trinix912

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by trinix912 17d ago
Nvidia drivers crashed Windows 7 for me multiple times and so did virtualization software (VMware in particular). I had Windows 10 crash a few times when I last touched it doing really nothing special. I'm not using any ancient softwar
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by trinix912 17d ago
I honestly don't get this, what have we gotten since that's a considerable UI improvement? Bigger paddings? Flat UI? IIRC you can even configure custom colors, have dark mode, etc. It might look dated with the gray color scheme bu
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by trinix912 18d ago
No internal customs, easy trade and travel between the multiple relatively small countries, and a very stable common monetary unit, are "nothing to show for"?? If you had lived in an EU country that wasn't in the EU 20-30 yea
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by trinix912 23d ago
Might it just be that people are buying from Temu because stuff at the mall is 10x as expensive and doesn’t even last all that longer nowadays? People can’t afford to pay 40€ for a T shirt.
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by trinix912 23d ago
Then the bigger member states will say that they’re contributing so much more but get very little voting power etc. It’s not an easy problem to solve, hence the current indirect system.
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by trinix912 23d ago
We had a federation around here called Yugoslavia and we saw how it played out. Forcing different nations to agree on everything down to things that are basically cultural preferences never worked well. Regulations, bureaucracy and laws are
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by trinix912 23d ago
It’s unlikely because smaller member states wouldn’t want that as they’d be outvoted by bigger members and thus forced to implement laws that might not even make sense in those (smaller) countries.
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by trinix912 23d ago
To be fair, it was mostly outsourced to China, at least in Slovenia with our electronics development and manufacturing (Iskra and Gorenje). US stuff has also always been more expensive in every category except software.
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by trinix912 23d ago
Standardized costs would just hurt the poorer members more. You’re underestimating the economical difference between EU member states. It’s more like if Californian businesses had to compete with Mexican in a single market, and Mexicans wou
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by trinix912 23d ago
Right, so tell me where in Europe can I buy replacement parts for random electronics when I need them? Often very specific ICs, last time it was a cassette deck pinch roller, etc. Preferably somewhere where it’s cheaper than the value of th
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by trinix912 1mo ago
The sad part is that we actually used to have better desktop RAD tooling than we do now. I’m thinking about Borland Delphi, C++ Builder, etc., it was pretty easy to make a decent desktop app.
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by trinix912 1mo ago
Which will only support up to around 16-32GB anyways and most likely won’t be supported by Windows 11. You’re not really better off that way and I’m saying this as someone with a DDR3 setup in my closet and a ton of DDR/DDR2/DDR3
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by trinix912 1mo ago
It physically will not fit a modern motherboard.
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by trinix912 1mo ago
Have you never used fully native software? All UI code is in the system DLLs that are already loaded with the OS so you can have a nice GUI program with no fuss and no extra memory requirements besides the little code your app requires. See
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by trinix912 1mo ago
Which, in a way, is still a lot. I personally wouldn’t expect a weather app, no matter how fancy, to use more than 50MB, and that should be more than enough. One can get pretty far with just native UI controls, even eye candy wise.
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by trinix912 1mo ago
I’m in Central Europe too and most cars are manuals. Must be just your neck of the woods. But I agree it’s a pointless debacle.
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by trinix912 2mo ago
If they feel the need to polish their texts with LLMs because they’re not comfortable with English, how would they tell the output is bad? I can tell you first hand it’s sometimes hard to figure out what is LLM writing and what isn’t, Engli
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by trinix912 2mo ago
I could pick the LW up at night in my car from Slovenia!
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by trinix912 2mo ago
As a Slovenian I’m always impressed when tourists take the train and make it through the country without huge delays or replacement bus service. The trains here are just awful, the main line (Koper-Ljubljana-Maribor) is the worst. Lots of c
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by trinix912 2mo ago
...and disable swap.
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by trinix912 2mo ago
There are some German cities (Munich) where you can’t enter the city center with a diesel car that doesn’t meet the EURO 4 standards. EURO 4 is a low bar but there’s really nothing stopping them from eventually implementing it more widely a
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by trinix912 2mo ago
Seatbelts are actually heavily enforced around the EU, most people would rather just belt up than pay the fine.
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by trinix912 2mo ago
It won’t be long until someone finds a way to flash the firmware or install a bootleg sensor or something else. You can already get a lot “chipped” on VAG and BMW cars.
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by trinix912 2mo ago
That camera isn’t on all the time scanning your face. God knows what sort of sketchy implementations car companies will come up with.
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by trinix912 2mo ago
Not really, it will still be fully road legal, at least in my EU member state.
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by trinix912 2mo ago
You are kind of expected to adjust yourself to the culture of the country you’re immigrating to. If you fail (or refuse) to do so in the most obvious/visible ways possible (like clothing), I think you shouldn’t be surprised when people
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by trinix912 2mo ago
Depending on the country in question, SWE jobs might be quite scarce, so companies can afford to be picky about the candidates. You have outliers in both ways (companies that don’t care and companies that will ask you about your uni grades)
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by trinix912 3mo ago
I agree. I find it tacky when people buy old BMWs and Mercedeses just to throw the original (often mint condition) radio unit out and put in a cheap carplay display. Like you have this 30 year old car with a pristine wooden trim where all c
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by trinix912 3mo ago
Right, until you have to use a mobile app to pay for parking or validate your bus/train ticket and so on. Yeah, "I can use my physical card", for now. Long-term we need a better solution than keeping an extra up-to-date phone
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by trinix912 3mo ago
Good for Germans then. Slovenian banks won't let you use physical 2FA authenticators (for personal accounts and maybe even business ones at this point) anymore and will also require you to constantly update their stupid app (I've

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