Coming soon to a USA near you.

The people that get me are the ones who brake and you have no idea what they’re doing, then they stop and you still don’t know what they’re doing, then they turn, and halfway through the turn they start to signal. What do they think signalling is for?

Dropbox is better value and faster, in my experience, than these others. And when it backs up photos, it doesn’t hold them hostage on its servers so you have to keep paying or you lose access to them, unlike Google at least. Nor does it try to trick you into saving files to it when you don’t want to, so you fill up your quotas and end up paying more, like OneDrive. I still think Dropbox is the best of the bunch. It will be a shame to see it go to shit.

I had to read the article just to be able to parse the headline.

the development/testing is done on Windows under VMs rather than a sample of real world hardware

And yet there’s a recent update that keeps killing my Windows VMs. They’ll run for a while then one day they install the update and won’t boot again. It really feels like MS have lost control of Windows testing these days.

Fascism can only function with the help of amoral profiteering corporations. Unfortunately there’s never any shortage of those under capitalism.

I think the point is that some capitalists, both in business and in politics, encourage us to put our faith in future carbon capture so they can keep profiting off their polluting activities for now without having to invest in carbon emissions reduction. This is unrealistic and just an excuse not to tackle the difficult task of reducing emissions. We can’t afford to let the problem become that much worse before we attempt to mitigate it by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, if there’s ever a technology that can do that effectively (which right now doesn’t look likely). We need to focus most of our efforts on reducing emissions.

Microsoft profits off genocide and intends to keep doing so.

One difficulty with that is that the way we organize economies currently depends on having a working-age population that is large enough to support the non-working population. When you have far fewer workers than retired people you start having problems. I don’t know what the answer to that is, but it’s another instance of how any plan to seriously address climate change tends to require deep changes to how we run society. The current systems can’t simply be tweaked to make the problem go away.

Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel

Maybe I’m misreading, but that seems backwards in the title. Companies are fighting to make subscriptions harder to cancel.

According to these conservative estimates, today we are beyond 200.000 dead.

From a population of 2 million. Israel has killed 10% of the population and shows no sign of slowing down. When Israel or its allies claim this is about self-defense that is a lie. This is about extermination.

I was on a Boeing plane the other day that was delayed while we watched a guy with a wrench and a rag trying to stop fuel leaking out of the wing. It wasn’t hugely reassuring.

The author asks many questions, but never the most important one: “Why don’t people like Windows 11?”

They complain about unprofessional communications then fill this article with whining like this:

Weeks elapsed with little to no activity, because they were super busy pretending to be doing something else out in the abyss of phantom world.

And they never seem to consider that maybe their own code wasn’t as great as they thought. If they can’t “just debug” it themselves, maybe there’s a difficult problem with it?

The only thing preventing it is a few greedy, sick little men with a lot of power. We are destroying life on our planet for their gain, though they already have many, many times more wealth than anyone could ever need or enjoy.

Yuck, Daily Express. One of the nastiest rags in the UK.

Some of the dumbest and most aggressive comments I’ve seen on Lemmy came from lemmy.world. Most comments on it seem OK, but it does have a reddit-like flavour with a good number of unpleasant users.

The strong win and the weak cry about injustice. Maybe next time they’ll not bombard Israel with rockets if the price tag is too high.

Spoken like a true fascist.

Mother Mao-ry and little baby Xi-sus.

The U.S. company — whose phones are still sold in Russian stores despite the firm officially leaving the market due to the invasion of Ukraine…

Apple taking a brave stand as ever.