For Visual Studio, the new release (2026) has improved the startup times. As for your other points… They still stand I’m afraid. Actually it got worse in terms of AI if you hate it, basically half the release notes were about AI this AI that.

I’m mostly annoyed by subtitles in theaters as my country is bi-lingual and the subtitles take way too much space, are distracting and in most cases are quite bad compared to the spoken text.

Not as dramatic of a shift, but going to 4k HDR OLED has made me so spoiled in terms of movie watching experience.

Except this ‘signing’ is more of a control feature than a security feature. Just because Google markets it as a security feature doesn’t mean it is.

Exactly this, the commenter above even mentioned they have a VPS already, what’s stopping them from (this is just an option) slapping tailscale on there, enabling it as an exit node and being done with it? Would literally take 5 minutes and suddenly your traffic is coming from a datacenter and not your home IP

Clarification vs adaptation makes a huge difference in book translations. I don’t envy the translators having to translate witty jokes/references that really only work in the original language

For work our projects use .NET Framework so it needs to run on windows.

For personal use it’s a combination of mostly Valorant, which refuses to run anywhere but windows… and short term productivity loss because it’s simply the platform I know my way around.

For my homelab I naturally have Linux running though, and the second Valorant supports Linux (lol) I’m gone.

About the HP thing, your point seems to be that because people do not use the tools given to them (that would make the fight easier if used properly) things get too hard later… If people are kneecapping themselves by thinking ‘all I need is dash and slash’, well they kinda had it coming.

A friend of mine travelled to China, to talk about politics with locals they used his phone because they were afraid of their govt listening in. So yeah maybe the EU/US ain’t so bad.

Cross-seed is a big part of being able to sustain on mediocre upload. Download a torrent on one site but get credit on 7 different sites.

Alternatively many sites offer infinite download if you have a certain total size of torrents available. (Sometimes together with a account age requirement too). So get a permanently online torrent client (mini pc, seedbox, vps, etc) and you’re set on those sites.

Breaking: python now faster than assembly

My bad

Step 4 splits the pair above into single elements, from step 5 on the groups are getting merged.