I’ve heard reports from our users that liftoff stopped working when we upgraded on Sunday also. It apparently doesn’t work with the new version and they said the dev ran off to start a family.

This is a commonly requested feature, and is likely to appear in a future version of Lemmy. In the interim, several of the mobile apps have this feature.

It is frightfully expensive to host video content. YouTube would cost Billions per year to run.

The lottery is run by the state government where I am, and all profits are put back into the community as grants.

Your odds of winning are just as awful, but at least you know your money isn’t just making some rich people richer.

Wait, we’re seeing less frequent updates as a bad thing now? Sorry, but stability is something I really like about my phone.

I pay for prime for the shipping advantages. I barely ever watch it, no way could I justify having it for just the streaming services.

At that point, the OS will be 10 years old, and was a free upgrade for anyone running Windows 7 or later. It’s plausible to not have paid a cent for your OS for 15+ years by 2025.

If you’ve bought a new computer with Windows since 2021, you’ll have v11 anyway and won’t be affected.

Frankly I have to hand it to Microsoft - they’ve been generous with OS support. The pessimist/pragmatist part of me puts it down to upgrading old OS’s to combat their reputation as being the cause of worms/viruses going mental on the Internet over the past decade or so. So it isn’t like they haven’t had ulterior motives.

But yeah, I can’t really fault them for this one.

This news article does not change the simple fact that there was a gay couple in Lightyear - a Pixar film.

Um, there was a gay couple in Lightyear. That’s a Pixar film.

But I honestly love the Bangs and shouting! That sequence was great!

I still have wifi woes on my old tablet. Works fine for a few minutes, then dies. Works fine in Windows. I’m about to reinstall on it. Maybe the next distro I try will work?

I can picture a future where people don’t bother with that. Similar to how we slowly abandoned landlines to go 100% mobile, I can imagine people going to data-only plans.

I’m about to get a phone for my kid starting high school next year, and frankly, I can see already see a case for just getting him a data plan.

I too, celebrated India’s loss. I even made a post on Lemmy about it.

Technically I celebrated Australia’s win, but it amounts to the same thing.

Funny you should say this. I have a 2012 Retina Macbook Pro, and yes it is running Windows or Linux with all the latest updates. However, Apple stopped supporting it in 2020. It’s too old for MacOS updates.

I’ve even seen a guide that will allow me to hack past the normal BIOS restrictions/allow me to put Windows 11 on it.

When it was released, Chrome was revolutionary. Sandboxing individual tabs into their own processes was a stroke of genius. Until then, if a single site ate up all your memory and crashed your browser, all your tabs/sites died and you had to start again.

It really was the best browser for a hot minute before others copied the idea.

I agree with him. If you don’t know what you are doing and just blindly install something off the Internet, it’s a security concern. I would not recommend that most users side-load apps, either. You have to remember that this crowd is not representative of the average user.

Just don’t take the option away from those of us who do know what they are doing.

Yes and no. DSLRs can be cheaper, but there’s something to be said about the simplicity of taking a photo and sending it immediately to a prospective family, or if your site is set up nicely, uploading it straight to a website in moments.

You can get superior photos shooting with a DSLR, but then you’ll want to put the camera somewhere safe, extract the SD card, touch it up with Photoshop/Lightroom and then save the raw as jpg. Then you can send it/upload it.

Meanwhile with the phone, you’ve taken half a dozen photos and multiple chats going on the device.

Why would I actually want to trade in my Pixel 7 for a Pixel 8, though? Even for a straight swap, the hardware upgrade is negligible and I’d lose Photo Spheres on the software side.

I’m unconvinced the 8 is even a superior phone at this point.

The neat thing about Android is you have a choice. If you don’t like the launcher your phone came with, there are plenty of alternatives that you can use for free from the app store.

I recommend trying alternatives and seeing whether you like any of the others better. If you don’t, you can go back.

Given that you managed to miss what I said, I’ll reiterate: I know about Linux. Pretty-much everyone here knows about Linux. Evangalising about Linux is not useful. I’ve been running it, and making my living off my knowledge of Linux for over 25 years. At home, I have four computers and three of them exclusively run variants of Linux.

This is kind of intellectually dishonest don’t you think? It both ignores the fact that Linux runs on the majority of hardware and invites us to pretend that Linux users are constantly buying random windows machines and hoping they work.

No. You literally said “Nope I just buy supported hardware and software that works without difficulty which I’ve been doing since 2003.” in response to the very valid issue raised that Windows has better hardware support. I personally happen to disagree with that statement, I think the hardware support for older hardware in particular is much better in Linux than Windows. But for newer hardware, Windows drivers come before Linux drivers for very obvious reasons.

I also need to use Windows for work. My primary workstation runs Windows. This isn’t a matter of preference. There are many valid reasons for running Windows. And because of that, this headline is relevant to many people here.