Dalewyn

470 ms·

2791.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
For me, the appeal of Peanuts was never about amusement; it was about the (simplified for kids) philosophies of life. Even as a kid I could appreciate that Peanuts was a very insightful comic strip, and I'm glad I came across it when I
2792.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>also has implications for designing software notifications and dialogs. I block notifs[1] from 99% of the programs on my phone because THEY. ARE. NOT. IMPORTANT. The small handful of programs that do have notifications enabled are becau
2793.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
Understand for a moment that Microsoft isn't even counted as Big Tech by most people: GAFA (Google Apple Facebook Amazon) or FAANG (Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix Google) as Big Tech is usually referred by. Microsoft isn't or can&#
2794.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>In other words, climate change doesn’t need to be part of the discussion I would go a step further and argue "climate change", et al. should be actively excluded from the discussion because all they do is divert attention away
2795.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>because i dont know how anyone gets paid to do this The reward here isn't a paycheck, the reward here is fun. Things like console emulators by and large exist on volunteer time and effort provided by nerds and enthusiasts who find
2796.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
The switching process can be disrupting depending on how it works, I agree. But even so far as to include grabbing a spare monitor "you never actually look at" or spoofing one? For that, I admit I can't see why just using one
2797.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
Genuine question, but are multiple inputs on the monitor not a consideration for your scenario? Or are multiple inputs on a single monitor unsuitable for this purpose?
2798.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
Any entity that obtains the throne is doomed to fall soon after. Happened to the Greeks, the Roman Empire, Imperial China, the British Empire, IBM, Intel and AMD back and forth, Toyota, Boeing, Yahoo, Google, MySpace, Facebook... Also pres
2799.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>Miraculously, most games just worked despite running under a different DPMI server from what they were originally developed with. There were occasional issues with specific games. Popular ones include games which assumed that all memory
2800.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
There are laws and law enforcement already in place to address bad actors, particularly those who would pose tangible harm upon an individual. Violating the principle and right of free speech is nothing more than grabbing and abusing power.
2801.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>Should we ask them to stop and focus on the browser only? Yes. Mozilla is (or was, anyway) a FOSS organization, their primary and arguably only concern should be the software they develop and publish.
2802.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>Social justice is about leveling the playing field, Social justice is just a nicer term for anarchy, because it's justice as society (read: certain vocal minority groups) deems it. There is nothing consistent nor fair about it, bec
2803.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>The Linux kernel itself is in fact very, VERY extensively backwards-compatible, which is why I find it particularly unfair (on top of being wrong) to use the label Dalewyn did. Did I ever dispute that?
2804.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
I have made peace with mortality because it's something I literally can't do anything about. No amount of doing or worrying or indeed caring can nor will affect my eventual and inevitable death. I might die tomorrow (or today!) or
2805.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>Imagine recommending with a straight face that someone go to starbucks and manually edit wpa_supplicant.conf to get onto the wifi. Linux in a nutshell.
2806.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/mad/
2807.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
Except Windows by and large satisfies that expectation. Linux throwing backwards compatibility and stability out the window is one of the biggest reasons it doesn't appeal to the common user. Note that Android provides this (granted le
2808.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>will make having 32-bit system libs unnecessary, ... , not unlike how Windows handles syscalls in real WoW64. WoW64 literally has an entire 32-bit equivalent to Windows's native 64-bit libraries and binaries.
2809.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
Yup, this is it. Diversity in the sense that people from various walks of life provide diverse(!) opinions is a very good thing. Getting stuck in thought bubbles is a very easy mistake to get into. "Diversity" in the sense that pe
2810.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>It also implies a company being diverse is a mandatory thing, and non-diverse firms are somehow inherently bad or non-desirable. In a way, it's astonishing how much work has been done over at least the past one or two decades to re
2811.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
https://archive.is/P1cUy Archive link because clickbait can die in a fire.
2812.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
When you're a kid, everything is magical and the world is paradise. When you're an adult, everything is set in stone and the world is out of touch. When you're an elder, nothing is as it was anymore and what world is this?
2813.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
I think the thought to be considered is whether we will still use computers or the internet in a hundred years in such a way that this kind of decision today would make sense. We're already seeing a sharp decline in computer ownership,
2814.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
If the entire point of verification is verifying one's identity , I do not see why requiring a photograph and government identification is a problem. That's the only reasonable way of proving someone's identity. The question
2815.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
Japanese entertainment is one of the last remaining forms of sincere entertainment devoid of political correctness and driving narratives.
2816.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
What's most likely is a poorly trained waiter/waitress uses an eagle claw grab to hold the glass as it's moved and served. That means their fingers, god knows where they've been, touch the rim of the glass I am about to
2817.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>The entire global ecosystem faces collapse IMO within 10 years or so. Gonna be that guy and point out 10 years ago someone was saying we face collapse in 10 years. Fearmongering like a broken record does not change the fact that it&#x27
2818.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
Useful to stir with, so I don't waste a spoon or a stirring stick. Keeps my lips and areas around my mouth clean, so I don't waste a napkin. Don't have to put my lips on the cup/glass, so more sanitary if eating/dri
2819.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
SMB is great and Windows handles it perfectly fine (as it should), but outside of Windows is problematic because Samba is sincerely fucking terrible and the only reason I can see why anyone uses it is because there's nothing better.
2820.
by Dalewyn 3y ago
I would hazard a guess that it's probably because BitLocker predates TPM by at least two years, and Microsoft wants to avoid bricking old BitLocker secured data because most users just aren't going to be on top of this stuff.

More ›