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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • The term has been diluted I guess, or this is a strawman. I’ve never seen real life protests or action called “virtue signaling” before. That’s absurd.

    Back when I first started seeing the term used online, somewhere around 2009-2013, it was being used to describe the non-religious version of people making “hopes and prayers” comments online.

    Like people using filters over their Facebook profile image to raise awareness of something and then patting themselves on the back for a job well done. That problem sure was solved!

    You think something the Russian invasion of Ukraine is bad? And you feel that so strong you’re going to make a post online about it? You sure showed Putin with that one!

    At least taken in the most forgiving light, it was sneering at the type of people who were explicitly preformative with their sense of justice. The type of people to do the day of silence about LGBT bullying, who would then strut around afterwards as if to say “We did it gang! We solved LGBT hate!” Then continue to use LGBT terms in derogatory ways and bully LGBT people.

    I always thought the phrase was pretty self explanatory. It’s virtue signalling, not seeking, not spreading, not defending, not living, not actually embodying.


    This wouldn’t be the first time this comic creator made a strip against something that seems to be a ridiculous strawman to me though.












  • You’re making a huge assumption based only on the fact that Windows hides these logs from the end user.

    I’ve had line of sight to those logs through a system that automatically highlights those errors and warnings for something like eight years now, for a fleet of over 1000 Windows machines at the start which is now roughly 5000 total.

    In that time I’ve seen less than 200 graphics driver issues logged, and they all were on machines with failing hardware.

    Yes, they are not anywhere as visible to the end user as they are on Linux, but they are also significantly less common (graphics issues in particular).


    Also, if the warnings are meaningless, why display them to the end user? It’s just more noise that actual problems can sneak by in.




  • I honestly don’t remember the specifics of how I’ve got my Pro install configured for updates. I think it doesn’t notify of available updates until they’ve been out a month (keeps me from pulling down a bleeding edge update that causes more problems than it fixes), downloads them so they’ll auto-install on shutdown/restart for a week, and if I don’t uodate that week then it flashes up the “your organization requires you to update by [next week]” message. I don’t think it actually forces when that week runs out, so you’re probably right, but it’s been a long time since I’ve went two whole weeks without shutting down or rebooting.

    I do know that I’ve got “feature updates” (read OS changes) set to only be available if I manually install them. So the whole “Windows forces you to upgrade to 11” complaint is pure BS at least.