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Isn't this the version where they pinky promised there will be CMYK support?

<ducks, runs>

I knew Windows sucked since, I dunno, XP? It took me forever to hack bloat out of Vista to make the fucking thing just work without all kinds of bullshit background services calling home. Then came Win 8 with the useless Metro "everything menu" and I was out.

Nice cherrypicking. Don't get a bellyache from that fine harvest.

Edit for context: as I wrote elsewhere, "Anybody using the fediverse is ensured pseudonymity already, the privacy issue should be whether your account(s) can be linked to your real life identity against your will."

I'm perfectly happy with being accountable for what I say and do within our pseudonymous community here. Our bad faith friend above doesn't get to pull his infantile whataboutism, sorries.

And now I definitely want to see whoever downvoted your post outed as cowards 👍👍

I don’t always want to write a detailed explanation, especially not when people reply with “did an AI write this?"

No, much better that they have to wonder in private "did a not just downvote me?" 🙂 But I do appreciate you replying, much more than I would a vote in either direction.

Couldn't agree more, and if we passed around imaginary gold on Lemmy, I'd give you a dubloon for this.

I'm genuinely thrilled by how many here are wetting themselves at the thought of others knowing what or who they downvoted. That is really the extent of "privacy" awareness in most of this thread, wanting to get away with being dicks.

Downvotes are meant to balance out "likes", and minimise people gaming the score system — but let's be honest here, just as often they're a "disagree" button. And sometimes they're just bullying tools — an endless supply of "Kick me!" post-its to be distributed generously wherever.

Hot fix: end downvotes. Just yank them out of the system. Actually my preferred solution.

More realistic fix: make votes transparent, encourage accountability.

Excuses are only that, especially if your instance has already implemented robust server rules against harassment.

I think the real sign of toxicity is weighting (perceived) anonymity over accountability for your actions on any platform. I'll vote for transparency any day.

The point of privacy is pretty shaky in this context, tbh. Anybody using the fediverse is ensured pseudonymity already, the privacy issue should be whether your account(s) can be linked to your real life identity against your will.

In that regard I can only see positives to making voting public. Foremost it could create some accountability to the system, and maybe minimise the lazier drive-by, doom scroll votes?

My thoughts exactly. It's an underwhelming throwback in exchange for the pretty clever moz://a pun.

this whole ‘lemmy-centric’ view you have of the fediverse is archaic.

More like narrow, but we see that all over. Mastodon users think microblogging is the end-all, be-all of the fediverse, even ignoring the loads of other, similar server software in that sector. Lemmy users talk about the fediverse as if it's only community-based forums.

In the meantime I guess, say, Peertube users are over in the other end of the room scratching their heads.

Them again, "a single book with some really brilliant and thoughtful ideas" is one book more than most authors, much less internet commenters will ever put out.