Was fixing something on my dad’s computer and the start menu was featuring some story like “10 children swept away by floodwaters to their deaths” in some faraway country. What a terrible vibe to start the day with. Sensational news has no place in an operating system.

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alex_c a day ago | parent | next [-]

I was setting up my kid’s laptop last year. Parental controls enabled, with the kid’s age entered. Start menu was showing stories about beheadings and murders.

Windows is rotten to the core.

The scariest part is just how many people stick with the default settings, and get this stuff pumped into their brains 24/7.

I hope some day we’ll take this as seriously as environmental protection. Which granted isn’t perfect either, but a lot more than we do about all the mental toxicity being spewed at scale by large tech firms.

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dylan604 a day ago | parent | next [-]

> I hope some day we’ll take this as seriously as environmental protection. Which granted isn’t perfect either, but a lot more than we do about all the mental toxicity being spewed at scale by large tech firms.

The problem is that, as we are currently seeing, that any administration can reverse any policy previously set. So any regulation is not a permanent solution.

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CodeMage a day ago | parent [-]

> The problem is that, as we are currently seeing, that any administration can reverse any policy previously set. So any regulation is not a permanent solution.

Depends on what you mean by "can". You're right in that any administration that successfully abandons the rule of law can do anything they want, but that's not a problem inherent to regulation as a concept. Regulation is a good solution, but it won't work when a corrupt, lawless regime is in power. It's kinda like saying we shouldn't vaccinate because being forced to drink toilet water can kill us.

As for not being a permanent solution, that's okay. No regulation is meant to be permanent. Regulations are supposed to change, but there's supposed to be a process to follow and that process is supposed to ensure that the change happens for the good of the society and is governed by the will of the people.

The fact that none of those prerequisites are currently satisfied does not imply that regulation doesn't work.

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dylan604 a day ago | parent [-]

This administration has gotten SCOTUS to agree that many of these agencies are under control of POTUS and not independent agencies. That means the agencies work at the whims of POTUS or else POTUS will replace the agency leadership with people that will. That will see an exodus of other people that would potentially put up any resistance.

So I'm not really sure where you seem to think an abandonment of rule of law is at play

	▲	CodeMage 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The rule of law means that everyone, including the administration, has to follow the laws. When an administration repeatedly ignores or defies court orders, they have abandoned the rule of law. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/hSGAC-Minori...

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wat10000 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The start menu shows news stories?!

I haven’t used Windows for more than 30 seconds since XP. Every time I hear about what it’s become, I’m just baffled. I never considered it to be good, but at least it tried. Now it seems like another example of big companies hating their customers and wishing they’d just get out of the way of the money coming in.

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colechristensen a day ago | parent | prev [-]

A glacial collapse did indeed cause wild flash flooding in Tibet and Nepal and many people were killed including people from around the world and many locals, it reaches back home in USAID cuts eliminated a program to detect and warn about this very thing.

It's not particularly "sensational" news but a tragedy with many global connections.

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coldpie a day ago | parent | next [-]

I just wanted to launch Notepad, dog.

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bluefirebrand a day ago | parent [-]

Speaking of notepad why the fuck is notepad a onedrive app now.

I just want to take a couple of notes, I need to write down a handful of bullet points to remember the name of an NPC or two for the Pathfinder game I'm playing in, and notepad is like "set up your OneDrive account!".

Kiss my ass Windows

	▲	accrual a day ago \| parent [-]
		It's slow, too. On corporate hardware it can take several seconds for the "new" Notepad to open and actually start rendering keypresses. Instead I use Notepad2 and Notepad++ which are instant on the same hardware, like Notepad used to be.

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qwerpy a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That may be true and bonus points for successfully managing to connect it back to everyone’s favorite subject, American politics.

There’s a place for it and it’s the news where I can consume it when I feel like it. Not the application launcher of my operating system.

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badc0ffee a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I guess the silver lining is that China will most certainly implement a similar program now.