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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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killed by whatever the forums equivalent of an industrial accident is

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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Blue Train posted:

You click the installer, sometimes click some buttons, then it shits files all over your system, installs a helper to sit in your tray that loads at boot, edits your pinned taskbar items to insert the program, and dumps a half-working uninstaller into the start menu, then it's done. It's simple

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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duTrieux. posted:

the problem was that there weren't any apps that people use. which apps fall into that grouping are up for debate. let's not miss the forest for the, um, apps? whatever, fiuccccccccc

don't miss the toilet for the turds

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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it's a good talk but god drat does he come across like he's smarter than anyone who builds things because he can tear them down

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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i think i can get 5 overlay notifications going at once depending on the game

shadowplay
ansel
origin
steam
game bar

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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TjyvTompa posted:

not sure if I should even respond to posts like this but I just wanted to say that there is no connection between me, the software I wrote about, or reddit, that is all in someone elses head

because this attitude worked so well for you last time

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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are they still trying to add fedora? i thought they were going to ship with it too

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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univbee posted:

also good they switched from a vendor with next-business-day on-site warranties to one without

i'm not aware of lenovo's, it certainly doesn't seem like it exists given the process for getting our laptops fixed here

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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pram posted:

ibm owns



they almost broke even!!!

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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onenote's the only thing i miss moving off of windows for work

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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local notebooks still not supported on the mac lol

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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BangersInMyKnickers posted:

why would you not be putting those in onedrive?

not an approved cloud storage provider at work

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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BangersInMyKnickers posted:

hahahahahahahahaha yeah I'm sure Box.net is much better

i'm not the loving cio

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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if you sleep the computer using the button in the start menu it doesn't automatically dismiss the start menu, so the next time you wake and unlock it's still open

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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infernal machines posted:

lol do you have the start screen enabled or some poo poo, because i don't know how else you'd enable this

i am going to take a video for your dense rear end

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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lock doesn't enter s3 sleep last i checked

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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infernal machines posted:

hold on while i janitor my power state

lotta lids to close on this desktop

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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i really don't feel like another game of "infernal machines can't imagine any use cases outside his own narrow experience" sorry

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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infernal machines posted:

well whatever, yeah i guess if you have a severe need to manage the power state of your desktop by hand there are situations where you will see the start menu after logging in. of course if you just locked it and walked away it would sleep on it's own in 15 minutes, but every kilowatt counts when you're posting from antarctica or whatever

congratulations on winning today's edge case jackpot

so

loving

mad

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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*awkwardly holds laptop lid up with one hand while scrawling something unreadable on the screen with the other*

you can't do that with a mac

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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knowing the average windows developer, if the feature is supported at all expect them to poo poo all over their own tab and probably to attempt to poo poo on other tabs as well

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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just give yourself a second job administering your home pc like an enterprise network, duh

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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what...what does he do in the shell all day that this would be an improvement

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

somebody buy this man an account

so i think the answer to my question is "look busy"

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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uncurable mlady posted:

the logo on that dudes website is something

quote:

By day, I’m a SR. Systems Engineer for a global media business headquartered in Southern California, serving on the front lines of Information Technology in 2017. My career, like a lot of IT Pros, started on the help desk way back in 1999.

By night, I’m an amateur developer, tinkerer and homelab enthusiast with a focus on pushing myself forward in an industry that’s shifting dramatically.

I hold a Master’s Degree in Public Policy, and BA in History. I’m a licensed Amateur Radio operator, a cycling enthusiast and a voracious reader.

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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anthonypants posted:

don't the ps4 and xbone still ship with wired controllers in the box

no, it’s just that wireless controllers became rechargeable and gained the ability to charge off their console

i think at least the ds4 does communicate using the wire but it’s optional, they’re all wireless

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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PleasureKevin posted:

wouldn't it be great if the CIA didn't create al qaeda, or wasn't assisting ISIS and instead we could settle this in a game of Quake 3

i remember reading a book as a kid where the main plot was a kid gets elected president and instead of going to war challenges this other country's dictator to a video game

the 90s were wild

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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we missed this back in november, but someone in games bought $160 worth of doritos in order to get an xbox one x

ethanol posted:

anybody here who ever loving doubts my committment to xbox, the greatest, the world's most powerful cosnole



this is what's happening/happened

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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you, simpering moron:


me, glistening genius, in your mentions: did you try holding down the power button?

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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every time i switch my monitors over to their other input, windows on my desktop decides to pack every open window into the top left 1/4th and resize it to fit. thanks ms!

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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the amount of built-in advertising for edge when you go to change the default is mega lol. just borderline begging you not to switch.

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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anthonypants posted:

the xbonex has a non-replaceable 1TB drive, and iirc ~20% of it is used out of the box

moreover, all the 4k patches for their leading games basically doubled the size of the game, negating any benefit in upgrading from a 500GB xbox

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Jul 10, 2010

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Phoenixan posted:

put the taskbar on the top and now you have tabs within tabs

interlinked

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Jul 10, 2010

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r u ready to WALK posted:

Still better than the default theme and start menu in Windows 10

https://i.imgur.com/JGNBuH0.mp4

jesus h christ

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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Jul 10, 2010

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Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Lol yeah way better than being able to see literally every single entry at once

it is, actually

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Jul 10, 2010

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r u ready to WALK posted:

OSX/MacOS would unironically be a better experience if you could switch back to the Platinum theme

Just like Windows 10 would be better if you could still switch back to the Classic (95/98/NT4/2000) theme

god yospos is old

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Jul 10, 2010

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anthonypants posted:

here's an el reg article about some patches from yesterday breaking virtual windows servers https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/14/microsoft_secures_the_servers_of_the_world/

our dev system vms got hit lol, apparently 1/4 of the 15000 active vms in the farm

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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weren't they hacked by an assad-supporting group for one of these?

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Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

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CommunistPancake posted:

desktop discord has been running for five days straight for me and is using 151mb of ram and scrolls smoothly. you're holding it wrong.

if you don't have 50 channels all named the same, only some of which are used for anime porn bots, you aren't really using discord

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