Conan the Barbarian has crushed his enemies, seen them driven before him, and heard the lamentations of their women. Here’s why that’s a huge setback for him

Yup. I only found out about this by terrible, terrible accident and every time I see the words OneDrive I wanna yeet my laptop into geosynchronous orbit.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 2d ago

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

In civilized countries, blackmail uttered on live TV would be considered a crime.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation

You wanna see my messy-ass desk? How about my dirty, shameful secret for keeping three monitors on three separate stands almost perfectly aligned? How about my spaceships and Chibi Godzilla? In this week's PCWorld Boost Mode newsletter, I'm sharing 20 years of experience with multi-monitor setups.

I’ve used multiple monitors for 20 years. Here's what actually matters

From matching pixel density to choosing the right monitor arms, these are the five decisions that make a multi-monitor setup feel seamless.

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For whatever it's worth: This is not a surprise. The specs on the Steam Frame are roughly equivalent to Samsung's Galaxy XR, $1800. Even if Valve wants to shave down the margins, I'd be shocked if the Steam Frame was under $1500.

IGN@ign.com · 2d ago

In a now-deleted stream, Valve leaker Tyler McVicker suggests the Steam Frame could be more expensive than the Steam Machine. https://bit.ly/3TC1FAn

The line must be drawn HE-YAH. This far, no further!

IGN@ign.com · 6d ago

Dungeons & Dragons is getting an official Star Wars expansion. https://bit.ly/3TOBiHo

It’s really starting to grind me down

not now, nazi ghost ships. read the fucking room

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 6d ago

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

JIRA: Don't even bother.

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 7d ago

suggested slogans for annoyingly popular but inherently terrible bits of software, number #1 in what promises to be a very long series: "Adobe Acrobat: why don't YOU go fuck yourself?"

DnD players levelling up 🤝 female influencers: I got a weird DM asking me for feat picks

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

For anybody who's been using Photoshop for decades, like me, and wants to switch to something from a not-blatantly-fucking-evil company, like me: Photopea. www.photopea.com It's an easy clone, it works online, it's free. You can pay a little to remove the ads, and I'm happy to.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · last wk.

For @aftermath.site's Hater Week, I wrote about how deeply I hate Adobe aftermath.site/i-hate-adobe/

Me as a developer/designer: let's do a redesign. We'll inform the user with a tutorial, it'll be fine. Me as a user on an app I just opened: BLERGH NOOOO WHY DID YOU REDESIGN EVERYTHING. SKIP TUTORIAL SKIP SKIP SKIP

This whole thing has been a great "advertisement" for GrapheneOS on Pixel phones. Quotes because it's free. You can install it on phones as old as the Pixel 6, new as the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, and as cheap as the Pixel 9a. And if you're a journalist who's travelling, maybe you should.

404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said.

Natalie Weiner@natalieweiner.bsky.social · last wk.

everybody's talking about the odyssey, but america has a meaty epic poem with countless interpretations all its own: john henry www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-john-henr...

for ~3,000 years, The Odyssey story has resonated with all who hear it with themes and ideas that speak to the fundamental nature of the human experience but all of that was worthless until the thought leaders of LinkedIn could use it to boost their B2B sales by 8%

Rav@rvbdrm.com · last wk.

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My review of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro DIY Edition is a lot longer than most, because of the complexity of the ordering process and the relative simplicity of actually assembling it. It's a great laptop, but with shipping delays and doubled memory prices...? www.pcworld.com/article/3199...

Framework's DIY laptop is easy to build. Buying one is another story

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro DIY Edition boasts fantastic battery life, a solid keyboard, and a wonderful display, but the performance of this modular, DIY laptop leaves me wanting more. Fluctuating pr...

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Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.

Spotify's AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop

Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.

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Honey, can you stop by the Torment Nexus on the way home? We're a little low on nightmarish suffering.

Futurism@futurism.com · last wk.

"This may be scary to some people."

Possibly my favorite anime character I’ve ever cosplayed

You know who can emulate your favorite writers? YOU CAN. Right now. Your favorite writers emulated THEIR favorite writers. Then, to a greater or lesser degree, they changed up those techniques to make their own style. That's how writing works. It's not complicated. Hard, but not complicated.

Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.reddit.com/r/WritingWit... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHHAHAHAHAHH *wheezing sounds* HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

How it feels to eat food in 2026 America

Yeah I'm into BDSM Benjamin Sisko beating the Dominion by arranging for Senator Vreenak to be Murdered

I already had my LG TV disconnected from Wi-Fi, because I use a SHIELD and a custom Android launcher for apps, and I was tired of it wanting constant updates that added no functionality. Now I've got a great reason to never connect it again.

Tom Warren@tomwarren.co.uk · 2w ago

honestly, fuck LG for adding these notifications at startup on their TVs. I had every option for promotions disabled in the system settings, but they added new ones through the built in apps. I’ll never ever own anything LG ever again.