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by HeckFeck 3y ago
I once used a crossover cable with an old 3Com card and a Linksys switch - whatever it sent down the wires, the Ethernet port on that switch was fried and has never done Tx or Rx since. I bandaged it with electric tape so I don't conne
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
> The beauty of the early designs (iOS 1 - 5) was the contrast between materials in the UI. Things you could press were shiny and made to look like they had the feel of the glass screen. This was not the usual way to interact with any de
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
iPhone 4 with iOS 4/5 and Snow Leopard on my MacBook in 2010-2011 was the most seamless and enjoyable computing has been for me. Nothing has surpassed those days since.
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
It's so compelling selling the picket house with all the land around it - who doesn't see that as idyllic? But then the hidden costs to community can't really be quantified, and the housing developers are hardly going to thin
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
I like this idea. I am far from most of my friends and live in a city for work reasons. There are more activities and everything is a lot more accessible. Definitely more promise in the air. That said, I am living alone and feel it. It&#x27
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
I really hope that one becomes daily driveable. The pairing of the consistent UI and the BSD-style holistic unix is something I'd relish. The biggest hindrance will be, as ever, drivers. They are making consistent progress with USB and
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Just wondering, did you compile that Win2k3 yourself? Since it is technically source available ;)
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
I feel inclined to bypass all that Win32 gubbins and talk to the Kernel directly. Back in my day we just walked into the office of the man in charge and shook hands, we struck deals like real men. If we ask ask the NT kernel politely in a l
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
If they profit in a way that gives back to everyone else, that's pretty good as I see it. Even RMS wouldn't be against this idea (though he'd hate the proprietary binaries of games ofc).
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Xfire is something that died a sad death. Used it to chat with many people I met playing Star Wars Galaxies and Empire at War - think it was actually bundled with that one. The profile pages and screenshot uploads were fun too. Another onli
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
IRCv3: now with age verification for our UK users!
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
HMRC calls its pillaged subjects 'customers' - which gives me no end of amusement. I can't ever remember asking for their 'custom', nor do I remember them ever going out of their way to win it from me.
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Children shouldn't be on the internet, just like they shouldn't be left to cycle on motorways. Or enter contracts and take on debt. Or fly jet planes. Or be left alone in a workshop or kitchen. Etc. We restrict their activities be
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
This is the real answer - we'd think it mad if someone proposed that children play with pedal cars on open motorways. And madder still if someone else proposed the solution to the danger was to make motorways 'safer' for chil
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Years of institutional decline and a political class that genuinely loathes the people it rules and anything good about the country they inhabit. You can put the date at 1997, 2010 or perhaps earlier depending on your political leanings. Ma
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Going to buy shares in VPN providers. Seriously though, this just feels like the walls closing in on the freedom we had online. There’s no way these powers won’t be extended into more surveillance and censorship generally, now that they’re
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Not at all, my current motor doesn't take any data from me and connects to nothing. I don't use Uber. I avoid data collection when I can. I'm not 'biased' against Mr. Musk, I think he has many impressive accomplishm
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
I’d pay if the app bundled useful communication features and gave me control over my data. Also if there were no ads. Surely this would be reasonable. Instead it looks like we will be paying AND they will be selling our data and shoving adv
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
A shame, this will surely tank it. I can't imagine paying unless they also introduced guaranteed privacy (like Mastodon's data permission list - empty!) on their mobile apps. Fat chance. I'm not sure where to go as an alterna
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Discord's UI occasionally has me cursing but at least they've kept it consistent. And it is true that it doesn't have the same performance problems.
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
NetMeeting managed live conferencing over 56k lines and on Pentium IIs. A tragically underappreciated piece of software, Skype before Skype with directories and the lot.
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
MSN Messenger really was never that bad, was it? I keep hitting the RAM ceiling on my 16GB dev machine with the amount of electron crap I have to have open just to send messages to colleagues. Maybe it isn't noticeable when your app is
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Elon removed that restriction when he first took over, then apparently reintroduced it because of machine learning scraping the site; if you believe that. It is very annoying either way, so many interesting things that belong on their own
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
If you can get a modern remake of Quake I or II it would fit the bill. I have one on my USB memory stick that's forever been part of my keyring, just in case there ever is the need for a spontaneous fragfest.
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
May I present Well Made Web, a gallery of inventive and distinguished websites: https://wmw.thran.uk One example is Internet Related Technologies which was reporting on new web standards during 1998-2001, last updated in 2001 an
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> I’ve slowly come around to thinking that only those who substantially share a moral framework with me deserve to be treated in that framework Indeed. You can only get burned so many times by people who treat values and virtues like co
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
There is a certain magic to the old Amiga - both its software and hardware - and creating something that shares in that magic just seems right. The computer was practically dead when I was born and even I feel compelled by it. Also, for g
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
That's hateful when that happens. I'd do the same but I'd always forget, we need an automated way to sync and download all your channel's playlists.
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For corporate use, only choose an email provider that has real people at a manned help desk. Google's abysmally opaque support is much too risky for serious business operations. It is a right blighter if you lose your personal YouTube
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Not at all. Rather, if the authorities were to do anything, they would regulate to redress the imbalance and give back power to users to control how corporations use their data. There is no voluntary solution as it is, and the state says it

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