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armpit_enjoyer posted:A friend hooked me up with Windows 10 LTSC back in the day and I keep using it even though you're "not supposed" to use it as a daily driver OS for whatever reason. It's Windows 10 with all of the ads stripped out, alongisde things like the Microsoft Store and Cortana. Until 2021 it didn't even come with Edge. The only downside I've encountered thus far is that you can't install Whatsapp on it anymore, because that requires Microsoft Store. I am seconding LTSC as being great. I snagged a copy a while back and it's got all the things you would want out of windows (runs programs, fully functional, gets security updates) and none of the things you don't like about windows (spyware, updates that break everything for no reason, bloated bundled programs). The reason you're not supposed to use it for your daily computer is that a mass adoption of LTSC would destroy microsoft's business model, but they can't not offer it because the alternative would be the billions of computers that are marginally viable running windows for things like point of sale terminals would switch to linux, because they can't run a full 10 install. While LTSC branches do become obsolete over time, the good news is that they always release a new LTSC client prior to that happening. There is no current LTSC client for 11, but that's because a 10 client came out shortly before 11 launched, and it's a few years between new clients. Next one will be 11.
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I stopped going to a dentist for years, despite having “coverage,” because of the stress about what nominal, normal, preventative things the insurance company would deny coverage for and leave me with a giant bill. Or the bullshit upsells - had one dentist offer to give me a deal if I did “everything that day” like I was buying a loving used car from Crazy Larry’s Haus of Wheelz or something. My wife found a local dentist who’s great though - I don’t know how she submits the claims, but I’ve had to pay almost nothing.
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GolfHole posted:hearing aids got really really really really really really really really really really There's gotta be at least $15 worth of components in your average $3000 pair of hearing aids.
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Aug 15, 2023 09:24
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I have someone with very new, very fancy hearing aids in my immediate circle and I dread the day the company behind them goes out of business and they just break and nobody can fix them because they're all some patented, proprietary bullshit
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armpit_enjoyer posted:I have someone with very new, very fancy hearing aids in my immediate circle and I dread the day the company behind them goes out of business and they just break and nobody can fix them because they're all some patented, proprietary bullshit hasn't that happened with like, pacemaker manufacturers before?
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Aug 15, 2023 10:09
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:hasn't that happened with like, pacemaker manufacturers before? Brain implants to help with epilepsy as well!
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Aug 15, 2023 10:23
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oh well it's nicely literary that the general trend in product development now is to make stuff unrepairable that just has to be replaced in full since that's what we're doing with human civilization in general too
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Biplane posted:Brain implants to help with epilepsy as well! And eye prosthetics
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armpit_enjoyer posted:A friend hooked me up with Windows 10 LTSC back in the day and I keep using it even though you're "not supposed" to use it as a daily driver OS for whatever reason. It's Windows 10 with all of the ads stripped out, alongisde things like the Microsoft Store and Cortana. Until 2021 it didn't even come with Edge. The only downside I've encountered thus far is that you can't install Whatsapp on it anymore, because that requires Microsoft Store. I use LTSC as well and 95% of the time it’s fine. If anyone is interested there are instructions on the internet for turning the trial version into the full version and from there you can run a KMS server for activation. No cracks or other garbage all microsoft software that comes with windows except for the kms server which there are several and they’re all on github. I did have a problem where my video card was a little flaky when I first booted but it went away after the last update. For whatever reason I can’t get samba shares to work even though everything else in my house mounts them fine but that might not be LTSC seems like something microsoft would definitely have working on a business product. When it stops being supported I’m sure there will be a similar product but Linux gaming is getting pretty good I might just say goodbye to microshit.
