sorry to cause you stress; i had checked and saw you posted several comments elsewhere well after it, so i assumed that you weren’t planning to reply to @Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone’ comment.

i am glad to hear you’re actually considering the points in it, and i look forward to reading your reply if/when you have time to write one.

crickets

this post versus the series of recent posts about removing microphones from TV remote controls:

This remote-controlled toy one was commercially successful

before instant coffee displaced them, percolators were very popular. (CW: “continually cycling the boiling or nearly boiling brew through the grounds”)

This might be useful for some Linux users who want (but don’t need) to run Microsoft 365 occasionally, but actually relying on this kind of hack is a terrible idea.

Once fully implemented, this will help draw in people into Linux, as many shudder at the thought of switching to the platform because their preferred office suite doesn’t work here.

I certainly hope this doesn’t “help draw in people into Linux”. It’s sad to think about people and organizations switching to Linux on the basis of someone misleading them into thinking that relying on this kind of thing is a good idea because when it breaks it will give them a bad impression and they’ll blame “Linux” instead of Microsoft (or Bottles or whoever told them it was a good idea).

When the lack of a Linux version of a specific proprietary program is the blocker preventing someone from switching to Linux, relying on a workaround which remains unsupported by the proprietary/adversarial software vendor is… a recipe for a bad time.

Even if this mostly works today, it is extremely likely that (either intentionally or inadvertently) Microsoft will break it in the future.

So, although I do see how this can be useful for some people when/while it works, in my opinion Linux and the world at large would be better off if this software didn’t exist. I hope Microsoft breaks it sooner than later!

for those looking for the original text which this post is a translation of: https://www.heise.de/news/DSGVO-Falle-Smart-Glasses-Warum-Ray-Ban-Meta-Traeger-haftbar-werden-koennen-11451607.html

I still find it fascinating that the flying machines we invented don’t flap like birds

Many people (perhaps most famously Leonardo da Vinci) investigated the possibility, long before successful fixed-wing aircraft were built (and presumably before they were conceived of).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter

https://www.ornithopter.org/

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it’s been a long road

Once the republicans are out of the game, you can start voting for the progressives.

Please note that I am aware that the candidates that claim to be centrist are still actually quite fascist, but because your electoral system is so flawed, this is the only option you have.

you’re doing a bit here, right?

you’re satirizing the “blue no matter who” people by saying explicitly what they’re saying implicitly (“vote for fascists, only they can save us from the other fascists”), right?

the gradually changing typeface is a very nice touch

it’s possible

iirc the Linux kernel dropped support for pre-Pentium x86 in the last few years, so any distro with 486 support now would be using an unmaintained kernel.

I think if you want a maintained operating system for your 486 today, NetBSD is probably the thing to run.

some number of the dozens of people who upvoted this now incorrectly believe that hegseth has a tattoo with a funny misspelling. how does it being a meme make promulgating misinformation about about consequential people a good idea? 🤔

Not everything is AI buddy. Plus it’s funny no?

i meant “AI” in this sense. and sure, it is sort of funny, but it’s also, imo… shitty, actually, to cause people to believe ridiculous-and-untrue things (especially about someone like hegseth) because if/when they find out that they were misled it tends to sow doubt about the many ridiculous-but-true things they’ve also learned about him.