Immune to disease? Welp, time to become a massive slut throughout the ages.

I would survive on Mamie Van Doren, Brigitte Bardot, Sheree North, Rebecca De Mornay, Pam Grier, Rosie Perez… I mean I could go on.

…I mean someone’s gotta make horny posts without Violet here, right?

What a terrible day to have eyes and be able to read.

…I’d buy it though.

Windows 10 is the cow they keep milking. They have a whole program aimed at enterprise (corporate) customers customers to keep paying for exclusive Windows 10 security updates for years. They won’t make as money from the consumer-level Windows 10 so they only offered a year of security updates for consumers, and even a lot of consumers still had to pay for it, while others got it free if they agreed to Microsofts terms of using fucking Microsoft account and OneDrive to get it.

I suspect with Windows 11 continuing to go bad that we’ll see them offer paid security updates for consumers again next years to stop the bleeding out to Linux and Mac

I’m sure this is a helpful video someone… although I literally cannot imagine who. Maybe someone who is being required to use Windows-only corporate software and doesn’t have a good enough computer to run a VM?

It’s actually why I listed the James Bond villain Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies because he was an analogue for Murdoch, a media magnate who wanted to control the world through disinformation. It was a prescient character, because that was still during 1997, long before FOX News had become the danger it actually is. Yet Carver is pretty on-the-nose for what actually ended up happening and we didn’t have a James Bond to save us.

It’s clearly a poor old man being harassed. He looks vaguely like Epstein but not nearly close enough to justify harassment.

lmao God I can feel the frustration rising in me just thinking about it. I know these are digital rather than physical objects… but do these people fail to have object permanence?

Wow, usually people lose their shit and complain that Element is too complex and that me and the devs are being assholes asking them to use it… You know kind of like all the people here on the Fediverse who think we need to make it bigger and bring in everyone from everywhere and that the devs and users who defend them are awful for not focusing on user interface first and making it less confusing to choose a server…

Anyway, thanks for being on team reasonable, because I’m with you on this 100%, but I can’t change how little people want to learn anything sadly so I make compromises with people who cant or wont learn how to do things. It sucks, people really don’t seem to understand that security and convenience are a balance, and every time people argue for shit to be easier they’re actually arguing for everything to be less secure. You sacrifice security for convenience, every time, and the opposite happens because you can sacrifice convenience for increased security measures. Security has to be complex by nature to be effective, and the core of Matrix is being a secure, encrypted protocol, which they have already actually put a ton of work into making easier for fucking normies. Yet, it’s never enough for people. Always screams of “It’s too complex! I hate thinking!”

There’s also just something beautifully melancholy about it all, on top of the dark themes under a candy coating.

In my dreams Flapjack, K’nuckles, and Bubbie retire on Candy Island. A man can always dream.

I felt disappointed a week ago when I made a Flapjack reference that seemed like very few people got. I absolutely love the horror/disgust screams during the gross-up-close-ups.

Favorite Sci-Fi Villain: SHODAN from System Shock/System Shock 2

Favorite Fantasy Villain: The Nothing from Neverending Story

Favorite Bond Villain: Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies because the writers touched on something quite prescient here about media moguls wanting to control society a la Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.

Favorite Disney-esque Villain: Raphael from Baldur’s Gate III for his “Raphael’s Final Act” song.

Favorite Actual Disney Villain: Lord Hater from Wander Over Yonder

Favorite Action Villain: Hans Gruber from Die Hard

This represents my Captain K’nuckles Squad Goals.

Oh I was well aware at the time, but I had a lot of friends who still struggled with trying to use Matrix/Element so at the time I was seeking a simpler solution for them.

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This is why corporate promises can never be trusted, because a new CEO can change those promises on a whim.

It’s part of why despite being interested in Beeper, I never signed up for it because I had questions about if those privacy promises they made would be kept if they sold to a bigger company… which they eventually did.

On the plus side Bitwarden already made an official open source self-hosted version, which can be forked and/or return to the community developed Vaultwarden roots.

Meanwhile KeepassXC keeps on chugging along.

Danger, danger, high voltage
When we touch, when we kiss

Nice melon.

Thom is too depressed about his access to healthcare at the NHS to hear you.

Fitter, healthier, and more productive
A pig in a cage on antibiotics