I agree that we should not ever celebrate someone’s death. Violence isn’t the answer. Sometimes it’s required to defend yourself, but it doesn’t solve problems.

With all that being said, if you think that motivation for his killing was that he was a right wing, 2nd amendment type, well, I’ve got some land in Australia I’d like to sell you.

The guy was genuinely horrible to a lot of non conservatives, and thought gun violence was “a small price to pay” for the second amendment.

Others have detailed his horrific viewpoints far better than I could, so I’ll just leave it at that.

As much as I don’t condone violence, I’m not going to get sad about someone I didn’t know, who held beliefs I don’t agree with, has died. I have some measure of sympathy for his kids. His spouse knew who they were marrying, so I have less sympathy for them, but the kids, in my opinion, are the victims in all of this, if anyone. They didn’t ask for this guy to be their father, and they certainly don’t deserve to lose their father in such a public and very visible way. I have zero doubts that they will eventually see the footage that’s floated around the Internet, if they have not seen it already. That’s a tragedy. They’ll have to see, in full color, the last moments of their fathers life.

I can only imagine the kind of trauma that could impart. I truly feel bad for those kids.

It can be. It depends on context and tone.

If they say that shit with a tone of defeat, I’d address it head on. If it’s typical banter like this sucks kind of tone then whatever.

People say a lot of concerning shit if you take everything that they say literally. Fact is that a lot of us use sarcasm and hyperbole as coping mechanisms.

Today, I joked with a buddy at work that the day made me want to hang myself from my shoelaces. I have zero suicidal ideation right now, I’m just unhappy that I have to put up with the people I have to work with right now. He’s much the same, sick of the shit, so he gets me.

It really depends on the tone and context more than anything.

Considering some of his comments over the years, I’m torn whether this is ironic, appropriate, or hilarious.

I just can’t decide.

It very much used to be.

Some of the newer stuff they’ve been putting out has been surprisingly good. Full explanations of how things interact, descriptions of what each option does, what options are available, how to configure things, useful examples…

Then you get to one option called something like “-outputformat” or something and the docs literally just say “this option configures the output format”, and you fall flat on your face and perish.

I assume everything I read on the Internet is someone’s opinion. Unless it’s about an Internet thing, by the company that made that thing.

Like finding usage articles for Windows/office/whatever, on Microsoft’s website…

This. This is the reality and the root cause of a lot of the issues regarding homelessness, starvation and preventable illness in the world.

Aggressive capitalists value money more than anyone’s, and everyone’s life.

They will let you die to bump their profits a fraction of a percent.

Thank you for your candor.

The little bits I’ve seen of it are almost putting an emphasis on the platformer part of the game. Very vertical, jump from one small platform to another small platform… So what you’ve said tracks.

I’m used to platformers being like… Super Mario world.

Without spoilers (I’m on the fence whether I’ll buy it and play it), are you able to articulate the reason you didn’t like it very much, if at all?

I’m looking to get a more balanced idea of the game. I watched a streamer I follow play a little bit today, but not much. I’m not sure I got enough of a gist of the game to have an opinion on whether I want to play it.

I’m not usually a platformer kind of person, but I don’t have anything against platformers.

I would say, they’re not necessarily good, just less bad.

Same idea though.

I didn’t say there was.

I just want this specific billionaire to continue to live because, unlike most billionaires, he’s not making my life more difficult.

He’s basically refused to let steam become enshittified. Other billionaires would have long ago succumb to the one that they serve, the almighty dollar, and done whatever they can to extract the most value from their user base. Enshittifying the platform in the process, and actively making my life worse.

So as far as I’m concerned, when it comes to billionaires, gaben is far from the worst.

I have a short list of billionaires that kinda fit into the category of: I don’t mind that they exist.

There’s a much longer list of billionaires that I’d like to see pushing up the daisies.

Not that I can, or would, do anything to make that happen. I just, wouldn’t hate it if it happened.

Maybe. In my experience business isn’t that patient.

A TPM is otherwise a good thing. It can extend cryptographic capabilities and the overall security stance of the system.

But I digress. I will reserve judgement for now. Time will tell either way, and I don’t think anyone will feel like gloating if they start to lock it down like you believe they will.

Oh, you’ll make it to retirement age, you just won’t be able to retire at that age, or ever.

That’s what I expect at least.

I figure that I’ll be able to retire when I have my house, and all other debts paid off in full, and I’m collecting my government pension (we have a national program here in Canada). And that assumes that the pension payments can cover my day to day and month to month expenses, which, at this point, with inflation the way it’s going, I have absolutely zero confidence that it will be enough.

So I keep working and working, and creating value for shareholders.

I think that’s the point.

They’ve had such trouble even selling YouTube premium that now they’re making it even less worthwhile, and expecting people to still buy it…

I don’t know what companies don’t get. Family means so many different things and they’re trying to dictate and control what it means to be a family. They don’t get to decide that. Many people I consider to be family, have zero blood relation to me, but they’ve stood by me like brothers and sisters when shit goes down, often staying to help long after my blood relatives, have abandoned me. The people I share a bloodline with are simply not as much of a family to me as these people I grew up with, and have stuck with me through thick and thin.

If I buy a “family” plan of anything, I expect that the family I’ve chosen can be among the people I can share that plan with. If I’m paying for a personal plan and sharing it with others, I get it, fair game. But if I’m specifically buying it because I can share it with family, then let me share it with family, or fuck the fuck off with that bullshit.

Sorry, bit of a rant, I know everyone here already knows this so I’m preaching to the choir.

Be well.

My understanding is that gaben has already put an action plan in place for when the company moves on from his leadership.

From what I’ve heard of it, the people in line behind Gabe will be upholding the same values.

We should have at least another ~40 years or more of this before sometimes entitled brat inherits the company and sells it off to a foreign interest.

With all that being said: long live gaben.

My entire extended family shares a single household and a single Internet connection. /s

Wait, do you actually have retirement savings?

I’m on the leading edge of millennial and my retirement plan is to die.

You guys have retirement savings?

This is already happening, but it’s on an organisational level by policy. These policies can be applied to systems that follow trusted computing rules, which is most Windows 10 systems and pretty much all windows 11 systems. Google has laid the groundwork for this since the pixel 3 was released in 2018.

Since then, we have seen Google put the Titan security module in all phones and I’m certain Chromebooks are requiring TPM modules that serve the same function.

Apple has been doing the same since God knows when. Their systems have had unique chips that ensure that when MacOS is installed, it is only installed in Apple computers. There are ways around this, just as there are ways around the TPM requirement for Windows 11.

The trusted computing model, when fully imposed, can basically stop any applications from running that have not been given the blessing of the security team.

As far as I’m aware, the only people taking advantage of the technology are government institutions.

The fact that this can be wielded to enforce control over private individuals by our corporate masters is becoming a very real possibility, but the fact that it hasn’t happened yet, by any vendor, is, in my opinion, good evidence to say that it’s unlikely, but not impossible. Maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part.

In any case, the only truly free operating system left is GNU/Linux, with few other exceptions.

I prefer this interpretation.

I’m lucky to have enough energy after doing what I am required to do every day, to acknowledge my spouse and make us some dinner.

Nevermind paying close attention to anything.

Luckily, my SO isn’t crazy and understands that we’re both busy with work pretty consistently. So there’s no real friction here. I know I’m fortunate to be in that situation, and I wouldn’t even suggest that’s not the case.