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by Pxtl 3y ago
This is why I'm disappointed that more OSes didn't steal the contact list from Windows Phone. The WP contact list acted as a shell for all person-to-person communication programs, showing a unified history feed of all communicatio
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I feel like this is misusing the term "enshittification" that Doctorow coined, which mostly described the phase where a popular product has to start generating value for its investors and starts exploiting its users.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Meanwhile my new Android Pixel phone will run literally none of the Android apks I bought 5 years ago on humble bundle because it's 64-bit only and they're all 32-bit.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I'm not an encryption guy so maybe this is a stupid question, but doesn't this mean you can't update the firmware without losing all your encrypted data?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
AliExpress with faster shipping.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I mean five star ratings have always been flawed . Any system where getting 4/5 is bad means the raters are confused, and then it's GIGO. This weird % five-star thing is a workaround for that GIGO because they're treating
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I do not.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I mean yeah, but Linus is LTT. There are over a hundred people whose jobs depend on the company pulling out of this, and there is no LTT without Linus, which means he's got to learn.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yikes. That's not even 2 years ago. This is when they were building a new studio in a new building - past the point where "growing pains" are no longer really excusable as a tiny start-up learning to be a Serious Business.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
If it were any other man I'd be considering your conspiracy theory but Musk has become so completely unhinged that imho Hanlon's Razor wins. The man has a terminal case of internet poisoning.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Something weird here - is the upvote hidden on this post for anybody else?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Linus needs to take a leave of absence while somebody who's an expert at this cleans up his business and removes the problem people. And when he comes back he needs to be properly trained on workplace professionalism and he needs to j
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by Pxtl 3y ago
And? Top Gear insults a lot of people too.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
And now two hours before this new video went live, one of his ex-employees released allegations about how awful a work environment it was.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
So the idea is that you could do 1. send event data to depot 2. trigger localized ETLs (or put it high-priority in queue) to recalculate just the impacted data into relevant PStates 3. await completion of aforementioned ETLs 4. run query fr
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I've seen many people describe frameworks like this - you know, first you have the slow back-end event-driven master database that you don't query live against, then you've got eventual-consistency flows against the various d
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, a "mastodon-like Fediverse instance running on our proprietary new application/data framework" sounds like a better description. And either way, I think the source code to their Mastodonlike will not be usable since it w
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I'd say any extension that's making an http request that isn't just repeating URLs that are already in the page should show a toast notification with the request body prettified into legibility. A well made extension will onl
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I'll take Khrushchyovkas over tent cities any day.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, I move the whole taskbar to the left edge of the screen. Screens are wide, so I can dedicate like 1.5 inches of the left edge of the screen to just the taskbar with full text labels (I speak English, not pictogram) stacked one on top
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Thanks. I keep my task bar on the left so that's the big thing keeping me in win 10.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Honestly if it were endless shooting I'd like it more -- for me that's the Serious Sam series. Q1/Q2 is a lot about navigating the map and rationing your ammo. Doom 1/2 had more fun pitched battles but also had some ve
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by Pxtl 3y ago
To be honest, a lot of it is nostalgia. The gameplay was pretty danged good, but feels pretty repetitive and meaningless to modern players - basically no plot or progression to speak of, an endless array of elaborately sculpted mazes with
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I hope we'll see some old Quake 2 mods dusted off and reapplied to this new version. There were some greats back in the day - Action Quake 2, Transformers Quake 2, Superheroes Quake 2, etc.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Puffle Launch wasn't an Angry Birds clone, it was the barrel scenes from Donkey Kong Country expanded into a full game. One problem is that some games aren't just incompatible, but also were enshittified with ads and nonsense afte
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by Pxtl 3y ago
It's very cool, but I thing the initial download-speed test is very misleading. Consistently I get like 2/3 of my max, but then when I let it run to completion and it goes through the longer download tests it ramps up to my full
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, the bandwidth test is so short that I'm not surprised it gets inconsistent results. I'd wager the speedtest.net being longer was not decided for fun, but to get more consistent results. edit: Now I realize that the later tin
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by Pxtl 3y ago
No idea of what API they're hitting but basically half of my old humble library won't run anymore - they show a warning about old APIs, show the title screen, then crash to desktop. Even some old games I paid for are gone from the
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Agreed. Android 4 was peak Android. Most of my favorite Android games are from that era and very few of them run anymore. I wish Google either make a sandboxed emulation layer for those old abandoned games.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, the annihilation of humanity is basically impossible in the near-term without a celestial disaster, but the functionally-permanent end of modern civilization is not. Like, reasonable scenario: Climate change causes mass starvation and

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