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by baz00 3y ago
No thanks! The compilers were extremely slow. If you wanted to hang around all day waiting for your stuff to compile then that was fine but it wasn't a solution for most of us. Plus the majority of the market was 8-bit machines. In the
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by baz00 3y ago
I don't think many people give a crap if I'm honest, at least in Europe. I'll be honest and say I don't. The whole Middle East has done a lot of repetitional damage to itself over the last 20 years by bringing its politi
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by baz00 3y ago
This is going to be really good when Copilot tanks or gets ignored by 99% of the people who can't even use their PC already and it's seen as a cost not a ROI and is killed off. It'll be filed under Scroll Lock for most people
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by baz00 3y ago
Well if it's like my cat, it licked its butt beforehand and cost me vet bills a couple of times so YMMV.
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by baz00 3y ago
Never been locked out when I used to use it. But it got replaced with a default firewall rule to only allow SSH from my address in the end. Didn’t need it at all then!
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by baz00 3y ago
I love places like this because I can thrive quite happily on doing fuck all and getting paid for it. Edit: I made some logical comment about doing something useful with half that time but deleted it because it would be hypocritical.
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by baz00 3y ago
Artists, photographers etc want colour accuracy and contrast, which is better on a glossy display (with anti glare coating). As your entire workload is apparently developer based, knock yourself out with a matte screen but I don't want
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by baz00 3y ago
You're talking rubbish. There are various grades of glossy screen and anti-glare coatings. The MBP is absolutely fine as is the Studio Display. Dell's stuff is NOT ok in contrast. It's not about tolerating it but about the su
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by baz00 3y ago
Been there. Wears off when you get to your early 40s.
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by baz00 3y ago
Meetups are bloody amazing. I keep meeting middle aged divorced women there with loose sense of morals and a drinking problem, which is perfect :)
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by baz00 3y ago
That's because it's not a good vision for the future, it's literally either building shit that everyone knows doesn't matter or plugging away at pointless automation on overcomplicated piles of steaming crap. Or the next
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by baz00 3y ago
If it's like around here (London, UK) the last thing people want to talk about is the day job!
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by baz00 3y ago
HNY to everyone here. While I don’t agree with some of you this is probably one of the finest communities left on the net. Hat tip to you all.
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by baz00 3y ago
I didn't even know it wasn't mandatory on other platforms...
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by baz00 3y ago
I think you need to get your eyes checked.
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by baz00 3y ago
My abusive ex partner used to poll me to work out where I was. I divorced her. You can do that with your car too if it's prone to abusing you by proxy (get something that doesn't have any intelligence in it at all).
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by baz00 3y ago
You're right. If I got into politics the world would be ash in 30 minutes.
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by baz00 3y ago
People really need to actually ask the users about this. I hear lots of frustration all the time and see end users with stacks of shit that barely work but it never gets upstream because the users think that's the status quo or are so
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by baz00 3y ago
I blame JavaScript and the deficient culture of insanity around it. The only things that are slow on any of my computers are honking great stacks of shit built on top of browsers with JavaScript. Sometimes I have three different fucking bro
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by baz00 3y ago
Yes not those classical-era legendary hybrid creatures that GNU provide on other platforms! (Edit: old commercial Unix person. I never liked GNU stuff. Sorry!)
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by baz00 3y ago
Pre-post edit: excuse the keyboard rant. They're not bad. Definitely better than the soggy ass Dell and Lenovo keyboards at least. But I would still rather have a proper keyboard with some travel. But the whole laptop experience is a c
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by baz00 3y ago
Actually you can use the U there. It is Unix! https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3700.htm
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by baz00 3y ago
Was. Despite owning one, I'd rather use my 14" M1 MBP thanks. Hell if I had to have a PC I've got a much much nicer Lenovo T14 gen 3 here! For the MBP in comparison: Better screen, performance, battery life, OS that actually
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by baz00 3y ago
I don't mind if they make sci-fi real, but can they please fuck off with the dystopian ultra-capitalist cyberpunk sci-fi.
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by baz00 3y ago
Yeah had this with it in Iceland too. Tried to send me through a river when I had a shitty hire van. Ended up using Organic Maps instead.
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by baz00 3y ago
Whoever is paying you is your boss. There is no escape, only a change in the illusion. If you're a sole trader, it's your customers. If you're a corporate wage slave, it's your line manager. If you're a startup it&#
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by baz00 3y ago
That's the cheap hardware I'm talking about. What is in your hands is the most important thing of all because without it you can't serve your customers or increase ROI.
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by baz00 3y ago
I've run a few businesses over the years and the return of investment of self sufficiency is barely worth it in the long run. It's very difficult to replicate the benefits of working for an SME (forget big tech) which it comes to
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by baz00 3y ago
As a regular Apple defender, I don't think most of us give a shit. I mean everyone I know uses WhatsApp here. I use iMessage within my family group because we all have iPhones but there appears to be absolutely no problem whatsoever wi
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by baz00 3y ago
Worth noting that RCS is a similar shit show. When I opted into this when I had an Android temporarily, it broke (some) SMS for iOS when I moved back. I had to set the android handset up again, log in with my google account and deregister i

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