2021: Linux on the desktop, Free Software 9/11

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FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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SO DEMANDING posted:

honestly that's exactly what I would expect. surface phone running some extra-bastardized version of win10

i thought that was the current winpho iteration (windows 10 but scaled for phones), similar to how ios is just osx but for phones

# ¿ Oct 9, 2017 15:55

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 07:19

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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thread title reminded me of this

# ¿ Oct 9, 2017 20:00

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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but they tried really really hard qirex, and thats whats important!

# ¿ Oct 10, 2017 16:16

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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LastInLine posted:

when anyone normal hears the word "windows" they instantly know its a piece of poo poo

windows is pretty much toxic as a consumer brand and has been ever since the malwarepalooza that was early versions of xp followed by the vista and 8 disasters and the fact that windows is synonymous with work which is synonymous with a creaky black plastic laptop that runs like a three legged dog and doesnt connect to webex half the time and you dont bother to fix it because 1) gently caress webex and 2) you dont want to deal with the weird smelling it guy who wears nothing but my little pony shirts to work and giggles to himself

winpho marketing was also p lol. remember the early campaign that was built around how winpho encouraged you not to use your smartphone and that was a good thing?

# ¿ Oct 11, 2017 06:43

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

z0ratio fartboner

# ¿ Oct 16, 2017 17:48

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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pram posted:

the yospos approved windows laptop sounds like a real piece of poo poo

and then there is the matter of its os (it is a pos)

# ¿ Oct 25, 2017 23:07

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Boiled Water posted:

a teen on my bus said this

did you go back there and correct him, or just continue on driving to the next stop?

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 15:16

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Luigi Thirty posted:

Ah, the good old days

remember when you�d install XP and immediately get Russian spam via net send

that was a fun race for a freshly-imaged machine. will the security patches install before the machine gets port-scanned and pwn3d? place your bets!

# ¿ Nov 16, 2017 00:05

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Last Chance posted:

lol

shoplifter at 2:13 remains the best

# ¿ Nov 25, 2017 07:19

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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cinci zoo sniper posted:

gently caress off, microsoft. why is it so difficult not to set 58 default folders for controlled access, that can't be removed

lol

looks like someone is having an authentically digital day

# ¿ Nov 28, 2017 16:29

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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tabs should be in the center of the document, content should radiate outwards from them

controls should be around the edge

# ¿ Nov 29, 2017 23:44

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Schadenboner posted:

Why would anyone pay money for the data of an Android user?

seems p self evident why detailed information about consumers known to have made bad purchasing and financial information would be valuable

# ¿ Dec 12, 2017 15:34

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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anthonypants posted:

still time to order it before yosmas

but do they have any 4XL left in stock?

# ¿ Dec 13, 2017 05:17

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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syscall girl posted:

don't even try to step to the 104

*steps to the 104*

# ¿ Dec 18, 2017 17:05

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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syscall girl posted:

my win10 wakes itself up to install upgrades and poo poo

it's like having a small child you need to nurse to get it back to sleep except you can through it across the room without any guilt or felonies

your os is a piece of poo poo

# ¿ Dec 18, 2017 18:16

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Sapozhnik posted:

thx microsoft for unleashing a drunken swarm of retarded python programers upon the world

did they close an office in eastern europe or something?

# ¿ Dec 20, 2017 02:42

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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qirex posted:

it's also almost spooky how they almost exactly repeated sony's mistake with the ps3 of trying to create the mythical "home entertainment convergence device" instead of a dedicated game console

how much money has been flushed away over the last 25 years chasing that dream? i can see why companies would want an integrated device that owns the living room, a playstation but for the 100% of homes that watch tv and not just the 10% that play video games and also has a digital store and subscription revenue, but why has every effort to make the ultimate convergence device been such a disaster?

apple came closest - they articulated a "digital hub" strategy based around the mac and when one part of that strategy really took off (the ipod), they junked the digital hub trategy and went all-in on on mobile entertainment and communication devices (and are now closing in on a trillion-dollar valuation)

# ¿ Jan 19, 2018 19:23

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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infernal machines posted:

remember webtv?

