I also asked for compact mode. Where’s that?

It’s not diluting its answers, it’s making them softer to accommodate the interests of many customers and to the detriment of others.

This is more analogous to Firefox semi-deprecating compact mode and marking it as unsupported. It hurts some users. It helps those with poor vision and motor skills by making everything 10 sizes too large. I will never forgive them, but Firefox is in the mode where it’s actively hurting it’s own product in an attempt to mimic it’s competitor.

In neither case is this objectively hurting customers to benefit investors. In fact they’ve already stated that making the AI softer is more expensive. The reddit change was making it’s product worse for customers in a pre-IPO cash grab. The shift from treating customers first to treating investors first to treating founders/ceos first is enshittification. A change to a product you don’t like isn’t enshittification.

overuse of enshittification. It soon will lose all meaning, like the word meme, if you just use it to describe everything you don’t like.

Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

If it’s enshittification it’s still stage 0 where they are trying to figure out how to attract people to the service (ie the good times, ie not enshittification)

You aren’t locked in. You don’t materially lose anything by switching services. And it has options to change the conversational style.

It’s not enshittification.

Yes

A sharpie also works.

It’s got like a “lite” version. You have to use the terminal to check if it’s enabled but that’s that Microsoft started doing in win10 home. I assume some asshat in marketing got the agreement they could keep their branding even if Microsoft gave out encryption for free.

Here it is https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/device-encryption-in-windows-cf7e2b6f-3e70-4882-9532-18633605b7df

Personally I found it made more sense to just bring an old pro license so I could be sure it was enabled.

It’s your bullet point number 1

You can’t enable encryption after the fact? What a backwards system…

Modern windows machines will be installed with bitlocker (full disk encryption). With manual installs it might not be.

That comment is neither nice nor unkind. If someone can’t take a relatively neutral comment in stride and requires that I be “nice”…that’s a pretty unfortunate way to live, tbh.

If you disagree with any of the claims that’s fine, but I think the facts are fairly rock solid. It’s a word whose definition can’t include windows. It’s a word people parrot endlessly in the last year or so since Doctorow got popular, without actually understanding it. If you want to prove me wrong, go for it.

Windows 11 isn’t enshittified, it’s just shit. You should consider learning what that word actually means rather than just parroting it like everyone else.

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I think Linux nerds are clowns who don’t understand that not everyone wants to learn what -xvf means just to extract a goddammed file.

Kde is solid and requires zero fuckery in my experience to work well. This is in fedora, suse, arch (endeavour), void.

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There was but noone knew what to do with it. We were all universally confused for like a solid 25 years.

I don’t think this paints a bleak enough picture of Linux before 2010 or so tbh, but it’s a good start.

It was real real rough

Imagine gnome but instead of deciding your settings for you, they had a dialog where you had to pick the settings yourself.

Really very frustrating, I was just trying to clean and they kept throwing their blood and random body parts everywhere. It was impossible to keep up.

Shit you caught me

Hold on I gotta clean the wood chipper

That’s an interesting new flavor of autism I wasn’t aware of, neat ;p

None of us noticed what headlights were used in a movie because we aren’t serial killers :(