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Imagined posted:In Windows 10? You just hit the ⊞ Win key and start typing? No mouse required. I don't have a Win key.
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Sep 23, 2021 19:50
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More like a Lose key
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Sep 23, 2021 19:53
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't have a Win key. you can get them dead cheap on SA mart 
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Sep 23, 2021 20:00
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't have a Win key. Ctrl+Esc performs the same function then. 
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Sep 23, 2021 20:01
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Nocheez posted:I regularly remote into, or use directly, win 98 and winXP interfaces. If you say you prefer those, you either have rose-colored glasses or terrible taste. Industrial automation or scientific instruments?
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Sep 23, 2021 20:03
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Wibla posted:Industrial automation or scientific instruments? Industrial automation-ish. Serial ports made with a USB-converter box, that sort of thing.
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Sep 23, 2021 20:08
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Imagined posted:In Windows 10? You just hit the ⊞ Win key and start typing? No mouse required. What the gently caress this poo poo is getting crazy Can you run Linux. Is the Linux desktop finally arrived lmao
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Sep 23, 2021 20:33
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It's true: https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-gets-android-subsystem-in-latest-developer-build/ Unfortunately they're partnering with the lovely Amazon app store instead of the slightly-less-lovely Google Play store, but we'll see.
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Sep 23, 2021 20:40
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Hirayuki posted:That's strange; my Galaxy S9 running stock Android 10 searches my apps, local files, and the Galaxy store, then offers a "Search Google" option at the very bottom. Maybe it's a software difference or a rogue setting somewhere. Same, but that's a Samsung launcher thing - it may well be different elsewhere. 3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't have a Win key. For as much as I like old keyboards, having another dedicated meta key to use for OS-level shortcuts is genuinely useful. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 21:43 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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Sep 23, 2021 21:39
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't have a Win key. Use the 田 key instead, then. It has no function, but it looks extremely similar!
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Sep 23, 2021 21:44
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Computer viking posted:Same, but that's a Samsung launcher thing - it may well be different elsewhere. Thing is, a decent-but-not-great modern keyboard costs like 90€. IBM Model Ms were 2€ at the recycling centre.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:45
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ReidRansom posted:Use the 田 key instead, then. It has no function, but it looks extremely similar! Mongolian uses an alphabet. But I guess all Asians look the same to you.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:50
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Thing is, a decent-but-not-great modern keyboard costs like 90€. IBM Model Ms were 2€ at the recycling centre. If that's still true, you can make a mint flipping those straight to ebay. Wouldn't even need to fix the broken ones, those still go for 50-100 USD.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:54
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Powered Descent posted:If that's still true, you can make a mint flipping those straight to ebay. Wouldn't even need to fix the broken ones, those still go for 50-100 USD. The thought of letting an American get their hands on anything valuable makes me disgusted.
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Sep 23, 2021 22:02
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The trackpad on the laptop for my new job is enormous, and barely works. The settings are a festival of options, but it cannot reliably deliver a goddamn left click. Maybe when the trackpad has grown to take over the entire surface of the machine that will help.
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Sep 23, 2021 22:51
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Is it one of those awful pieces of poo poo with no physical mouse buttons?
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Sep 23, 2021 23:10
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The entire Start Menu concept is absolutely broken and stupid and has been from day one. You don’t open a menu by pushing a button and having it slide out from the button.
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Sep 23, 2021 23:12
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Thing is, a decent-but-not-great modern keyboard costs like 90€. IBM Model Ms were 2€ at the recycling centre. Where are these 2EUR model Ms? I will take as many as you can get
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Sep 23, 2021 23:12
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Mantle posted:Where are these 2EUR model Ms? In my home?
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Sep 23, 2021 23:14
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SniperWoreConverse posted:What the gently caress this poo poo is getting crazy WSL has let you run Linux VMs on Windows 10 for a while, in a way that makes them seem native-ish. Also I've been running Linux desktops since about 1996, so what do you mean finally arrived?  I'm hoping they say that Windows runs Android apps better than Android, in the same way that IBM marketed OS/2 running Windows 3.1 apps better than Windows...
