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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Why do you do this? While I can appreciate the technical achievement, you know most users of forums and imageboards don’t want any AI content at all.
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
You do realise they were taxing the entrepreneurs before their companies made a profit? What sort of "justice" is that?
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
MediaWiki on a VPS is comfy. Installation is easy. Plus you get to make the original wiki skin the default for the authentic wiki experience.
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
I switched to iPhone after they added the tracker blocking to the OS. Everything is a tradeoff. I’d love to live in the F droid alt tech land, but everything really comes down to utility. Messaging my friends is more important than using th
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
You’re completely right and yet the sight of one fills me with desire. Possibly because it has a direct line right back to the original Macintosh. Such that when I showed my 11yo cousin my Macintosh SE, he called it an ‘iMac’.
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Who Is Signal For?(thran.uk)
2 points by HeckFeck 2y ago|0 comments
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
I tried to watch the McAfee documentary and gave up after 20 minutes of that slog. How they managed to make the documentary about this man boring is beyond me, and answering that would itself make a more interesting documentary. In short, i
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
It's very usable when paired with PcManFM, and there are a plethora of themes available. Customising is done by an intuitive config file. There are tools to auto-generate the application menu, so you don't need to toil after insta
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
It's something that seldom comes up in conversation due to politeness and the strong likelihood that it will cause discomfort, but a few friends I know intimately have reported bad relationships and questionable parenting only after lo
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
If so it'd be different in that regard. I was thinking of it more as the better-engineered underdog that lost out to the more corporate-friendly option. IIRC it had full duplex unlike USB 1/2, it launched well before USB with a fa
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
It's like what FireWire was to USB, but hopefully it has a better fate.
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Fluxbox also has first class support for Dockapps. They're a great pairing. An old screengrab to prove my point: https://www.thran.uk/img/desktop-aug-21.jpg . I'm especially fond of the VU-meter style ethernet
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
I'd like to interject for a moment...
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
You can adapt and fit in to the establishment, and I wouldn't suggest any moral problem with it. We definitely need stability - the raising of children requires it, trappings like clubs and societies and clean streets are great, but I
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Finally, RPN but for natural language!
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Agreed. Add colour and/or text to this pie menu and it is perfect. The most well-known implementation of the concept was in the Sims 1, where actions for the active sim were clearly labelled. The menu was a nest of unlimited depth. Goo
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
It remains fascinating to me that even today if we boarded flights to each other's countries, there are still many small things that would need explained. I would first be shocked to see the smaller two-pronged electrical plugs in the
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Growing up in the UK, everyone I knew used it for VCRs, DVD players and digiboxes. It always made a notable improvement over the RCA jacks, and I longed to get the SCART cable for my PS2 (never did). Famously bulky and stubborn with their w
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Sure, but that indicates institutional rot. If the people who write NTFS drivers (i.e. its devs who love Windows the most) can't push back on user hostility and short-sighted decisions are made constantly then we have a company that ha
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
I remember those Longhorn betas - yes, it was coming apart under feature creep, but that only gave us more to play with and anticipate in the leaks. A shame that MS is no longer in the mindset of ambition like this. Instead we get adverts a
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Xbox is a cousin of Windows, PS4/5 is a BSD. Well and good, but the fact that Nintendo still roll their own OS warms my heart. At least someone is trying a new thing!
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
A bit of a leap to go from EU-mandated speed limiters to a transfer of sovereignty. If anything it shows how little control NI, and indeed the Republic, has over its own laws.
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
This whole system seems set up like nagware. Having the car distract the motorist with alerts while driving will surely increase risks of accidents, as will the anger induced by the frustration of knowing that a machine is fighting him inst
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Failing lifts is strongly correlated with a bad night's sleep. Source: skimming various forums and personal experience et al, 2024.
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Surreal indeed. Here he is: https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/com... As early as 2012 he was sharing the gospel of what was to become TempleOS.
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
It was a clear self-defence situation. I will never forgive the edits.
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
Interesting, I was expecting a ThinkPad. Presumably you're on Linux too. But good going, I'll formally challenge you to a race if I can remember to come back this thread. My own long-term plan is to install Linux when Apple drops
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
*7 years so far.... But what's your best anyway?
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
> MacOS is basically unusable without logging into an Apple account It depends if you mean the OS + cloud services + app store, or just having an OS to run programs. The former definitely needs the Apple ID, but the latter doesn't.
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by HeckFeck 2y ago
It's not as bad as you think. I'm currently rocking a 2017 MBA and it's eminently usable for all my needs even with 8GB RAM. 7 year's service is fairly good for a laptop, I've only recently changed the battery. For

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