Dorsey was on a tear yesterday, unfollowing all but three accounts on X while referring to Elon Musk’s platform as “freedom technology.”

Ah, I see. He went insane.

This isn’t a Windows thing, it’s a firmware thing. It’s HP’s doing, and HP is well known for screwing with the usability of their devices. In my case, on my Victus, it’s F10 that opens UEFI, but the menus are incredibly stripped down. Looking online, F10 seems to be the key to access it on your device, too. Maybe you just aren’t getting the timing right, sometimes you gotta mash the absolute hell out of that button to get it to register. Once you do get it, setting a post delay will make it easier in the future.

They’ve been talking to Tencent, I’m gonna stick with “no.”

Their online tech support these days is no better. Just a maze of dead links and broken, 503-ing pages.

HP anything is a bad investment. I bought a HP gaming computer because it was on clearance for less than it’s graphics card alone, and learned that they lock the bios down to the simplest, most useless options.

the fangame runs on nintendo licensed hardware using nintendo licensed SDKs.

Legally shouldn’t have ever been their problem. If I, without any permission, ported Mario 64 to the Xbox, it would make zero sense for Microsoft to raise issue with Nintendo over it.

A lot of fangames that mod valve games don’t use any steam tools and Valve is still completely fine with the mods.

Statement’s a little incongruous: a fangame that mods Valve games would mean something like a Sonic game built on the Source engine. Regardless, I’m pretty sure I take your intended meaning, and the fact is, there really aren’t that many. I can only think of two notable ones off the top of my head, both of which are flash games, and both of which Valve ultimately did profit off of. After digging for a short while, I came up with two others, one being a short celebration of the series made for it’s 25th anniversary by a very well-known fan site, and the other being an obscure Unreal Engine project. The only other thing I can think of that might apply is Xash, which they definitely aren’t fine with, they just don’t have the legal standing to get rid of it without legally endangering every third-party tool made for their games.

So Valve takes down any project related to their IPs that isn’t made utilizing their tools and done in a way they like and/or can profit from?

How is that different from Nintendo with things like Mario Maker?

Ya know what? I hope they do it. That many rich assholes with more ambition than brains in one place? It’ll burn from the inside.

Oh, wow, that’s absolute bullshit from Google in that case.

This is kinda like Windows with the “We don’t recognize this application” message. Letting it scan will probably just help other users avoid this annoyance in the future. You can also shut off play protect from the play store settings.

Damn, I don’t remember that part at all.

GOOD.

Most people don’t understand and are put off by the concept of federation and the difficulties that can come with it.

You have to find a suitable instance. Many instances are specialized, require applications, or simply don’t allow new users at all. I myself have yet to find a well-suited instance, and instead, I’m on an instance where discovery of my content is impossible.

With Twitter, if someone shares their profile, it’s two clicks to follow them. With the fediverse, you have to get their profile, then manually search for it on your own instance. In some cases, this doesn’t work reliably due to federation errors.

Its possible you’ll find yourself in the off-putting position of being unable to follow some people you’d like due to instances being defederated. This can make the process of finding an instance harder, or for people who are unfamiliar with the concept, result in them declaring the whole thing broken and moving away.

The problem is finding a viable alternative. Mastodon and Firefish are too much trouble for most people, BlueSky is a walled garden and Threads is… Well, Threads is Threads, enough said.

Breaking news: Elon is a hypocrite. In other news, snow found to be cold.

I mean, it’s not like this is new. He ranted about free speech for months, then as soon as he bought twitter, he started removing journalists that spoke out against him. He’s scum, plain and simple.

I had a similar problem with my ISP’s CGNAT, and Zero-Tier One is what got around it for me.

They said they’re on IOS.

It definitely happens with extremists on both sides, but I think it’s much more common on the right. Like, I encounter it on streets all the time from the right. I recently had a “climate change doesn’t exist because a day was cool last week” conversation with someone on the fourth-straight record high day in a row.

Someone in there finally said, “We can sell them the parts, and then the ones that fail to fix it either have to buy a new one or send the old one to us to fix at even more cost!”

I’m with the only uncapped service in my area, it’s $90/mo for 10mb/s and it’s unreliable as all fuck.