I stopped using it once I found out their entire business model was basically copyright trolling on a technicality that anyone who answers a question gives them the copyright to the answer, and using code audits to go after businesses that had copy/pasted code. Just left a bad taste in my mouth, even beside stopping using it for work even though I wasn’t copy/pasting code.

And even before LLMs, I found ignoring stack exchange results for a search usually still got to the right information.

But yeah, it also had a moderation problem. Give people a hammer of power and some will go searching for nails, and now you don’t have anywhere to hang things from because the mod was dumber than the user they thought they needed to moderate. And now google can figure out that my question is different from the supposed duplicate question that was closed because it sends me to the closed one, not the tangentially related question the dumbass mod thought was the same thing. Similar energy to people who go to help forums and reply useless shit like RTFM. They aren’t really upset at “having” to take time to respond, they are excited about a chance to act superior to someone.

On Super Mario Wii U this happens. My daughter used it to see how to get through levels she was having trouble with. It’s frustrating to watch, though it showed me I was wrong that levels basically needed the run button to be held to make it across the gaps.

And then you can either accept that the ghost beat the level for you or go back to trying.

But, the thing is it’s not very difficult to do this with specific games. You can just record the inputs as they come in and replay those, which is how replays or saved games often work.

Seems like they want to be able to do this for arbitrary games, which requires a much more sophisticated system that can understand what’s on the screen, what the goals are, and how to achieve them using just video and audio feedback (and maybe hint documents from the makers).

And Cajun.

It’s such a stupid approach to the stated problem that I just assumed it was actually meant for something else and the stated problem was to justify it. And made the decision to never use win 11 on a personal machine based on this “feature”.

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You might need a time machine for these, though.

They probably have nice dishes they use for the cup of garlic sauce when you dine in.

I ordered a side french onion soup with a burger to go once. The soup was a mess obviously not intended to be served in a dish other than the one it’s baked in, but still delicious.

Up to that point, I was looking at the description in disbelief, but burst out laughing when I read “greek salad”. The hand cookie bit was just realistic enough to get it in the uncanny valley (the photo looked like an AI cookie hand, too… Actually, it might still be, I don’t know if that photo was from the lady that made them or added for the memenm, it says she produced photos in the meme… Really wish voyager’s comment UI showed more than just the one comment I’m replying to like RIF), but the greek salad put it well into absurd territory. Just imagining people biting into their over the top cookie thing and then making a wtf face at the combination of flavours in their mouth, though it would be even better if the initial surprise and disgust gets replaced by a confused look and then a “well played, not bad” because it works.

Lol I literally just had a greek salad earlier today but didn’t even think to check how it tastes with chocolate chip cookie, so who knows, maybe it is good.

Make mushrooms a main ingredient for the king’s crusty, cheesy foot fungus.

How usable did it end up being? Like would he frequently need to change disks? Or just during startup?

The UI of 7 plus the kernel of 10, and the marketing approach of XP, would make a windows that might come close to being as good as linux today and certainly wouldn’t be enabling linux to steal even a few % of market share.

And before that, there were games that spanned multiple floppies. Plus, floppies were less reliable, so there was a higher chance one of the disks would fail to read, leading to the Retry, Fail, Abort menu.

They were only 1.44MB so a 50GB game would take like 40k floppies.

Yeah, I’d consider time from boot to login prompt to be a useless metric. You could design an OS to show a prompt before anything else to “win” this pointless race.

Boot to usable is the only one that makes sense.

Ok, one case where boot to login is useful: you want to boot up and walk away for a bit, so less waiting for a login means you can login before walking away. Though, personally, I find RAM training takes a long time these days if you’re not waking from suspend, so still think boot to login is moot.