medwards666

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by medwards666 1y ago
Wasn't the Microwriter was it perchance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter
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by medwards666 1y ago
The website needs debugging for sure. In dark mode, the text towards the bottom of the page renders as white on white ...
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by medwards666 1y ago
nah, dogs eat far better than this ...
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by medwards666 1y ago
Not since the last Steam sale (and every single Steam sale before it) ... really, Valve need to sort out their creaking server infrastructure for big events and launches. It's not like no-one could have predicted this ...
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by medwards666 1y ago
Then, if you haven't already tried it, I can heartily recommend Nine Sols as well. Not _quite_ up there with HK, but not too far behind ...
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by medwards666 1y ago
... or just not running Faecesbook at all.
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by medwards666 1y ago
This! I actually kinda miss the Win7 enhanced switcher (I actually kinda miss the whole Win7 Aero desktop, but I digress) ... Win-Tab bringing up a scrollable stack of the actual windows you have open and being able to either directly sel
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by medwards666 1y ago
CODE is still going. Very focussed on .Net and the whole Microsoft ecosystem, but you can still get hold of it (although I think it's subscription only, won't find it on any newsstands)
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by medwards666 1y ago
Absolutely this. I've tried in the past to unsubscribe from publications from both Future and Dennis and in both cases it was a tortuous exercise to actually get the subs cancelled.
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by medwards666 2y ago
But ... but ... users _are_ scum, aren't they?
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by medwards666 2y ago
Have to say ... I'm still not a great fan of the new UI, but the QoL settings under the appearance tab do at least make it bearable.
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by medwards666 2y ago
I spent a fortnight with a small group of friends motorcycling along the Pamir highway back in 2022, then another week or so over in Kazakhstan (off the bikes this time). Fascinating pair of countries, and highly recommended to go travel an
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by medwards666 3y ago
If you're a student in higher education then it's a free download via Lean Library (if your education establishment is a subscriber to the service).
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by medwards666 3y ago
You still go to the store for your groceries? How quaint.
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by medwards666 3y ago
Not sure, but I'd more than welcome a "God, please make it stop!" emoji ...
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by medwards666 4y ago
So, Sting was wrong and Roxanne just had bad eyesight?
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by medwards666 4y ago
Strand Games have remastered some of the original Magnetic Scrolls games (The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter so far) for modern PCs. https://strandgames.com/
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by medwards666 4y ago
IIRC 'feelies' was a term coined at Infocom by Brian Moriarty for the extra gewgaws that wound up in the boxes. I don't think the term was used much elsewhere in the industry, even though it did become part of the general ga
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by medwards666 4y ago
My go-to audio CD ripper is this: https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
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by medwards666 4y ago
Not sure, but they've really been active the last couple of years in language training and collaborative development. Plus, I happen to think their IDEs are probably the best out there (despite their relative complexity). Been a happy
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by medwards666 4y ago
Nothing, but nothing, about the Daily Mail constitutes _real_ news.
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by medwards666 5y ago
Given that I dislike being around people in general the pandemic has been fantastic for me in that it enabled me to work from home, and I've now managed to continue that with my current employment contract which has my permanent place
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by medwards666 5y ago
Most of the previous comments seem to be firmly in the 'nope' camp when it comes to code quality. What most of the appear to be missing though is that they're looking at their production codebases, and in that instance, I wo