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My first smart phone was some cheap rear end HTC Android phone that was slow as hell and a nightmare to use. I ended up replacing it pretty quickly for something running Windows Phone I got off ebay and I loved the thing. Barely any apps, but it ran well and I could browse the Internet fine on it so I didn't care. These days I alternate between iPhone and Android for some reason every time I get a new phone.
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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. DLL Hell was a real problem with Windows but seemed to be mostly sorted out by about Win2k. The Visual Basic runtime was particularly bad at this, with poor backwards compatibility so installing a new app, or patching it, would often break old apps.
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Sep 24, 2021 11:11
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The "early" days where you had to grant all permissions on install and not when the app actually needs them were the worst.
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Sep 24, 2021 11:15
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barbecue at the folks posted: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. I think I still have a legit Android 1.0 tablet in a box of junk under the house. One of 500 I purchased to use for safety documentation on a mine site I worked. It was trash back then, and lord knows how terrible it is now.
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Sep 24, 2021 15:22
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Vavrek posted:As someone inexperienced with Python: The closest would be "if x%2==0", even in Python. That said, Python is so full of weird little shortcuts like that, I did have to check then, and check again now, just to make sure.
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Sep 24, 2021 17:16
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Python does have some things like that like "if x is true" but I don't think you can just ask if a number is even.
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Sep 24, 2021 17:35
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In Python, 0 equates to false while any other number is true so you could also do "if x%2:" to return true if something is odd, at least.
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Sep 24, 2021 22:32
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Unperson_47 posted:In Python, 0 equates to false while any other number is true so you could also do "if x%2:" to return true if something is odd, at least. odd, or not an integer
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Sep 24, 2021 23:36
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Gromit posted:The "5 watt...water cooled...argon laser" would have been ours I think but I've got no idea if I was at that one or not. I've no idea if anyone really cares, but I did a bit of searching and it looks like the laser was something like the Coherent Innova 70C-5 Multiline blue/green 5W system (https://content.coherent.com/legacy-assets/pdf/Innova-70C-Data-Sheet.pdf). It was definitely multiline, as we had a beam splitter that could send out separate blue and green lines. I've no idea what "multimode" means, so it could have been that one instead. You'll note from the datasheet that the thing weighed 43kg, with the power supply a further 39kg (83kg and 67kg when in their flight cases!) It was a beast to move around, using 3-phase power and open-loop water-cooling. e: Actually, I think it might have been a Spectra-Physics unit, but the listed stats above sound pretty similar to what I remember. Gromit has a new favorite as of 01:02 on Sep 25, 2021 |
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Sep 25, 2021 00:19
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Cojawfee posted:Python does have some things like that like "if x is true" but I don't think you can just ask if a number is even. This works with None and True and the like because they are singletons (objects that you can't have more than one of): When a is None, that doesn't mean a actually contains a unique thing that's evaluated as None (like NULL in C), it means a points to the one, true, read-only None object. Any and all things that are None are the same None, so to speak.
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Sep 25, 2021 01:03
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Computer viking posted:Any and all things that are None are the same None, so to speak. The dao that is none is not the true dao.
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Sep 25, 2021 01:33
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Weatherman posted:The dao that is none is not the true dao. The logic around comparisons to singletons and logical values really can get a bit ... metaphysical.
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SniperWoreConverse posted: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. I get the feeling they've done this for the cloud and server side of things rather than the desktop side though, as they know that that's where the money is in cloud hosting of services (mostly). Mega Comrade posted:... 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. Flatpak, snaps, containers (various sorts), every language has its own packaging system, etc etc. Failed and obsolete : One packaging system to do everything. Now it feels like I need a packaging and dependency system to manage all the packaging systems. (Although python are working on making their packaging work better with system-provided packages) Absolutely agree on the development side of things (although I develop on and admin Linux desktop and server/VM hosts for people so I'm obviously biased, but almost all compute we run is on Linux servers) and whilst there are a zillion different desktop environments, you can at least mix and match whatever applications from them you want, and customise how everything looks and feels to an outrageous degree. Also obsolete : doing any customisation rather than just using default settings.
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Sep 25, 2021 13:10
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Gaius Marius posted: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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Sep 25, 2021 16:15
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Hmm a honeypot PC on the network... whilst everything else is hidden away on subnets.Smart!
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Sep 25, 2021 16:45
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barbecue at the folks posted: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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Sep 25, 2021 18:41
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I think it's more like in The Walking Dead or whatever when they rub zombie guts all over themselves so the zombies can't smell them.
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Sep 25, 2021 21:33
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GWBBQ posted:I think the Droid 2 convinced as many people to buy iPhones than Apple ads did. I know the Droid X and Nexus 7 did that for me!
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Sep 25, 2021 22:38
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Speaking of mini-discs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsP3Icu7sk
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Mister Kingdom posted:Speaking of mini-discs I wish any portable device I owned had a UI as responsive as that thing seems to be.
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Sep 28, 2021 16:36
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For something from 1999, that thing is snappy as hell.
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Sep 28, 2021 18:43
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That seems like some kind of crazy device from a better, cooler universe that accidentally leaked through.
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Sep 29, 2021 04:11
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Had a fun discussion with my boss about Win11 possibly being an upgrade clustwrfuck with the TPM2 thing they'll require. Remember Vista? Vista, guys... remember?
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FilthyImp posted:Had a fun discussion with my boss about Win11 possibly being an upgrade clustwrfuck with the TPM2 thing they'll require. What about vista? I remember UAC being a bit overzealous, but the OS wasn't as bad as people made it out to be. Do we know if Windows 11 actually requires you to use TPM or just to have the capability? Because for most recent motherboards, it's as simple as turning on a setting in the BIOS and you've got TPM2.0.
