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New comment by thesuitonym in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

thesuitonym — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:26:19 +0000

Not really a surprise, AI is obnoxious and useless in the majority of context, and yet we're forced to deal with it.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

thesuitonym — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:57:03 +0000

> a lot of times it's a mix of random languages. Sometimes just jibberish.

And sometimes it's just a directory listing.

New comment by thesuitonym in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"

thesuitonym — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:09:35 +0000

Gaslighting does not mean lying.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

thesuitonym — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:45:08 +0000

It's redundant in the same way Earl Grey tea is redundant, though.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

thesuitonym — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:20:45 +0000

Actually, in English, Chai does not mean tea, it means a specific flavor of tea. If you don't believe me, try ordering some Earl Grey Chai, see what happens.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

thesuitonym — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:19:27 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, the people using the fancy frameworks and whatnot usually aren't smart enough to understand them either.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

thesuitonym — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:58:07 +0000

I don't know what you're doing differently then. When I open the Music App, it goes straight to my Library. The only items in there are songs I've synced to my phone. I've never seen anything else or known it to behave differently.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

thesuitonym — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000

I've only ever used Apple Music with local content. On iOS the only indication to me that non-local content is even possible is the radio tab at the bottom of the screen.

On MacOS I think it opens to the online home page, but I use it so infrequently I'm not sure. I pretty much only use it to buy music from iTunes.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

thesuitonym — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:44:49 +0000

Thunderbird does have a plain text mode, and you set it to be the default. Nice thing about TB is that defaulting to plain text doesn't lock you into plain text like a lot of other editors out there--If you add any formatting it silently switches you to HTML email.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

thesuitonym — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:10:42 +0000

This is not something individuals should be doing.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

thesuitonym — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:09:49 +0000

So your answer to "TVs suck these days" is "lol just buy more crap."

You are exactly why TVs continue to suck.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

thesuitonym — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:11:12 +0000

I guess that's fine if you only have one device connected to your TV, and it supports CEC.

That is not my use case though.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

thesuitonym — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:26:20 +0000

Both, and the speakerbars. Roku's business model is not selling hardware.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

thesuitonym — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:25:50 +0000

Actually they don't want to open source it. This is the result of a lawsuit.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

thesuitonym — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:25:29 +0000

Is it really enshittification if it was shit from the beginning?

New comment by thesuitonym in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

thesuitonym — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:24:45 +0000

That's still not good. I recently switched from a Sceptre dumb TV to a top of the line LG OLED model, and it is sooooo slow. Everything takes forever because it's got to wait for the network connection which doesn't exist, play all its stupid animations, run the "AI" bullshit, and attempt an internet connection again.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

thesuitonym — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:05:12 +0000

I don't know man, everybody is fine with putting tabs, and searchbars, and a bunch of other shit in the titlebar, but god forbid we put one button that's actually incredibly useful.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

thesuitonym — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:03:20 +0000

I don't want to pay more, but if compared to having results tainted by ads, I'd rather pay.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

thesuitonym — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:52:40 +0000

Now imagine if that was designed properly, and you could just do that to any window, regardless of what the program thinks it should look like.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

thesuitonym — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:51:07 +0000

If things were designed well, it would be as easy as clicking the pin icon on the window border.