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They have legitimate complaints but as is often the case are easily led to blaming the folks suffering even worse than they for their problems rather than the dominant agenda’s since the 80s that are the real problem.

This is it in a nutshell.

Yeah I think you are right, it still has a fair way to enshit before it shakes out.

I think my last computer was the last "toaster" I will get to own until I change platform. Updates were optional and manual, and I owned everything on it outright. I managed to jump through hoops just now to buy a copy of office that isn't subscription-based or infested with AI, but I feel like a dinosaur watching the asteroids falling.

I think we will see sharper bifurcation between the European market and the US/world market, as well.

There are some really crazy overreaches. I notice Adobe is setting its AI to rummage through subscribers' image folders (which is a legal and privacy nightmare for the companies concerned) and sysadmins are complaining about how they have to contact Adobe and go through a lengthy process to make it turn that off.

I'm up north but also hang out in the waikato. When I was a kid there were a lot more butterfies in general. The little Austrslian blues used to go around in big flocks where I grew up.

I guess you're in a better position to assess the damage though!

You need sheep. Or guinea pigs...

I don't understand how ads are now showing up in things people have paid for, like software or cars.

I can't say I've been a fan exactly since vista, but this just seems egregious. Was installing fonts today only to get a notice that the legacy font panel is going to be retired. It's like if libraries suddenly made you read everything in Bog Pront - weird and slow. I know it's on me for not leaving though.

Cloches are neat! Way fewer pests as far as I can see.

I hardly ever see cabbage whites anymore. I know its sacrilege but I kind of miss them.

Wait it has ads? Idiocracy. Adding that to my laundry list of things to fix before I start using it.

I thought moving from 7 to 8 was bad but the jump from 8 to 11 is brutal. Even vista was better.

Your lawns could probably use some R and R anyway at this time of year!

Good luck with it! It sounds challenging, but also cute.

Only garden news is I accidentally dusturbed the female blackbird and she just stood there side eying me.

They are really unafraid these days, ever since the struggle for grapes when they were unwilling to leave the grape vine even when I was less than a foot below them trying to get grapes of my own (my bunch had to live inside a bag for protection).

Apart from that good grief why is windows 11 so psycho. Forced bitlocker wt actual f?

Anyone still young who hasn't learned linux yet, heed this cautionary tale of a feeble impaired old woman having to wrestle with the forces of darkness because of her misspent youth. Do not give up your dual boot so easily.

That's gorgeous.

It is probably going to either work like a dog harness (padded bit round collar, strap between front legs, other bit round ribcage),

or more likely like a cat/rabbit harness (one strap round torso behind front legs, one strap round neck, the bit in between runs down between their shoulder blades and that's where you clip the lead)?

I agree with Dave.

Although the elderly do skew right that's far from the whole picture.

I am middle aged so my parents' generation are all late Silent Gen or Boomers. None of our parents and their friends are right-wing at all - some of them are still out there trying to save the forests and the oceans.

The people I know irl who voted for National or ACT are all younger - working age.

Edited to add: Anecdotes aside, pretty sure statistically we are seeing a resurgence of ACT that is driven by affluent young men, while there is also a contingent of disenfranchised working-class people who vote for Winston.

The mining company conveniently went bankrupt before the habitat "remediation".

They are like the Chagos Islanders of snails.