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- Comment on The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones—and It’s So Much Worse Than We Thought 3 hours ago:
Yep.
- Comment on The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones—and It’s So Much Worse Than We Thought 3 hours ago:
Before they were in best buy, people just printed their own. So you could make one, lots of plans online.
The world record for fastest drone just got broken yesterday, and it was a fully 3d printed drone.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 6 days ago:
Are the vertical tabs better than Vivaldi? If tabs are the metric, Vivaldi is better.
My primary is Firefox because fuck chrome, but if I had to compare Edge to other chromium implementations I would go with Vivaldi.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Cool. Still don’t need office so… Whatever.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 week ago:
Windows XP added so many anti consumer features, along with horrible security, that it really was that bad.
While linux desktop environments added so many usable features that Windows didnt have… I would say that windows people simply didnt know.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 week ago:
Uh, window was always worse. Well since at least windows XP. Linux desktop has been better for a very long time.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 2 weeks ago:
There is no need for a terminal if you don’t want to use it.
On the other hand, the terminal is the single best way to get ideas across so people think they somehow need it.
Even windows is like this: want to fix something? cmd or powershell is the way they are going to avoid having to give you 20 pages of screen shots and condense it into a single line.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 weeks ago:
Alright, I will concede that Opus at 160kbps is really good. I always knew at low bitrates it was better than mp3 but I have not used it in awhile. I store everything in flac.
But if anyone else wants to compare: opus-bitrates.anthum.com lets you compare various bit rates of Opus. I think I hear a high end distortion in 160 that I don’t hear in the 512, but it could be expectation.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 weeks ago:
ogg is better than mp3 at lower bit rates. As they increase in bit rate they become indistinguishable.
That said, this stuff is way too low quality to care about.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I agree. If one is going to do it, local no services required, replaceable. Very much so.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Fanboy? Facts are fanboy now?
I notice people who say “bud” in online discussions are either trolls or assholes. Which one are you? You contribute nothing, hate everything, and use “bud” in a discussion.
Yeah it all fits.
virtual desktops
So Wikipedia work for you?
Prior to Windows 10, Microsoft Windows did not implement virtual desktops natively in a user-accessible way.
Yep.
Powertoys could give you a simulation in XP but it really wasnt user friendly or worked, or even came with the OS.
So quit your bullshit.
And who is the fanboy here?
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
So this
ClipBook Viewer has been removed from Windows Vista and later, although the ability to view clipboard contents has been implemented into the Clipboard History feature, which was introduced in Windows 10 and later.
In Windows XP, it is not listed in the Start menu and can only be accessed through its executable file, ClipBrd.exe
Worth pointing out that there are no viable citations on that page, all I remember is that it kept functioning like a win 3.1 and not integrated as the sentence above suggests.
Also gone all together in 7: learn.microsoft.com/…/access-clipboard-windows-7
And even when the clipbook was there, I would not call it functional by any means.
Yes tabs in Windows 11 filemanager. Still no split screen, but at least you can keep file management in a single window.
Do you just immediately turn off every feature a desktop environment gives you? I have no problem if you simply use Sway or something that lets the DE get out of your way. But if you are going into a discussion about the features of two DE’s and say I never liked having choice, I just turn it all off, whats the point? Seems like a stupid argument to be had.
Stuff linux had that windows didnt for YEARS: Virtual desktops (I am sure you hate those, I have used them since Amiga days), linux technically has two clipboards and ways of selecting paste, windows still cant do single clicking effectively, colors and other file visualization, alt-drag anything, muti taskbars, keyboard tilling managers… and on and on
YOU may not like it, but the fact is windows was featureless compared to Linux.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you should just turn off the computer. It seems to annoy you.
Displeasure? I have to manage windows and azure environments and believe me that is displeasure. At least I get to do it all from a reliable Linux environment.
If you don’t like clipboards than ok, you can turn it off. For those of us the like them, it’s an option windows never had until recently.
Yes shit. No decent file manager. No clip board. No internet protocols built in. No state awarenes and on and on. Win 11 is starting to get there but they are so busy going worse at the same time it’s pointless.
Windows still doesn’t have an nvme driver for goodness sake.
I have described them over and over, but you hate them or something and are annoyed so I guess having options is not for you.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the tip about war hawk debloat. I am about to help a friend go back to win 10 via LTSE and I can use that information!
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Windows did not have a functional clipboard. Go look at all the complaints over the years.
**Windows historically had only a single-item clipboard and no built-in UI/history. **
A separate one shipped with MS Office that let you store something like 12 to 20 items. Why? Because windows sucked and DID NOT HAVE ONE.
