Sometimes some programs and some downloads have weird slowdowns like this when my VPN is on, even though others remain completely unaffected

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Factorio is priced appropriately

It’s less that it never goes on sale, more like it is always on sale

It looks a lot like win95. I don’t think anything you brought up is relevant

How’s the atlantic anything like the pacific?

• smaller
• not in the same spot
• doesn’t get the same amount of sun
• different countries in it
• doesn’t help you go to the same places by boat

Truly nothing in common. Might as well be comparing an apple to caulking a window

Communist != tankie

Tankies are always communists, communists aren’t always tankies

Discord was never usable for almost all handicaps

Source I work with blind developers

You wanna sell in europe you obey europe’s standards and regulations

It doesn’t matter that they are one time setups, the question is how many one time setups will you have to do in a year, year over year?

Same for “insanly edge cases” (editing a pdf, lol), the question is how likely are you to encounter an edge in your daily life?

When there’s a one-in-a-million chance to encounter a defect but there’s millions of them, it just becomes likely.

Turns out the world is made of a lot of edges for some advanced users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

“Why do gay people always act flamboyant?”

“Why do vegans always push their lifestyle?”

Because you don’t see the ones that don’t

Any advanced user will face dozens of hoops a month on Linux

It’s never the simple things, nor the very difficult things. It’s small, niche workflows & use cases of your computer that you “sometimes” do, like, I don’t know, editing a PDF, installing shareX or an equivalent that can take a screenshot and upload it to imgur / run OCR on a part of your screen, running a Space Engineers server for your friends, running SSEEdit.exe to dump the contents of a potion overhaul mod in Skyrim and calculate which are the best ingredients to plant in your Skyrim greenhouse and garden for maximizing gold output.

No need to look up ways to do any of those, I’ll get different ones next week, and then more the week after.

You know, the millions of things that no one ever does except that guy in 2019 on StackExchange, but that you will have to do and then never again.

the annoying stereotype of vegans pushing their diet

Also, vegans actually do something good for the planet instead of just choosing a different OS for their PC. So, maybe acknowledge that to your neighborly vegan next time, instead of telling them a story about how you once met someone who was really pushy about veganism.

“Innocent until proven guilty” has nothing to do with it. When a cop stops you he’s not indicting you. Switching your gas off remotely replaces chasing calling in reinforcements and chasing you over several blocks when you start speeding up, or flipping your car over. Both of those already impair or override the driver’s input quite a bit.

Having the opinion that your driver input should override the cop’s order to stop, and that society should trust you to stop instead of putting a kill switch in your engine is an insane opinion, and prime driver entitlement.

And I would love the same for drivers without insurance, license removals and cars that didn’t pass the tech inspection

Cars kill 43 000 people a year in the U.S.

I’m talking about people’s reactions in this thread when they haven’t read the article. All of those people opposing a hypothetical “cop presses a button” remote kill switch are insane.

Private citizens do not have a right to operating a motor vehicle any way they see fit. You license it, you license your skills, you get it looked at periodically and you use it on public roads with the state’s blessing only if you can manage to get along with other people using that same road. There is no sense opposing a kill switch for “freedom”.

We can’t trust cops with their stupid car chases that result in crashes, and their maneuvers for flipping cars over on the freeway.

You give them a killswitch

You can get rid of all those uncertainties by just rolling out a pilot and seeing how it goes. There’s no way cops being able to stop cars remotely causes any more trouble than them actually flipping cars over if they take .3 seconds too long to park for a traffic stop, like they did to that pregnant woman who died in 2022.

The police has also demonstrated many, many times that they can’t be trusted to rationally judge whether to indulge in hugely dangerous car chases or not, and they routinely end up making perps crash into random people/objects for traffic stop evasions that turn out to just be a guy fleeing because they have felony quantity of coke or a revoked license. You give it a pilot and see how it goes, if it does more good than harm, then you keep it.

For security, there are many remote-access-control security dances out there, and it’s a solved problem. Tons of them are just a certificate to authenticate, and do a little challenge to solve to be protected from repeat attacks. If one certificate gets leaked or abused you can revoke it and that’s that. If that somehow still has flaws - that’s why you’re doing a pilot.

“Disadvantages”

43 000 deaths a year and you cry at the slightest inconvenience

Drivers need a reality check

Driver entitlement episode 456: “what do you mean my death machine needs to have a remote kill switch???”

Insane.

Monopolies don’t need to create value for the user to keep their leadership

If the market wasn’t fucked they wouldn’t need to have good leadership, they’d do it or die

Sundar Pichai has got to be the worst CEO in the silicon valley period

Google has managed to produce next to nothing of value with a dreamteam of engineers the likes of which no one else had access to

From one uninspired leadership decision to the next they’ve just been sitting there bolstering what’s already there while every once in a while adding a new product to the Google graveyard

Not fully worried yet about the software engineering job market but getting there!