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FilthyImp posted:Had a fun discussion with my boss about Win11 possibly being an upgrade clustwrfuck with the TPM2 thing they'll require. I used Vista once (trying to set up a friend's wife's parents' home WLAN after the parents, the wife, and the friend had all failed) and it was genuinely bafflingly bad. I don't even remember what about it was bad, I just remember absolutely hating every second of using it. (I also failed. There was something really fucky going on with the housing corporation -provided ADSL. I phoned a Computer Guy and even he was baffled by the results when he tried to help me trouble-shoot.)
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Cojawfee posted:What about vista? I remember UAC being a bit overzealous, but the OS wasn't as bad as people made it out to be. AFAIK you need TPM2 to install 11. Haven't heard otherwise.
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Vista had a rough launch with driver availability and out of the box UAC was a huge nag, but beyond that it was fine, I used it for a couple of years before 7 launched and had no problems. Microsoft had to bite that bullet and force everyone to the new security/driver model at some point to avoid another XP situation, and Vista was that jumping point. 7 was pretty much Vista again with a fresh coat of paint and calmer UAC settings and people loved it.
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Right now you can force 11 on pretty much any machine and it will work fine. It will tell you that you might not get updates in the future but what exactly that means no one knows.
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a big problem with vista was that it was preloaded onto a lot of machines with half a gig of ram (often even less after the onboard graphics stole some) rather than the 2 that was the real minimum or 4 to make it really happy
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Mister Kingdom posted:Speaking of mini-discs That thing is amazing! EDIT: OK so here we go: In my 'I really don't have a problem but maybe I do' collection of The Matrix pretty much an example of the film on all released formats  (except VCD as my copy was apparently out of stock from the dodgy Thai warehouse that was sending it to me) Humphreys has a new favorite as of 10:49 on Sep 29, 2021 |
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FilthyImp posted:UAC and Signed Driver changes and people realizing the Win 98/XP poo poo they owned probably needed an upgrade. MS deliberately lowered the claimed minimum specs for Vista so that OEMs could dump their stock of lovely underpowered computers. So the kind of people who buy computers at supermarkets would get a single-core Celeron with 512MB and then blame Vista for it being an unusable pile of poo poo.
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Sweevo posted:MS deliberately lowered the claimed minimum specs for Vista so that OEMs could dump their stock of lovely underpowered computers. So the kind of people who buy computers at supermarkets would get a single-core Celeron with 512MB and then blame Vista for it being an unusable pile of poo poo. This, for sure. I was a beta tester for Vista and installed the final on a machine the first day it came out, and other than UAC being irritating(no, I didn’t turn it off), it ran great. I did cherry-pick which components I used for the build(AMD GPU, no Sound Blaster) so drivers wouldn’t be an issue, and used a stout CPU/plenty of RAM, but the negative reputation was highly overrrated, especially after the driver issue was fixed. I even timed some encoding tasks compared to XP on the same machine, and Vista was faster than XP, probably due to better memory management. The only real problem with Vista was a poo poo-ton of companies never released Vista-compatible drivers, especially expensive audio hardware. You could usually force XP drivers to sort of work on Vista, but not audio stuff - the changes to the audio subsystem were insurmountable without new drivers.
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Humphreys posted:In my 'I really don't have a problem but maybe I do' collection of The Matrix pretty much an example of the film on all released formats I don't see the UMD-Video release there (a format that failed pretty hard right?)
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FilthyImp posted:Had a fun discussion with my boss about Win11 possibly being an upgrade clustwrfuck with the TPM2 thing they'll require. I still want to buy one of those original 'Microsoft Surface' coffee tables that ran a special flavour of Vista. I have absolutely no idea what I'd use it for, or where I'd put it in my tiny apartment, but goddammit, I want the stupid computer table and it's not like i have kids to feed
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Humphreys posted:That thing is amazing! Whoever decided to change the artwork for the UHD release is a moron.
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Sweevo posted:MS deliberately lowered the claimed minimum specs for Vista so that OEMs could dump their stock of lovely underpowered computers. So the kind of people who buy computers at supermarkets would get a single-core Celeron with 512MB and then blame Vista for it being an unusable pile of poo poo. If MS themselves lowered the required specs on something they knew wouldn't run well on machines with those specs, then I think it can be argued that that Vista was rightfully blamed for being a piece of poo poo on that hardware.
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ookiimarukochan posted:I don't see the UMD-Video release there (a format that failed pretty hard right?) It's the sideways one on the bottom
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You cannot escape the Mini-Disc! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HCCGYxCjbg
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Last Chance posted:If MS themselves lowered the required specs on something they knew wouldn't run well on machines with those specs, then I think it can be argued that that Vista was rightfully blamed for being a piece of poo poo on that hardware. They handwaved this away by putting "Vista Capable" stickers on the lovely machines with 512MB of RAM and called it a day. Yeah, the computer was capable of running Vista, but it wouldn't be pleasant. And like was said before, it was because OEMs were causing a big stink about needing to offload these machines, and Microsoft needs to keep them happy. I worked in a computer store at the time and a lot of our business was putting more RAM in computers people bought at Best Buy. Vista itself wasn't bad, it was just bad computers and people bitching about new features. As evidenced by the "Windows Mojave" ad campaign where Microsoft showed off their "new" version of windows and people loved it, saying it was much better than Vista. Then Microsoft would say "this actually is Vista." It had some hiccups but it was mostly fine, and an important step on the journey to making a better OS.
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I got Vista free because I was in school at the time, and I put it on a very above spec new build. Worked great and I didn't experience any of the bad stuff that people were saying. Given that 7 was so lauded but wasn't really all that different (aside from being sold on better machines), I guess it goes to show that MS really should have had stricter minimum requirements instead of trying to maximize sales by letting marginal machines scrape in.
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