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I now use the right click "open in new tab" on any video so if it is AI, I can close the tab then hit the list where the video was and then go to the action dots to the right of it and "do not recommend" the channel. Have managed to give most of the godawful HFY videos the slip (..though recently new AI channels have popped up in my feed.. Urgh..)

LOL! Fuck, its been that long.. you grew up so fast~!

we ALL shoulda done that.

Yes. Which is why you shouldn't deactivate your account should you get banned. If you use old reddit and hit all the saved and replied comments you've got, you can remove the stuff that's archived. The most you can remove now is a years worth if you just go back through your comment history. I'm actually digging back through my own vintage mac posts and copying out my best tips and will reupload them here at some point.

Ahhhh damit! I'd have loved to have used it to create a giant Trump hippo splattering poop across the White House lawn and where the new ballroom is.. Oh well. Wasn't fast enough to enjoy the fun.

If you own your car outright, drop collision and keep liability and add glass and theft and bump up the medical on the liability.

You can get coverage a lot cheaper of you drop the collision part, but it does mean that if you’re not on the ball and run off the road and smash up your car in a ditch or onto a curb/stone wall/ whatever.. it’s on you.

As I told my insurance agent, why should the insurer pay if I’m not paying attention to what I’m doing behind the wheel?

He agreed.

This is why it's ever more critical that people maintin their due diligence when it comes to downloading and installing apps - apple, android, windows, linux or whatever. Shit's getting hairy out there.

FML! It was well over 90 degrees farenheits last week and the flies were BITING!

I got nailed several times by one of the fuckers in my car until it escaped out the window.

It was just a regular black housefly. I had no idea they could bite. Like a needle stabbed into me.

At least the mosquito is relatively painless.

Fuck biting houseflies.

Ehh. My dad had been using Windows from when 3.1 came out until Windows 8 and that Metro UI stopped him in his tracks. Had to reinstall Win 7 so he could use it but it really did deflate him.

Thing is, older users whose memory starts to go - it's absolutely critical that as little as possible changes with a new OS.

I was so furious with MS that he lost the ability to use his computer because of that change. He finally found someone to help him roll back to the older OS, but then it presented itself with a whole new set of problems, mainly the browsers stopped working and of course security.

He was well into starting to fail from cancer, so he was having memory problems when he got one of those scam calls from "Microsoft Windows" that locked him out of his computer and ransomed access for 300 bucks - which he didn't have.

Was in a nursing home by then.

I sent him a dell Core 2 duo laptop with his copy of Win 7 installed and a bunch of videos to watch (he loved Game of Thrones) but he was too sick by then.

Years later, one of my oldest clients (93 y/o - quite literally) got almost shut down when her system updated from Win 10 to Windows 11. Just the simple change of moving the icons on the taskbar stopped her in her tracks. I had to go set it up with the older left-justified icons she was used to.

When you get to dealing with older people who are starting to mentally slow down, you really see that consistency in the UI becomes an absolute necessity.

The fact that MS doesn't even give that option on an update - to see the personalization settings of the older OS and to honor them.. is really blind to the needs of older users. It's shitty.. it's ageist.

Apple has been fairly consistent with things like updating an OS will carry ALL the desktop settings - even icon locations on the Desktop, into the newer system. And it's identical other than a new tint of gray or a radius of a curve on the corner of the windows. (I think it's been boring as hell, but I've always reached to theme or skin the OS to my tastes.)

NGL, I use Win 10 Pro on my gaming PC and as someone that came from Dos-5.0/Windows 3.1.1 and also Geoworks but first used an Apple ][e, yeah, they're pretty much the same but with different window dressing.

I'm going to leap into Bazzite for the gaming PC once I get more SSDs. Can't even fnd the HDDs I want for storage of the game installers I have. So I wait.

Can't speak for the under 50 crowd, but from what I've dealt with, people don't buy apples because they're cheap. Usually it's down to getting fed up all to hell with Microsoft and wanting to try something with a friendlier user experience. for the last 20 years (at least) when I was doing housecalls to help people with their systems - it's almost always been seniors with macs.. and the number one gripe WRT printer setups almost always involved HP.

I'm still rolling with 2008 to 2010 era Macs so when these old tanks finally can't be updated with the unsupported installs, I'll be switching to linux of some sort.

Indeed, but as a decades-long apple user, I've never bought RAM through Apple. Hell, I never even got it through Otherworld, as that was almost as spendy. Ebay.. just go to ebay.

I think that is only going to last as long as the AI providers are willing to operate at a loss. The issue is even with the newer higher price points rolled out this year, they're still losing money. The slower AI machines may be the answer once the REAL profit earning price for the use tokens hits the market. I forsee lots of alternative work going on while the small LLM's are cooking the data. We will have to see once these machines start to roll out, what the use for LLMs will be and how it's applied. I am hopeful.