Ugh.

Yeah, I’ve dealt with the whole “why does my phone make noise all the time”

“Cause you have tons of bullshit apps that arent doing anything but dinging your notifications. Let me remove them”

“No, what if I miss something?!”

“You don’t even read the fucking things!”

“but I could still miss something!”

the fact that my grandmother absolutely, hard ass refuses to do anything that would improve her situation. Just bitches and moans and has great big narcissistic pity parties until someone forces it down her fucking throat.

For example, her vision isnt great, she complaints its hard to use the computer cause she cant see to type (Shes one of those chicken peck typers). I tell her to get a large print keyboard with a backlight, it’d be easier for her to see and use.

She says no, it wont help. nothing will help. boo hoo pity me blah blah bullshit.

Long story short, it goes back and forth for a month, with her refusing the idea, refusing when I directly link her to a keyboard to buy (it was cheap, too), etc etc. Just making a big fucking woe is me pity party out of it.

I finally say fuck it, buy the goddamn keyboard myself, take it over to her house, put it on her computer.

within 5 minutes “Why didnt you tell me about this before? Its amazing! I can see it and use the computer again!”

Shes the reason i’ve been balding for 20 years.

House quality is already in the shitter. Hell, not even the shitter, its down the pipe and in the septic tank.

and its not cause home owners doing repairs.

Its cause developers spinning up an LLC, buying a plot of land, shitting out a development of 300+ homes in less than 6 months that just barely meet the barest minimum of code (and anything that doesnt typically given a slide thanks to a few greased palms), just to sell all the homes in the mad housing rush before shutting down the LLC and walking away with all the money and no liability on the terrible houses they’ve built that arent suitable for living in.

CyFy on youtube highlights the problem a lot (and how hard the builders and bribed inspectors go after him for threatening the grift).

And I have own personal experience witnessing more well off friends struggle with newly bought houses being built like shit at best, to needing 10s, to 100s of thousands of dollars in repairs less than a year after purchase at worse.

Such a high level idiot would fail regardless of the OS.

You cant make an idiot proof system, because humanity just produces better idiots.

clicking the browse button to select the file is a hell of a lot easier than opening the file manager, navigating your way through your files to find the one specific one, then make both windows small so you can select a file in one, and drag it over to the other.

And look, its also an example of how you turn nothing into a big, complicated, multistep imaginary issue.

Not from my recent experience.

Americans cant even agree that fascism=bad, what makes you think Americans can give enough of a fuck about something like hidden fees to get something done.

my favorite thing is that you can only get the proper UI scale and zoom level at 1440p in the rerelease Sims 1.

Its just mindboggling.

the driver isnt the person making the fees. they are getting screwed just as much as you are

saving her some headaches, I think.

I’ve heard the rereleases are very buggy and crashy.

Yep. Used to be cautious about it working, having to check protondb before buying/installing/playing and what have you…

but I havent done that in a year.

I just install a game, even a new game, and it just works. No thought, no concern,no issues… OS related, that is, it obviously doesnt make buggy games not buggy, so buggy games are still buggy, but thats the games fault, and you’d run into that regardless of the OS… Like Cities Skylines 2 bad performance, or modded minecraft crashing due to mod things.

Want to be specific so someone doesnt follow my post with a predictable “WELL I PLAYED insert known buggy game AND IT STILL CRASHED AND I DIDNT GET A BLOWJOB FROM BETTY WHITES GHOST OR ANYTHING, YOU LIAR!”

The greed during covid exploded. especially where companies felt people were stuck/captured, like delivery services.

I wouldnt be surprised if they start dying soon from their short term profits from gouging running out.

“Estimated Taxes” is where they hide all the bullshit made up fees and imaginary taxes that are pure profit and increase profit margin, but if they listed it as “Customer Fuck-over Fee” people would obviously stop using it.

most websites like youtube/twitter/facebook/etc/etc are all heavily pro-right wing.

They’ve claimed in the past they don’t want to appear “biased” by cracking down on right wingers for rules violations. but honestly, it was obviously bullshit since they had no problem with “biased” appearances when cracking down on any other group, and often for far far far less than what right wingers routinely get away with.

Right wingers are where their bread is buttered. They buy more ads, they run less adblocking, and they click more ads.

youtube algo is such a piece of shit.

Watch lets plays and tech channels, every day, for months.

Accidentally watch 30 seconds of a right wing psychopaths video because they buried the lede with the video title, and all youtube wants to show me for 2 weeks is right wing extremist bullshit, and takes months to get back into getting suggested the shit i normally watch on the daily.

one of my great regrets (Of a great many, I’l concede) is that I never had the opportunity to attend a lan party in my younger days… In these days of the photo.

I have always looked at this picture with a mixture of jealousy and admiration.

What’d he get, a whopper with no drink or side at Burger King?

I miss the windows XP media player that had the visualizers for music and skins and shit.

VLC is okay…but it doesnt autopopulate my CD names and tracks.

This is how you handle it.

This isnt cute.

Encouraging this behavior is setting your cats up for a miserable, awful, torturous death.

And when it happens, It will be 100% your fault and you will find no respite from the blame.