They’ve always been like this

When I worked at McDonald’s I used to keep the DriveThru headset on after closing while I was doing paper work to tell people “sorry, we’re closed” if they drove up to the speaker board. (Mind you, the building lights and menu board lights are off at this point. Something we call a “clue”.)
That stopped after one too many people screamed “FUCK YOU!” into the speaker board (for us following our posted hours and me politely informing them instead of ignoring them.)

You quickly adopt a policy of “just ignore them and they’ll figure it out.”

There’s no way your order is worth me turning everything back on, unless it is way too large to be something quick.

Same reason Facebook won’t let you look at your messages through the website on mobile. (Unless you request the desktop site).

Isn’t Mull basicslly Firefox since it’s just a Firefox-based fork?

I don’t understand why that would be a bad thing. If Firefox starts to enshittify then a fork from before the enshittification is exactly what I want.

They say it is their job to help the adtech industry, by finding a compromise between my interests and Facebook & co’s interest

Well my interest is the complete collapse of Facebook & co, so it’s going to be hard to find a compromise there.

Then don’t use MS Office?

ya, the traffic info is what I mostly use it for…

Alright, so I’ve replaced Google with duckduckgo, Chrome with Firefox, Gmail with Protonmail…

What’s the replacement for Google maps?

Where the fuck we gonna put all the waste product?

In the air, so everyone everywhere is interacting with it on a daily basis.

Oh wait, that’s what we do with waste from all the other power plants.

A waste product that can put on a specific spot is easier to deal with than a waste product that can’t.

I just installed Linux Mint for the first time. As a life long Windows user it’s more intuitive than Windows 11, the install and setup was easier than I’ve ever had doing a fresh install off windows, and I was able to connect to my media tower (still running Windows 10) faster and with less hassle than using a Windows machine.

The only thing that was more difficult was having to look up where to find the setting in Steam for “please provide me Linux versions of games that don’t officially support it.”

It’s more of a “This is all we had” than it is “people used to have more patience”. Looks at all the MMOs that are non-stop digital chores that people have the patience for.

I would be surprised if many younger people in this era would have the patience to make it to the bottom row of this graphic.

That’s not a patience issue, that’s a design issue that has been eliminated in modern games.

There’s no reason to delay progress by making players repeatedly play through several trivial fights before getting back to where they are having a challenge. It was done in the NES era because they were operating under the philosophy that “the longer it takes to beat the game = the more hours of gameplay in it.” It didn’t matter if most of those gameplay hours were trivial digital chores like stomping Glass Joe yet again.

This reminds me: I need to change my default search engine.

Still though, as a thought experiment, imagining a world where tomorrow, Steam is owned by Microsoft, it’s… interesting, to say the least. In the most horrifying way possible, but interesting nonetheless. Quite frankly, I can’t imagine anything worse happening for video games. Like to me, this is what a video game apocalypse sounds like.

Yarr. ☠️

“anyone who disagrees with me is a racist!”

Good talk. Engaging with you is definitely worth while…

It’s the trolley problem with a single track: you can pull the lever and the trolley will run over 5 people before it stops, or you can not pull the lever and the trolley will run over 10 people.

If you’re standing beside the lever with your arms crossed refusing to pull it, saying “the fault is on the person who tied the people to the track. Getting involved makes me complacent.” Then yes, people are going to blame you because even if you didn’t cause the problem there is something very easy you can do to make it less bad.
You can’t save all 10, but you can save 5. So you do what you can, and then you also go after the guy who tied the people to the tracks.

I understand that the people protesting are doing something. This is the first time you’ve actually advocated for an action.

People are fully capable of both protesting and voting to keep someone worse from doing worse things. The fact that you don’t understand these basic things is truly phenomenal.

Considering I specifically suggested doing something is better than doing nothing, I’m going to go ahead and guess that listening to what other people are saying isn’t a strength of yours.

You mean the logic of “I’m not going to do anything and neither should anyone else”?