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Sep 23, 2021 23:39
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Dick Trauma posted:The trackpad on the laptop for my new job is enormous, and barely works. The settings are a festival of options, but it cannot reliably deliver a goddamn left click. Maybe when the trackpad has grown to take over the entire surface of the machine that will help. That's a tablet
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Sep 24, 2021 00:15
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Tunicate posted:That's a tablet I've never had a tablet that could left-click on the touch-screen, so he's still probably outta luck. (Actually the Surface Pro 3 might have had a button on the mouse that acted like a left click? God that was a dire machine... you'd think when Microsoft is producing both the hardware and software, they could keep the video drivers from crashing, but evidence suggested otherwise)
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Sep 24, 2021 00:33
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Dick Trauma posted:The trackpad on the laptop for my new job is enormous, and barely works. The settings are a festival of options, but it cannot reliably deliver a goddamn left click. Maybe when the trackpad has grown to take over the entire surface of the machine that will help. I was really sad when my new work laptop only had a trackpad and no nub. Nubs are my favorite and too good for this world. Took way too long to figure out how to right click without tap to click enabled on this trackpad.
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Sweevo posted:Minidisc failed because it was full of DRM bullshit and because it didn't include a way to use them for data. It could have cleaned up in the post-floppy era when CD-R drives were still expensive (and prone to making coasters) and people were trying things like ZIP, Jazz, and LS120 drives to fill the gap. If there had been a standard way of storing a few hundred MB on a minidisc then they could have eaten into the early USB stick market, and been used instead of CDs to play MP3s from. is it weird that I loving love the form factor of MiniDiscs? They're the perfect goddamn size. Kwyndig posted:My first encounter with piracy was a crack disk I got from somewhere to remove the DRM on software I already owned, like the original Wing Commander, such a hassle to dig out the manual every time. Mine was Qcrack, pulled off of a local BBS, which unlocked the entire Id library hidden on the Quake shareware CD SniperWoreConverse posted:What the gently caress this poo poo is getting crazy Yep. Running Windows 11 on my laptop and you can install and run GUI apps with no issues that I've encountered.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Thing is, a decent-but-not-great modern keyboard costs like 90€. IBM Model Ms were 2€ at the recycling centre. Try to remap a key you rarely use. Dunno if it was this thread or some other one I found this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/keyboard-manager Or, maybe you can find some piece of crap keyboard and hammer it into shape. Like those joke keyboards that have only ctrl, c, & v. Rig up a one button keyboard to give you the super key. legooolas posted:WSL has let you run Linux VMs on Windows 10 for a while, in a way that makes them seem native-ish. I remember a lot of "this is the year of the Linux desktop you guys finally micro $haft will get what's coming to them!" And it never happened. Linux never took off as a mainstream thing. It'd be pretty funny if it became mainstream by simply getting eaten by Windows like this. In fact now that I think about it the desktop applications i used to use already have a windows fork, so in a way it's been over. I can't think of any programs that are desktop based.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:is it weird that I loving love the form factor of MiniDiscs? They're the perfect goddamn size. I used to have a LOT of fun with this:  It's where we discovered Sub7.
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Linux is/has been ready, there's just no money in trying to take on Microsoft for that market so (smartly) no one tries.
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:Linux is/has been ready, there's just no money in trying to take on Microsoft for that market so (smartly) no one tries. I wouldn't call 20 ugly as poo poo desktop environments that are constantly varying degrees of broken "ready".
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Sep 24, 2021 03:10
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The life cycle of open source software seems to be that the likelihood of the dev team splitting into competing forks approaches 1 at the same pace as said software's version number, meaning every single thing is doomed to be almost, but not quite done forever. The last time I hosed with trying to have a Linux desktop I would inevitably run into a situation where I had to add some non-standard repo to fulfill some program I found necessary's (usually something proprietary / closed-source) dependencies, which would inevitably lead at some point to having two or more programs that couldn't update because they had dependencies which clashed with each other. Despite Windows' many flaws, I've never been unable to install an update to one program because it's using a slightly different version of a shared library that another program uses.
