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by Kwpolska 2y ago
You have to stop work for 15 minutes to charge, but it isn't a full charge, so you need to remember to plug it in overnight. Meanwhile, with a well-designed mouse, I can just plug it in, relive the experience of a wired mouse for a few
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Has "Israel" been designated a terrorist state by a NATO country? No? Then nothing has changed.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
So don't buy phones from carriers? You can find a cheaper plan without a phone and then add a device you can use on any network, with the manufacturer's software.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Google Domains was a service where no new features could be added, so nobody would get promoted for working on it, so nobody wanted to maintain it. Classic Google.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> and changing the URLs of the images The URLs might be mentioned in many different places. Why break URLs just to make a "better product"? Why couldn't the new product keep old URLs working?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
This claim was so easy to verify with a Windows NT 4 ISO and a resource editor, but nobody did. And nobody thought the bitmap has much better font rendering than NT 4. Dave retired from Microsoft and started a business that sold scareware:
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
"Bullshit" is even more appropriate.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
- List view and view options buttons, while combined, have a visually distinct hover state, highlighting each half of the button on hover, and making it very obvious (at least to me, as a 35 year old power user) that they are different. (yo
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Is it really (2020)? This sort of “debloat Windows by disabling random services and tweaking random registry keys” was popular 20 years ago, when spinning rust was the only option, and it was slow spinning rust, alongside a slow CPU. You ri
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Hotmail was built on top of Unix by someone else, and then Microsoft acquired it. Yes, Microsoft does do Linux these days, they even have their distro, but this still does not answer the question of why they would replace real Windows with
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Also, they didn't have a lot of 64-bit stuff in PowerPC land during the transition, software- and hardware-wise.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
System.Windows.Forms _is_ part of .NET 5+ — but only available on Windows.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Why would they want to use Linux though?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Why would they use Wine when they have free and unlimited access to the real deal?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Dropping the "Core" suffix introduced more naming confusion. Before that, ".NET" was often used as a shorthand for the (now legacy) .NET Framework. Which makes googling for Core-specific things much harder than it needs
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
.NET Core does support Windows Forms just fine, but it’s only available on Windows.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Microsoft wanted to make x86 compatibility as painless as possible. They adopted an ABI in which registers can be generally mapped 1:1 between the two architectures.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Another thread says virtual machines.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
That this isn't the only 4K→16K transition in recent history? Some programs that assumed 4K had to be fixed as part of the transition, this can provide insights for the work required for Android.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Python's import system, as it is, makes some things slightly more complicated due to the need to use virtual environments (copies of the interpreter with separate library paths) as opposed to something like node_modules. This could eas
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
It may be easily forkable due to the licence choice (MIT or Apache), but the choice of Rust limits the number of people who can actually contribute.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
From Wikipedia < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT >: > The standard exFAT implementation is not journaled and only uses a single file allocation table and free-space map. FAT file systems instead used alterna
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
ExFAT is a thing, but it’s less data-safe than NTFS (and than FAT32), and Linux distros might not ship drivers out-of-the-box.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Fortunately, Microsoft is slowly de-Plummering Windows. The task manager has been rewritten and made actually useful, they have libarchive for non-ZIP formats, and now this.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Apple has been on a crusade against all payments not going through them for many years. I absolutely believe this is Apple’s fault, although I would have expected this to have happened much sooner.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
And IEEE Spectrum continues to post useless content under a reputable(?) name.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Sending a single-line message is much more common than wanting to add multiple lines.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
"Clicking some buttons" gets hard if you have hundreds of certificates, or the responsible people are on vacation, or are using the certificates in ways other than securing a website. 24 hours is a very short window.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Word sucks if you want consistent formatting. It has styles, but they randomly glitch out and can't always handle everything. I want docs in HTML, not PDF, and definitely not DOCX. The issues some programmers have are issues with conte
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
"Windows To Go" is the official name for a former Windows feature. Writing a Batch script of any length, let alone 3085 lines, is completely insane with PowerShell being part of the default install.

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