Darren

Even then, it’ll be the fault of the people coming over with fuck all to try and rebuild their lives.

I use Castopod for when I’ve uploaded my radio show. At the moment it’s hosted on my site that’s on Hetzner. It only costs me a tenner a month, so I’m wondering whether it’s worth trying to work out how to host it all locally so I can have far more storage and it not cost me anything.

Yes Geoffrey.

🎶Poptarts on a borzoi You know, you know This is serious 🎶

They do not. Yet.

I don’t really use Windows these days. Mostly in a VM to make sure something I’m fiddling with is compatible for the poor folks at work who have to use it. So I can’t say I have any real opinions on 11 one way or the other. I couldn’t really point to one thing that’s vastly different or improved.

I guess, from that point of view, 11 feels mostly like it’s MS adjusting the OS to better suit their revenue stream, rather than improving workflows for the consumer. Which it is, I suppose.

Cheers for the heads up!

We use a Canon at work, behind a print server called UniPrint, or some shit. I figured out how to use it to print from a USB drive long before I finally caved and mailed the guy who maintains it to ask how to get my KDE Neom machine to successfully send a print job. I figured out how to see it, I could check the toner levels, but I could not send a print.

Works now, because he changed a setting.

Bastard printers.

I genuinely couldn’t tell you what the current gen Xbox is named, though to be fair I don’t really pay that much attention these days.

But yeah, Windows can’t really have much of a default theme update when there are a good four different window styles throughout the various settings panels.

Looking at it from a perspective other than “Windows shit, use Linux”, MS’ biggest issue here is that the vast majority have no compelling reason to upgrade. Currently.

To the average punter, W11 offers nothing that W10 doesn’t already have. There’s no new technologies that they care about, no new tentpole software that they’re dying to try. Nothing. It has copilot running rampant through it, but most people don’t know what that is or don’t give a shit.

Give Apple their due, when they announce an OS update, they focus hard on the ways it improves over the current offering. Ways it can interact with your other devices, for example. Or even just a whole new design.

But MS advertise nothing beyond “This is new, come get it!”, then wonder why no one cares.

When Rishi Sunak was Prime Minister I searched him up to see where in Southampton he grew up. Because I grew up just outside Southampton.

Anyway, that was when I discovered that I was only 6 months younger than the Prime Minister. And I did not like that at all.

I moved from iOS to Graphene back in March, and have never had an issue with it, despite having to very suddenly learn how to Android.

As someone who is actively moving away from Apple stuff, the hardest thing for me to give up has been Pages. The iPad version is fine, but the Mac version is the GOAT as far as I’m concerned.

But it sucks balls for making anything that needs to be opened on any other editor.

For how good and useful Excel is, it’s overbalanced by how utterly fucking dog shit Word is.

Word is when you have a crap and can’t seem to wipe yourself fully clean. Word is making a morning coffee and finding the milk has gone bad. If it weren’t for the US deciding they’d rather invade the Netherlands than let a single Yank stand trial in the Hague, the entire executive suite of Microsoft would be up on war crimes charges because of Word.

Ok buddy.

In most of the world, they are. And most of the world doesn’t have fascists in charge.

Meanwhile, your “working class” is armed to the teeth and fascism is still running amok.

I’m fairly new to Android, so have been using Nova on a friend’s recommendation since I got my phone. I installed Kvaesitso and can’t for the life of me figure out how to make it just look like what I’m used to.

I hate this shit. Why do people have to change my stuff!

I honestly wouldn’t mind paying for it if it didn’t feel like such a fucking rip-off.

For example, for £19 a month I could sub to Netflix top tier. For that, I and three others could watch their stuff in UHD, all at the same time. And sure, Netflix content might be somewhat average these days, but it’s still reasonably high quality and costs a decent packet to produce.

By contrast, YT Premium for family is £20 a month, with which I can access a bunch of videos that, while enjoyable, do not cost Google anything to make. Yes, hosting costs money, and yes, they (theoretically) pay the video creators. But it doesn’t feel like £20 a month, y’know?

Part of the trouble is that they lump YT Music in to the same subscription. But I don’t want or need that. I have Apple Music with its lossless catalogue, and library that I’ve built up over many years. If YT offered a straight up ad-free plan that I could share with my family that cost a tenner a month, I’d probably go for it. It would mean being able to watch videos on Apple TV without having to fuck about downloading them to my Plex folder first, because they’ve injected SO MANY ADVERTS in now that the YT app is completely unusable.