There are a variety of models, some of have turned out to be quite accurate, and the error climate scientists made was not leaning heavily enough into the predictions because we are exceeding the scenarios they promoted as most likely in order to avoid being called alarmist — which did not work at all. They coddled us for fear of what actually happened happening, and it did not do any good of any kind. Now we still have to deal with denialists who want things to be different and think pretending that things are different will change things. Thoughts and prayers!

Soda lime, or so I read.

Climate panic makes more sense than climate denialism, it's supposed to lead to doing something. Denialism is only an excuse for doing nothing.

A lot of Windows people said it, to.

I thought Windows Vista looked OK. Windows 7's color choices were far more professional, though; I think it's one of the best-looking operating systems of all time. It didn't hurt that it was mostly all the same, too, instead of being a hodgepodge of different interfaces. Windows 11 is another case of trying to be mac-like in a pathetic way, except that you can just turn off most of their bullshit where on Mac OS it takes much more work. For example I haven't tried in a long time, but it used to be possible to put the dock back where it belongs (where it was in NeXTStep) and also stop it from zooming, but it required plist editing.

I don't think that your troll is putting in much effort, on the troll scale. It'd be really, really easy to make a bot that trolled Slashdot with low-grade LLM bullshit.

Oh so very absolutely not. That root is called Common User Access. When Motif was deciding precisely how they were going to implement it, Microsoft was a member of the Motif Working Group. Motif (which underpinned every Unix desktop newer than Sun OpenLook) and Windows grew together, which is why their behavior is nearly 100% identical and their looks are also immensely similar. fvwm, which dominated early Linux GUI configurations (the majority were based on it) was by default both visually and functionally a clone of mwm.

Ironically, NeXTStep also implemented most of the CUA, and Mac OS X was a huge step away from that and also a huge step backwards in overall usability. The biggest fail in OS X was the way they ruined the Dock. At a time when computers were transitioning from 4:3 to 16:9 screens, and vertical space was at a premium, Apple moved the Dock from being vertical on the right hand to being horizontal on the bottom. This was exactly the wrong time to do it, and they did it in exactly the wrong way as well: By redesigning the dock for eye candy by making everything move around all the time, which destroys your ability to use muscle memory to click on elements you need to access on a recurring basis. Now you have to slow down to look at things which are changing in both size and position.

In the bargain, Apple has also somehow made the GUI slow to respond to input, so it feels like swimming through treacle even on very fast hardware. NeXTStep was fairly responsive on a 68040, but I find myself constantly wondering what the holdup is with Mac OS in a way that I haven't since I used... classic Mac OS, where you'd commonly just have to wonder what was taking so long since there was typically no indication what was choking your entire system even when you were using the multifinder.

Pity they didn't choose BeOS, instead they got the juice fasting turtleneck and ruined NeXTStep, which was so beloved in Nerddom that it spawned countless visual imitators and copies including Windows 95. I used a NeXT themed WM and nextaw3d on my 386 running Slackware...

I agree with you. The people go where the leaders lead. But we don't all get a free pass to be a dick. Someone acts like a dick to you, then you act like a dick back, they get modded up, you get modded down... or vice versa. Slashdot has no logic to it.

Where's the evidence that there are any designers in their right mind in charge of absolutely anything at Apple?

And more power lines to deliver that 'excess' power to those batteries.

Clearly the necessary infrastructure is inadequate. Build it or fail your voters. Assuming British elections matter.

Apple has consistently done nothing to help and everything to hurt gamers on their platform. They don't support anyone else's APIs for example, so every game engine has to be rewritten for their platform. This makes it a no-brainer to not bother to port games to it. If they would just support Vulkan it would help a lot, but they don't actually seem to care even slightly about their users who want to game.

Making a having hub application that no one asked for because no one wants it is not going to help even a little bit. Microsoft had one too and no one used it. Apple's idea for UI and gaming both is to copy Vista. What year is it?

I can't digest soy products, even tempeh. I can tell if they were hidden in a meal when I get indigestion and feel sick for hours.

At latitudes where snow is a problem, you can have heated panels that shed snow in the morning, as the angle is sufficiently steep. Once clear they tend to stay that way unless there is so very much snow that they will not generate anyway. You need more panel and more battery, but solar still works.

It's going into the oceans, just so the combination of pH fuckery and increased warming turns the world's oceans into an tepid acidic brine.

I'd be happy with YouTube, for a start, to relax the mods on gun content...these days they cannot even show a video of disassembling a gun to show how it works or how to clean it...

They ban videos showing someone screwing on/off a silencer these days.....it didn't used to be this strict....

"Imagine trying to ready text on a translucent button that is peeking through to something animated and very visually busy. Not great."

That's a problem with transparency, not translucency. With enough frosting, whatever lies beneath is mostly filtered out.

Yeah, you would have to cover 20 or 30%. Oh noes.

What you want for cooling is to increase forest extent. By definition that means planting trees where they are not already.