Neat. The guy’s argument with you has accidentally leaked into another community, with him replying to me and another poster with ad hominem attacks and desires to see us (who never mentioned religion) institutionalized.

As of last year, they were doing it with Windows 10. Either they stopped pushing it for Windows 10, or the article just doesn’t bother listing the older Windows version. If you’re willing to believe a fellow Lemmy user who said it hit them on Windows 10 this year, it’s probably the latter.

They also auto-install their malware software update delivery software automatically on both Windows 10 and 11.

If you are a new user of a ROG, ROG Strix, TUF Gaming or Prime motherboard and using Windows 10 (Creators Update/ 1903 or later) or Windows 11, you will see a pop-up dialog that invites you to install Armoury Crate during the initial boot of your PC. To install, simply click ‘OK’ and the software will be automatically downloaded and installed.

There’s plenty of reasons to hate Windows 11, but this Christmas banner debacle isn’t one of them unless you’re also willing to concede that Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 are also all garbage for including the same mechanism which allows vendors to provide run-on-boot executables that bypass clean reinstalls.

For what it’s worth mentioning, I’m in the camp where any operating system that allows system integrators to automatically inject their own shitty software into a fresh install of the operating system without my consent is bad.

The feature that allows manufacturers to push software onto clean installs has existed since Windows 8. If you’re advertising for Windows 10, you might want to try again.

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Jokes aside, that might work. I’ll try it next time.

Game puts out 58fps instead of 60? Trash. Throw it out. Start a media campaign about how shit the devs are at their jobs

To be fair, they’re not entirely wrong about this one when it comes to current-gen games. They’re wrong for their dickish entitled opinions, but they’re not about how modern titles are requiring far more resources to run compared to the gains in visual quality.

And I’m not complaining about that because I think people are entitled to games meeting some bullshit metric like zero-latency with better-than-life quality on 8 year old hardware. For accessibility reasons, I legitimately can’t play modern “AAA” games targeting 30 frames per second. It makes me suffer from severe motion sickness, and there’s something about newer games that make them a lot worse (frame blending? Bad frame pacing?). The only thing that seems to help is running at a higher framerate, and it’s getting increasingly difficult to find big-budget games that don’t either rely on using upscaling and frame generation and/or a $1600 graphics card to achieve that.

That’s not to say the developers are bad at their jobs. Rather, the industry trend seems to be that publishers are demanding more content in less time, and games aren’t being given the time and budget needed for optimizing them before release.

Good luck explaining that to the “I got nothing to hide” crowd…

I’m not directing this at you personally when I say this, but what the fuck is so hard for most people to believe about the idea? Is it a foreign concept to treat franchized fast food places run by different franchisees as not equal? I’m not the only one who uses reviews to decide if I should skip a crappy location.

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And you do not speak for anybody other than yourself.

And yeah, insurance companies spend billions lobbying government, and that’s why running for office yourself is valuable, you can refuse to accept these donations. You need to find your own powerful group to get you elected (maybe labor unions?), because that’s how the game is played, but there are options if you’re laser focused on one type of policy.

I agree with the sentiment, but all the labor unions in the country couldn’t hold a candle to the potential damage a billionaire could do to an independent campaign, let alone a cabal of them. They don’t play fairly in politics, and they’re not above using advertising and media to direct a narrative that benefits their interests.

That’s not to say I’m endorsing violence. After seeing Bezos and Musk manipulate news media and social media, respectively, I just don’t have much hope in the system anymore.

The food and ingredients are the same, but the quality can vary a lot depending on how bad of job they do cooking it. When you’ve been disappointed enough by buying dry and borderline-burned breakfast, you stop trusting that all locations are equal.

If I’m stopping by somewhere out of town, yes. Food quality varies by location, and I’m not going to waste my money on an undercooked meal at McDonald’s when the competitor down the street is better.

The corporation? Definitely not. But review bombing and boycotting will hurt the profits of that franchised location, and its owner certainly will.

To be charitable, other people can have different views on ethics.

For example, if harming a CEO who helped raise claim denial rates from less than 10% to 30% results in revised policies and less overall suffering, that could be morally justifable to some.

With the review bombing and public hatred of that McDonald’s location? Fired is more like it.

Quoting your other comment:

China is the largest economy in the world and has brought nearly a billion people out of poverty. Within a single lifetime, the USSR went from peasant farmers experiencing regular famine to putting people in space. And then capitalism brought back famine in the 90s. Cuba has a longer life expectancy than America.

If it talks like a tankie and quacks like a tankie…

They united the people against them. That’s living up to half the name, I guess.

I don’t think he would make it to trial. The wealthy don’t appreciate those who unite the public against them, and they certainly wouldn’t want him to send another message by having the chance to explain his motives.

The ironic part is that it’s not bad as an index. Ignore the garbage generative output and go straight to cited sources and somehow get more useful links than an actual search engine.

Oh, yay. I can’t wait until Netflix starts requiring users to temporarily disable <insert video calling app> because it supports screen sharing. Can never have too many layers of user inconvenience assurance for rightsholders, you know?

Sounds like regular college/university politics to me.