I too expected 2003 to be the incident that would make croissants illegal. They decided to blame it on the twinkies and it almost worked.

A Jewish woman cries on a UK TV panel as she hears a guest from the green party call Zionism a genocidal ideology.

Meanwhile, a Palestinian woman cries on the destroyed streets of Gaza as she watches her brother's corpse mutilated by shrapnel from Israeli attacks, with weapons provided by the imperial core, by the UK, as silly conversations are had on whether it is antisemitic or not to be critical of zionism.

We will be paying for this sin collectively for the rest of our lives. The history books will be as kind to us all as they were to the people who stood by as the Holocaust happened.

Am I missing something? This is just top-down...

In general, the Twitter style UI is cancer for me too. This seems to maybe be a composite from someone who thinks like us, putting the comments in top down for easier digestion, but I understand, its still a bit of a guessing game most times and if anything the composites add to the confusion a lot of the times. I usually have to re-read Twitter screenshots multiple times before I finally get the right order of everything lol

This sounds like a step towards computer vaccines, and I'm not about to let my computer get autism, thank you.

I'm here for the shitty advice! Fight toxic with toxic, let her barge in while you're jerking off, and don't stop once she's in. See how long she keeps doing that shit afterwards.

Controlling the brightness of my (non-laptop) monitors from within windows was never a thing for me in all my decades using windows. I instantly gained this power on both my monitors as soon as I jumped ship. Windows truly is utter dogshit.

I haven't touched compilers in a while, but I was a dirty little MS pig boy back in college. Qt with MSVC just made sense for me, with the single exception of non standard byte lengths for longs (almost cost me a class due to not using std uints, totally my bad but you don't really expect compilers to understand basic data types differently).

The true shitfuckassface experience for me was ICC. Stupid little pig boy decided he wanted his Qt working with ICC, due to all dem optimizations for Intel CPUs. After hours of debugging nonsense errors and janking my way through Qt code which was way above my head, I finally got a Qt build, only to have ICC find thousands of completely removed errors in a project where no other compiler would find errors.

Yeah that was the day I stopped caring for C++, stopped licking intel's ass, and started getting ever so slightly radicalized due to the lies of the republic.

OK, let me mention some important caveats, just so you can keep them in mind:

You can think of usenet like the internet. You have data on servers all around the world, you have sites such as Google which index these sites and content, and you have your ISP which gives you access to the internet.

Likewise, on usenet you have the data scrambled on servers all around the world, on different backbones of the usenet. These backbones are accessed through service providers for the backbones (sometimes they're resellers, sometimes it's the backbone selling access). These service providers operate just like an ISP, selling you monthly or yearly access to the usenet backbone of your choosing.

Then there's the Googles of usenet, Indexers. There's a ton, they vary a bit from one another, but essentially they find all there is to find on usenet, presenting the files to you as a whole. You want a specific... Ahem... Linux iso? An indexer will know where all the pieces are and it will tell you with an NZB file, kind of like how torrent files tell you where to look. Indexers can be a monthly subscription, but some of them offer lifetime subscriptions as well, and they don't break the bank.

The last bit you'll need is your download client, to do what you do for torrents. These are free tools, sabnzbd and nzbget. Either one works.

So, I did mention there's multiple backbones of usenet. Indexers don't lock themselves to specific backbones, and no indexer covers everything there is on usenet, which means that to get the most out of usenet, you'd ideally have multiple indexers and multiple providers (making sure you don't get providers from the same backbone as they'd essentially have the same data). Multiple indexers give higher chances of finding something on a search, while multiple backbones increase your chances of finding all the pieces needed to complete a file. This is not absolutely necessary, but dare I say you'll notice the difference as soon as you bump things up to 2 of each.

So, essentially, usenet is by far the best method for completing your media library (leaving torrents as a desperate backup route), but it can become expensive.

It 100% is, it always has been. We've had decades of overreaching legislation towards tech based on the false premise of protecting children.