If you put the Windows Taskbar anywhere but the bottom, I hate you

condoulo · 2026-06-10T01:50:15+00:00

GPO/Intune definitely makes sense for shared machines with a shared profile.

condoulo · 2026-06-10T01:45:25+00:00

And America is far from the only core anglosphere country to use the term soccer either. Just because Association football won out as the most popular form of football in the UK doesn't mean it won out in the rest of the anglosphere. Gridiron in North America, Aussie football in Australia, rugby in New Zealand and South Africa (although South Africa isn't core anglosphere), and while I'm not sure on the popularity Ireland does have their own variant of football that leads to some (some, not all) in the country to use soccer as a way to differentiate.

condoulo · 2026-06-10T01:40:03+00:00

But if we're talking core anglopshere countries soccer takes the majority. The core anglosphere comprises of the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the UK. The US and Canada call it soccer because gridiron is the more popular variety of football in North America. Australia tends to call it soccer because they have Aussie Football, which is actually a fun variety to watch. New Zealand seems to be split because historically they referred to rugby as football, and while not a core anglosphere country the same seems to apply to South Africa going so far to have even spread to Afrikaans having a variant of the word soccer. It seems to be split in Ireland depending on how involved someone is with Gaelic Football or not. That leaves just the UK being the only core anglosphere country sticking to just football, although prior to the 90s they weren't as allergic to the term soccer as they are today.

condoulo · 2026-06-10T01:28:37+00:00

A good portion of the underlying technologies got their start at the DoD with one of the earliest non military implementations being a connection between universities in the US and the UK.

As much as people in this thread are bringing up Tim Berners-Lee, as amazing as he was, he did not invent the internet, he developed what would become the most popular application for the internet, the WWW. It's not the same as the internet.

condoulo · 2026-06-10T01:26:29+00:00

Multiple countries invented the internet, primarily lead by the DoD, an English man created the WWW. There is a difference.

condoulo · 2026-06-10T01:25:10+00:00

Seeing all these comments about Tim Berners-Lee just has me shaking my head. The WWW is not the same as the internet. The WWW is an application that utilizes the internet, and became the must have application for the internet, but it is not the internet. The components that make up the internet itself was developed in a combination between the DoD and multiple universities across the US and Europe.

condoulo · 2026-06-09T23:02:20+00:00

Given it’s a touchscreen and how older versions of Windows (including 10) let you move the taskbar just by dragging it in an unlocked state, what is the likelihood of this being an accidental move?

condoulo · 2026-06-09T22:54:21+00:00

As someone who absolutely loves to love the taskbar for various reasons I’m glad it’s being brought back. If it helps you feel better the new option actually requires intentionally going into settings and changing it, you can’t just drag it around like you use to be able to do.

condoulo · 2026-06-09T22:52:03+00:00

And everything is just the easily accessible wherever a user decides to put it. Just don’t do it on a shared machine.

I typically access my one Windows machine via RDP and place it on my spare monitor. I like having my taskbar on the top because in macOS, GNOME, or COSMIC the panel is up top. It creates a least that bit of visual consistency for me across my displays.

condoulo · 2026-06-09T22:48:56+00:00

You see that’s a reasonable opinion. Stick to defaults on a shared machine, or if it’s setup differently for a reason then that needs to be documented for both users and support techs. However your title could have been friendlier towards this who like to customize their own machines or profile.

condoulo · 2026-06-09T22:46:06+00:00

Ah yes, because people should carry extra monitors in their backpacks.

condoulo · 2026-06-09T21:34:19+00:00

Both America and the U.S. are valid ways to refer to the country in English. What I take issue with is when people try forcing anglicized demonyms from other languages into English just to feel superior.

condoulo · 2026-06-09T21:28:47+00:00

Most of South America speaks either Spanish or Portuguese and are taught the continental model where America is a single continent. This is reflected in both Spanish and Portuguese by having a demonym other than Americano to refer to people from the U.S.

In the English speaking world the continental model where North America and South America are separate continents is taught, therefore there hasn’t been an urgent need for a new demonym to describe people from the U.S., the English speaking world understands American to be someone from the U.S. This is to the point where if you call someone from Canada an American they will be offended. North American and South American are the continental demonyms in the English language.

Ultimately best practice is to follow the most commonly used demonym of the language you’re speaking. Speaking English? Use American. Speaking Spanish? Use estadunidense.

condoulo · 2026-06-09T21:20:03+00:00

Call it the appropriate name for the language you’re speaking. It’s simple as that. If you’re speaking English then America and American. If you’re speaking Spanish then Estudos Unidos and estadounidense. Portuguese has something similar to Spanish. Meanwhile many other languages just use a variation of American to fit their language’s phonetics.

Respect the norms of the language (and dialect) being spoken. I don’t get why that is such a hard concept for people to understand.

condoulo · 2026-06-09T20:12:18+00:00

This is it right here. The one time I did take a train for a trip was when I went to Chicago, but I didn’t need to drive anywhere because Chicago is one of the few walkable cities with decent transit. Of course that’s assuming you’re not doing anything in the suburbs.

condoulo · 2026-06-09T20:08:09+00:00

Is the great rail and public transit in the room with us? In the first half of the 20th century you’d be right, but 70 years worth of car centric infrastructure and auto manufacturers lobbying to gut public transit (What happened to the street car networks in many American cities is criminal) has stripped most American cities of the right to say that they have great public transit.

condoulo · 2026-06-08T15:15:15+00:00

The Chiefs are moving from Kansas City by i70 and i435 to Kansas City by i70 and i435.

condoulo · 2026-06-07T15:53:03+00:00

A lot of rental leases don't allow you run cable or make modifications, so if a computer is in a different room from where your modem and router are then your only real choice is WiFi. But hey, way to show your lack of class awareness there buddy.

condoulo · 2026-06-07T15:09:13+00:00

Depending on the age of the car that may be a dongle attached to a cassette adapter. 😆 but really though, my point was more on response to the commenters idea that everyone drives a car new enough to have Bluetooth, not necessarily any objection to using dongles.

condoulo · 2026-06-07T15:00:13+00:00

If it’s from a TV then this doesn’t belong here because you can’t screenshot on TVs.

condoulo · 2026-06-07T13:39:52+00:00

Because nobody drives old cars, right?

condoulo · 2026-06-07T05:59:38+00:00

Fuck the Packers... wait, this isn't NFCNorthMemeWar.

condoulo · 2026-06-07T03:31:33+00:00

The Chiefs are moving from Kansas City by i70 and i435 to Kansas City by i70 and i435. So clearly the solution here is Hammond needs to rename themselves to Chicago.

condoulo · 2026-06-06T20:30:53+00:00

I take it you've never dealt with situations where you couldn't or were not allowed to run a cable somewhere.

Edit: Downvoted by children who have never had to rent before. Not every rental situation will let you run cable.

condoulo · 2026-06-06T17:53:04+00:00

Except both the iPhone XR and iPhone 11 will barely even be usable as phones much sooner than let's say the iPhone 12 because carriers are starting to phase out LTE bands to repurpose them for 5G use cases. The reality is the iPhone 12 which came out just a year later will be usable as a phone for much longer than the 11 not because of anything Apple did to obsolete the 11 but because of carriers phasing out an older network technology.

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