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by einr 8y ago
A door lock doesn't actually stop a determined burglar either, but you'd still be a fool not to install a lock in your front door.
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by einr 8y ago
I believe the 2018s make the headphone jack one as well. That's cool, that'll make it easy for them to remove it in 2019 and claim there wasn't enough space for it.
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by einr 8y ago
Are other manufacturers better? They used to be. Many still are, although unfortunately many follow the path led by Apple. Here's an educational link for those who think everyone else is as bad as Apple: https://www.ifixit
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by einr 8y ago
There are significant logistical differences between the US and Switzerland. One has 327 million people and an area of 9.8 million square kilometers (36 people per Km2). The other has 8.4 million people and 41 thousand square kilometers
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by einr 8y ago
I ran Windows 95 on my 486.
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by einr 8y ago
Comparing to a general purpose CPU, I remember from the olden days that a 486 DX4/100 was just BARELY able to decode stereo MP3's if you used a well optimized MS-DOS playback program. In a multitasking environment like Windows --
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by einr 8y ago
The GUS Max came out in 1994, the SoundBlaster 2.0 came out in 1991 and was a significantly more limited card than the GUS (no wave table synthesis, no 16-bit audio or stereo) In 1994 the state-of-the-art SoundBlaster would have been the AW
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by einr 8y ago
RetroPie (or libretro) does not have a ZSNES core; ZSNES, apart from being wildly inaccurate, is largely written in x86 assembly and so there is no ARM version. Additionally, the more modern snes9x cores have essentially the same sound emul
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by einr 8y ago
I used to always have to do this as well (I work in graphic design and oftentimes I have to paste text from Word/PowerPoint into my layout/design apps -- it's a nightmare) Then I discovered this handy little utility, PureText
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by einr 9y ago
And clearly, Facebook would not use personal information for unethical purposes.
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by einr 9y ago
YouTube voice There's a link in the OP to an article analyzing this: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-l...
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by einr 9y ago
AND EVERYTHING IN CAPS ALWAYS
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by einr 9y ago
I used Windows 2000 in a VM about a month ago so my memory is fresh. The warts are real, of course, but I was struck by how cohesive, clean and friendly it was compared to every Windows version since. It still feels like peak Windows to me.
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by einr 9y ago
Yes please. Or actually, fuck it, just recompile Windows 2000 for AMD64, delete the Windows 10 source tree, and call it a day.
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by einr 9y ago
No need; if you can get your hands on a copy of PBRUSH.EXE from Windows NT 3.51, it will run on modern Windows. It is functionally and cosmetically exactly the same as the Windows 3.1 Paintbrush, but compiled as a true 32-bit application.
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by einr 9y ago
Who clicks 10 ads a month? I don't think I've clicked 10 ads in total since getting on the web for the first time in 1997...
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by einr 9y ago
Who is? Amazon? No, I was talking about Microsoft only. Sorry if that was unclear.
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by einr 9y ago
At least Microsoft[0] does not sell your personal information or build it's business around renting access to your personal information. There is a big difference between sharing data with advertisers and sharing data with company-con
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by einr 9y ago
They're rapidly heading down the path, at the very least. Microsoft has been giving away their operating system for free in exchange for mining your personal data. Everyone who uses Windows 10 can expect to have everything on screen sc
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by einr 9y ago
The eye-catching headline in huge type, is "at Mozilla, we believe that privacy is fundamental to a healthy internet". Only later in this document -- that basically no one is going to read in detail after reading the headline -- d
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by einr 9y ago
I remember when it used to look like a nice, compact native dialog box* instead of a full-screen, space-wasting abomination that follows no standards for anything. But consistency, visual coherency, discoverability and predictability are ap
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by einr 9y ago
Mind, the trickest part of dealing with pre-4.0 is mounting the file system, assuming the OS was placed onto NTFS rather than FAT. A couple of times I've tried mounting an NT 3.51 disk in a modern Windows 7 system and while it works
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by einr 9y ago
RetroManCave on YouTube had an interesting video recently that investigated the performance and capabilities of running a Mac emulator on an Amiga vs. a real 68k Mac, and which actually was faster: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by einr 9y ago
This is anecdotal, but in my retrocomputing adventures I use a lot of factory pressed CD-ROMs from ~1993-2000 and I have yet to see one fail to read purely due to age. Burned CD's are a lot worse. How much worse depends a lot on qualit
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by einr 9y ago
1.44M floppies are easily the worst of the common formats when it comes to reliability. Even back when you bought them new in stores they were bad, and now they are very bad. Double-density 3,5" media like the disks for your ST are m
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by einr 9y ago
You are, as long as you give them power by continuing to use proprietary software and protocols.
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by einr 9y ago
in practice will just give more money to the very popular bands since they dominate the market and leave a much smaller share for the others. Which is exactly the current situation, by the way. Anyway, what I was doing was just demonstrat
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by einr 9y ago
Let's say Artist X has their music on Spotify but is currently making $0 a month. Now, for the sake of argument, let's say I spend an entire month listening to only Artist X a thousand times; I personally think it's fair in
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by einr 9y ago
It's not as simple as I made it out to be, of course, because the music industry is a confusing and terrible thing, but the point basically stands: no one except Spotify and record label execs makes anything more than rounding errors f
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by einr 9y ago
Does paying for Spotify actually help any artists meaningfully though? No. Your monthly $10, after Spotify and the labels get their majority cut, goes by percentage to the most popular artists on the service, with absolutely no regard to

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