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Aug 15, 2023 13:13
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All of my new corporate learning modules are badly formatted web pages you have to click through to get credit for complete
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Aug 15, 2023 14:00
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Love that my windows install at work has a taskbar icon that ostensibly shows me the weather but actually just aggregates a ton of news stories specifically designed to make boomers mad. So glad my aging coworkers have an alternative rage machine that isn't blocked on the work network! It's just a million articles titled 'Boomers got everything wrong - and these unemployed queers are ANGRY' or 'New law will give homeless minorities YOUR home' Someone a while back mentioned Canada Air and I want to say that the entire experience of having a video screen in front of you on a flight has gotten so much worse. There's a better selection of movies, but the flight starts with the safety briefing incorporated into an ad for Disney World, 20 minutes of other ads (in English & French) and then will interrupt the flight tracker with ad breaks every 3 minutes or so. gently caress you!
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Riatsala posted:Love that my windows install at work has a taskbar icon that ostensibly shows me the weather but actually just aggregates a ton of news stories specifically designed to make boomers mad. So glad my aging coworkers have an alternative rage machine that isn't blocked on the work network! It's just a million articles titled 'Boomers got everything wrong - and these unemployed queers are ANGRY' or 'New law will give homeless minorities YOUR home' If I’ve been meaning to check something out for a long time I put it on my phone and tablet just for the day I’m stuck on the plane. Like 10 roms, albums, books, and low res movies. It’s way better than trying to decide if you’d rather watch a classic sit com, a new Marvel movie, or a good movie you’ve seen 50 times while being interrupted for liability reasons every 10 minutes. If they really gave a gently caress if you died they’d show everyone the poo poo they show the flight attendants in their training and their jobs would be 10x easier. But then some people might stop flying.
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Riatsala posted:Love that my windows install at work has a taskbar icon that ostensibly shows me the weather but actually just aggregates a ton of news stories specifically designed to make boomers mad. So glad my aging coworkers have an alternative rage machine that isn't blocked on the work network! It's just a million articles titled 'Boomers got everything wrong - and these unemployed queers are ANGRY' or 'New law will give homeless minorities YOUR home' You should be able to turn that off: Right click the Taskbar, select News and Interests, then Turn Off:  I am 99% sure you don't need any sort of local admin permissions. Even the lowest-level user should be able to turn that off on their profile.
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Aug 15, 2023 14:54
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do you think boomers will do that tho
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DrBouvenstein posted:You should be able to turn that off: Yeah I turn that off immediately. Also speaking of MS stuff, I wouldn't have a theoretical problem using Edge, but it defaults to their news website and the last thing I want on a work computer is Trump news or whatever headlines there are. And then it's so needy and desperate if you download Chrome. Like I never felt a piece of software had confidence issues, but there's Edge begging me not to leave.
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Light Gun Man posted:do you think boomers will do that tho No, but Riatsala can at least turn it off for himself, and then maybe try to sneak around the office and turn it off for any Boomer that leaves their PC unlocked, which in my experience is most of them. There is also a Group Policy setting that can disable it, so if you're chummy with anyone in IT you can ask them to try and push it through: https://www.prajwaldesai.com/disabl...ests%20feature.
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Aug 15, 2023 15:07
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The boomers won't, but now I'm equipped to turn it off for them lol
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euphronius posted:All of my new corporate learning modules are badly formatted web pages you have to click through to get credit for complete
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Somehow health insurance has gotten shittier. I moved to a new insurance when I switched jobs, and this new one is constantly trying to enroll me in their all-in-one app/IoT/virtual-assistant horseshit thing. I get emails about it on a daily basis. They literally pitched what amounts to a slack channel to chat with other people using the service like it's something I'd ever want to do. Let me in on that action, I need constant updates on what my Lisinobros are up to.
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DrBouvenstein posted:No, but Riatsala can at least turn it off for himself, and then maybe try to sneak around the office and turn it off for any Boomer that leaves their PC unlocked, which in my experience is most of them. that's true. goonspeed.
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Apple Podcast has just stopped remembering where I left off in a podcast? After a decade of using it without issue suddenly this is a problem?
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YouTube does that to me and it drives me nuts.
