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by hulitu 4mo ago
> Oh man, good on you identifying a product that needs to exist xfig ?
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> I'm not sure you can blame the GNOME people for not trying. Definitely not. We have GNOME 1, GNOME 2, GNOME 3, GNOME 4, GNOME 5, so they definitely _are_ trying. But, why every version is worse than its predecessor, realy bothers
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by hulitu 4mo ago
Modern Windows has big problems with file associasions: default to web browser, sometimes asks, sometimes it chooses a random program (for images). Old Windows (9x, 2k, XP, 7) was better.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> cultural changes Or the lack of it, FWIW
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> Today's interfaces are much cleaner They can do better. Eliminate any distinction between elements and between background and foreground. Cleanliness at its best. Computer are toys anyway, nobody "works" on them anymore.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> XP was the first to bring NT architecture to desktop That was Win2k (DirectX). XP was full of bugs and holes before SP2.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
In the good Microsoft tradition, you had programs where this theme will not be applied, just like in Win 10 and 11, leading to inconsistencies.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> It took ages to launch a program - loading screens typically had time to display a progress bar and a series of notes about what they were up to - ‘loading extensions’, ‘reticulating splines’, etc. Just like today, without the progress
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> Very few users care about how much RAM their media player uses Famous last words. The price of RAM skyrocketed in the last months. The users will care.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!' Or, in other words, it listens to you. Combined with the permanent connection to e100.net -> profit.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
Looks like a castle of cards (many layers) with proprietary backup format.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> Hugston.com 100% European and dependency free What "European" OS is it running ? Minix ? Oberon ?
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> As memory makers prioritize shipments of their products to the AI sector, prices of solid-state drives for consumer applications increased significantly over the last few quarters, which naturally caused retail sales of SSDs to drop si
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research Why ? It was good to rely on Big Brother for decades and sleep well. /s
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by hulitu 4mo ago
No. Computers are made in the USA or China, OSs are made in the USA (Linux, Windows, Mac). I'm still waiting for the European computer but all microcontrollers (no processors yet) made in EU have an ARM (British-American) Cortex and th
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by hulitu 4mo ago
Greeneashing by Google.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> Wow this is actually pretty serious Don't tranform your ffmpeg instance into a web browser.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
American sitcoms ? It is funny, laugh. /s
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> You guys have no idea how bad things can get. Speak for yourself. /s After seeing "sitcoms" where an unseen audience "laughs" at the "funny" parts, i think there is still room for improvement. We can
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by hulitu 4mo ago
Yes, it is, but not as you think. This bricked a tablet i had because it refused to create a new account, while the password for the old one was lost.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> This all means total surveillance. What could possible go wrong with this? As long as only _we_ use it, against _our_ political opponents, nothing. Oh, wait ... /s
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> desktop - an Xfce-based desktop with common tools I would have expected OpenLook. Xfce is ugly.
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> The lower efficiency means a lower range for the same battery, And some heat which must be dissipated or else they will dethrone the BMW as the leading burning car. /s
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> Vinyl literally has less than half the dynamic range of CD In theory, yes. In practice it depends on the "loudness".
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by hulitu 4mo ago
CVEServer would have been too obvious. /s
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by hulitu 4mo ago
> No one even replied, to something I obviously care so much about, just downvoted me out. There are a lot of people on HN whose salaries depend on the status quo. Think of all Apple, Microsoft and Google "engineers" for examp
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by hulitu 5mo ago
So EU wants it's own "AI" to spy on chats. Chat control is back, now in version 3.0.
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by hulitu 5mo ago
> A consumer shouldn't be restricted from installing their own OS on a device that they bought That is not what the industry, that pays lobby money, wants. They want to be able to control what the user runs and extract profits.
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by hulitu 5mo ago
may have. Or not.
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by hulitu 5mo ago
> the real control lies in browsers and operative systems in which certificate authorities are trusted Wasn't Let's encrypt a Mozilla child ? The real control lies at who defines what is trusted.

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