It’d be really funny if your name was Carol

I don’t agree with the extreme here, but it does take more effort to read it, because it’s not a common character. It’s the same way I know cursive, but it still takes more effort to read because it’s not commonly used.

Those conjugations are correct.

“don’t” applies to the plural subject of “words”. “hasn’t” applies to the singular subject of “letter”. “you’re” is using the general “you” in English that replaces the archaic/formal “one”. “doesn’t” applies to the singular concept of being or not being bilingual.

It might help to read the first sentence like:

Op is one of those people who find it easier to read when words are spelled correctly and don’t shoehorn in a [throwback letter that hasn’t been used in English for centuries].

#3 sounds pretty good

Every 10.x version of OS X cost money up through 10.6, just like how every version of Windows has cost money unless you use one of the keygens Microsoft doesn’t care about.

macOS updates haven’t cost money since 2009

I thought 10 keys worked for 11 anyway. I’m pretty sure you can still use 7 keys if you try hard enough

It’s super easy to activate Windows for free, and Microsoft doesn’t care: https://massgrave.dev/.

If you were logged in with your Microsoft account before, that should also restore your real previous activation.

If it’s just the hard drive and you have a screwdriver on hand, SATA SSDs are extremely cheap. You can get 256GB in the US for $20-$25.

I would say it’s mildly infuriating

This is like the exact prompt LLMs were made to handle

It’s still a silly comparison, but they tested 10 Windows 10 devices with 6th-11th gen processors and 10 Windows 11 devices with 12th-13th gen processors. You’re supposed to compare the average of all the results, not Device #9 with Device #9.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/windows/windows11-performance-claims

This Canon decided the cartridges it shipped with were expired and would pop up a “warning” on the printer that you had to acknowledge every print. After a while, it didn’t even let you get past that.

I have a Canon laserjet that absolutely sucks and a Brother inkjet that works great. Both were about the same price (the Brother can do 11x17) and were top recommendations from a bunch of sources. Unfortunately I think buying a printer at this point is just a crapshoot of whether it’ll actually be good.

Pizzacake characters or right wingers?

Every time someone complains, another package manager is created

OCR of fonts used to be a solved problem, but now we have AI, which can sort of do it sometimes

A KDE Breeze?

Some shops opt in to some sort of boosting system, so $0.59 could end up getting you more like $5 off of something. Of course, most of the shops that opt in seem to be selling drop shipped USB cables, but still.

True Linux users build their own kernel and distro from scratch from an environment running directly in EFI