I’m a firm believer that the best way to deal with arseholes and bullies is ruthless mockery.

Apart from anything else, spending all that energy resisting change that’s coming anyway must be exhausting. It’s no wonder they’re so cranky.

They send SWAT teams to their houses, which is pretty close.

I go more for ‘tiresomely cynical’, but whatever.

But won’t someone think of the shareholders dividends!?

Covid taught us that if nothing had before.

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They’re making an increasingly compelling case for me to switch to Linux.

Bad ethics are still ethics.

Came to ask the same thing. Who is demanding this?

Nope. Only profit.

Thanks. It never occurred to me to do that. I rarely connect my phone to anything other than a wall socket anyway, but just in case…

Took me a few minutes to find the setting. It turned out I needed to have developer mode enabled to change it on Android, so it’s probably not something that a lot of people are aware of.

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Forget marketing. They want every game to require logging in to their servers. You won’t even be able to buy or play their games.

And if he did, he probably try to eat them.

This shit seems to change by the minute.

The new overloads can’t be having with any of that Helping People nonsense. Not for free, anyway.

I too tend to use it as a souped up search engine, with mixed results. I was trying to get OBS to only record my game and not my music, and the bot came up with a whole routine involving setting up a virtual mixer, which I could not get to work correctly, and with which the bot was unable to help me, even with screenshots, - it would just keep suggesting the same thing that wasn’t working - AND it was a pain to revert all the changes.

I tried to do the same thing again recently, but just via a google search, and almost immediately found a reddit post with a link to an OBS plugin that worked with a couple of menu selections. :)

Every “free speech” platform is, in reality, a hate speech platform.