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They probably are, have you seen videos from western tourists in NK? They have super luxurious hotels costantly empty because there are at most a handful of people at one time. They really really want to be perceived as modern and civlized so they throw ludicrous amount of money to their ridicule tourism industry so they hope to attract foreigners. Of course this is done at the expense of their citizens

Also youtube is so widespread it's the best way to spread positive messages, even against YouTube and Google themselves

Windows update: you can no longer move the start button position people get crazy Windows update: UI improvement, now you can customize the start button position

In the meanwhile: recall, more spying, microsoft account and internet connection required for installation

Big tech will try and create a cartel to make open source less usable. Google is already pushing Manifest V3 to make development of browsers extensions more difficult, Microsoft could try and use TPM to only allow running "certified" software, and that could be the end of OpenSource as we know it

You said wise things, but I suggest considering expressing your wife these insecurities. Maybe that will help you come to terms with them and you can find some strategies so she can effectively reassure you.

It must be a windows professional things, because I had "reccomendations" of various things on the login screen and freaking candy crush saga ads in my start menu since Windows 10, which is one of the apps that kept reinstalling themselves with windows update, alongside OneDrive that I have to regularly uninstall.

When I had to install windows 11 using a local account was still allowed but now as far as I know it's not unless you modify the installation image (and still, why the fuck should I be allowed not to use an online account?)

As for the games, yeah they work, but many work just fine if not even faster on wine. And if a game works better on another OS with a compatibility layer in the middle you know your OS is really bloated.

I'm probably a lot more picky about my software than most people are, but windows is seriously getting worse by the year, at least on the customization and usability.

Ok I seriously don't get it. Windows is crap, for many reasons.

I get why microsoft doesn't want you to have privacy, getting you data is good money, this is also why it's full of ads. I also get it why they try and torce you to use a microsoft account and they try and force down your throat OneDrive and Cortana, it's to make more money.

I can also get why they reduce the customization options, it's to get you used to have no choice and I guess to reduce the features they have to maintain.

But then there are things so stuoid I really don't get it, like this technical problem they absolutely have the means of fixing quickly and effectively. We arr talking about fucking Microsoft, the third or fourth richest company in the world that cannot ship a simple firmware upgrade. I can't believe they are not able to, but it seems they really are so incompetent and take some unbelievable stupid decisions. Like the first version of Recall not being encrypted in the slightest way. How could they be so stupid to think that no ome would notice, instead of spending like 6 hours of a single developer to implement encryption on an OS that REQUIRES tpm hardware.

Sometimes it looks like Microsoft is begging their uses to switch to linux.

Is CoMaps going to merge commits from OM in the future? Or is the development completely parallel?

I rember when "AI" was just the pathfinding in videogames

Germany, Russia, Japan and USA all had concentration camps of some sorts and all committed some form of genocide:

• Russia towards the eastern Europe population
• Japan towards the Chinese
• USA it depends if you consider two atomic bombs a genocide, they sure didn't like the Japanese but maybe they are the only ones I would be slightly more hesitant to accuse of genocide
• Germany for sure was the most horrible of them mostly for their sistematic and "effective" approach
• honorable mentions are Italy in Africa (that failed miserably but definitely had the intent) and the United Kingdom in India

Let's be real, at that time most countries where fucking evil. This is not to say that everyone was equally bad (as I said, Germany was really extra bad, and maybe the Nazi degeneracy helped everyone acknowledge how rotten the world was becoming), but if Russia weren't amongst the "winners", their horrors would spoken aloud a lot more.

I have anecdotal evidence that ML applied to image recognition is being used to improve imaging machines (MRI, tomography, etc..)

It's like saying: "do you prefer being stabbed in the left lung or the right lung?" both are just bad