Most public transit has very similar rules.

The bad thing is rules like this are necessary.

the size of 4 F150s.

As an American, I appreciate you converting to a measurement I can understand.

I despised Windows doing it automatically too, but that mostly had to do with how long it took, when it did it, and what those updates were. I think if Windows did updates like Bazzite, in the background while the computer isn’t under heavy load, rather than taking five + minutes at shutdown when you just want to go to bed, and you never boot back up to find out that the update was nearly unremovable AI garbage or ads, it’s better.

For the casual users who just want their computer to work, I think it’s a good way of doing it if you can’t do live patching for whatever reason, but for the OS as a hobby folks (I get it, no shade, lol) that you sometimes see in Linux spaces online, manual updates can be part of the fun.

It’s doing the updates automatically in the background, but it applies them on the next reboot. It’s easy to change that and manually update but I like how unintrusive it’s been - I’ve had to go and check to make sure my machine is actually updating. And if for whatever reason the update breaks something I can roll it back and still have a working computer and deal with tinkering later, but it hasn’t broken yet. I’m on Bazzite. It’s opinionated and I definitely wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, but I really like it.

You just reminded me, I should see if I can get City of Heroes Homecoming running on my computer.

Vegetarians of Lemmy, what’s your thoughts on this? I’ve known about this for a while, but I’m looking for gelatin on that ingredients list, not bugs - I genuinely don’t care, there’s probably trace bugs in there regardless, lol.

Under Windows, I never wanted to shut it down because it took forever to both shut down and boot back up, so I used the sleep function. But I’m definitely old enough to have grown up with the habit of turning off the computer when I’m done.

That same laptop running Linux gets shut down when I’m done using it for the night because it’s just so much faster, and it applies the automatic updates my distro uses - painlessly. Why are Windows updates so terrible?

… Is there a fat bear week community on Lemmy? Can we do this? Is there enough interest to do this?

I miss my home town so badly right now. Fuck Ron DeSantis. Fuck the Republicans. Fuck all those ghouls in Tallahassee.

Edit: go grab some Tako Cheena next time you’re in Orlando. Thank me later.

In addition to air conditioning becoming widespread, Walt Disney World opened in 1971. There was very little in Orlando prior to that due to not being on the coast - it’s miserably hot and doesn’t get the afternoon breeze off the ocean like costal cities.

I’m honestly surprised this little shit hasn’t become a cop yet.

I think we’re unofficially Canadians, so it works.

I was kinda worried when I saw the subject line of the email.

Steam is actually pretty decent, by company standards.

That… actually explains the logic of this lawsuit for me. I still disagree and think they’re overly litigious fucks, but I think I might understand a less malicious argument for it. If someone mods a see 'n say to have a different audio track and slaps some new stickers on it, that’s still a see 'n say, right? The mechanism is fundamental to the product - a see n say is the spinning wheel -> random noise and Pokemon is video game where you throw balls at wild not-animals to catch them and use them to battle people. There’s a difference between a toy that’s heavily inspired by another one and being an edgy five year old with a firearm sticker pack who gives them to the cows and chickens and sheep.

I really have more of a games as art philosophy though, and I’ll just point to the works of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp to make my argument here, my edible just kicked in.

Beat me to it. I had a sex wax car air freshener for a while, common enough in Florida but I’m sure it confused people here in Minnesota.

Honestly, I felt it was dunking on Shakespeare a bit - the witches in Macbeth tell him that “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.” and the twist is that Macduff was a C-section baby. Which isn’t exactly rare anymore. The “I am no man” is the better solution, lol.

So many forks, lol.

Winamp go fork yourself!

I love GitHub drama.

Anyone know if the Dolby code leak is going to lead to anything interesting, or had this code been leaked before? And how fucked are the Winamp folks?

Based on the little bit I know about both Russian military history and the stuff they do now, I suspect they’d be okay with that.