You may be interested in some history of computer-aided collaboration: https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

the good of humanity as a whole

My headcanon is that the Borg in Star Trek began with an AGI with that exact main goal.

Cryptic mess, needs a redesign.

linked word scrolls under the cursor and the popover appears

Nobody wants that. It’s bug report worthy.

Big money / venture capitalists prefer to fund people of their kind: the ruthless. They also accept the spineless they can boss around. That’s gone on for centuries, so the good funders have been trampled and gone extinct.

The EU should fine companies for introducing new standards that break old standards. Or any shit standards like Toslink: https://lemmy.world/comment/10671314 . Standardization organizations shouldn’t be sleeping through all this shit.

The “tanning notary” seems to be a package, or a service unknown to me.

It’s a GIF: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/32218427-589f-4acf-9b0e-eee5cf4b66d3.gif

• Telegram allows everyone in a chat to delete messages by anyone from anyone without a trace, making gaslighting easy.

“I told you so!” - “No you didn’t!” - (mutual distrust forever)

Did it really fulfil the requirement?

This may have been the purpose all along.

My right-out-of-warranty Logitech M590 mouse lost its pairing to its USB-receiver upon booting up Windows after using the mouse in Linux for weeks out-of-warranty. I bought another one, and that too did the same the first time I booted up Windows after the warranty had expired.

Finally I searched the issue, and it’s normal. I had to install a non-default Logitech software in Windows and re-pair the apparently broken mice to their receivers. Both mice work again, except the older one’s left button is acting up a bit.

A non-asshole company would have notified me “Your mouse receiver needs an update that requires re-pairing the connection manually. Do you want to continue the update?”. And why the hell would a mouse receiver need an update when the warranty ends?

Obviously the purpose is to make the mouse appear broken with plausible deniability and bluff the customer into buying a new mouse.

This is known as programmed obsolescence.

(Third °F burns)

About 4, I’d start long term storage from 80% because self-discharge rate is 30% per year in room temperature, or 15% per year in the fridge, which is the best storage temperature. Also, Battery University said in some article that 65% charge is optimal for storage, which is ~3.95V/cell at rest for most chemistries.