Telaneo

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by Telaneo 9mo ago
The amount of research that went into making Windows 95 a user friendly OS is actually quite impressive. They didn't have all the kinks ironed out, and they couldn't foresee everything, but it's was a pretty solid effort. I w
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
Non-technical users aren't fans of random UI changes either. On the contrary, they hate having to re-learn shit every whatever-the-fuck years.
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
The monkey's paw curls, and the old control panels disappear. However, more than 70% of what you needed to do when you did dig down into the old control panel is still not available in the new settings menu. They've been 'tra
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
They presumably mean drawback from the government's perspective. For the average citizen it obviously sucks.
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
I'm wondering whether or not the attitude towards shoplifting and the like is going to loosen with more and more dystopian shit being pushed. I can imagine a world where small amounts of shoplifting become somewhat acceptable because e
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
The Venn diagram of Xbox games and PC games is very close to the Xbox circle just being completely inside the larger PC circle. The number of Series S/X exclusives is literally zero at this point, at least I'm fairly sure, and if
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
A tale as old as time. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/windows-95-went-the-... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42... https://devblogs.mi
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
Open-Xchange supports collaborative editing of spreadsheets. Mailbox.org uses that for their email service, and you get access to their online office suite when you subscribe. I can't speak to the quality of the shared editing, but the
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
I'd imagine this attitude would start to disappear as soon as alternatives start being used. It's already happening to some extent, but it needs to trickle down into the general populace. The relevant names just aren't in peo
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
Excel is really good for the wizards and for that one spreadsheet full of macros written by a wizard, which thus can't be ported over to Libreoffice or anything else. Many of those probably should Just™ be made into actual databases, b
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
Not really, since nobody (for values of) ends up actually falsifying it, and if they do, it's years down the line.
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
> What happens if an octogenarian phones Geek Squad and says they're running Variant <X> of Linux? Geek Squad: 'Sorry, we don't support that.' Grandma: 'Well, what can you do to help me then?' Geek Squ
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
While obviously very difficult, making Windows into a much more cohesive and bug free experience isn't impossible. Windows used to be a lot more cohesive, and I have no doubt it's possible to go back to that while also keeping the
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by Telaneo 9mo ago
Look up 'Fast Startup'. It's a thing since Windows 8. It's a curse onto humanity.
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
Today is the 11820th of September 1993.
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
Games with kernel-mode anti-cheat consistently don't work and probably never will (barring them having it removed or made optional). Titles released more recently are more likely to not work simply due to not having had fixes applied t
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
They're <strong> tags with color:#79635c on hover in the CSS. A really weird style choice for sure, but semantically they aren't meant to be links at all.
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
They all rely on Google and Chromium's browser engine in the end, so make of that what you will. Firefox (plus its derivatives) and Safari are the only two other options if you want a different browser engine today.
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
> How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. These are two very separate things. I hate X. That doesn't mean I hate the few remaining people on there who still post things I wish
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
We all largely interact with the same or similar services every day, so it's no wonder we all end up with similar experiences. Thankfully, I don't have to deal with this every couple of days. Dad rarely ventures outside of his com
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
> Until there is a version of Linux where you don’t have to open the console This is already the case from the Grandma use case, i.e. nothing more than a web browser and maybe Thunderbird and an office program. The terminal issue doesn&#
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
> For added fun, many organizations, including banks and the US Government/various federal pension boards, refuse to recognize a power of attorney letter, either. Ouch! That's got to make things hard! That's thankfully not
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
> How do you all deal with (extended) family? This Christmas I spent time with my parents and the topic of Windows 11 came up again with all of its associated dark patterns. The mom and dad gen are all on iPads or just phones from what I
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
I'm not sure anyone at Microsoft has any endgame in mind for Windows. The devs are just working on what they're being told to work on, which aren't the parts conducive to happy consumers, while the execs are working on instin
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same? I rarely use GOG, but they're doing good work, so it's nice to know they'll be sticking around. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
> They don't because too many people pirate games to make that a viable business. Given how many games on Steam are sold either DRM free (you can just transfer the files over to another PC and they just work) or functionally DRM fr
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
It's not too bad after some (a lot of) adjustments, but I agree the problem is that the default is that notifications are on. I'm part of more than a dozen Discord servers, and only three of them have notifications enabled, and on
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
I doubt the war was truly lost on that faithful day in 2013. It was still possible to save, and Phil Spencer even did a decent amount of work trying to reclaim the goodwill of people by pushing for things like backwards compatibility for pr
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
I imagine the going Xbox 360 -> Xbox 720 would just have been asking to people to joke about it being 720p (even if not actually, the picture quality joke basically writes itself). The solution though was obviously not the brainworm reas
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by Telaneo 10mo ago
I want more high quality code and I want more high quality culture. Both have one major obstacle in the way and is at the core of this post, my comment and yours: Copyright. I fail to see why we should make exceptions to copyright for the s

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