I did warn you.

Krokodil, probably.

(Seriously, don’t look up images of its effects, it’s extremely NSFL shit.)

The USB-A connector has spin ½.

You have to rotate it 360⁰ before it’ll fit (and 360⁰ more to get it back to the original orientation).

The index is there (the NTFS file system maintains it automatically) and is fast (as programs like Everything Search demonstrate)… Windows Search is simply not using it anymore, probably so it can shove sponsored shit in the results, or maybe due to lost knowledge due to lay-offs.

Yes, but no.

The NTFS file system does maintain an index, and software like Everything Search or WizTree can use it to produce almost instantaneous results (probably faster than back in the XP days, even with larger discs).

The problem is that Windows Search stopped using the damn index for some reason (probably to provide sponsored web results and whatnot instead of whatever you were looking for).

Just get Everything Search and you’ll be able to search just as fast as you could in XP, and with no Bing spam messing up the results.

Funny¹ thing is that Everything (and similar programs like WizTree) can be that be that fast because Microsoft’s own NTFS file system has a built in file index, which is what Windows Search used back in XP; the search programs practically don’t have to do any work, NTFS has already done it for them.

Of course, though, that’ll give you the results you want, not the results Microsoft wants, which explains the change in later further enshittified versions of Windows.

1.– And by funny I mean not funny at all. Sad, in fact. Tragic, even, maybe.

I think Trump genuinely wants to be peacemaker

Trump’s never given a flying fuck about anything other than Trump, and never will.

He is enough of a narcissistic idiot to believe he could achieve peace in the middle east by bombing Iran, though, not because he cares about peace but because he genuinely believed it would get him the Nobel peace price, which he needs because Obama of all people got one, and extremely narcissistic Trump’s never gotten over Obama making fun of him at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ dinner.

When both Israel and Iran immediately violated his unilateral ceasefire (to the surprise of no one but Trump) he saw his prospects for said Nobel price, which he already considered in his pocket, evaporate, which explains his tantrum.

Because IBM built the PC as a side project out of mainly off-the-shelf parts, except for the BIOS, never intending it to be more than one of many personal computers in the market… and then Compaq and Columbia Data Products reverse engineered said BIOS making PC-compatible clones a possibility.

Open BIOSes and a personal computer made of essentially off-the-shelf parts led to everyone and their aunt making PC-compatible machines, and the personal computer boom, and most personal computers being able to run mostly the same software.

IBM tried to lock it back down with the PS/2, and Microsoft also later tried to lock it down to Windows with some shady schemes like ACPI, but all attempts ultimately failed because by that point the PC ecosystem was so large that any attempts at lockdown were sidestepped by other vendors, or eventually reverse engineered or bypassed.

Sadly the same never happened with phones. The PC thing was a serendipitous fluke to start with, phones aren’t made of off-the-shelf parts, and manufacturers were wise to the “risk” and made sure to keep as much control as possible.

All according to plan.

The Israeli government needs Israel to be a perpetual victim to justify perpetual war.

When no enemy is attacking they need to force an attack, lest their citizenship stop living in constant fear long enough for them to question the need for perpetual war.

No, you’re not overreacting.

But, if you’re in north America, you’re probably fucked.

(If you’re in the USA, though, good news is you’d be fucked anyway, so the car thing is mostly irrelevant, except as a means to get out, fast.)

Cat must have loved those frills.

I think I can see at least one scratch or bite mark in one of her fingers from before the cat got tired.

The obvious example of lemmy-like federation is email.

There’s lots of email servers, but all of them can send emails to each other (unless blacklisted, which would be the equivalent of defederation), and their users can read emails regardless of which server the sender has their account on.

Not using Lemmy

I think if you’re looking at a piefed or mbin/kbin community (magazine?) from lemmy you might be able to see replies from mastodon users through the magic of federation (mastodon —> piefed or mbin/kbin —> lemmy), and the other way around, even if mastodon and lemmy can’t directly federate with each other…

That greedy little pigboy Spez. Admins. Mods. Bots.

That greedy little pigboy Spez decided to lock down the API and kill third party apps, and we all left.

It’s been only bots there for the last two years.

I think you’re joking a out how Ukrainians are the real people who got the USSR into space?

I’m not. It was mostly paperclipped Nazis on one side, mostly Ukrainians on the other. 🤷‍♂️

Russia might have ended up with the USSR’s rockets, but they certainly didn’t make and much less design them. The only thing Russia has ever produced is a worse future for Russia. They’re extremely efficient at that. It’s their whole history: “… and then it got worse.”

Most of Europe is at war with the only European country who’s gotten people into space

Sure, but they’re on the same side.

(Unless you mean the USSR, but that hasn’t existed for more than 30 years, and it was mostly Ukrainian scientists and engineers doing the job during the space race anyway.)

This might work:

No, LLMs have always been an evident dead end when it comes to general AI.

They’re hampering research in actual AI, and the fact that they’re being marketed as AI ensures that no one will invest in actual AI research in decades after the bubble bursts.

We were on track for a technological singularity in our lifetimes, until those greedy bastards derailed us and murdered the future by poisoning the Internet with their slop for some short term profits.

Now we’ll go extinct due to ignorance and global warming long before we have time to invent something smart enough to save us.

But, hey, at least, for a little while, their line did go up, and that’s all that matters, it seems.

They need more rust.