wizardbeard

I would love to see The Protomen's albums adapted into a muscial (assuming they ever finish Act 3). Reading the liner notes while listening along gets close, and they already did the music for "Terminator the Second" (musical shakespearian adaptation of Terminator 2).

except for flooding you with more ads between video recommendations

That's literally it. The advertising and marketing teams within Google have politically maneuvered themselves into running the show, and the software/product engineering teams that want to maximize the quality of the system they work on (search, youtube) are overridden by insipid metrics that advertising needs more user interaction with ads.

They literally have been commanding that things be made more shitty to optimize their malformed metrics. You absolutely can get more people to click the sponsored search results... if you keep making them less distinct from the actual results. And advertising needs those good click through rates nooooow!

There are email chains documenting this sort of shit going on that have become part of the public record due to various court cases.

Wonderful article about it all here

Not content with unasked for evangelizing in Windows communities and posts, this Stallman's Witness tries their hand in an even less welcome locale.

Injured by the failure of their attempt, they seek sympathy back in friendlier climes.

Even so, why post this and not any one of countless other things?

Like I feel that you're missing a clear sign here. Most people would roll their eyes and move on. This is quite possibly the most "leopards ate my face" post in this community and yet it's being upvoted because "hooray tribalism" over something as asinine as OS (really kernel) choice.

Then why did you bother posting here complaining about it?

Instance admins can see your upvotes/downvotes, as in who specifically upvoted/downvoted something. As far as I'm aware, some front ends just make that information public.

Man, I just find the whole thing unfunny, and it feels like some fake forced viral thing. No hate on her trying to capitalize on it, I just don't find it funny and never did.

You care so little that you made a meme about it, and have now reposted a slightly edited version of it roughly a day later.

You can re-enable microsoft store etc with a single line of powershell if you really need.

Common Redist is used for "commonly redistributed" installers of other software the game relies on.

Like how sometimes when you install a game through steam and it also installs a Microsoft .net framework (because it needs that installed to run). In that case you'd the .net installer in the common redist folder. In this case, all those VCredist files.

OALinst is just an installer for OpenAL, a piece of audio processing software. A lot of games use it for handling positional audio, like something exploding to your left and behind you actually sounding like it exploded behind and to the left. Some games will also use it for more complicated audio things, like actually simulating sound echoes against the walls of a room and their material.

If you're talking about crowdstrike... They didn't all blue screen. That was caused by third party software that caused the same sort of issue (kernel crash/panic) on Linux boxes not even 3 months earlier.

Yep. Got diagnosed with a genetic liver issue and the immediate rule from the doctor was "Nothing with acetominophen ever again. You can probably get away with a (alcoholic) drink or two a week, but don't even think about acetominophen."

My dumb ass had been practically living off Day and Nyquill.