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871.
by accrual 2y ago
Given that another Verge article discusses running XP on an iPad using this tool, I wonder if it emulates enough PC hardware that one could run OpenBSD or Debian on it. That would be pretty cool paired with a Bluetooth keyboard! https:&#x2
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The scalpel: From flint to zirconium-coated steel (2018)(facs.org)
32 points by accrual 2y ago|9 comments
873.
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Nice! I didn't realize that was added back. Now I just would like 1.) small taskbar icons and 2.) ability to dock the taskbar on any edge. Agreed about the macOS dock. I occasionally use macOS as well and it kind of reminds me of a ter
874.
by accrual 2y ago
I managed to play some ONS-Torlan this past weekend with my friend on a pure LAN (no Internet), it was fantastic and just as much fun as I remember. I enjoy turning on lots of fun modifiers like low gravity, big head mode, berserk, etc.
875.
by accrual 2y ago
I wonder if Windows will eventually move to an "image" based approach like macOS has done. When one updates macOS or iOS, you basically download a multi-GB sealed image of the OS and install it in-place.
876.
by accrual 2y ago
Also cannot change the taskbar icon size anymore either. I always enjoyed small icons + full taskbar button size as it allows one to have a larger target to click and see the window name all at once.
877.
by accrual 2y ago
I wish they would just integrate Everything. It works fast, has an intuitive UI, and doesn't have any of the wacky search/sort bugs that stock Explorer has. https://www.voidtools.com/
878.
by accrual 2y ago
Pretty clever to boot a virtual QEMU VM and pass through the physical disks for installation. Nice that it can be done without a support request.
879.
by accrual 2y ago
The original World of Goo game was quite a phenomenon back in 2008, I remember it being talked about a lot amongst peers in school. Cool to see a real sequel!
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Creating Joy in the User Experience (2023)(daveon.design)
1 points by accrual 2y ago|0 comments
881.
Winevdm: 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows(github.com)
3 points by accrual 2y ago|0 comments
882.
by accrual 2y ago
My experiences with NetWare came about 2 decades after most in this thread, but thought it would be fun to share anyway. My high school used some version of NetWare for all of the XP-based machines the students could access. I specifically
883.
by accrual 2y ago
That's pretty amazing. Do you recall which version of Netware had the snakes? Did it need to be enabled through config? I'd love to try it out in a VM or 86Box.
884.
by accrual 2y ago
I had a feeling the YouTube link would be Posy and was delighted when it was. His videos on display technologies are top notch.
885.
by accrual 2y ago
> Also if I’m shit talking the boss’s boss. It’s never using work devices. It's wild that some don't get this. A couple years back some employees at my company were fired for doing just this over the same IM system we used to c
886.
by accrual 2y ago
Nice comparison. Indeed, the developer's CPU is about 13 years old. Vista was released internationally in early 2007, so a 13 year old CPU at release would've been released in 1994, about a year after the original Pentium was rele
887.
by accrual 2y ago
I found this quote from the article especially heartfelt. To me it doesn't just convey a hopeful message, it also shows the attitude and inner strength of someone who just endured the closest thing we have to living & working on a
888.
by accrual 2y ago
For sure! I'm eating simpler and more whole foods as well, but every once in a while I'll have something artificial as a treat. Or for example I briefly used these raspberry lemonade water flavor drops from Target, but I switched
889.
by accrual 2y ago
Personally I'd like dyes to be prohibited... I don't want any more Red 40 in my foods. I don't care if my cherry-flavored whatever isn't bright red, I want it to be safe.
890.
by accrual 2y ago
This is pretty much my setup as well! Syncthing for a small collection of files I want available from all my machines - commonly used documents, photos, stuff I want quickly backed up or synced automatically. Samba for my long term mostly-r
891.
by accrual 2y ago
Has anyone compared Seafile with Syncthing? I'm quite happy with Syncthing but always interested in trying out new setups.
892.
by accrual 2y ago
Gives me nostalgia for learning about random subjects on the early web, pre-Wikipedia. Stumbling upon a site like this would be a treasure trove if you were interested in these back in the day.
893.
by accrual 2y ago
> Every time I search on the start menu there is a web search, impossible to turn off. How is that acceptable? YMMV, but this is what I used to disable web search on my Win 11 Pro workstation: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
894.
by accrual 2y ago
> At this point, I have lost count of the number of times that I've left my perfectly working Windows computer at the end of my work day, only to return to a completely broken computer that won't boot the next morning. Has this
895.
by accrual 2y ago
> How many paid products have an open source competitor at all? How many have a credible competitor (GIMP isn’t a credible alternative to PhotoShop for the people who pay for it for example). I'm not sure how we could figure out the
896.
by accrual 2y ago
Just to add another sample from another LLM, here is the response from Llama-3-Instruct-8B. I had to specifically ask it identify any possible inconsistency, otherwise it just thought it was a lovely short story. > The inconsistenc
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> Besides which, "having access to a cellphone" did not alter the outcome at all in those tragic incidents. Disagree. Being able to communicate to your family or emergency services that a shooting is happening and/or that
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by accrual 2y ago
It kinda worked that way in the past too. IIRC, newer AGP graphics cards would be keyed for 4x or 8x slots but would barely use more bandwidth than the original 2x slots provided.
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by accrual 2y ago
> "always on sale" Lenovo is great at this. Their absurd $3,000+ laptops are conveniently priced near market value after their perpetual 50% off LENOVOJUNE, LENOVOJULY, etc. coupons are applied. You don't even have to do w
900.
by accrual 2y ago
They can be handy. One situation where it saved the day - my friend has a partially broken USB-C port on their phone that only charges when the cable is just right . The battery had died so there was no way to see if it was charging or not

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