And yet we don’t want our posts to be fed into AI slop, nor do we want independent hosts to pay for the massive amount of traffic generated by a massive corporate entity to trying to consume data en masse.

The gay Republican I know is also deep in denial. Sad to see in all honesty

I’ll take the bear in case you were wondering too.

Care to explain what an awful choice that is?

Source?

Facts don’t care about your feelings etc etc

I remember NiCad batteries still being used in power wheels toys as a kid. For all I know they may still be, but the battery advancements have been particularly amazing.

I used to be a POS tech. It’s such a gross, mismanaged walled garden.

Currently I spend a lot of time advising against pop ups like that :^)

If I may ask, why still use .world then?

.world users doing their thing. It’s fine for a starter but not someplace to stay

Every single person I know who has gotten out of the military has come out blue. With one (medically discharged) exception.

And your opinion is that the best option is to turn tail and sit pretty for the cishets?

Don’t tell me to wake the fuck up and diminish me, soapboxing about your murdered trans friends. I am trans, I’m close to people who have had to flee their states, fallen victim to (tw: a lot)>!employment discrimination, loss of medical care, reversion of changed ID gender markers, assault, rape, homelessness due to familial rejection.!<

So while I’m glad you can feel good about yourself wanting to sanitize pride parades and events. I assure you that is not the issue. It’s satanic panic all over again, we’re lucky it’s not the AIDS crisis on top of it. Instead it’s a bunch of puppets who lap up their anti trans propaganda. Go listen to some conservative “talking points” and you’ll quickly realize there is no rationalizing with these people. There is no room for civil discussion.

Don’t tell me to wake the fuck up, and to “smell the flowers” until you’ve written hundreds of letters to your state house of representatives. Only to be met with a paltry two responses, with only one being a truly heartfelt response.

There’s one important thing to never forget: Armed queers bash back. Don’t ever forget it. Stay safe out there.

Very nice! I am what we in the industry call a fraud :^)

JK, I’m just not well versed in development or high level things. I’m in the administration, implementation and advisory side of things these days. I was a field tech prior.

One day I’ll get more into the weeds of it all. Nothing but respect for the devs that hold it all together

I’m out of the industry now, but I was saying the same. Win 10 Embedded and Win 7 IoT both served very, very well. But the always online component and other issues with 11 make it poorly suited for the use case it had in the past. Systems that relied on mapped drives are now nearly fully depreciated.

How was the gay rights movement back then? If memory serves correctly, not great!!

It’s even people in tech. I work with someone who will gladly take tech claims at face value, and call me a conspiracy theorist on data collection. I said I didn’t want a smart thermostat because it increases our attack surface and he immediately snapped back with “oh China is gonna get us”. Like… No these things have had CVEs already and will again

It’s very likely to be one of the NCR platforms. If I were to hazard a guess, StoreLine. Though it could be Encor/ISS45, ECRS has a pretty big market share as well. POS software is a walled garden of security through obscurity. Windows dependencies tend to be in part because it is such a small market, but also due to workstation/server requirements as well as remote support.

Long time support and stability are the name of the game. The industry doesn’t allow for much downtime which makes any change significantly harder than a lot of other industries.

The Swedish approach was highly politicized here. Showing how it was “all about control”.

Onion article or not it’s a 2001 post, which says a lot in it’s own right.

It’s insane. The documentation is often times half accurate and feels like navigating a minefield of half truths, depreciations and context clues to find the solution to problems.

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Depending on MDM and conditional access policies, I’d say probably