We do have free health care, it works. It’s underfunded and understaffed as a result of Conservatives trying to destroy the public services, which gets people expressing dissatisfaction with the service, which allows them to further stripmine the system by funneling public funds to private clinics and the like to ‘improve things’ when really they should be properly funding our public system and paying more people good wages to work there

Rent has doubled everywhere in the past few years. Real estate industry is to blame

Nah, must look similar I guess.

Damn lol

hope you’re ok

If it was, she didn’t let on! I’ll have to ask her next time if it was sore the next day

Yes, I am okay. Thank you for asking

The model we were working with has acting chops, she was actually holding the sad face for most of the 3 hrs and tearing up. Was pretty impressive.

Thank you. Portraits are one of my favourite things to do, and it’s a bit unusual to get to paint/draw a sustained facial expression from life–was fun. Hope to follow it up with another 3 hr session in a couple weeks

Hey, happy birthday :)

Depends on the enterprise. If you’re a 1 user to 1 device shop maybe. If you’re an institution with shared devices…good fucking luck, be prepared to enter device management hell

I wouldn’t say the updates are ‘like a decade behind everything else’. Like most things in software, there’s a really broad array of what is available from really bad to really good and a lot of things are in between. If we’re comparing major OS architectures in terms of market share, then we’re comparing what, 6 things? Anyway. I’m a fan first of the ideologies and designs present in the linux/BSD world but I’m not willing to overgeneralize the difficulty of what has been achieved in other corners…and I guess mostly I’m sick of ignorant people saying “XP is the best, why can’t I use it on my institutional device”. My point about how the updates are actually good now was about pointing at the stupidity of thinking that the older versions were better when they quite clearly were not. It’s not as simple as “oh the old stuff was so much better than now”. That’s reductivist thinking that doesn’t even try to understand the massive complexity of the problems of computing and software development today. We are constantly increasing the amount of overhead that we are putting into our software, and people are wondering why things are not just endlessly getting faster when we’re improving the hardware year over year. It’s like folks complaining about the idea of “planned obsolecence” when that obsolescence is a consequence of all the additional shit that you are requiring a computer to do. I’m not just talking about one vendor here, or one operating system, I’m just tired of these kinds of statements with so little thought behind them.

Not really slower, just more shit going on under the hood than ever before. Considering all of the novel ways to attack the operating system, the ubiquity and level of integration of computing in everything, the OS is a much higher value target than it used to be back in the days of Xp-7. However, MS has introduced numerous security features and significantly improved the built in AV. 10/11 is a hell of a lot more secure, but there is a performance cost to that. That and the software we run on top of it has only gotten more resource hungry and complex as well. There are also things that you might hate but are worlds better than they used to be. Updates are a lot faster, support automatic rollback and are practically flawless compared to the broken mess they used to be. We now have things that were never possible before, like first party tools to convert a MBR/BIOS-boot system to UEFI boot.

I’ll concede the point about service advertisements, however depending on the edition that is suppressable. MS is not alone in its sinful capitalism however, MacOS is full of stuff like that too, they’re just sneakier/more subtle about it. MS will have you griping about their promoted services or apps; Apple will have you licking their boots and not realizing it because you’ve deluded yourself. The only operating systems that are really free are the ones no company fully owns. I work with multiple different operating systems in an IT job, and the notion that it is acceptable to run old versions of Windows in this day and age or that they were objectively better is just nostalgic horseshit. It was always a corporate product, you’re just chafing against that now.

What a waste of skin, hope he dies in a car accident

Yep. Bastards aren’t getting my dollars for the forseeable future. Fuck em

Yeah I’m in it for a month now. I shop at my local green grocers, Food Basics and Freshco now. And I live damn close to nofrills. Bastards

Yeah if I could look like Legolas forever I might do that. As it stands I’m headed in the direction of depressed middle aged father but less handsome so idk

Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, from Idiocracy

I disagree with the conceit that everything and everyone in this place is all about exploitative behavior. I do agree that that tends to be the nature of our politicians. I’m not stumping for the Liberal party, and certainly they’ve allowed whatever private sector forces free reign to gouge us in the past, that’s just a feature of our “wonderful capitalist system”. The common ideology between lib/con forces is that they both expect to profit off of being in power, the difference is that the cons tend to want to do it at any cost, and hate social services. They both love to cozy up to private interest, but the cons will actively seek the destruction of any social service. There are reasons to try to convince folks to not support them even if the alternative kind of blows. I would rather neither as well, but what exactly are you advocating for?

Big surprise. Tories want to defund social/public services and funnel funds that were meant for it into the private sector…pricks just want to ruin everything and join the aristocracy. Same old same old. Ruin public infrastructure, prop up your buddies’ for profit operations, maybe get a kickback, call it a day. Having a conservative government is like having organized crime in power.

Now now, it’s not fair to say things like ‘MS stole all their ideas from Apple’ without saying ‘both of them stole all their ideas from Xerox PARC’…but mostly the good ones. But anyhow, that’s old hat and both companies have been iterating on their own platforms for ages since those days and each operating system has mutated into its own particular beast.