If only, after shattering glass houses, we could get some politicians to build proper ones.
“I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll throw stones into your sorry glass house.”
But the sixty-third little piggy actually lived a life of honesty, so the wolf had to raise a mob to burn down the good piggy’s house.
Once he was back in power, the wolf quickly made laws to make it impossible to live other than in a glass house. Then he felt equal again.
…oops, that story didn’t end up quite as I planned.
Ooh, I’d love that public statements count as oath one :-D
Agreed. Though I do have recent experiences of dependency troubles. I really should get better at reporting them to the proper channels, but by the time I’ve worked out how to fix, I usually don’t have the energy left… 😕
any sort of passive-aggressive distain for users,
Yeah, I don’t mean from the devs - though part of the community can be a bit like that sometimes. But the computer itself…
I may have been anthropomorphizing, with a touch of experience-induced poetic imagination.
Maybe the botnet will play League of Legends better then I do. Meanwhile it will have ‘mysterious power outages’ whenever I’m doing real work in Linux ;-)
I already reverted my machines to Windows 10 ages ago
Ah the sweet smell of, “your computer is not ready for Windows 11. Find out what you can do.”
Wouldn’t it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?
The whole point of computers, as far as I can tell, is to be that abusive relationship we never could perfect with humans. Linux is no exception, it’s just more passive-aggressive and better with gaslighting.
“You see, if only you’d installed this dependency, which I showed you so clearly in the error logs all along - and I categorised them so nicely - but you never like to look there, do you? - I mean, I understand, and that’s why I mentioned it - not too strongly, because I didn’t want to upset you more - in the terminal output…”
Nah, there’s only one Apple user, she just posts a lot online under pseudonyms and buys a continuous stream of products.
I agree a rental/service economy is good for some things. I think the main complaint here is the way companies manipulate these products for their benefit not for the customer, and often in underhand ways (hence all the privacy issues). That happens with ‘owned’ products too, but the owner has more control to make of it what they want.
So essentially, Colorado voters can’t add to Trump’s support for either the Republican nomination, or for the presidency?
For the Republican nomination, though, isn’t the party a private organisation, such that they can fudge their results - e.g. by discounting Colorado’s votes altogether or by informally surveying the state? Or are they held legally to democratic voting to choose their candidate?
I understand that if they do nominate Trump nationwide, it means the state of Colorado can’t vote for him - but they’re unlikely to anyway, right? So it means zero loss for Trump? Unless other states follow suit. (And the loss of face.)