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by phreack 10mo ago
Win <= 10 had left side taskbars so that should actually be a plus. I didn't quickly update to Win 11 because of it being in the middle really, then because of the ads, then swore off it because of the AI stuff so in the end it kind
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by phreack 10mo ago
Same here, now running Fedora KDE but with an Nvidia card it is exceedingly buggy. Doing a single system update the normal way made the kernel version unbootable. I also had some (I suspect) OOM related full freezed that forced me to hard s
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by phreack 11mo ago
What bugs me the most about nearly everyone selling AI products is that they apparently want or need to believe in the power of LLMs for everything, not just the product, and this means that they also generate the explanatory texts and desc
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by phreack 11mo ago
I had to install the app to try and work around a problem with Steam, and then had the same problems just browsing. You can probably disable that behavior, but I ended up just uninstalling the app entirely. The support experience was so bad
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by phreack 11mo ago
It's like they want people to bypass Windows 11 altogether. I've finally bit the bullet and gone to Linux recently. Certainly dying by 512 cuts and counting, not for the faint of heart, but I'm surprised at how much of my dai
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EmuDevz Is a Software Game(hackaday.com)
5 points by phreack 1y ago|0 comments
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by phreack 1y ago
I was surprised not to see the one I use daily, Brief. Maybe it's not on Chrome or something, but it hasn't failed me in like decades. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/
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Windows 10 ESU for EEA still not good enough(dedoimedo.com)
3 points by phreack 1y ago|0 comments
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by phreack 1y ago
Love this. I seem to find a new one every day maintaining an Android app with millions of users. We like to call them "what will we tell the kids" moments. It's a great idea to write them down, I'll probably start doing
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by phreack 1y ago
We're closer than we were before!
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by phreack 1y ago
As I understand it, the people from Pakistan and Bangladesh mostly prefer the South Asia denomination and don't consider themselves Indians, while South Americans do consider themselves Americans, so it's a different case.
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by phreack 1y ago
> Side note: It would be really interesting to see a website that generates all the pages every time a user requests them, every time you navigate back it would look the same, but some buttons in different places, the live chat is in a d
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by phreack 1y ago
Pessimistically, I'd then imagine they get burnt by Hollywood accounting and end up fully empty handed
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by phreack 1y ago
This is why archiving is such a worthwhile endeavor. We could end up losing the original movies otherwise!
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by phreack 2y ago
I think how awful making run configurations is, is the one worst aspect of VSCode. tasks.json? launch.json? I just want the "run" button to run a custom build command and I could just not figure it out.
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by phreack 2y ago
Honestly the hieroglyphic buttons are a deal breaker for me. It's just a cognitive load I can't overcome without frustration. The vertical labels were just perfect and Jetbrains actively ignores feedback on that. On a second place
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by phreack 2y ago
They used to pay by the view, now they pay by the minute. I think it's that simple.
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by phreack 2y ago
Honestly, I spent some time trying to script a graphic editing pipeline with either GIMP or magick, and no available model got me even close. DeepSeek specifically gaslit me with nonexistant CLI options, then claiming they did exist but wer
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by phreack 2y ago
That last part is key. Way better than FizzBuzz from scratch, best interview results I've seen come from giving a candidate a pre-made solution or architecture document that technically works but with glaring issues and just talking ab
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by phreack 2y ago
To this day I can not remember which is which in calcs with clearing buttons. I know probably one of them clears the operator and the other clears the whole operation, but since I'll never figure out the correct one I just start pressi
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by phreack 2y ago
XCode has always been such a disaster. I've been doing iOS dev on and off for over a decade and while the developer experience was not good at first, somehow it got consistently worse every year. Even know I have no idea what some unla
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by phreack 2y ago
Another prong in the cognitive load fork that's trying to stab you when working, is the UX of your tools. That is absolutely personal, but it pays off massively in the long term to build out a development environment that you're c
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by phreack 2y ago
I call that "developer happiness". It's extremely subjective but yeah, writing and then maintaining React code makes me the most happy in the best case scenarios, makes me feel like I can do more with less, it's easy for
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by phreack 2y ago
I honestly believe this specific case is a Pareto situation where the first 80% came at breakneck speeds, and the final 20% just won't come in a satisfactory way. And the uncanny valley effect demands a percentage that's extremely
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by phreack 2y ago
I don't think that while ever ended! Have you seen Jetbrains' IDEs "new UI" (now the only UI except for a soon to be deprecated plugin)? You can't tell where a tab ends and the next one begins, it's just floati
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by phreack 2y ago
> But people won't know where to click? > It's not 1995. I've seen lots, lots of people living in 1995 these days then.
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by phreack 2y ago
This is actually my quickest rule of thumb for any internet article. If it's got links and some actually leave the site, I'll be immediately more invested and read through it. Otherwise I'll barely glance at it and go back to
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by phreack 2y ago
Yeah, Win10 will be my last Windows once the curtain starts to fall. Win11 has only got more invasive since release.
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by phreack 2y ago
I think a good faith interpretation is that the "mistake" was having accepted the terms of use of Disney+. Not that it was really a mistake, the system is just rigged and they'd have found another argument if not this one.
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by phreack 2y ago
> Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to you. We are experiencing an unprecedented demand for our service, which is causing delays for our customers. This is such weasel wording. It's frustrating because it'

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