drooopy

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by drooopy 5mo ago
Vista was an absolute dumpster fire but in no way compares to the awfulness of ME.
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by drooopy 5mo ago
I've lived through every evolution of Windows from 3.1 up to 11 and Millenium/2000 still remains my favourite and I will always consider it the most 'get-shit-done' UI that Microsoft has ever built. Up until W10 removed
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by drooopy 5mo ago
I believe that Firefox does it but not as frequently as Chrome does, but don't quote me on it. However, I am using a "tab suspender" addon on firefox to control how fast the unloading happens on tabs that are not active.
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by drooopy 6mo ago
HN is as close to social media as my 3rd grade talent show was to Michael Jackson's Super Bowl halftime show.
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by drooopy 6mo ago
Calling 2026's facebook, instagram, tiktok, xshitter, whatever "social media" is like calling a casino "the 3rd place that you socialise out with your mates".
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by drooopy 6mo ago
There aren’t any 3rd party repair shops close to me that are in Apple’s Independent Repair Provider network, so if I were to choose a random repair shop my only real option with them would be a battery from a 3rd party manufacturer, which I
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by drooopy 6mo ago
In order to have my iPhone 11's battery replaced by my local apple authorised repair shop, inexplicably I have to leave my phone with them for days. Since the phone is old they have to order the battery from Apple and that could take u
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by drooopy 6mo ago
No kidding. Last time I used Enlightenment back in the late 90s, both KDE 1.x and GNOME 1.x were orders of magnitude more usable on my lowly Pentium MMX 166 with 16 MB of RAM.
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by drooopy 6mo ago
They’re doomed to repeat the cycle of reinventing Clippy every few years and always failing at it.
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by drooopy 6mo ago
That must be an american thing because I guarantee you that it doesn't mean anything for the rest of the world.
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by drooopy 6mo ago
She and Technology Connections are two of my favourite YouTube channels. Also I love her geocities website so much: https://lauriewired.com/
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by drooopy 6mo ago
My Linux computer now is my main gaming machine. I purged my Windows partition a couple of years ago and haven't had the need to look back yet.
43.
by drooopy 7mo ago
Same here. My brain lit up with nostalgia when I saw Rennes-Le-Château mentioned.
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by drooopy 7mo ago
Bring back Lilo!
45.
by drooopy 7mo ago
Introducing Windows NNT (New New Technology).
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by drooopy 7mo ago
Most PC laptops at Neo's price point (or cheaper) are essentially manufactured e-waste.
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by drooopy 7mo ago
Those gestures have been permanently tattooed into my brain and muscle memory. So much so that I’ve set Gesturefy on Firefox to mimic the same ones from the old Opera browser.
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by drooopy 7mo ago
Based on my recollection of The Bible and the Book of Revelation (it's been almost 30 years since I was last forced to read it), Peter Thiel and his ilk match the definition of what an "antichrist" is or should be.
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by drooopy 7mo ago
Tahoe's UI looks like a generic, "futuristic-like", user-created theme for KDE circa 2009.
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by drooopy 7mo ago
I liked how the IBM Lotus suite hid password input behind a randomly-generated number of asterisks per key press.
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by drooopy 7mo ago
How kind of them to allow me to do something so basic that I had been able to do since the Windows 95 days up until 4 years ago when they inexplicably decided to take it away from me.
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by drooopy 7mo ago
Huh? Where do you get that from?
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by drooopy 7mo ago
This is probably going to be my new laptop next year if it gets the A19 Pro with 12 GB of RAM.
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by drooopy 7mo ago
Oh, man... What I wouldn't give to have Pages (and other apps) appear like they did in OS X Lion. This is just depressing.
55.
by drooopy 7mo ago
Nothing unexpected about it.
56.
by drooopy 8mo ago
S**, I haven't felt much urge to upgrade from my 16GB M1 Air and I even use it to play some Windows games under Crossover. Quite possibly the best laptop I've ever owned.
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by drooopy 8mo ago
We had little marco rubio (not capitalised on purpose) over here in Europe lecturing us about freedom of speech. Every accusation is a confession.
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by drooopy 8mo ago
The same chomsky who claimed that Epstein is a "highly valued friend and regular source of intellectual exchange and stimulation"?
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by drooopy 9mo ago
Sanctions on Russia due to the war in Ukraine (and other bad actors) and whatever the hell orange mussolini is doing are not even remotely close to being a similar situation.
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by drooopy 9mo ago
"Introducing macOS 27 'Snowy Tahoe' with 0 New Features!"

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