FdbkHb

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by FdbkHb 2y ago
> This is already included in the "almost anything" expression and you are the 4th person deliberately (or accidentally?) not noticing it. I genuinely think that : 1/ this field is dominated by a disproportionate amount of
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
GIMP. But it doesn't take many later versions of Photoshop to start becoming more productive than using GIMP because of functionality it has that GIMP does not: Adjustment layers were introduced in 4.0 (1996, GIMP didn't even exis
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
Debian maintainers are experts at touching things they shouldn't and creating a mess in the process. The worst case, by far, was when they broke the RNG of SSH key generation: https://jblevins.org/log/ssh-vulnkey#:
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
Or Topologilinux: https://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
> * Seamless internationalization. If you're a native English speaker you probably never experienced the "fun" of dealing with French and Russian in the same text document. Pre-Unicode supported English + one other languag
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
>If your device is associated with the "Find my Mac" "Find my iPhone" I said "if your device". **IF** Is it difficult to understand? If it isn't associated (with "find my" turned on) there&#x2
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
If your device is associated with the "Find my Mac" "Find my iPhone" stuff, losing your Apple ID is the same as possibly (only possibly because you can still have user accounts with separate passwords and use the OS, but
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
> With barely any setup, Google/Microsoft/Apple will keep a backup copy, in case you lose your phone. Not Microsoft. Their implementation has no synchronisation feature and provides no way to back it up or transfer to another d
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
You forgot people summoning demons through Dungeons&Dragons. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Occult_dnd.pn...
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
> Google "expulsion of the Jews from" Hatred of a people based solely on religion while despicable has a different nature from racial hatred. If you had googled "expulsion of jews from" you would notice there were man
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
It's google, so probably not. Their claims should always be taken with a grain of salt. They went with their own stuff route for the SOC on their Google Pixel phone lines and those SOC are always much worse than the competition and are
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
Stackoverflow's architecture, while more than just one server, is very much in the spirit of this and I'd say they're a highly successful high traffic website. https://stackexchange.com/performance 9 IIS web
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
Brutalism is about the expression of form follows function. A brutalist building is grey not because people love grey but because that's the color of naked concrete and painting over would be considered adding needless form. Now, a col
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
>So what's the point? The point is if it breaks after an update you have to get into windows safe mode to unbreak your system if ExplorerPatcher causes an explorer crash loop (which it did in the past after windows updates ran). Eve
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
The opus issue is truly unforgivable. The only way to reasonably browse folders that contain opus files for me has been to change the view to a list type, without any metadata detail, then go to the options in explorer to apply that view to
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
> Maybe I'm too old, but since when is simply using another software as opposed to built-ins considered modding? Most of these seem like replacements to me. ExplorerPatcher /is/ modding. It's not killing explorer.exe
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
> At the time Microsoft spent a ton of money in usability research, that no free environment could afford It was a combined effort with IBM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access Note that even the ob
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
Oh, yes, gimp, the software that is still going "we'll have non-destructive editing.. maybe.. soon.. probably" when its first elements were introduced in Photoshop in the mid 90s. The. Mid. 90s. It's such a productivity
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
The other parts aren't much better either. Calc is unbearably slow on large spreadsheets. It's always been a janky and stuttery experience and the massive improvements in computer performance (CPU, SSD etc) have never managed to b
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
> Very hard for me to understand why, in a world of Google docs, anyone would want to deal with the bloated mess that is ms office. I see you have never opened a large spreadsheet in competing software or you wouldn't call MS Office
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
The sinking of the USS Liberty is the most notable of those events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident > The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, a
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by FdbkHb 2y ago
> And there wasn't really anyone to say "nope, it's fine, fuck off" That's because for people for whom the project is doing fine and they haven't experienced any bug, why would they go to the mailing list, f