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Economy Coffin(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by pndy 2y ago|1 comments
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by pndy 2y ago
> falling into the enshitification cycle. It started nagging me in "maybe you'll pay?" fashion 2 weeks ago. Maybe some a-b testing is up and running.
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by pndy 2y ago
This custom known as stypa (or konsolacja more often today) is still present in Poland - tho nowadays it's easier to host it at restaurants that provide such services for the grievers rather than run it by yourself. People in small
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by pndy 3y ago
> Guidwars 2 I had to replace gpu because nvidia did something at some point to the drivers and I couldn't load Shattered Observatory and few other places without crashing, no matter whether I launch the game by Lutris or Steam
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by pndy 3y ago
I'm pretty sure they did include some kind of achievements and rewards system in Windows 10.
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Optical Coherence Tomography (Oct)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pndy 3y ago|0 comments
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by pndy 3y ago
Wikipedia article mentions "the Spine" - an underground tunnel that would host transport superfast train infrastructure connecting both sides of the complex. Traveling from one end to another would take 20mins, supposedly.
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by pndy 3y ago
Of course it is - this is clearly prince's personal ego stroking project and wall placed across nearly the whole province looks adequate than just some 'boring' circular megacity
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by pndy 3y ago
Still, the graphic part with progress bar on left does kinda mimic the 9x installer
580.
by pndy 3y ago
> The top-left corner of the program was reserved for a 'system' menu used to move/resize the window, or quickly exit with a double-click Pretty sure that's already a standard across all Windows version, plus Xfce an
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by pndy 3y ago
> Like others here though I had a soft spot for Windows 2000, everything felt slightly more refined in win2k. I really like all the UI changes introduced in 2000. Especially the color palette: that subtle change from strong gray in 9x t
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by pndy 3y ago
Pretty sure you have Windows Preinstallation Environment, WinPE in mind but it arrived with XP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Enviro... On Windows 200 and XP you could install additional recove
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by pndy 3y ago
It's more about basic vs premium aka "pay more for better quality/service" divide. Even a simple stuff as food got divided: you can have your cheap prepacked cold cut filled with soy protein, artificial aromas or you can
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by pndy 3y ago
I do remember this story about Munich going for open source and then switching back but I don't recall any side story about MS lobbying for opening headquarter in the city or offering discounts. That's what brave search served me
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by pndy 3y ago
Frankly, I think this feature being locked out behind the paywall in Signal kinda defeats it's purpose. But then, they might be the pioneers here who will be followed. I don't think they have anything else to bundle this with - un
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by pndy 3y ago
That's what whole Europe should do already years ago because considering all the data mining Microsoft conducts in their products it become quite dangerous to use anything they released in nearly a decade. In 2015 Munich reverted their
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by pndy 3y ago
> So what other defenestrations are there? The ones in Prague are the ones I have heard about. All the "window accidents" in Russia involving people who angered Dobby of Kremlin could be counted in, I believe. Polish Wikipedia
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by pndy 3y ago
They're doing everything to discourage devs who'd want to release apps on their own and make actually difficult to do so. You still need to fit their requirements if you want to play the alternative stores game where apple holds a
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by pndy 3y ago
This is great because last time I tried running NeXT in a virtual machine, I had issues with resolution mode - it was way too small to do anything
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by pndy 3y ago
> Windows XP looked like a toy Hence it was and still sometimes is being called Fisher-Price. Microsoft had to drastically change their flagship project so it would be attractive against OSX. The Whistler's Watercolor theme that exi
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by pndy 3y ago
It's the icons angle and that thin black border around images, I believe
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by pndy 3y ago
Bluecurve was fitting with the overall candy-like interfaces style at that time and yet, still giving a nice and professional, serious looking GUI for Redhat and later for short time Fedora. I even skinned my XP with theme that was most clo
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by pndy 3y ago
> Available Soon. Some screenshots or video preview would be interesting - if included
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by pndy 3y ago
Behold, for this is the Golden Age of (Weather) Ballooning
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by pndy 3y ago
The dichotomy of how real world looks and functions and how it does according to the big corpos is astonishing and terrifying. And this is the yet another example - there's no failure in this rose-tinted corporate world, just a minor d
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by pndy 3y ago
At the moment it isn't bad - the subscription ad bar shows once per year I believe. But locking voice messages in privacy settings behind paywall isn't nice. It seems they also locked text messages from everyone behind premium qui
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by pndy 3y ago
By default there's no encryption and in order to have an encrypted chat you need to initialize it manually from the contact menu and IIRC it's not available on desktop - you won't initialize it from PC nor it will be synchron
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by pndy 3y ago
This reminds me of ByzantineOS [1] - a small linux distro based on LFS released in 2003 that was using Mozilla browser as the interface. [1] https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=byzantineos
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by pndy 3y ago
> Really curious about `fb.me` now. I wonder why theres SKorean Naver in the string
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A Pig Butchering Scam (Jim Browning's Tech Support Scams) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by pndy 3y ago|0 comments

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