brothershamus

Member that time when Microsoft got dragged in federal court for ten years before they eventually decided Microsoft was a monopoly for forcing their browser on everyone and then sweet fuck all happened to them for it?

Well the judiciary sure has changed - now they’re way more computer savvy and they . . . checks earpice . . . I’m sorry, that should be: they’re just as fucking clueless as they were thirty years ago if not even more so. We’re screwed, goodnight.

Fuckin’ eerie.

For $100,000 the US Congress will tell you!

Imagine being forced to give what consumers want due to European legislation.

“8 cores should always be enough for anybody”

Wow I haven’t used windows in over eight years? Nice. Mmmmm yeah. That’s the stuff.

It’s just outrageous that we’re in 202-almost-4 and mail is still in use the way it is.

Seriously, the fix has been available for almost 30 years, no one has been able - or willing - to popularize it. Hmmm.

Totally agree, but with the caveat that if you have to support this user anwyay, bite the bullet and switch to Apple - at least they can still run Office and pretend it’s windows while still benefitting from simply restarting everything as a fix.

Becoming the sole family admin is an inevitability. Unless your family are all people who read manuals, and they’re not, you are the sole family admin already and probably don’t know it.

it really should just be a print process that inevitably fails with an incomprehensible error code or a demand for money.

The windows environment, as f*d as it is, is the ONLY mental model they are capable of. I have a short list of very needy users who cannot remember their f’ing password. Any of them, much less that there are multiple passwords.

Every day it’s some random BS with email, or scroll bars or something that makes me think FFS why is everyone this incapable of grasping a simple web search??

I moved some of them to Apple because I’m not touching M$ with a ten-foot pole anymore. Oh god, the anguish I heard. The screams. The scroll bars just disappear!!! AAiiiiGhhhh! They close out windows and think that’s closing the program. “But I restarted it!” No you didn’t. They have no idea what desktops are, much less multiple ones. No C drive?? No C drive? complete catatonia. It’s never-ending.

Long story short, the entirety of the computer revolution (that was a thing we called it once, which was the style at the time) is very much just Windows for them. That’s it. If you can make a Linux system mirror exactly Windows 10 in every respect and - AND - run all of Microsoft’s products with no incursion of *nix-ism at all then they’ll be happy. Well, not happy. Not-always-crying-in-panic. Obviously, that’s never going to happen.

I’ve hated Microsoft for so long; I’ve long since given up on them ceasing to be a cancer on the modern world, it’s all I can do to just erase them from every corner of my computing experience where possible.

Remember the billboards in space guy? How did that guy get shitcanned and this guy is here with this fucking thing?

I used it. For about 10 minutes. Then I read the help files. Then I searched. Then I used it some more. Then I uninstalled it.

No app better defines the changing nature of social media than Instagram. The app started as a digital scrapbook — a place to keep up with real-world connections, close friends, and family. While other networks had more users (Facebook) or generated more news (Twitter), Instagram seemed to define the ideal form of this era of social media. Instagram became a verb, an aesthetic, and a generational signifier.

huUURP! BLAAaahhriifgghhh. . .

Garbage marketing platform dies horribly. Thousands of clueless “journalists” bereft.

When I entered the journalism program at the University of Texas in 2010, I was instructed by one of the first professors I ever had to start a Twitter account. This was during the glorious dawn of the Web 2.0 revolution—an era of unbridled Obama-era optimism—and as the media made its digitized transition, conventional wisdom said that reporters needed to develop their own bespoke personal brands. Ever since that day, I’ve consistently correlated success with the fluctuating number in my follower count.

Wow. First of all, who starts college in 2010?! Let me tie an onion to my belt before we go further. Okay, secondly, that a professor required them to have a Twitter account is hilarious and makes perfect sense. What most people don’t know is “journalism” as is taught in University of Texas and other broadminded institutions of higher learning, is essentially public relations. How to talk like a newscaster. How to write like an advertiser. Why all those studies that television is bad for people are bunk. Etc. Anyway, that’s where our author is coming from.

I think that’s why Elon’s reign of terror has been so bitterly ironic: Everything we’ve been taught about Twitter—and, frankly, social media in general—has proven to be an enormous lie.

Well . . . yeah. Poor kid, never even had the chance to see what a sucker deal Twitter was from the outset.

I’m not sure what the curriculum for the University of Texas’ journalism program is today, but I doubt a compulsory X account is still mandated.

I wouldn’t be too sure. The journalism program at UT is probably the same as it was in the 80s. In many ways, quite literally.

So what does this mean for the countless people who bought the hype? Who ground away at their Twitter accounts—triangulating pockets of virality until their followers doubled and tripled—putting the almighty bird at the center of their professional and personal aspirations? After all of their years stoking the algorithm, they’re the ones left holding the bag.

Aye, there’s the rub. What does it mean for people who bought the hype? Who found out it’s a bunch of flaming bullshit? After pouring years into feeding their lives into it?

So as far as the article goes: Pros - well written. Cons - some people never knew twitter was bullshit? What? Ugh.

But there’s an interesting implied question - what do Trump people do when they find out everything the guy’s ever said is utter bullshit? Well, we know they don’t do anything. Sometimes they double-down. But that’s part and parcel of modern republiQanism. What do ostensible liberals do when they discover something they believed in is bullshit? Like Twitter?

Indeed.

Elon Musk has taken over the @x Twitter account without paying its owner as part of the social network’s ongoing rebrand.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but a “rebrand” should not be “ongoing” for any reason. That’s like saying your surgery is ongoing. That’s bad, mmmkay.

I’m starting to think this guy’s not really a genius.

j/k I never thought that.