The article only seems to mention free consumer accounts, if I didn’t accidentally skip a section. Does anyone know how this will affect M365 subscribers (both consumer/enterprise)? I use Outlook every day at work and the lack of features in the web app make it basically unusable for me.

AMD GPU + KDE Plasma with Wayland finally gets me close enough to the smoothness of Windows, especially the per-display settings for fractional scaling and high refresh rate were sorely lacking on Linux. It’s not perfect yet (and neither is Windows’ implementation) but it improved the Linux desktop experience a ton!

Seriously. I used Manjaro for a short period about 5 or 6 years ago but ran into so many issues with it. Vanilla Arch on the other hand is very forgiving in my experience. I have a second desktop PC with Arch installed and I only update that machine once every couple of months when I actually need to use it. In my four years of doing that I never had an update break my system.

Michael Kors, I assume

YouTube Shorts doesn’t even work properly for me. At least half the videos, that are suggested to me, I’ve already seen multiple times before. Boring, as you said. I’ve found myself staying off of social media or news sites more in the last couple of weeks. News’ll make me depressive, social media bores me. Then again, more time for hobbies!

I just went the ol’ VPN route and got a YouTube Premium family subscription in Turkey. It’s about 2€/month for 5 people; peanuts essentially. I wish I could avoid giving money to Google entirely but I’m mostly using Apple devices to consume YouTube content and my four friends who share the subscription with me do as well. So yeah, that’s the trade-off I can live with.

The KDE desktop environment definitely plays a sound when you change the volume. I use my Logitech G Pro X wireless headset on Linux and Windows and just change the volume using the dial on the unit and it behaves the same way in both OS.

Though, to be fair, I do share some of the frustrations you mention. I’m mostly on Apple products apart from my two desktop PCs (one is Linux/Windows dual-boot, one is Linux only) which I own solely for gaming purposes and some hobbyist programming. I usually try to get non-Linux native applications running but if it proves to be too much of a hassle I simply boot into Windows or use my MacBook. I like to treat Linux as somewhat of a hobby and I totally understand that most people would rather have something that “just works”, especially when it comes to proprietary creative applications like the Adobe suite or DAWs. That being said, it’s extremely exciting to see the massive strides Linux on the desktop has made in the last couple of years. It has come a looooong way, honestly; especially for gaming. And I always support open-source projects/foundations - I’m donating to KDE/Arch/Wikipedia on a monthly basis - because I believe in the core values and advantages of FOSS and other community-driven foundations even though I’m far from a Richard Stallman.

The word “female” always carries some dismissive message for me. I don’t know about you - English isn’t my native language - but it feels like whenever someones uses that word to describe women (i.e. half of the people on this planet) it’s meant to de-humanize them. Like a female animal or something :(

My solution was to migrate to Windows 10/11 Enterprise. No ads, no nothing. The LTSC versions are even better but they’re a little too barebones for my use case. Keep in mind that those SKUs cannot be activated legally but as with anything: There are ways to circumvent that issue.

With how many B-52s that carried thermonuclear bombs and crashed, I’m glad the US didn’t accidentally nuke itself and other countries.

74% market share for desktop OS is actually a lot less than I thought. Guess macOS had a solid comeback

Especially cause CSGO crashes when you change graphics settings in-game all the time

I have two landline numbers that came with my internet contract but I don’t have a phone connected to the modem. So whenever your scenario happens to me I just give them one of my real landline numbers. I’ve tried calling myself and you can actually hear it ringing as the caller but no one will ever pick up lol

Mich wundert es, dass überhaupt noch 200er nd 500er gefälscht werden. Die sind schon als Echtgeld extrem rar. Ich glaube ich habe in meinem Leben bisher 5 mal 'nen 200er und nur einmal einen 500€-Schein in echt gesehen. Als Fälscher würde ich mir eher 5er und 10er drucken und damit den Rest meines Lebens kostenlos Döner essen. Alles ab 20€ aufwärts wird ja mittlerweile bei den meisten Läden mit Stift oder UV geprüft.

Ich bin immer noch salzig, dass ich nach über 12 Jahren auf Lases zu Lassmich wechseln musste. Ich bin ein großer Verfechter von offener Soße und stehe grundsätzlich hinter meinen Prinzipien, aber gleichzeitig muss ich auch eingestehen, dass ich mich ein wenig nach den alten Zeiten auf Lases sehne. Es gibt halt leider - zumindest bis jetzt - bei Weitem nicht so viele Inhalte, wobei mir jedoch sehr gefällt, dass selbst in politischen Unterlassmichs (community/sublemmy/whatever) ein bisher sehr zivilisierter Ton herrscht und selbst (für mich) kontroverse Meinungen mit sachlichem Diskurs empfangen werden.

Yeah, part of the reason cars back then were so serviceable was because they broke down all the time. A modern car with regular servicing can last very long mechanically. The amount of electronic creature comforts, safety devices etc. are often what drives up repair costs and lead to some cars becoming uneconomical to repair. Cracked windshield? That’ll be 1000 bucks because the rain sensor for your automatic wipers will have to be recalibrated. Dead headlight? $2000 because we can’t replace individual LEDs, have to take the front of the car of to replace the whole headlight assembly and calibrate the adaptive front lighting system so that it follows road curvature again.

Yeah, beef jerky, even when making it yourself like @CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space does, can be quite expensive depending on where you live. Thankfully beef jerky doesn’t require high-end cuts of beef. Round Eye is one of the preferred cuts and even in regions with relatively high prices for beef (e.g. Germany) it’s still quite economical compared to store-bought Jack Link’s.

Das war soweit ich mich erinnere ein ’arald. Mit Weizenbier kann ich allgemein nicht so viel anfangen, aber die Mischgetränke von denen sind als leicht herbe Limos für heiße Sommertage echt ganz geil.

Ich glaube das Rockabilly-Ehepaar bei mir die Straße runter kommt dem schon recht nahe. Die haben alle ihrer FÜNF (!) US-Importautos vollgekleistert mit “Fuck you Greta”, “Grüne? Nein, danke!”, diversen Anti-Impfaufklebern, Südstaatenflaggen und natürlich dem eisernen Kreuz.

Genau das kann ich einfach nicht verstehen. So sollte doch jeder wissen wohin diese nationalsozialistische Ideologie geführt hat. 80 Millionen Tote, davon allein 6 Millionen Juden und hunderttausende andere Minderheiten die nicht auf dem Schlachtfeld fielen, sondern brutal und systematisch schlichtweg ermordet wurden. Und wenn man schon die nationalistische Schiene fahren möchte, dann sollte man auch nicht vergessen welches Leid die Nazis der deutschen Bevölkerung angetan haben. Zerbombte Städte, Hunger, Armut und ein letztlich 45 Jahre lang geteiltes Land. Das sind die Konsequenzen des deutschen Faschismus. Und wofür? Damit man sich einige Jahre auf die eigene Schulter klopfen und sich mal geil und mächtig fühlen kann? Nein, danke!