I do admit that I run Win10 IOT in VirtualBox for a few small programs that won’t run under Wine.

I work in an ad agency and I have to use it, too, sometimes. Mainly for Adobe XD and Illustrator. I export their shitty proprietary formats to PDF and SVG, shut down the VM and continue working with native Linux tools.

This guy assassinates.

I like having to put “site:reddit.com” at the end of my search query before I can even begin to scratch the surface of the issue.

kagi.com solved this problem for me.

Ungrouped buttons with titles is very efficient for me, too. I grew up with Windows 95 (that was the default behaviour back then) and my brain can handle this really well. I despise grouped buttons I have to hover over to see the actual windows and the icons only mode makes the clickable area too small and annoying to navigate to.

digikam, it’s a really great alternative to Adobe Lightroom.

But it is kinda funny a propaganda post gets titled “So easily fooled”. How ironic.

I’m currently running Fedora Linux with Firefox and YouTube opened up. The whole system uses ~4GB of memory. That’s totally fine and I couldn’t care less about what Microsoft is doing with their OS.

With that said, I don’t think we’ll see a lot of optimizations in commercial software. Maybe a few here and there, but a lot of developers nowadays don’t even know how to optimize their code. Especially people working in web development or adjacent frameworks. Let’s just throw hundreds of npm packages into one project and bundle them up with webpack, here’s your 12MB JavaScript - take it or leave it. Projects like this aren’t the exception, they are the norm.

Even if the devices that can run that code without running out of memory get more expensive, companies will just pay for those and write them off on the taxes. And if not, more apps will just get pushed into the cloud.

I’m the IT admin, so I can run whatever I want. As long as the work gets done, I could even run TempleOS on my machine. 😀

I stay off the internet more and only try to read terrible news about the world once a week. There’s always a war somewhere on the world that I can’t do anything about, so I don’t have to read about it every day.

I also bought an eBook-Reader without WiFi and I started reading books again.

It’s good.

struthless’ video about suicide was absolutely amazing.

Funfact: The voice actor reacted to this mod. :D

The BIOS on some old Thinkpads has a bird flapping its wings as a mouse cursor.

My 560X from 1998 has one of those BIOSes, too.

Oh, absolutely! I loved Aero on Windows Vista and 7. :)

And no AI features.

Best we can do is Liquid Ass.

Yes! :) I have dualboot with 98SE on this machine (the eGPU is pretty terrible to use on Windows 98).

VFX, not SFX. In our company, the team shoots real-life videos and then puts effects on top. The most recent project I saw was a movie for a manufacturer of paper colors. The artists made a big tower in one of their factories explode into a wave of paint, it looked pretty (but it was only a few seconds long).

All of those screens have a CCFL, it’s basically a miniature version of of those old tube lights. If that one reaches its end of life it gets dim and needs to be replaced.

The A22p also accepts the IPS displays from an A31p. I modded mine with one of those, so now I have a Windows 98 notebook with an especially beautiful display. 🥰

I’m still rocking an A22p! It was my first notebook in 2003. People went mad when I brought it to school because of the 1600x1200 screen. I used its S-Video output so the whole class was able to watch movies on an external CRT TV. :D

There’s even a docking station with eGPU support - before it was cool!

I don’t have it anymore (sadly), but for a while I owned a Hitachi TX200 projector.

All of the fans were standard PC fans and easily replaceable. The polarization filters came on little extra modules, you could take them out, replace them and realign them easily. The service menu had an option to shift the pixels for each individual LCD to counteract for pixel-drift and you were also able to calibrate the colors for multiple zones. It’s a great projector and can run for many years with a few replacement parts.

Sadly, it was only 720p and Hitachi never made a higher-resolution model. :(

That work environment sounds like hell. Literally. If I woke up one day and had to work like this, I would think I never woke up at all and Lucifer finally started torturing me.

AI is ruining my ability to think and sucks the fun out of writing code. I am so happy our boss doesn’t force us to use it.