I have not, but two people mentioned it so maybe I will.

I’d much rather see the Corel suite on Linux, or at minimum have it working in Wine. Inkscape is a competent enough replacement for Draw, but for Photopaint, well… Gimp isn’t.

Being worn by someone awfully short. Perhaps he’s secretly a duck.

It is indeed AI, and imagine my disappointment to learn this because as you can probably guess I would watch the hell out of a random cyberpunk anime involving goth chicks and penguins.

I guess we still have Evangelion, which is probably what this is riffing off of anyways.

(A note to interested readers that there is also Penguin Highway, which I thought was halfway decent.)

Microsoft have been calling discrete computer programs “applications” since at least the Windows 95 era, when Program Manager was replaced with the start menu. They’ve been inconsistently kinda-sorta doing so since even Windows 3.x, maybe even more, but nobody was closely paying attention back then.

It didn’t become the current situation of monkey-see-monkey-do until Apple started using the terminology heavily with the iPhone, as you have observed. But they actually cribbed it from good old M$, much as they’ve cribbed basically everything else they’ve done in the modern era from someone else and simply painted it glossy white.

It’s not, these guys just suck and they don’t have the first clue how to actually operate their vehicles. I can fit my full sized truck into spaces just fine when I have occasion to drive it. They all think they’re hot shit for having back-in parking “skills,” too, while utterly failing to comprehend that all they’ve accomplished here is making it impossible to load anything into the bed. You know, like what trucks are for.

(Postscript: So obviously, they’re not planning on putting anything in the back. Which means they could have just as well all showed up on Vespas.)

It’s a melee oriented Metroidvania. Think Ori And The Blind Forest but with more insects and inexplicable frilly faux-Victorian edifices, and less pokey combat. You could play it on a SNES pad if you wanted to. I got to 100% on it back when using a cheap wireless keyboard from my couch.

I don’t know about you, but Hollow Knight’s main contribution to my household is that my wife and I still call any filigree wrought ironwork benches we see “save points.”

This one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqhIVyfsRg

I quote this one all the time. VG Cats also spoofed it back in the day.

Especially since VBA can make calls to the Windows API directly and through that avenue do all kinds of funky things to your system.

He knows. For instance, all plumbing projects require at minimum three trips to the hardware store:

The first trip for what you thought you needed. The second trip for what you actually needed. And the third trip to buy another one of whatever else it was that broke as soon as you touched it.

This is totally expected and also absolutely peanuts compared to Intel, who once released a processor that managed to perform floating point long division incorrectly in fascinating (if you’re the right type of nerd) and subtle ways. Hands up everyone who remembers that debacle!

Nobody? Just me?

Anyway, I totally had — and probably still have, somewhere — one of the affected chips. You could check if yours was one of the flawed ones literally by using the Windows calculator.

Taken as a whole from a historical standpoint this is certainly so, current events notwithstanding. I predict a lot of salty people reading your comment are going to studiously ignore the fact that Europe as it stands now has been shaped pretty much purely by thousands of years worth of wars, which required the invention of all kinds of weapons and warfare tactics. And that’s before the European powers took all that on the road in the colonial era.

Note the orange tip. Some poser gave this cat an airsoft gun!

Seen them all already. So for the record, I watch Fortnine videos and post on Lemmy. So there.

It’s been years but I still think his CRF250L/Versys-X 300 review is probably a high water mark. I suppose that one’s finally relevant to me now that I have a 250L Rally… among other bikes.

Yes, you forgot your knife/multitool.

Account sharing. It’s very widespread with these types of gig work apps.

Somebody who is able to get cleared sells or rents access to their account, presumably to people who wouldn’t be able to pass even the bare minimum vetting these companies perform on their contractors/employees. I.e. they’ll share their account with someone who doesn’t have a driver’s license or insurance, or is not able to work legally in the country for whatever reason. There may or may not be some exploitation factor involved as well. It’s the most dinkum, low-rent form of organize crime you can imagine. The account owner takes a cut of the proceeds and the net result is you wind up as some complete rando as your delivery driver.

You evaporate over billions of years via Hawking radiation.

Sure, until they start spying on you in real time through your school issue comptuer’s webcam. (Or listening via its microphones, or snooping your wi-fi traffic with preinstalled malware, or…)

Anyway, the asshats even try to snoop on students’ social media activity outside of school and not done on school hardware.

From TFA:

The research team identified 14 companies actively marketing online surveillance services frequently beyond school-issued devices and outside of school premises, raising concerns about privacy, equity and oversight.

Emphasis mine.

Separately, Microsoft warns that Windows 11 version 23H2 will reach end of support on November 11, 2025.

I.e., the one that still supports WMR virtual reality headsets and hasn’t had the functionality for those artificially pulled.

You just described the entirety of my career on ePinions back in the day. I made bank off of that stupid website even though commenters with short attention spans constantly complained I was too verbose. Many dumb early 2000s computer parts were paid for via that avenue.

I made the top 100 at one point. I still have the hat they sent me someplace.