The biggest problem is that even if they fix it, it will take ages for the people that left to believe it is actually fixed. We can’t take MS’s word for it… And even then we will have no trust they won’t just slip right back into this hellscape a couple years (or months) down the line.

Sure, if you want paid-for advertisements. Consumer Reports is hot garbage and nothing will convince me that isn’t because they get paid somewhere on the back side from big daddy corpos. They love to shill brands that make actual trash all the time.

Something to keep in mind, US regulations started in 2012 that significantly limit water and power usage for dishwashers sold in the US. It is likely nothing you can buy today will dry as well as your current one, and they will likely take longer to finish a cycle. Just, be prepared.

For $1200 you should have a wealth of choice. Bosch is decent, but pay close attention to the layout of the tines, esp on the bottom rack, and how they would work with your dishes. If you don’t have pretty flat plates, they won’t fit between the tines easily and it can be a pain. Really though at that price, I would look for Miele or Asko.

I would put an Asko up against basically any home dishwasher sold in this country, with Miele as a close second. The downside to Asko is price. You should be able to find one close to your price point if you shop around, but you will be at their lowest feature model. You still get a killer wash and dry system comparatively, but you might not get all the extra racks and bottle washers and other “bells and whistles”.

Viking is just a re-badge brand, they don’t make shit. Some of their (very expensive) fridges are just glorified Frigidaire models.

it’s just planning to incubate inside us and then burst out of our chests.

Strangely, I think that would be a better use of our collective time and energy than these shitty chat bots.

Hell, even my 3d printer connects to a computer via USB B, if you want/need to connect directly to it.

Isn’t there a joke about most “war crimes” were made up by people watching what Canadians did in times of war and decided they didn’t want to deal with that crazy shit?

Oh shit, you’re right, I think I got confused with fediverse. lol, I’m not sure i’d heard “threadiverse” until this post now that I think about it.

Isn’t Mastodon part of the “threadiverse”?

Also, I feel like there are definitely names I see a lot and recognize, but I don’t think my memory for spelling would be able to write them down here… lol

I’ve got 2 that I didn’t see anyone else mention…

First one I might get hate for, but Escape from Tarkov. Absolutely hated it. I don’t know how to explain it, but the controls didn’t “feel good”. Literally just moving around and aiming felt like the system was fighting me and I uninstalled it after less than 2 hours. I would have refunded it if the game wasn’t bought for me as a gift…

Second one is Global Agenda. The game wouldn’t have been that bad if the devs didn’t seem to hate it. The gameplay loop was fun, I liked the different classes and the customizations. But there was a big pvp “world map” thing that happened on like a 2 week schedule, set times of day for attacking or defending other clans’ territories to earn resources to unlock rewards - it was the primary “end game”. Out of no where, the entire world map was broken, nothing was working right in the middle of the like 2-3 hour time slot where you could do anything with it. Obviously, a TON of support tickets were put in asking for something to be done about it. Devs got salty about all the tickets (I’m sure some of which we not nicely written) and sent a global message to everyone that was online that said “‘Fixing the game’ is not in the cards right now, players should ‘try harder’ to win.” Basically killed the game imo, several big clans just noped out. The devs were already showing signs that they wanted people to stop playing GA and move to their new game (Tribes: Ascend), and that just solidified it.

Jesus christ I forgot how much I hated Borderlands until you said it, I think I blocked it out.

Oh man, yea… After playing Guerilla, Armageddon was a waste of time. It might have been fine if I’d never played Guerilla… Maybe.

Same. Several friends raved about this game and wanted me to get into it and I hated it. Same with Grounded to be honest. It just felt like the game was entirely made for the devs to giggle about kicking the players’ asses over and over again with very little apparent payoff (unless you spend more hours in the game than any other game you’ve ever played apparently).

Well shit, that’s interesting. Thanks for the link.

I have been staring at the original comment trying to figure out how to basically say this, so thank you. lol. “The customer is always right” just means don’t tell the customer that green and purple polka dot curtains are fuck-ugly because it will hurt the company’s bottom line.

I don’t think Capitalism has ever been this romanticized version, at least not in my lifetime. It has always been about how much money “they” can squeeze out of consumers, and they have been inching more and more constantly for a long time to get where we are now. The companies have always wanted to manipulate to make more money, and the only slight road blocks or steps in the right direction have come from government regulation.

Currently same split showing, 96% against, 4% for, but with just over 5400 votes. :)

Uh-oh, nobody show this to Jensen Huang, it would break his little heart.

Sad wind sweepin’ down the plain noises.

You can download Proton for use outside of Steam, I use it in Lutris and Bottles pretty regularly. Also, you should be able to get just about anything to run just as well in Bottles or Lutris as it will in steam, but I will admit it can take some tinkering with some games or software and there is a much easier option: Add “non-steam game” in Steam library and run whatever program you need through Steam anyway.

The trick is that isn’t a capital i, it is a lowercase L. Now with AL integration. Every program you run just has a picture of Weird Al and a snippet of a random song from his greatest hits album as a splash screen.