WorldWideWayne

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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Don't you think China had some help getting to where they are today? Western governments and corporations have systematically moved all technological and manufacturing power to China for the past 60 years. How can the U.S. population p
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
For anyone thinking about jumping to KeePass - consider the fact that they're still hosted at SourceForge. That's a major red flag for me and I've been keeping my eye out for an alternative for a while now.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Thanks! I have tried Bitvise a few times over the years, but it seems to be missing some features of WinSCP such as "Keep remote directory up to date..." which I use a lot. The terminal immediately seems nicer to use than Putty, b
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
You're acting like you hate the company just because they screwed their competitors. Do you hate other non-tech companies who screwed their competitors or is your hatred in this category especially reserved for Microsoft? Do you speak
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Do you speak badly of Apple and Google whenever possible though? Forget about tech corporations - do you speak out against other non-tech corporations as much as Microsoft or is your hatred especially reserved for them? What kind of compute
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Microsoft is as hip and alive as Google is. Google is a boring info-utility to most people. The Xbox is absolutely more cool than anything Google has in their pocket, including Android and self driving car experiments.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Do you use any Apple products whatsoever? I hope not, because Apple sues over patents too. If you really care, please stop using any company's products that do this.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
I do Node.js stuff in Visual Studio. It's better than anything.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Thanks. So is rudely telling someone that they "went off on some pointless irrelevant rant" and introducing pointless flamewar material in the response before that. Instead of playing back at them, I guess I'll just post the
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
If I hear them talking about USB-C is it going to magically cause 99% of regular USB devices to disappear in three months? No. I'm sure Surface 5 devices will have USB-C in 12-16 months when people actually start caring about USB-C.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Because no devices require USB-C yet? Regular USB stuff isn't going to just disappear, so it's really not that big a deal. It's like not having a bluray drive or a 3d-tv screen - nobody cares.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
So you'll get it next year then. I don't get why you have to be a prick about it though by saying that Apple or Google are somehow "more progressive" and then turn around and call someone else's response irrelevant
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Sounds like a great UX.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
I'm running Windows 10 with multiple Linux server distros in the background. Hyper-V shuts them down and brings them up with Windows. WinSCP is my file manager and Putty is my terminal. I prefer this over OS X on Apple hardware because
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
I guess if you think that walled gardens and locked down platforms are "progress", then you really are thinking differently because you have to basically swallow that pill if you want to enjoy the occasional hardware progress th
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Microsoft doesn't need an cult of personality or any of the shallow smoke and mirrors sales tactics that Apple utilizes. They made it to greatness without that bullshit.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
You need to enable the "Standard Keyboard layout" in PC Settings. However, you don't need a key to exit Chrome full-screen from a Windows touch device. Just tap near the top of the window and Chrome should display the link th
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
That's Ctrl+T, URL, Enter for most desktop computer users. I imagine that the weird, inconsistent, hard to decipher and ultimately confusing symbols that Apple chooses to display for some reason don't help people that are forced
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
If you're OK with Apple taking away root privileges on your box, then I guess a lot of things that are fine with you are not going to be fine with other people. Enjoy using Apple's computers...and they are Apple's, not yours
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Unless you're making iOS software, why not just use Linux? I always have Ubuntu Server running in the background in a VM, so I get the desktop experience that I prefer (Windows) and a better Unix experience than OS X provides.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
OS X is the completely inflexible OS here, as usual - not Windows. This setting is built into Windows [1] and if you don't like the way it works, you can also do it with a few lines of AutoHotKey code. [1] - http://winaero.c
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
You're right, they can, but they don't have to be. A flame icon is typically used for heat or fire I think. My point is - there's probably no "always".
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Text are just symbols and symbols are an even older and more stable form of communication. If I use text to make a sign, only people who can read the language will understand it. But if I use a well known symbol, everybody will understand i
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
A certain type of haircut and an arbitrary weight are signs of being healthy and socially well adjusted?
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Yeah, they did reverse it because now you can own the product after paying for a year's worth of rent. That's completely different from only being able to rent the product. But either way, there's still nothing praise-worthy
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
I'm not mad at all. I just disagree that they should be praised for seeking rent and then reversing their decision. Where is the merit in that?
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
Why praise someone for doing the thing they should have done in the first place? That's like congratulating a cop for not beating up a random pedestrian. Actually, that's not even completely accurate - it's more like praisi
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
I think the person you responded to was hating on Apple for stuff they actually do, like limiting your choice to one crappy browser. And %38% of the market is enough to force any any app maker to deal with Apple, so it might as well be 51%.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
And I'm going to continue using an adblocker out of principle - because to me, the principle that my computer should remain free of malware is stronger than the principle that content creators should get paid.
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by WorldWideWayne 11y ago
You don't understand the logic that - as the default desktop shipped by Fedora, the Gnome desktop version has things that the others don't? I've been using Linux since the 90's. Generally, if you don't go with the d

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