Nettle Soup posted:

Not sure why nohboard is in there, I should add 7zip.

Pistol_Pete posted:

I miss Windows 7, used that right up until MS stopped supporting it. Absolutely nothing that's come in the later versions has improved my computing experience at all.

bitterandtwisted posted:

I hate clicking "more options " in the windows 11 explorer context menu.
It's not even a view setting, you have to regedit that poo poo out

withak posted:

You are using it wrong.

redshirt posted:

Big Windows 7 fan here, but Windows 10 got real solid for awhile. But then they started adding news and weather on the task bar, notifications increased, and now I'm seeing pop up adds for some Microsoft game on work computers.

bitterandtwisted posted:

I hate clicking "more options " in the windows 11 explorer context menu.
It's not even a view setting, you have to regedit that poo poo out

galagazombie posted:

Do you think the power plants are natural formations that create electricity ex nihilo or something? Energy is meaningless without the labor to extract, transform, and use it.

Russell Means posted:

At this point, I’ve got to stop and ask myself whether I’m being too harsh. Marxism has something of a history. Does this history bear out my observations? I look to the process of industrialization in the Soviet Union since 1920 and I see that these Marxists have done what it took the English Industrial Revolution 300 years to do; and the Marxists did it in 60 years. I see that the territory of the USSR used to contain a number of tribal peoples and they have been crushed to make way for the factories. The Soviets refer to this as “the National Question,” the question of whether the tribal peoples had a right to exist as people; and they decided the tribal peoples were an acceptable sacrifice to industrial needs. I look to China and I see the same thing. I look to Vietnam and I see Marxists imposing an industrial order and rooting out the indigenous tribal mountain people.

I hear a leading Soviet scientist saying that when the uranium is exhausted, then alternatives will be found. I see the Vietnamese taking over a nuclear power plant abandoned by the U.S. military. Have they dismantled and destroyed it? No, they are using it. I see China exploding nuclear bombs, developing nuclear reactors, and preparing a space program in order to colonize and exploit the planets the same as the Europeans colonized and exploited this hemisphere. It’s the same old song, but maybe with a faster tempo this time.

The statement of the Soviet scientist’s is very interesting. Does he know what this alternative energy source will be? No, he simply has faith. Science will find a way. I hear revolutionary Marxists saying that the destruction of the environment, pollution, and radiation will be controlled. And I see them act on their words. Do they know how these things will be controlled? No, they simply have faith. Science will find a way. Industrialization is fine and necessary. How do they know this? Faith. Science will find a way. Faith of this sort has always been known in Europe as religion. Science has become the new European religion for both capitalists and Marxists; they are truly inseparable; they are part and parcel of the same culture. So, in both theory and practice, Marxism demands that non-European peoples give up their values, their traditions, their cultural experience altogether. We will all be industrialized science addicts in a Marxist society.

Philthy posted:

It's an iphone. Answer calls, make calls. Post your burger on facebook. Done.

redshirt posted:

When you can't figure something out with an Apple product, assume it's your fault. Cuz Apple "just works".

Modal Auxiliary posted:

my phone

Peter Falk posted:

This thread is getting shitter because all you computer touchers can’t stop complaining about the dumbest poo poo in the world (software. It’s all bad).

Tools are way shittier these days. Hand tools, power tools, doesn’t matter. They’re all plastic junk with pot metal. I’ve started buying used hand tools from estate sales and old guys on Craigslist because they’re better than new in box.

Woolie Wool posted:

Power plants are not a source of energy, they do nothing without fossil fuels, which are natural formations, and furthermore they are finite, nonrenewable natural formations that have already peaked and will get more and more expensive and difficult to extract (because the cheapest and easiest sources of a resource get used first) until the energy cost of energy becomes so high that industrial civilization can no longer be sustained. Capital and labor alike are only made useful on an industrial scale with fossil energy; without it human labor can only create agrarian societies at best.

Furthermore, civilizations (even agrarian ones) are dependent on other largely nonrenewable (e.g. minerals) or very slowly renewable (e.g. fresh water, forests, topsoil, unpolluted land) material inputs, so every known civilization, if it has lived long enough without getting colonized by another civilization, has invariably overshot its resource base and fallen in on itself, and ours is no exception. There is a model for truly sustainable human living over millennia, but it looks like pre-colonial indigenous Australians or the ancient Jōmon people of Japan, not solarpunk or Star Trek. Russell Means' speech at the Black Hills International Survival Gathering in 1980 is particularly relevant here.

Even as our products themselves become enshittified, they also enshittify the world. Every single gadget that rolls out of a factory represents permanent damage to the world and a loss of resources for the future. There is simply no way it can be otherwise.

Woolie Wool posted:

His Divine Shadow posted:

Yeah I'm ahead of you there too. Been buying most of my tools 2nd hand for ages because it's cheaper and the quality is superior. My oldest tool is probably my handplane from 1899.

Peter Falk posted:

This thread is getting shitter because all you computer touchers can’t stop complaining about the dumbest poo poo in the world (software. It’s all bad).

Tools are way shittier these days. Hand tools, power tools, doesn’t matter. They’re all plastic junk with pot metal. I’ve started buying used hand tools from estate sales and old guys on Craigslist because they’re better than new in box.

MrQwerty posted:

I put the most effort into cutting linux and macos out of my life by not using them because I didn't pay $2k to build a computer to sit around loving with a command line for 3 weeks over a driver or $7k to buy a computer that can't play games

withak posted:

If anything goes wrong with your Craftsman screwdriver you can just take it back to Sears and they will swap it for a new one.

Salt Fish posted:

Your Operating System is a Piece of poo poo.

Salt Fish posted:

Your Operating System is a Piece of poo poo.

withak posted:

just take it back to Sears