I managed to get in and change mine last night. So you just have to keep hammering that refresh button until you overcome whoever this asshole is that’s DOSing the site. Maybe even do it on several computers, and write a script to help.
Kind of hard when you’ve already helped them with several invasions.
Some of the dumbest and most aggressive comments I’ve seen on Lemmy came from lemmy.world. Most comments on it seem OK, but it does have a reddit-like flavour with a good number of unpleasant users.
With Israel and Saudi Arabia the USA certainly has some lovely allies.
That’s a good analysis, and helpful. Thanks!
There go the Republicans again with their commitment to free speech.
What a weird situation where all the institutions of the country that talks the most about “free speech” constantly struggle to ban any criticism of a completely different country that is engaging in obvious genocide.
The really weird move is how right-wing attitudes in the USA have gone from distrust of government and its “interference” in their lives, through distrust of autocracy, to strong support for fascist autocracy that would be highly oppressive and invasive into people’s lives. The last step is astonishing.
“Milton looks like another man-made storm, and it looks like Trump voters are victims. Is this really what’s happening?”
Yes! Great to see you have figured it out - better late than never! Now you can help us campaign for action on climate change!
“Biden and Harris are messing with the weather! Hurricane Milton was sent to Florida just like the other hurricane to wipe Florida out!! They know those are mostly Trump supporters who live in that state, so 85% of them won’t be able to vote next month,”
Ah ffs…
It’s possible Putin asked for them as a little loyalty test, and a story to have in his back pocket.
I agree that it gets bogged down and needs a reinstall sometimes. But after I recently installed it on a new machine that also has Linux, Windows 11 still feels comparatively slow. I get the impression that even out of the box it has too much baggage and unoptimized code. Edge is fast though, and a perfectly good browser. Edge even runs on Linux too, which is surprising.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed most of the time on the desktop, and some Debian and Ubuntu servers.
I use Windows a lot of the time, because I need to use several pieces of professional Windows software. But yes, I use Linux some of the time too, and I find it more relaxing.
Well, I used to be quite positive about Windows 11. The WSL thing is cool, being able to use bash and Linux tools. The hypervisor thing is cool, enabling fast virtual machines. And the styling is all round better than any previous Windows at least since Windows 7. But then I’ve had systems broken by updates more than once recently, everything feels slow, applications hang all the time, the Start menu still doesn’t work, even opening File Explorer leaves me wondering whether it noticed my mouse click, I have to fight it to create a local user account instead of a Microsoft account, fight it to avoid unwanted tracking, fight it to stop the ads popping up in all kinds of corners by running a network-wide DNS filter which reports huge amounts of requests to Microsoft telemetry domains, fight it to make sure file don’t end up in OneDrive, and it still can’t handle USB sticks reliably, it still steals focus constantly from wherever I’m typing, there are far too many services eating up resources, and so on.
It’s just constant low-level frustration that I just don’t have with other operating systems, because Microsoft has cut out QA and spent years prioritizing marketing strategies, gimmicks and cosmetics instead of improving the things that matter to users.
I’m getting heavily downvoted for even suggesting it’s worth reporting on what the President is doing. Either this sub is full of reactionaries, or people are terrified that saying anything negative about Biden will cause Trump to get elected. I’m as nervous as anyone else about Trump, but I think we should acknowledge that Biden has done harm with his staunch support for Israel over the last year. But maybe we can’t expect people to appreciate balance at this point in the election cycle when the stakes are so high.
And yet his supporters when polled say they like him because he’ll do the best at reducing the cost of living. They probably believe he will reduce their taxes. They live in an information vacuum and only listen to media that tells them lies. No amount of campaigning will overcome this, because it’s the dynamics of a cult, not a political debate.
It hasn’t been steadily downhill. There was a plunge downwards with Windows 8, then 8.1 recovered a little and 10 more, before Windows 11 undid the gains.
It would be nice to press these people on why they think that, though it’s probably just “that’s what I heard.”
I like to think that “it” refers to MTG here. It talks a lot of shit. I dare you, MTG, to complain that we’re disrespectfully using the wrong pronoun.