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I feel like image sharing has gotten worse. wanna be able to just post images straight to discord or line etc without saving it locally first or linking the post that contains it. gonna force me to boost your engagement? how about I just not share poo poo at all bitch
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I stopped reading electrek for years but I went back there the other day and it was noticeably shittier by virtue of having multiple anti- right to repair articles within the last week, and the author arguing with commentors about his dumbass takes. So now I don't know where to get EV news because I'm not giving them clicks again.
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There's a brand of baby formula we really like but goddamn it's annoying that they force you to sign up for a monthly subscription delivery service in order to buy it. We would've had like a dozen extra unwanted containers of formula by now if we hadn't cancelled the subscription every time.
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Light Gun Man posted:I feel like image sharing has gotten worse. wanna be able to just post images straight to discord or line etc without saving it locally first or linking the post that contains it. gonna force me to boost your engagement? how about I just not share poo poo at all bitch I screenshot poo poo all the time now, I assume that function will disappear on phones any generation now
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Mr Lanternfly posted:There's a brand of baby formula we really like but goddamn it's annoying that they force you to sign up for a monthly subscription delivery service in order to buy it. We would've had like a dozen extra unwanted containers of formula by now if we hadn't cancelled the subscription every time. The service as a subscription model is killing everything, this happened with a company we were buying from for more environmentally friendly washing machine and dishwasher detergents. Why do I need to subscribe to your detergents, why?? Just sell me the detergent when I need more detergent goddamn
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AARD VARKMAN posted:I screenshot poo poo all the time now, I assume that function will disappear on phones any generation now Imgur loving sucks. Give me the goddamn jpg url don't make me click a hundred buttons and gently caress about with editing the url every time. You're an image hosting service, know your place.
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Outrail posted:Imgur loving sucks. Give me the goddamn jpg url don't make me click a hundred buttons and gently caress about with editing the url every time. You're an image hosting service, know your place. They're desperate attempt at trying to be some kind of actual social media site is killing it. You can't upload images to it on mobile without the app, AFAIK. I even tried clicking the "Use Desktop Site" option in Chrome mobile, and it worked until the actual upload then it failed. This is the bananas workaround I use: The Awful App. It has a direct "Imgur" upload button, so make a post you never intend to post, use that to upload the image, then copy the actual Imgur link and paste it where you need it.
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DrBouvenstein posted:They're desperate attempt at trying to be some kind of actual social media site is killing it. this is also how I post threads on mobile, writing it in the app first so I can use the uploader to post videos from Instagram I have to go: Instagram - copy url Instagram Downloader (random ad filled android app) - download video Imgur app - upload video and copy album url, the only one available ImgurViewer - paste album url, select share, this gives the mp4 link
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DrBouvenstein posted:They're desperate attempt at trying to be some kind of actual social media site is killing it. Just keep posting offensive poo poo publicly until you get a lifetime ban from the "community", then you can ignore that part of it and still use it as a host.
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I've been getting emails from photobucket about them killing their free product. Not that I care about the stuff but still they're adamant about being pay-only in the emails  .Reminds me of when Crashplan killed their personal products and went business only.
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Outrail posted:Imgur loving sucks. Give me the goddamn jpg url don't make me click a hundred buttons and gently caress about with editing the url every time. You're an image hosting service, know your place. Here I made some iOS/macOS shortcuts for catbox.moe. one is for transloading URLs the other uploads https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ae6cf36bb5f746d1a9193a8a773d7688 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b45fe6fb631947cab519e05eab40d142
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https://files.catbox.moe/383c6y.mp4 E: yes!
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The cream filled donuts barely have any filling anymore.
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Failson posted:The cream filled donuts barely have any filling anymore. enough about your mom
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When did Pop-Tarts go south? I bought a package for the first time in years, and they're now primarily sawdust-based.
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DrBouvenstein posted:The Awful App. It has a direct "Imgur" upload button, so make a post you never intend to post, use that to upload the image, then copy the actual Imgur link and paste it where you need it. The awful app does what??? gently caress, I'm a luddite
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I didn't realize it had the Imgur uploader either. I was way too lazy to deal with uploading them somewhere else. Now I can participate in post pics of your pets derails!
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