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by pndy 2y ago
Wish we could separate all that corporate entities on the internet in their own walled social network world. Where they could have all these weird marketing convos like, mcdonald being angry because pepsi "unhahaed" nestle post &#
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by pndy 2y ago
All big companies do that for few years now - either with used language or graphics (namely Corporate Memphis and its various uncanny variants) or with both. It's enough to look at patch notes for mobile apps: these are exactly cutesy
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by pndy 2y ago
This whole thing is weird: submitting account registered 3 days ago, no other activity than this link added on coincidentally, MS anniversary.
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by pndy 2y ago
They rolled same thing for 18.4 on phones and tablet - I don't recall seeing post-update modal for enabling updates before. Considering how Microsoft smuggled telemetry for W7 and W10 upgrade, its nagging modals under random KB patches
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by pndy 2y ago
> IIRC with XP they late loaded a lot of things to get the desktop showing faster than 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetcher - that's the thing they introduced in XP to speed up loading the system and p
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by pndy 2y ago
I really liked both stability and that subtle change from dark grey GUI colour to gray with a really subtle yellow hint that made it more pleasant to my eyes. So was the default blue background colour instead of teal green more appealing. &
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by pndy 2y ago
Back then reinstall without formatting the drive felt like resetting system to defaults and was practised by almost everyone. I'm pretty sure W10 and W11 has similar feature nowadays by default. When I had chance to grab 180-days trial
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by pndy 2y ago
Isn't that word used as name means "lost" in German? I tried it a while ago and it looks really interesting - especially biomes and lightning
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by pndy 2y ago
I urge you to check submissions from this domain
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by pndy 2y ago
I did said similar thing weeks ago regarding all shenanigans with W11: every software should include two paths of installation/OOBE: default "express" where vendor shoves you "the experience" and customized "
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by pndy 2y ago
That's possible in EU (prob also in EEA). Of all you mention only Photos shows a dramatic sliding modal asking you if you want to remove it; data library will stay but features like hidden, recently deleted photos and "memories&qu
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by pndy 2y ago
The Nero Burning ROM/ACDSee disease is how I like to call that. These were simple once too but quickly degraded on quality, got bloated with stuff nobody ask in the first place
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by pndy 2y ago
Is this interface that much different from "classic" OSX preferences? The old panel with horizontal icons was replaced with sidebar tree which loads sections withouth need to return to main screen - that is pretty much convenient.
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Ichi-go ichi-e – "one time, one meeting"(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pndy 2y ago
That's on same level like wrapping kebab durum around sushi
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by pndy 2y ago
Tbh, whole menu looks "dangerous" - shroom-cabbage pierogi, leczo and pomidorowa... That just asks for problems. I wonder if Hermaszewski ever mentioned what russians had on Soyuz in '78
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by pndy 2y ago
Pierogi are available here as fresh product in the fridge section (ready to boil or pan frying) or deep-frozen in bags which can last months in your freezer (boiling only, tho you could dethaw and fry but that's too much hassle). Makin
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by pndy 2y ago
> Meanwhile I can open my phone's camera, spin around three times, take a photo of whatever the hell happens to be in its viewfinder and somehow that is sufficient human creativity to deserve copyright protection. Your comment made
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by pndy 2y ago
> » READ COMPLETE RELEASE NOTES « There are some. At first glance it doesn't seem to be that much different from 2.10 that I have installed in Manjaro
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by pndy 2y ago
IIRC that browser had a custom new tab page years ago, so probably they had some kind of revenue from affiliate links
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by pndy 2y ago
I'm currently testing out Floorp and so far no issues with sites - beside twitch but that site doesn't like anything that isn't "default"
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by pndy 2y ago
These projects to my knowledge do not release patches by themselves but as you said, rely on Mozilla's work - they take Firefox, strip it out of few features - namely one's that raised concerns, toss in additional stuff from other
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by pndy 2y ago
Amazon equivalent in Poland - Allegro was notoriously blocking me in Librewolf; I was served puzzle captcha or blocked from browsing at all due to "suspicious activity" 98% of the time.
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by pndy 2y ago
In Poland Allegro takes the most dominant role. It started as a simple auctions site 26 years ago and now it's a big e-commerce platform with additional classifieds, price comparison engine and consumer credit, tickets marketplace serv
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by pndy 2y ago
Some say it's enough it landed in meta hands few years ago.
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by pndy 2y ago
Not only google seems to won this battle but ad industry as a whole. Youngest generation is nowadays so much conditioned to advertising disguised as content or being the content they won't oppose it.
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by pndy 2y ago
> (...) with every major version of Android, all the basic, essential functions take increasingly more screen tap counts in different places on the digitizer as they get buried deeper into submenus The one thing that struck me configurin
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by pndy 2y ago
> Reddit killed forums, perhaps forums could kill Reddit now? Hardly; forums are in agony and people tend to flee to discord servers in search for quick support or discussions. Forums nowadays are terrible because of interfaces used, co
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by pndy 2y ago
> After disabling Apple Intelligence when you do the next mini update to 15.3.1 Apple intelligence is enabled Lemme list some of my recent nitpicks: I never used Bluetooth that much because I had no devices either for the phone or tablet
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by pndy 2y ago
> ‘I think it's a matter of two or three days,’ - Michal Gramatyka, Ministry of Digital Affairs deputy, said in RMF FM's Morning Conversation, referring to the recovery of the POLSA' system after the hacking attack. The po

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