Windows itself did not get a built in Win+V searchable/historical clipboard until windows 10.
what? have you heard about 7?
Yes, better than XP, still not good. I am not going to do your homework, but Windows 10 was the first release that really focused on isolation, secrets management, and virtualization of applications for system wide and user protection.
I won’t even comment on the rest, but it’s bullshit
Just as well, you don’t know what you are talking about anyways.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft was amazingly successful at creating a GUI and interface that you could set anyone in front of and they’d be able to figure out basic usage in half an hour with relatively little direction
Huh? Windows is a confusing mess. I don’t think this is true at all. Windows was successful at being in businesses, and the what I learned at work became what I use at home,
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
I need exceptional anti-cheat support
Say what it really is: a root-kit to hand your entire system over to a corporation. That is a line I wouldn’t be willing to cross.
So yeah, the best scenario for you is a dedicated, nothing personal on it, non service connected windows machine for gaming. At least until the quit rooting your computer simply to play a game.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
You need me to spell out what I said? Windows did not have a clipboard. That is it. You could enable one separately for word/excel for awhile.
Otherwise the system got one slot. ONE to hold text. That was it.
I was explaining what I mean. What more could i say?
You are highlighting exactly what I am talking about: Linux has had a ton of features for the desktop for years (better right click context menus, better network protocol support, better nearly everything) but windows people didn’t so they don’t even know why using windows was basically living in the dark ages until Windows 10 started to get some worthwhile features. Windows 11 was the first to actually get a nearly functional file manager for example.
I mean you are thinking QR read/write is not a useful clipboard feature?
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
As always the security is with the user. No clipboard is just unusable.
And we are talking windows here, security was never important apparently until windows 10 anyways.
In fairness X11 was a threat right? That is one of the reasons Wayland broke so much.
As for the clipboard, kde applications can have a setting to say “this is a secret” and you can set to won’t clip. But passwords are so out of favor I am not sure it matters.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Do you not know what a clipboard is? Did you not use linux for years and when you had to deal with the windows desktop it was easily in the top 10 of really annoying things a computer should be able to do?
In windows 10 they finally got a resemblance of clipboard. The bare minimum.
Meanwhile, Linux had a qr reader/writer, full object cut and paste, actions, white-space trimming, history length adjustment, persistence between sessions, blacklisting, clipboard editing, functions, search, sorting, should I keep going?
You can find multiple complaints over the years about how bad windows was at this.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Selectable, historical, you know actually useful.
Windows 10 introduced a half ass attempt that finally worked with all programs and could be considered finctional.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Huh? Linux has had the superior desktop experience for decades.
Windows just recently managed to get the basics like an actual clipboard, tabbed file management.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 2 weeks ago:
No, I get it. I find this crap useless. Failure points for no reason. I can flick a light switch to go into the bathroom. If I wanted more auto then that I would add a motion sensor for middle of the night.
I dont always want the lights dimmed or raised for things like tv, living room, or what ever. I simply change or push the switch. This auto shit drives me nuts. I don’t have some constant robotic schedule, nor do the other people in the house. I am not going to fuck around with setting three things to try and manage that, lol. What a waste of time.
The ev charges whenever it needs to, and frankly I don’t really give a shit when, as long as it is ready to use. The solar system balances all that out anyways.
I don’t commute, there is no drive to work, so that also doesnt matter.
Effort: push a button. I think I can handle that. All of this is always so fucking stupid, because it always, ALWAYS, does something to annoy, when the analog version just works.
None of this makes my life easier, better, comfortable, just dumber and more ways to get annoyed.
Still NO good reason to do this crap.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 2 weeks ago:
Walk into a room and the lights are on, why? Just why?
Every room has a different need depending on what I am doing, so even that makes no sense.
If I had to set a timer to adjust when the house is at various temperature I could, but the savings is negligible, just let it be comfortable all the time. If anything the best addition to the house is solar power instead of trying to squeeze 20 euros a month out of some automation system.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 2 weeks ago:
Ps2. Plenty of games, it’s still the most popular system made.
Add the network adapter and a hard drive and you can use real hardware to play the games, or store your games on the network and skip the hard drive.
Or use a USB if you want. No hard mods required.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 2 weeks ago:
It won’t be accurate, but if you don’t care it is an idea.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 2 weeks ago:
Why would you bother if you can just get the ROMs and skip owning the console?
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 weeks ago:
Why do you care so much about some stupid “awards show”? Fuck that.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know anything about this game.
I also know that game awards are a bunch of bullshit so I don’t give a fuck.
Also, I noticed this game is on my wishlist. Huh.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 3 weeks ago:
My main focus (apart from zero security and horrible multi user) was all the anti consumer additions they put into it.