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- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 2 days ago:
Joke’s on you, Microsoft.
First of all, I already have Game Pass, so you don’t get any new sales.
Second, if I open the settings app in Windows 11, it just straight up crashes. (Can access the other tabs, e.g. through desktop customisation. But if I go to the front page, it crashes.)It was broken by the update that supposedly added some other ads. But I’ve not seen them! I had to disable the “recommendations” in start menu because it made the start menu not work at all (due to the aforementioned crash, same deal).
This actually really sucks, though. Windows Store apps do not update themselves, Xbox services stopped working (due to being unable to update WS games), and I don’t know if Windows Update works or not. I guess I need to reinstall when I get arsed to.
- They were first recorded in the dawn of history. They are well recorded in the modern days. And mark my words: they shall outlive us.lemmy.world ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on Tacos. 1 month ago:
You’ve not understood to Existence until you’ve gone “oh good. foo-ood.”
Source: Been a student, subsidised, unsubsidised, employed also, then left alone too. Unemployed, Also an intern, and not as much.
Foo-ooood is goo-ood. Just grab it. If you can. Tacos are better than death.
- Comment on Anyone remember Rad Mobile the first Sonic The Hedgehog game? 1 month ago:
I remember seeing this in an amusement park arcade!
I was a giant Nintendo fan and my sister was a Sega fan. She was like “oh, wow, look, Sonic!” and I was like “why did they hang him?” …and that was last time this game was discussed in the household.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 1 month ago:
It wasn’t really Microsoft that killed Nokia’s cell phone division, but gave it the final blow that made the house of cards fall.
Nokia was basically getting super arrogant. “Oh, trust us, we’re the #1 phone manufacturer on the planet. We know what’s best for the market”. They got caught completely pants down when iPhone came out. Despite the fact that they had already made successful smartphones (Nokia Communicator line). Despite the fact that there was this one small Finnish company that had made a touchscreen based phone and Nokia just laughed them off when they offered to help.
Every move Nokia made after iPhone was basically playing catch-up with some really strange decisions.
I believe that Nokia could have salvaged themselves if, instead of going with Windows Phone, they had just announced they’ll be Yet Another Android Manufacturer. But Nokia had to be special about it. They had invested in Ovi (app store) and Here (map service) and they just had to be special. (And even more ironic is that HMD Global is doing just fine as a maker of Nokia-branded Android phones these days.)
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 month ago:
I really need to go through my old files and find The Screenshot from around 1999-2000. Basically, I searched for something in AltaVista and got back a page that was super chock full of ads and “portal crud”. …and a tiny little text that you really had to squint for, somewhere in the middle, that said there were no search results, actually. I got the strong impression that this search engine was fucked.
Sometimes Google’s results are kind of starting to look like the same, except the crud is in the actual results. Which is something Google could do something about. I mean, they used to care about SEO spam.
- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 1 month ago:
Proto-Italic? Well that’s just someone’s amateurish, slanted opinion.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 months ago:
Can we just say that Cybertruck is basically a sum of everything wrong with right wing wackos?
“Look at me, I’m a badass, driving around in a badass vehicle, unlike you filthy libruls. … Aww shucks! There’s road salt! And my accelerator pedal just fell off wtf. …OH NO! A LITTLE WATER TOO! Anything but that!”
- Comment on Strange goblin creature 2 months ago:
Ugly giant bags of mostly water?
- Comment on One of my recent retro game moments 2 months ago:
This actually gave me a pause. I guess a lot of marketing bullshit is actually about turning people into warring tribes. “This thing is trying to market X? Well damn you, I like Y! That is the best! Everyone, get Y!” …actually explains a lot about the perennial Console Wars: the companies like it as long as someone is winning. (…Jim Steph Sterling really was right, following game business for a moment is an easy way to become a critic of capitalism)
- Comment on One of my recent retro game moments 2 months ago:
I actually really like the C64 keyboards - not perfect by any means, but they are some of the best keyboards in the 8-bit computers, really.
Fun thing, I wrote one NaNoWriMo novel on a C64, so I don’t think the typing comfort is too much of an issue. Though for that experiment I actually used my C64C, because the low-profile case makes things a tiny bit more ergonomic. (I don’t use it that C64 specimen much for other purposes, because it has a busted/temperamental SID. The one in the picture is my C64G, which is one of the last models produced, basically C64C guts in a breadbin-style case.)
- Submitted 2 months ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on turtles 2 months ago:
One of the most tragicomical science notes I’ve ever read comes from Gilbert White:
We put Timothy into a tub of water, & found that he sunk gradually, & walked on the bottom of the tub: he seemed quite out of his element, & was much dismayed. This species seems not at all amphibious.
Timothy was luckily fine afterwards! This watery misadventure got retaliated in the most turtle-rific manner imaginable: Timothy was determined to, and succeeded in, outliving White. In fact, memory and legacy of Timothy is even more alive now - everyone can go look at the 3D scan of Timothy’s shell on the internet. Did Gilbert White’s works get 3D scanned? No, only 2D scanned. So old-fashioned.
(Also kind of tragic that Timothy was only found to be female after she died. And some time later, another tortoise was named Timothy after her, and it later turned out she was female too. Something tells me humanity is never going to completely figure out this whole sex/gender thing.)
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- Comment on Ah, the Nordic spring. 2 months ago:
I’m from Finland. I don’t smoke and I don’t do patio stuff. But yeah, almost time to go into the Spring Mode.
[Fires up a little fan]
[Cracks open a can from an unrefrigerated pallet]
WEEKEND, FOLKS
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 2 months ago:
converting an autotools build recipe
Oh yes!
to a bare makefile
Oh no!
- Comment on Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. 2 months ago:
Yup. Got also added to the Jargon File, which was an influential collection of hacker slang.
If there’s one thing that Elon is really good at, it’s taking obscure beloved nerd tidbits and then pigeon-shitting all over them.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 2 months ago:
I can confidently say that CSV support is one of those problems that even the brightest computer scientists will be pondering for the decades to come.
Supporting CSVs sounds like an easy problem, but it’s not. It’s like a whole different complexity type. Time complexity, space complexity, and now, the dreaded subclass between spec complexity and organisational complexity.
You can’t just make the users agree which delimiter to use and how quotes are supposed to work. That’s nearly impossible. No no no.
- Comment on I just want my nuggies 3 months ago:
Over here, the only thing that has “resealable” plastic bags is… candy.
You know what they say - candy famously becomes completely inedible if you keep the bag open even one second too long.
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 3 months ago:
Aside of kilometers there used to be “myriameter” (a myriad meters = 10,000 m = 10 km).
Fun thing, in Sweden they use mil for 10 km. In Finland there’s peninkulma for 10 km, but it’s very archaic.
- Comment on Someone help me make a 'transition metals' joke here... 3 months ago:
No, there are more elements. But there are only two elements there is an infinite supply of in the universe, Hydrogen and Stupidity, and we’re not sure about Hydrogen. /forgot whose joke this was