m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Actually you don't need any third-party tools to remove Edge, there is this nice new WinGet utility which can uninstall Edge, WebView2 and EdgeUpdater. You can clean up the rest with the usual PowerShell Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage.
But is it really that bad if all you want is to replace it with spyware from a different malicious company that functionally is exactly the same? 🤪

Megane-neko 😹

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Not Compaq/HP only! Intel got ARM IP from Digital, but they've failed to do anything good with it and sold off Xscale later. It was kind of ironic when they failed to come up with something suitable for smartphones when this market started growing rapidly. I think even Samsung got some part of Digital.
@dj

@dj I'm not sure about open source, but OSF1/DUNIX/Tru64 definitely never was free software. That's not the point, DEC was still a nice company though that did a lot of things right. I wish it was still around @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org

@james@mstdn.starnix.network
> Firefox 88 since I don't like the new UI
It's this Proton/Photon/whatever-they-call-it, is it?
I kind of liked some elements of it like the menus, but some are disgusting. Use userChrome.css hacks like these: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/
It was a couple of hours worth of fawckage to figure out what works best for me, but now it looks nice. Esp. the colored toolbar and menu icons. I don't know why everyone makes them monochrome nowadays, colored icons make the menus so easy to navigate.

@roboneko Oh, yes you're right! My train of though got derailed writing that. I thought I've deleted the tube question, turns out I didn't 😅
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @murks

Но перед этим всё равно сжигать, чтобы не есть их сырыми? 🤔

@murks Like vacuum tube based?
I always wondered if any physical object can be considered truly digital. We can't have ones and zeroes in real world, we just consider e.g. voltage above certain level one and below that a zero, but it's not really discrete, there is noise, it fluctuates, we just don't care about that. That is why we have to use certain techniques like checksumming to make sure the information was transfered correctly from physical media.
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Just can't throw these away. Being a big fan of DEC they still make me warm and fuzzy inside.
I should also have some hardware lying around somewhere: a tape drive, optical one, maybe a few wired network cards, not a working Alpha though 😢

@murks @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Do you have proper hardware for that? 😄

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Windows? No!

Okay, I'm just showing off 😅
Fedi crowd might actually find these artifacts from a long-lost more advanced civilization cool.

@meeper Devs are always like that! You can fix it with proper leadership, but not always. Go is better at it, but they also do a lot of stuff that makes you ask "Why did they do it and why this way?!" 😅@a1ba @lanodan

@lanodan @a1ba @meeper
>creates things like warnings, expecting to check the documentation is a mess
Yes, this would definitely be better. Not that long ago I was updating a script written for 3.5 to 3.7 or something like that. Most changes were so minor that you could fix it with a few sed runs, but I'd appreciate if they had a standard tool to facilitate that. They've had 2to3 after all, why not for different 3.x versions.

@lanodan @a1ba I see. You're right it may feel this way because breakages never happen.
I still don't think it's anything like C, but nothing close to what happens to Python either — adding strong typing, changing the way modules are handled, etc.
I get why this happens, they try to use python for everything: web, big data processing, etc. And every crowd brings something new to the table. I don't like it either.

@lanodan @a1ba @meeper They do it. If you take a look at std library reference you'll find a lot of deprecation notes. They are just not too prudent at it I suppose 🤷🏿‍♀️

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Apparently because rebuilding world in Gentoo takes a split second on supercomputer — so no fun there. And if so why bother with anything else? 😂

@lanodan That's because Perl 6 never saw wide adoption and Perl 5 was dormant for what, 15 years already?
I think most modern distros and OSes still come with it because everyone is lazy to rewrite the perl parts. If Git itself wasn't disgusting I'd find it disgusting that it uses Perl 😅
Python on the other hand is finding more and more uses. That is why it's so fscked up. I like some changes e.g. they've made async part of the language, but yeah, a lot of stuff that gets added is cursed.
@a1ba