It's *never* "softwares" -- it's just "software."

It's just "software" -- not "softwares."

Software is both singular and plural already, it doesn't need the "s." The only time you would use an "s" is as a contraction for "the software is..." i.e.: "The software's doing something really dumb."

It's just like you wouldn't say, "There is hardwares available for that task." You would just say, "There is hardware available for that task."

I don't understand why so many content creators are constantly saying "softwares."

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u/Xarius86 — 6 days ago
▲ 37 r/ENGLISH

It's *never* "softwares" -- it's just "software."

It's just "software" -- not "softwares."

Software is both singular and plural already, it doesn't need the "s." The only time you would use an "s" is as a contraction for "the software is..." i.e.: "The software's doing something really dumb."

It's just like you wouldn't say, "There is hardwares available for that task." You would just say, "There is hardware available for that task."

I don't understand why so many content creators are constantly saying "softwares."

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u/Xarius86 — 6 days ago
▲ 3 r/Xcode

Warnings displayed in the default, unmodified project don't exactly inspire confidence in the IDE as a whole...

As per title (and with the severity of these warnings ignored,) when the default project is already showing warnings and errors before you've even touched anything, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

u/Xarius86 — 6 days ago

$70/month for "firstLine" 😂😂😂

They want me to pay $70/month, and can't even properly put together a website?

u/Xarius86 — 21 days ago
▲ 44 r/Xplane

X-Plane endorsed AI slop...coming to a sim near you...

u/Xarius86 — 2 months ago

macOS 27 DB1 - Don't try to drag bookmark folders around in Safari.

All sorts of weirdness is happening here.

u/Xarius86 — 2 months ago

Additional Playtest Week for Deadstick: Bush Pilot Simulator on Steam!

I've been a long-time X-Plane simmer, and I've used Thranda planes with Reality Expansion Packs, with FSEconomy, FSCharter, etc. to try to get this kind of immersion, but -- this is exactly what I've been looking for.

The dev opened up the playtest for an additional week after the last round closed that I missed.

Fun little side note -- although officially Windows only -- I was able to get it to run using CrossOver on my Mac. (So it will probably run through Proton on Linux.)

I hadn't even heard of this until I watched this guy play through it after I missed last weeks testing round: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3r5E6djkXU

So - if you haven't signed up for the playtests on Steam - make sure you do! https://store.steampowered.com/app/771800/Deadstick__Bush_Pilot_Simulator/

u/Xarius86 — 3 months ago
▲ 7 r/Kiwix

kiwix-zim-updater no longer working.

I have been using this exact setup for over a year now without any issues.

For some reason, now all the sudden, it claims it can't find remote files?

u/Xarius86 — 3 months ago
▲ 9 r/CustomerService+2 crossposts

Month long customer service nightmare.

Around April 24th my families entire shared OneDrive plan all dropped down to 5GB rather than the 1TB that had been paid for (and should have remained active for another 6-7 months.)

My entire families computers, phones, etc. are connected to OneDrive. So, when the service stopped, it caused massive frustration across all of our devices, etc. One of my family members uses their Hotmail address as their primary, and had to buy an additional 100GB of storage for that account so they would continue receiving/sending emails as the storage cap was artificially exceeded.

I opened a support ticket on April 26th.

I spent the next entire next month chatting and emailing from two of the family accounts DAILY getting sent around in a circle to keep re-providing a proof of purchase (because their system said there was no active subscription) and re-provide logs over, and over, and over again through broken systems that were not working properly. (I'm a programmer, this wasn't a me problem.)

By the 15th of May, I asked for a supervisor from both accounts. The support agent simply stopped responding to me entirely.

On the 16th, I received the above email where they finally acknowledged the problem was theirs and service had been restored. I still wanted to speak to a supervisor to explain my frustration with the entire process of how I was redirected between 6 different support agents that weren't talking to each other, was directed to open ticket after ticket after ticket, bounced between departments, and how their macOS "Contact Support" option from inside the app doesn't actually send the logs, etc.

The agent never told me the service had been restored. Just that automated email. In my mind, that means the support tickets should still be open as I never acknowledges it was working again.

It is now the 20th. This is absolutely unacceptable customer service.

u/Xarius86 — 3 months ago

macOS Sequoia 15.7.7 update works without issue. (2013 MBA)

Because I know there are going to be 15 posts asking if it works, here's one to say that it does.

u/Xarius86 — 3 months ago

Probably another false flag operation to further Trumps war on the free press.

EDIT: As of this moment, it was staged as an excuse for his ballroom.

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u/Xarius86 — 4 months ago