toddestan
@toddestan@lemm.ee
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 1 day ago:
When it comes to the UI, I guess it depends on what you’re used to. The LibreOffice UI is a lot more similar to the UI used by MS Office 2003, so I’ve always been pretty comfortable with it. But Microsoft’s “ribbon” UI which debuted back in 2007 is now old enough to vote, so I can see how there are people out there where that’s all they’ve ever used.
Personally, while I’ve learned to deal with it in Word and Outlook, even after all of these years the ribbon pisses me off every time I have to use Excel.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 2 weeks ago:
I get the impression in the Star Wars universe that technological advances have slowed to a near halt. All of the tech is really old, and very little has changed for quite some time. A brand new X-wing or lightsaber or landspeeder isn’t all that different from one that was built 50 or even 100s of years ago. That’s one of the reasons why stuff in Star Wars looks so used - as tech doesn’t go obsolete, stuff ends up staying in service until it’s completely worn out and every bit of life has been squeezed from it.
That’s why you don’t really see where the technology comes from - the big innovators, discoveries, etc. are long in the past. Though we do get to occasionally see factories and manufacturing facilities where things are being built.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel any better, from a quick scan through some of the images the vast majority of them at least seem depict the characters as older and grown up.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 5 weeks ago:
Well, at least it’s 1920x1200. The old 10" netbooks mostly had 1024x600 which was terrible even by standards from 15 years ago.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 months ago:
Does Encarta count as owning an encyclopedia?
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
With the N64, it helps if you can hook it up to a TV from around that era too. Games like Goldeneye look terrible on a modern LCD. I had that experience myself - “Man, I know I’m used to modern games now, but I don’t remember these games looking this shitty”. Then I dragged out my old CRT and hooked it up, and instantly it was “Now this is how I remember these games looking like”.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 2 months ago:
At best, I’ve seen a small discount and whatever is traded in is junked to keep it off the second-hand market.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 3 months ago:
While we’re at it, let’s also vent about cars and trucks with loud modified exhausts.
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 3 months ago:
Rock n’ Roll Racing.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 3 months ago:
Generally, Google shows the appropriate name based upon where you are located. So for everyone outside of 'murica, it’s still the Gulf of Mexico.
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 5 months ago:
That’s why I would say that cell phones are fine. It’s when they turned into smartphones where I would draw the line. I just get the feeling that we’d be a lot better off if mobile phone tech never advanced much further than the mid-2000’s flip phone.
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 7 months ago:
Along the same lines,
slackware.org today:
slackware.org in 2001:
- Comment on The 1900s 7 months ago:
I have a Jansport that’s about that old from the college days. It’s held up pretty well I must say. No idea about newer ones.
When I was in college, I would have thought it crazy to be using a backpack older than I was.
- Comment on If Biden wanted to could he have people kill Trump since he is in office and SCOTUS said it was ok? 8 months ago:
That’s assuming if Biden was to issue such an order as things stand right now.
If Biden really wanted to abuse his newfound powers of immunity, his very first official act would be making sure the supreme court won’t be standing in his way for any subsequent official acts.
- Comment on Jazz hands 8 months ago:
Right. If you were to attempt something like this, you’d be better off with something like a chunk of granite than plutonium.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 8 months ago:
What they are doing is comparing your answer and seeing if it is consistent with how it has been answered previously. They realize that not everyone is going to give the exact same answer, so as long as you answer it in a way that enough other people have answered it, it should let you in.
I’ll usually go with the minimum number of clicks that I think will get me through, since I’m lazy and it’ll also at times slow down how fast you can click which is annoying.
I’ll also answer them wrong if I think it’s a mistake that enough other people will make. “Yes… that RV over there is a bus…”