave.dev for activation (or vlmcsd, which I use, but now I'm reading that it's EOL). Unfortunately I cannot help with the Xbox stuff, but I'm sure there is help on the internet somewhere, people like to tinker with this system. I wish you luck!

Oh my god this is like the ODE (optical drive emulators) that people use on retro consoles!

“I was not entertaining at a show, here’s what I didn’t learn”.

I kept waiting for the guy to share some lesson that was learned, and it never came. The self-satisfied writing was less interesting than his complete disinterest in two other humans and the entire event.

What a sad existence he leads. It's as if he's stuck in the 1990s, and proud of it.

And the date wasn't even "stolen" - though smooth guy probably did steal that girl after the exceedingly low bar set by this dude.

He “learned” long ago that if people don’t celebrate you for putting down someone else (or themselves), you can just remind yourself how big of an intellectual you are to give yourself that ego boost, and rationalize everything as you experiencing a more authentic life than others.

Perhaps the saddest part of this extremely sad post was when he was actually validated by the loser who praised him at the end, rather than taking the complete rejection by the entire room as an opportunity to self-reflect.

What joke? You presented this all as a completely factual thing that happened, and that you were the sole guardian of... non-cringe authenticity?... in the place, and that some loser thanked you for your service.

Now you're saying that the whole article was a lie?

Congrats, you're now even more disappointing of a person than originally presented.

The entire article is true. And if joke isn't clear to you, I won't be explaining it.

You have a tremendous amount to learn about writing, and communication in general. Good luck

I’m looking forward to his “I posted on HN, but some other posts stole upvotes from me”!

"9 ways Marcus Aurelius helped me ignore social media haters"

They need to out product people in charge. Humans buy products that delight them.

I love using my PC, but in the past couple of years it’s become my Steam and emulation box, and for tinkering.

They need to step up.

> Humans buy products that delight them.

Individuals aren't Microsoft's core customer which is why they don't care. It's the same reason Apple never went after the enterprise. Steve Jobs wanted people to choose the product, not have it chosen for them.

For Microsoft, they don't care. Businesses/IT Departments are the ones choosing and shoving it on everyone else. The users don't have to like it.

Move Zig. For great justice!

Take off every Zig!

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