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by einr 9mo ago
I know who runs that blog, but that's a really exaggerated take. Notepad has had nearly identical UX from Windows 1.0 until 10. Sure, there's a search feature that appeared at some point, ditto with the status bar, at some point
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by einr 9mo ago
This is the same stuff that comes up every time in these threads, and at some point, you have to consider that maybe you're holding it wrong. For example: "installing programs is a mix of flatpaks, APKs, and building from source&q
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by einr 9mo ago
Look for Asante FriendlyNet drivers perhaps -- these were Mac OS 7.5+ compatible NE2000 cards.
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by einr 9mo ago
Mid range/high end CD players almost always have both analog and digital outputs and have since some time in the 90s at least, so I’d say quite common.
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by einr 9mo ago
As a macOS sysadmin I feel this in my bones, and of course I don't know what apps are essential for you, but FWIW Sequoia has been basically identical to Sonoma for me. In fact I had to double check what I was running on this computer
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by einr 9mo ago
Among professional-ready DAWs, as far as I know, it's unique in its approach. Cubase, surely? I'm pretty sure it has done this for decades unless I am misunderstanding what you're saying.
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by einr 9mo ago
Because there is no such product as Office 2025, much like there was no Windows 96. There is Office 2004, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2024. They usually release roughly every three years so there might be an Office 2027. 365 is a separ
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by einr 9mo ago
Off the top of my head: Windows Vista was slow and unstable on a lot of hardware of the time due to significantly higher system requirements than XP and a new display driver model that worked poorly at first, had a very polarizing look, and
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by einr 9mo ago
I don't think it's sentimentality, exactly. Who picks Azure or OneDrive or AD or Office 365 or Sharepoint or Teams or any Microsoft product or service if they're not already running Windows? The desktop operating system, &quo
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by einr 9mo ago
Music production is indeed still a blocker. I used to use Windows for that; I am now on macOS for work and music (much better than Windows in every way! I use an old trashcan Mac Pro with Monterey for my studio computer) and Debian for my p
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by einr 10mo ago
They simply do not care about trust or anything else you think they should care about. The scam ads get probably get clicked ten or a hundred times more than legit ads. This makes money, therefore it is good and should be encouraged. They d
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by einr 10mo ago
There were zero multi-core x86 CPUs, server or otherwise, back in those days.
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by einr 10mo ago
This board is based on an NXP QorIQ SoC which is designed for networking hardware, not really intended for general purpose computers. It is to my knowledge, and has been for years, the only game in town if you need to be compatible with the
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by einr 10mo ago
…and you are implying that Microsoft Windows 11 is a better example of ”great user experience”?
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by einr 10mo ago
This probably has to do with what kind of Internet milieu you grew up in because to me — grown up on IRC and certain late 90s/early 00s web forums — lowercase everything signals a sort of chill, easygoing humility while properly capsin
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by einr 10mo ago
I turn off autocapitalization on my phone so I can be consistent with my computers where it IS more effort to use capitalization. I also believe quite dogmatically that computers should not try to be smarter than me, I can press the buttons
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by einr 10mo ago
It's both. Musicians and music nerds buy CDs and LPs and tapes and Bandcamp files and they "pirate" music both because they care about ownership and quality and rare or substantially different editions of records that aren&
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by einr 10mo ago
Yes, you get a perceived gain in privacy, but is that worth potentially exposing yourself to additional vulnerabilities? Speaking only for myself, and regardless of whether this is actually true (see sibling comment): yes. Absolutely. A n
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by einr 10mo ago
Ytterby is an otherwise pretty insignificant small town of 6k inhabitants in Sweden, but it has FOUR elements named after it: yttrium, terbium, ytterbium, and erbium.
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by einr 10mo ago
Llama.cpp is called Llama.cpp, so there’s that…
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by einr 11mo ago
There is a double confusion here because "primary" and "secondary" were used to refer to IDE channels . Most machines had two IDE channels (i.e. physical connectors on the controller card), each of which could have a ma
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by einr 1y ago
The actual Intel 80386 processor was discontinued in 2007, but the i386 architecture -- ia32, 32-bit x86 -- lived on for longer in the semi-mainstream (there were 32-bit Intel Atoms introduced to the market as late as 2012, AMD Geodes wer
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by einr 1y ago
”NVIDIA Corporation” is a rare vendor because most browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox on Windows) use ANGLE and will report ”Google Inc. (NVIDIA Corporation)” as a vendor. Basically, ”NVIDIA Corporation” means you are Firefox on Linux with an
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by einr 1y ago
This wasn't even that long ago if you were on Solaris. We used to be a Solaris shop, and even though we migrated our last Solaris boxes to Linux about 7 years ago, most of our usernames still adhere to the 8 character limit for the sak
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by einr 1y ago
True! And if so, that license has clearly been broken many times by everyone selling 386BSD, NetBSD and Linux <0.12 on CD-ROMs etc ;) Then again -- and IANAL -- the license is worded so vaguely that I doubt any of it is enforcible. &quot
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by einr 1y ago
The full license for Linux prior to 0.12 was: This kernel is (C) 1991 Linus Torvalds, but all or part of it may be redistributed provided you do the following: - Full source must be available (and free), if not with the distrib
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by einr 2y ago
My understanding of Microsoft's success was it came from marketplace maneuvers, many ranging from unethical to illegal, not from quality or innovative hacking. Compare Windows with any contemporaneous MacOS, for example. So it's
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by einr 2y ago
Sure. https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/
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by einr 2y ago
By your own argument, if no one is going to bruteforce your password, what then is the issue with a weak password?
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by einr 2y ago
It is (or used to be) for SEO. Google Search loves walls of "relevant" text and will punish recipe sites that get right to the point.

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