Fuck webp, use JPEG XL*. It supports lossless and lossy compression, and it’s compression is on par or better than webp. It also isn’t entirely designed by Google.
* With JPEG fallback. Google, being Google, blocked the addition of JXL decoding in Chrome and Android.
That whole thing sounds rather counterintuitive. Armor is supposed to protect the occupants of the vehicle, but Tesla’s crown jewel of armored* trucks has a track record of spontaneous system failures that put its occupants in direct harm.
*with glass windows and steel sheet metal that can’t stop a bullet.
Recently had to deal with creating a Windows 11 installation for someone else. I used a self-downloaded ISO and Rufus, and it still tried to pull that crap. OneDrive will create a system notification offering to enable it, and it’s similar enough to the various annoying Windows onboarding notifications that some people will accidentally click the confirmation thinking it’s the dismiss button.
The contrast is insane. So many people on shitter love the taste of leather, apparantly.
I didn’t address that one because the commenter qualified it by saying you can’t easily change them, which is kind of true. You can change the modifiers, but anything beyond that or changing keyboard layouts is a crapshoot in my experience.
It’s considerably better than trying to remap anything on Windows, at least. But, it’s also not completely free from hard-coded hotkeys and dumb restrictions. For example, Command + Tab can’t be changed or disabled, and you need to use third-party programs like BetterTouchTool to hijack the sequence in order to replace it with some other action.
More recently, I read that the latest OS version disallows registering hotkeys with only Option or Option+Shift as the modifier, which is a very big step backward. Being able to insert unicode characters is cool, but it’s peanuts compared to having 80 more options for hotkey sequences that aren’t already used by the OS or application.
Well, shit. It’s a good thing that I don’t use a Mac unless it’s forced upon me.
I’m not looking to argue, but this is my take:
They’re going to keep making it more and more difficult for the average consumer to step outside of the Apple-intended vision (as they have with Gatekeeper, SIP, and removing kernel extension support), but I really don’t think they would be stupid enough to fully close the ecosystem.
A lot of their MacBook Pro and Mac Pro sales comes from corporate hardware refreshes. If a company can’t get their proprietary software working because of arbitrary restrictions, they’re going to buy a Windows device next time.
It’s a persistent toggle. You could just leave it on permanently, which is what I did when I had to use a Mac for work. If they ever made it reset on reboot or on a timer, I would be pretty fucking annoyed, however.
Outside of gaming, there is not a single reason to use Windows over macOS–maybe if you enjoy suffering
Let me name a couple of shitty ones:
None of those are reasons to voluntarily choose Windows, but sadly, they’re still real reasons.
Not defending Crapple, but adding context:
There’s no way of globally enabling hidden files and folders, there’s a terminal command that does it for vanilla finder windows, but none for the finder file picker windows that apps use.
You can use command + shift + full stop to toggle hidden files and folders, if I recall correctly.
Unclear if it’s hardware or MacOS, but despite having the graphical horsepower to push enough pixels, Macs are limited to two external monitors unless you buy the multi thousand dollar Max processor.
It’s the hardware. Each display needs to have a dedicated controller chip and video signal encoder, and Apple decided to be assholes and only add two of them.
Not defending Crapple, but in the name of fairness, some of these aren’t really accurate unless you’re ignoring the spirit of the complaint and being pedantic.
You can scroll right but not left with the track pad
You can scroll up, down, left, and right if you use two fingers to scroll.
The delete key doesn’t do anything in the finder
You can use command + backspace to delete selected files.
The terminal uses cmd+c instead of cmd+shift+c (really should be ctrl but okay)
The rest of the OS uses command + c for copying. This is consistent.
Every app relies on an antiquated menu bar at the top which is straight out of 90s UI
This is a personal opinion. It’s a valid complaint, but it’s not a universal problem.
that’s more of a
Blu-RayDRM problem
Fixed that for you, and fuck DRM.
I’ll admit, you had me in the first half.
For anyone genuinely considering jury nullification, it’s also probably not a good idea to bring it up before deliberation. Lawyers typically try to get jurors dismissed when they’re aware that it’s actually an option.
Some people do it for resume points.
Personally, I open-source my random crap because it’s possible that someone else had a similar problem and would appreciate a pre-made solution. I have been on the receiving end of that many times, and paying it forward is the least I can do.
It might be easier for people to understand the context if you quoted more of the original image, like
The “proud fuckin’ male” doth protest too much
My thoughts: they pridefully use the same formula in each of their open-world games, thinking consumers won’t recognize that Far Cry’s gameplay is basically AC with guns and a different story.
So if I steal something from someones vacation home and return it before they visit, its not stealing either right? Thats residential piracy is it?
It’s still theft. You intended to and successfully managed to deprive someone of their property, albeit temporarily. You would also still end up in front of a court for trespassing and breaking and entering.
How about I love a painting so much but I’m an asshole and I think artists don’t deserve to be paid for art, so I sneak in while he’s sleeping, with a replica in tow, and swap out his real painting for the identical fake.
Still theft, but with copyright infringement on top. You have deprived the artist of his property—his physical copy of the painting.
I don’t know what changed over the years really, it was stealing in the 90s and stealing in the 00s, and then some people figured if they just said it wasnt stealing enough it would stick?
People unquestionably accepting falsehoods is what changed. Have you noticed that when pirates do get caught and taken to civil or criminal court, it’s for copyright infringement, computer fraud and abuse, wire fraud, or something else tangential to theft but not actually theft? It’s because digital piracy is legally not “theft”.
its hard to argue you should get all your games for free just because, oh well nothings lost.
I am not making that argument.
I even pirate games but I’m not afraid to call it stealing.
I don’t, and I still wouldn’t call your digital piracy stealing. In English-speaking countries, at least, the law considers it to be copyright infringement.
In the same vain, I wouldn’t call randomly sucker-punching someone “assault”: it’s battery.
Because it’s not—by definition—stealing?
Theft is the taking of another person’s personal property with the intent of depriving that person of the use of their property. Also referred to as larceny.
Digital piracy is:
I mean, digital piracy isn’t stealing regardless of the premise that buying ≠ owning.
Stealing is taking another’s property without the intent to return it. Making a digital copy is not taking any property, it’s creating a reproduction of it. The only place left to argue that piracy is stealing would be to say that you’re stealing the company’s theoretical revenue… but that revenue was never tangible property, being that it’s your money up until the moment you give it to them. Piracy is, and only is, copyright infringement.
Sadly, yes. That’s why I mentioned the fallback to JPEG.