You really don’t as long as you’re leaving the OS mostly standard. I’m a fairly high level power user of windows and I don’t think I use any of the 3 outside of development work.

Also same, this just seems to be a rite of passage with Steam

For the most part Americans are so desensitized to the gain Violence that it’s not something most of us think about much.

I’ve grown up in a post Columbine world, and mass shootings have been a part of my life since it started. They’re just a really unfortunate part of life here that won’t change unless there’s a massive culture shift.

And Stanford hates that they have to accept her too. I’m amazed they haven’t gone the way of the ivies and just stopped scholarship sports outside of the Olympic ones

Bluetooth is pretty much useless for peripherals and I’d never trust it.

Cloud storage is slow, expensive and small. External drives are still significantly cheaper per GB than cloud storage.

100% I hate this dumbass trend of putting multiple optional standards into a single cord. They did it with HDMI and confused everyone, and USB-C is the same.

Bluetooth latency makes that extremely unattractive

The entire airline industry runs on antiquated tech.

Between new certifications being needed for everything, and an attitude of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, combined with the constant attempts to save money, airplanes are rarely updated.

Twitter is literally being dismantled. It’s a shell of what it previously was, and does not work for organizing protests and other counter-culture due to the billionaires buying and taking it apart piece by piece.

The whole point of Twitter was reach. None of the other platforms have the same reach.

Also the other platforms are doing their best to follow twitters lead. So yes, it’s being dismantled.

None ever had the organizational reach Twitter did. FB/Instagram require more personal data and are much worse for discoverability. Mastodon and BlueSky have the issue of nobody using them (in the grand scheme of things). Lemmy and Reddit don’t work well because of reach and censorship respectively.

There still isn’t something out there that replaces the use cases of Twitter.

Have you attempted to use the platform since the rate limiting? It’s approximately 2-3 searches before you’re rate limited out of the app for 24+ hours.

You’re also unable to view comments unless you’re logged in, so you’re required to give them semi-accurate information for an account too.

It’s literally useless for organizing unless you pay for it, which defeats the entire purpose of wide spread reach like it used to have.

Rate limiting and heavily pushed “premium” options have made Twitter near useless for large scale organizing.

Airplanes are crazy over engineered. Something like half the systems can fail and they’ll still be able to land the plane.

The safety regulations are written in blood, but they’ve continually prevented more disasters.

I’m sure the MAX 9 is going to have a lot of investigation done very soon.

Also half the quality of service. I only order delivery from places with dedicated delivery staff because without fail, food delivered by a gig worker is cold, incorrect, missing, late or otherwise fucked up.

The trend has been that delivery is getting worse, not better

They put laws in place that reflect their desire for control. Is your head so far up your own ass that you think that the people setting those laws actually follow them?

There’s separate laws for the ruling class. They don’t give a flying fuck about “values”, they just want control

Lots of rural Washington too

Chicago isn’t the bastion of desirable place to live. Sure it’s a major city, but it’s really only viable in a few industries and the weather is abysmal.

Look towards either coast and you’ll see more moderate climates being a lot more expensive.

The serious gamer market isn’t the target audience for CoD. They’re aiming for kids and the adults who play 20 minutes a day and call it good. The game is perfectly fine for those players. Anyone who wants to play at anything more than a couch casual level isn’t the audience the game is made for. Do I think they’re terrible games? Yes, but that doesn’t mean they’re not filling the exact market niche they’re aiming for.

There’s also the fact that plummeting property values is really hard to sell to the majority of the voting base. Many homeowners won’t vote for someone who will tank their often largest asset. A lot of the middle class has a lot of their money in mortgages on their primary home.

I was in college for all this and it was a fucking mess. Teachers didn’t know how to teach, so they did the bare minimum (including sending us 3 weekly lectures they recorded 3 years prior) and didn’t grade anything.

If you weren’t extremely self-motivated to finish anything, there were no consequences. The university couldn’t fail you, so why bother?

I’m assuming those problems were 100x worse in the public school system