That’s fine. Those are the plugins you chose to install for your particular tastes and these are very important options to have available to the user should he choose to use them. That’s not what I meant by “smart” features.

What I don’t want is my browser with built-in modern equivalents of Bonzi Buddy that you can’t remove.

I see a web browser like a TV screen. An I need it to do is display the internet with nothing in the way. Any attempt to add built-in “smart” features to it will make it worse. If I want something else added to it, I’ll plug it in myself.

Read the whole post. I acknowledged them already and am expressing my doubts over the true motivations that drive Microsoft to force a tech like this upon all their users and express my concerns over the real use they will make of this technology.

Don’t you try to change the meaning of my post just so you can have a cause to white knight over. This isn’t Reddit.

An image is worth a thousand words. How is reading a text describing what is on the screen going to be better than just looking at the screen yourself, something you’ll need to do to read the description anyway? Aside from accessibility for the blind, the practicality such a technology is questionable.

The motivation behind this is obviously to facilitate the collection and reporting user profiling data. Accessibility for the blind is only a side effect. Tech companies have been doing it with automated audio transcriptions for years already, now they’re after what you look at on your screen.

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While everyone is working tirelessly at trying to control a disaster that is being exacerbated by climate change, Karen demands to talk to the manager.

Finally figured out that Putin lies to him. Probably the last person on the planet to do so.

Corporate jargon translation:

“It’s going to limit innovation” = “We won’t be able to use those new ways of ripping off our customers anymore”

He’s just gonna grovel in front of Putin even harder thinking that maybe this time it will work.

Musk is looking for another boot to lick after the last one kicked him in the teeth and stepped all over him. Spoilers Elon: All boots eventually do that.

Unknown Worlds was already dead anyway.

The team had already lost any chance of recreating the greatness of the first game when their sound designer made unbelievably stupid comments on social media, leaving the company no choice but to fire him.

This is very sad because I loved their stuff ever since the Natural Selection Half-life mod.

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There should be a tax that ramps up more and more the closer you are to be worth 1 billion dollars. If you are worth 999.999 million 100% of your income is taxed so you never reach 1 billion. And guess what? Your quality of life will not be affected in any way whatsoever.

Cat owner dies of overdose after cat repeatedly demands treats

This is a great idea. Canada could use the invaluable experience gained by Ukraine in building cost-effective drones to fight a modern war against the invasion of a numerically superior neighbouring hostile country.

Freeze them. During the off season thaw some in the microwave and put it warm on ice cream.

Good. The perfect reminder for Canadians to ditch America’s economy and join Europe’s instead. Just in time as people were beginning to forget.

It is now

Now I’ve learned enough to know that I can easily learn what all that apparent gibberish does with the “man” command, but you have no idea how unbelievably unapproachable this makes Linux look to the uninitiated.

No keys, full of unnecessary electronic gadgets, heavier, bigger, clumsier handling, no manual transmission option, filled to the brim with spyware, subscription based features that used to just be pay once to have it, uses huge wheels and tires that are more expensive to replace, touchscreen controls for everything, full of obnoxious and intrusive driver aids…

I’m going to keep my car until it is a pile of rust. Then I’m probably riding a motorcycle everywhere unless the car market somehow de-enshitifies itself.