alpaca128

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by alpaca128 7d ago
"Or I have to learn how to close Firefox tabs" I use about:processes to stop processes that eat up too much memory over time. The tabs stay open but get unloaded. YouTube especially acts like a black hole for memory if you let it.
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by alpaca128 7d ago
No driver problems (well, first party ones at least), good performance and I can still run any software I like. I do prefer and run Linux on my desktop, and could complain about Apple and Mac OS all day. The level of polish is very inconsis
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by alpaca128 8d ago
If I remember correctly the language promised automatic memory management without downsides, but then instead of implementing that magical feature they started working on a GUI library and whatnot. Apparently now they've moved onto a w
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by alpaca128 8d ago
Nothing, because that was written by an LLM.
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by alpaca128 10d ago
Or the company is grown in an organic way that leads to lower but stable demand.
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by alpaca128 14d ago
Designing a UI for left-handed people too is cheaper than losing out on 10-15% of your target audience. It's sad no one bothered to copy ideas from Windows Phone 8, its UI had a lot of thought put into it and was exactly as efficient t
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by alpaca128 14d ago
The term "Self-Repair Service" already sounds so wrong.
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by alpaca128 14d ago
I genuinely can't tell if this is a real thing because they re-released it so often they even made a joke version called Very Special Edition once.
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by alpaca128 28d ago
Just calling it bad does not include the intent of improving it. Verschlimmbesserung does.
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by alpaca128 28d ago
Smartphones and tablets support keyboards, and often even have official ones to buy.
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by alpaca128 1mo ago
The fast machine lacks the most important element: the incentive to do optimizations in the first place.
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by alpaca128 4mo ago
That's not how the human mind works. People still get skewed views on body standards even when they know that what they are looking at is biased and/or photoshopped, for example. When an AI fake stirs emotions just right, half the
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by alpaca128 5mo ago
On YouTube I reported bot accounts for a couple days, the only reaction I got was that at some point it showed a popup that told me too many false reports would lead to a ban. Not sure what Google gets out of it, but there is no way they co
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
Great! So they'll fix the back button bugs on YouTube, and return me to the previous set of video recommendations when I use it on the homepage, right? Right? And let me return to the actual site when it detects that I lost the web con
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
Why would anyone with a sound mind envy billionaires?
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
That you give random people on the internet the power to decide who you vote for is kind of sad. Calling them low intelligence for it even more so.
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
He doesn't trust it for anything else either as far as I can tell. In an interview he's boasted about how he uses a paper notebook for everything all day.
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
They probably want to avoid situations where a customer turns off backups, then loses data and makes it the problem of support. But it would be nice to have a "don't ask again" option regardless, even if it's hidden in s
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
The Amazon version of this story I heard was support advising to create a new account, and then the person got permabanned for creating multiple accounts which is against TOS.
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
> I'm still impressed when switching between programs isn't stuttery It is stuttery when you use the magic touchpad via Bluetooth, same applies to the cursor. It's very noticeable with slow movements.
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
I live in the EU and have read this in the terms for my region. > they have no legal obligation to follow through and give you what they promised Yes, they do. Contracts are contracts. They just don't promise you ownership of anythi
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
Some companies like Activision clearly state in their terms that chargeback means you will be permanently banned, no exceptions. You'll lose your account and access to all digital "purchases" forever. They don't need to
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
Do you seriously expect other companies not following suit? People need lawnmowers, so this can quickly turn into the same situation we have with the inkjet printer market.
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
MS could literally double their global employee count with a fraction of what they spend on AI annually.
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
This is for sending a message in case something happens to you and you're not able to send anything yourself anymore for whatever reason. Hence the term "dead man's switch"
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
I could get used to touch gestures if they were more consistent and tolerant enough for wrong inputs. It may work in one app but not another. One app expects me to swipe from left to right to go back, another wants me to swipe from top to b
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
You kind of do need Emacs though, as far as I know it is the only existing fully compatible implementation. As soon as the file is outside that environment, all bets are off. I tried using org-mode instead of Markdown once, not for long.
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
Yes, it's obviously "against common usage" given HTML support exists specifically for less common features that Markdown does not support. Like tables, which are supported by some implementations but not all, and iirc not eve
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
This has been a thing long enough for online guides to exist that explain how to get rid of it. Fortunately, because setting the default program in a second place to get rid of a security barrier wasn't my first guess. When does a bug
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by alpaca128 6mo ago
Those examples are very reasonable. However I also had Mac OS suddenly treat all m4a files on the system as potential malware and it blocked any attempt at opening them. Why did it do that? Because I checked the "set as default app&q

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