Yea ... no, sorry to say but this one's on Microsoft. I get it, hurr durr Apple expensive and elitist, but they know where to put up their walled garden and where not to. For example they used to have their own video container .mov but they're way past forcing something like that onto iPhone users. And even back then, the actual codec they committed themselves to in those days was H.264, a standard that's open to adoption by anybody. You can easily turn an old .mov into an .mp4 or .mkv without needing to alter the actual content of the file and that content is playable by pretty much every media device built in the last 15+ years.

HEIC isn't Apple's thing it's from the MPEGroup, also easily licensable by anybody. I guess the reason why it wasn't part of Windows 10 from the beginning is because they both came out in mid 2015. Windows 10 seems to have adopted it for viewing (and later editing) in 2018 but they make you hit a stupid download button in their store to get it so that's lame.

Must be why he's not on the ballot and imprisoned instead.

If an HDD doesn't work in every conceivable way out of the box it must be an RMA. These devices are too delicate to settle for anything less than flawless on arrival.

The best kinds of cults are the ones revolving around a single person. /s

This is the only take based in reality. Nobody (except us) cares about openness, federation or business models. What matters are ease of use and adoption.

Of course that doesn't mean that the other takes are missing the mark in terms of history possibly repeating itself in the future. But if it does, that just means that (as is to be expected) the people don't make momentary decisions with a bigger (collective) picture in mind. Design needs to address individual needs first and foremost especially when it comes to social media.

Nobody joins a platform to beat corporate ownership of people's digital lives. BlueSky manufactured adoption by starting out as an invite-only cool kids club. Having to pick a fediverse instance is an entry barrier. There will always be a lot less money to throw around when you're trying to create something under the umbrella of freedom and openness. I don't see how these movements could ever win, even if they provide an arguably better product.

Mark my words. Don't ever use SATA to USB for anything other than (temporary) access to non critical preexisting data. I swear to god if I had a dollar for every time USB has screwed me over trying to simplify working with customers' (and my own) drives. Whenever it comes to anything more advanced than data level access USB just doesn't seem to offer the necessary utilities. Whether this is rooted in software, hardware or both I don't know.

All I know is that you cannot realistically use USB to for example carbon copy one drive to another. It may end up working, it may throw errors letting you know that it failed, it may only seem to have worked in the end. It's hard for me to imagine that with all the individual devices I've gone through that this is somehow down to the parts and that somewhere out there would be something better that actually makes this work. It really does feel like whoever came up with the controlling circuits used for USB to SATA conversion industry-wide just didn't do a good enough job to implement everything in a way that makes it wholly transparent from the view of the operating system.

TL;DR If you want to use SATA as intended you need SATA all the way to the motherboard.

tbh I often ask myself why eSATA fell by the wayside. USB just isn't up to these tasks in my experience.

Found the sister.

yea imagine if 0 was worth 1 all of a sudden

Can't argue with that flawless logic.

Thing is, the RNC is cleptocratically his now and will be for a while. Other than that I'd hope for similar things as most people are commenting here. It will be bonkers either way until he stops breathing and then some.

World hunger can't be cured for profit. The hunger of the many is directly caused by the greed of the few.

But I'd love to see them try of course. The billions Musk has evaporated with his purchase could've also been spent less egotistically.

Couple Z brains just got an aneurysm from logic overload.

What do you mean? Hasn't lost and never will. /s

I mean yea sure, those are the 2 most relevant data collectors to most people. But as much as you can say about Apple's anti-consumer practices, spying on its customers or letting anyone else spy on their customers isn't something they can be accused of.

It's still a closed source ecosystem so you have to take their word for it, and you better assume that their analytics game is the best in the business so you are definitely feeding them (anonymized) research data there.

However the point I'm trying to make is that if you aren't a tech-savvy user (of which there are many) who just wants a solution that works then there isn't really another option if you want your privacy respected. Google don't respect your privacy and Microsoft can't offer big picture solutions that just work with no fuss.

more like a trad-mom still looking for mr. right (wing)

Yea why would that be a matter of "hit report button"? This is proper crime, you won't ever do better than the intelligence agencies can.

You say there's a hierarchy. By that you probably also mean a ranking order among the women in terms of interactions that don't involve your father?

I assume that your mother being the "chosen one" seems fulfilled in this arrangement? What about the main and secondary girlfriends?

tbh I've had almost exclusively hostile(-ish) exchanges on lemmy as well, but obviously going back to that morally bankrupt place isn't gonna be the answer.

How easy would it be for you to find (natural) laxatives? ChatGPT names Prunes and Kiwis, Broccoli, Almonds and Walnuts, Yogurt (the white non-sweet kind would be best)

Basically the above is just a who's who of healthy dieting if you ask me lol. If you need high caloric density for the "eating as much as possible" part just go for anything high in fat and or sugar. Nutella would check both boxes but this is really not recommendable from a health perspective obviously.

Competitive eaters like Beard Meats Food would just chug on double cream if they wanted to get as many calories down as possible. The only "problem" there is that it doesn't make for a very entertaining video.

So the career intelligence muscle who is in office since 1999 can't possibly be a dictator but the comedian who only became a politician 6 years ago has already managed to dismantle a democracy while spending 3 of those 6 years commanding a wartime army against a goliath of an enemy. The things you learn on the internet.