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Sep 24, 2021 03:57
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chglcu posted:I wouldn't call 20 ugly as poo poo desktop environments that are constantly varying degrees of broken "ready". It's like 90% Gnome and has been for years. Everything else is "I have actively chosen a less common distro/variant, or installed it myself".
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Mine was Qcrack, pulled off of a local BBS, which unlocked the entire Id library hidden on the Quake shareware CD Qcrack was a defining moment of my childhood. So many of the best games, just... all right there
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chglcu posted:I wouldn't call 20 ugly as poo poo desktop environments that are constantly varying degrees of broken "ready". I don't think that's been true for a while. I'd argue there are a few DE now that look better and behave more consistent than windows 10 with its mix of the same settings in new and old modules, various settings hidden in old menus you have have to hunt for etc, windows 10 is a real mess. Microsoft plan on fixing this for Windows 11 however although my concern is they will just drop these additional settings altogether. Imagined posted:The last time I hosed with trying to have a Linux desktop I would inevitably run into a situation where I had to add some non-standard repo to fulfill some program I found necessary's (usually something proprietary / closed-source) dependencies, which would inevitably lead at some point to having two or more programs that couldn't update because they had dependencies which clashed with each other. Despite Windows' many flaws, I've never been unable to install an update to one program because it's using a slightly different version of a shared library that another program uses. This however is very true for most people and the biggest blocker for anyone picking up Linux. Either you stick with something out of the box with the default repos and then it's pretty great, but you tinker even slightly and you need to know what you're doing, there is no middle ground, so it's just not suitable for most people. However the https://flatpak.org/ system might go a long way to solve this, at least with the issue of competing shared libraries. Speaking as a software developer however, I work professionally on Windows and personally on Linux and the latter is miles better for that, having control over your environment reduces so many headaches with conflicting sdks etc. Docker however has come along and reduced this pain somewhat (although it's a bit behind on windows still) Mega Comrade has a new favorite as of 18:34 on Sep 24, 2021 |
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Sep 24, 2021 08:48
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Imagined posted:It's true: https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-gets-android-subsystem-in-latest-developer-build/ Windows 10 is already giving me the creeps with all the hidden communication stuff it does, I can only think win 11 will be worse in this respect.
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absolutely, but it applies to a ton of stuff. I went through my new phone and started denying permissions to apps and it was like 100x "woah oh poo poo bud are u sure it might not work right if you do this!" and tl;dr it in fact works normally. There are an insane poo poo ton of apps that are absolutely irrelevant or don't need the permissions they're "supposed" to have, even after going through during setup and not installing anything beyond absolute bare bones options. There are a TON of apps that try and pull as much info as possible and get access to your mic and all kinds of poo poo. I was shocked that phones even allow you to change permissions at all tbh.
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Sep 24, 2021 09:27
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Install as few apps as possible, use a browser with ad blocking instead if you can.
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And also get a VPN with good filtering of unwanted crap and you're mostly good to go.
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My mother in law is currently falling for some crypto scam where they buy some weird new crypto currency that totally is gonna be the next bitcoin!!! and she bought some for us as an "investement". She wanted us to install the wallet app so we can check our balance and i though "yeah ok i'll have a look at it" and the moment you start it it wants full access to your phone storage, contacts and the ability to make phonecalls. Doesn't explain why it would need any of that, doesn't work if you deny any of it. Guess i'll never get to see my balance!
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Sep 24, 2021 09:59
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Security through obstufication, get your PC botted by every botnet possible so it's impossible to tell what's legitimate traffic
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Something I do know is that on older versions of Android, like 5 or earlier, the "make calls" permission is tied up with the only way to uniquely identify the device for some reason. Or something else insane like that.
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Dabir posted:Something I do know is that on older versions of Android, like 5 or earlier, the "make calls" permission is tied up with the only way to uniquely identify the device for some reason. Or something else insane like that. It's a wonder that Android ever made it out of the dark times. Back then that poo poo was so hideously bad when compared to iOS or Windows Phone.
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