thats what i was thinking of when I wrote "25 years"

i also remember the huge push in the late 90s for interactive cable tv set-top boxes to rule everything (which was one of the main alleged drivers of the aol/time warner deal)

oh and the brief window when plugging a cablecard into your pc going to be the next big thing

so much effort and money expended over decades, and customers stayed away in droves every time

# ¿ Jan 19, 2018 19:35

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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my favorite thing about modern cable/dish systems is you pay $140/month for a technology stack that imposes a 1-2 second delay every time you try to change channels

# ¿ Jan 19, 2018 20:04

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Chris Knight posted:

https://twitter.com/ylitvinenko/status/955165515042971653

im the jaz cartridge

# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 21:18

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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needs more syquest carts

# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 22:26

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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you wouldnt download a meme

# ¿ Feb 2, 2018 03:42

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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anthonypants posted:

who in the gently caress wants to read a post by someone who was dumb enough to give paul thurrott money

this but richard kyanka

# ¿ Feb 4, 2018 05:44

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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and THATS why microsoft is cool again

# ¿ Feb 11, 2018 16:33

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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its amazing how msft managed to turn an apple-like plan for controlling the hardware and the software into something even less reliable then a random shitbox dell

# ¿ Feb 16, 2018 16:44

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Dodoman posted:

Vr doom is so bad

mf doom is good

# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 14:54

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:

thank you! is there any difference between that aim controller and the thing sony released for the ps3 where you put those two controllers in the gun shell?

solid pic/avatar synergy

# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 17:58

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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r u ready to WALK posted:

The thing I like the best about the Windows 10 start menu is how often the search indexing breaks and typing to find something in it plain doesn't work.

are you saying you didnt want a bing web search for "notepad"?

# ¿ Mar 11, 2018 18:48

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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cinci zoo sniper posted:

lots of servers never see internet

i am deeply envious of those servers

# ¿ Mar 28, 2018 11:19

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cinci zoo sniper posted:

admins broken forums hard enough that there were ghosted posts maldjusting the post count so that it always seemed there are unread posts. what also was happening was that sometimes the last post wouldnt appear until it no longer was actually the last

also it happened around halloween so ghosts, haunting, etc

# ¿ Apr 8, 2018 15:08

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pram posted:

all windows versions are bad hth

perhaps the same could be said about all operating systems, that they are "pieces of poo poo"

# ¿ Apr 12, 2018 19:13

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qirex posted:

visio is a program clearly designed by people who actually hate their customers

thats actually all software, visio just does a very poor job of hiding it

# ¿ Apr 19, 2018 18:36

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Dongslayer. posted:

i installed windows today

lol u dummy

akadajet posted:

looks like a nice commode

if you place it on an 8x8 lego tile it becomes a commode 64

# ¿ Apr 20, 2018 06:54

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Roosevelt posted:

this guy drives a PT Cruiser

# ¿ May 7, 2018 19:26

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qirex posted:

that's some uncut high quality android right there

imagine the meeting where they had to tell upper management about this

upper management was all "were still on track to ship by end of quarter and get our milestone bonuses right? right?!?"

# ¿ May 16, 2018 17:40

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:

surely a far more important bug for you is that the new version of edge has broken your avatar:

even worse than that - all the text and boxes are now rendering in some disgusting sickly piss-amber color

eeuuugh :barf:

# ¿ May 23, 2018 20:12

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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wandows

# ¿ Jun 25, 2018 03:45

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Boiled Water posted:

it has two ports: usb c and a surface hole

$399 (pen and keyboard not included, $99 each)

wrap it up ipadailures

# ¿ Jul 10, 2018 15:50

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flakeloaf posted:

big
and slow
and bad and clunky
the toy for ipadailures is junky
and when it boots
the bad computer goes

*47 second delay, followed by a stuttering, tinny rendition of the windows startup sound*

excellent, currently my second favorite version of the song

(this is my fave, ofc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQis9xkYkg0

# ¿ Jul 10, 2018 20:11

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 07:19

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infernal machines posted:

does bing still give blatant scam ads top placement?

i mostly use bing to search for the chrome downloader on a new wandows install, and it always fills the top of the screen with pleading microsoft ads touting how awesome edge is

in other words, yes

# ¿ Jul 16, 2018 20:02

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