m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@Synclair Even if we assume that it really uses some clean energy with lesser carbon footprint at night time, I still can't imagine any reasonable use case for this feature: you plug your phone into a wall charger, but you do not want it to charge the battery… But you still want to keep it plugged… Why?! 🤪

@s0 First I was like "yeah, that's cool", but then… directional HDMI cables 😱

@s0 Wow! 😲
Is aluminium even a good material for speaker case? I was always pretty confident they use wood because it's supposed to act as a sort of resonator, at least for speakers that have bass reflex design 🤔

@s0
You sure do! I still have a bunch of old Macs with that 😁
It was great for its time, but the DMA thing was always a double-edged sword: it was a lifesaver as you could connect devices like sound cards to laptops — CPUs weren't that powerful so USB was a bad option, but it was also a security breach.
Now it's obsoleted by Thunderbolt which is basically PCI Express and they've probably made it negotiable between devices, I wonder how it actually works though 🤔
@futzle

@thor Same here, I don't get the natural language processing hype at all! Computers act in precise and hard-coded ways so the interface to interact with them should match it — like pressing different buttons. They are not as flexible as human beings (and they'd better stay this way) so interacting with them the same way as you would with a human being is the worst of both worlds 🤷
Having it as an accessibility feature or using it for devices like smartwatches is cool though!

@s0
I know, that wasn't the point, but FireWire is a security nightmare of its own — it has DMA 😅
@futzle

@annika Conversations like that started happening to me a lot more often recently. This and "oh, look this (thing that you hated when it was popular) was so much cooler than (more current thing that you hate too), right?" 😅

@thendrix
Gives you warm an FUZZY feeling and looks cool on photos, what can go wrong? 🤭
@vaartis

@Gina OMG, so that is why my mom was complaining that her calls to colleagues don't come through. She was confident that something is wrong with her connection, it's your post that made me look up some news about WhatsApp being down. Da-a-amn, what kind of info bubble I must be living in 🤣

@thor
Although it looks like nowadays it's just building something upon huge building blocks developed by someone else — I bet it's pretty boring too 😩

@thor
> LOB software or web services
IMO the most boring useless stuff you can imagine. Most software development jobs I've had were either about low-level system software or dealing with huge data sets in near-realtime so it had interesting tasks too. And even with that I was constantly questioning myself: is what I do pointless? Honestly, I don't know how the ones who do web development or business software cope with their lives.
Even big data and machine learning don't sound that bad 🤷

@itzzenxx Oh, don't! Although that system is perfectly functional, it's not my daily driver. It was all staged for joke's sake, I'm not even that much of a Windows guy 😅
TBH finding a Mastodon instance that is displayed correctly in a browser supported by Windows 2000 was a real challenge! Firefox dropped support for Win2k long ago, last version doesn't support modern encryption algos and has outdated certs. This is K-meleon that uses backported engine from Palemoon, it works surprisingly well!

@RL_Dane iLife was free I think. And it came with a trial version of iWork. You could upgrade it to full when Mac App Store was introduced as it couldn't tell those apart 🤭
Tiger looked super-cool! Today the stripes look old fashioned, but 10.5 felt wrong without them. TBH I think they didn't look that prominent on real screens as they do now on screenshots, the fact that default screen gamma was changed from 1.8 to 2.2 to match Windows in Mac OS X 10.5 might have contributed to that 🤔

@aetios Let's not forget this battery case with "nice" bump. And what's really strange is that all three of these abominations happened to be introduced about the same time:
— When do we introduce all the poor design decisions?
— Okay, now is the time! 🤣

@thor Nah, we have to go back even earlier! To the time when it was altavista.digital.com 🧓

@markusl
Sorting images does work better with GUI though. It might get too complex to implement the criteria to tell apart the ones you need from the ones you don't in a shell script 😅
Good thing even something minimal like feh does this job just fine!
@fcktheworld587 @AstridSawatzky @fribbledom

@iska@mk.starnix.network Are these artwork for some cat-themed game you're developing or just random AI-generated images? 😸

@encelado This looks a lot like good old WindowMaker. I know that Motif and GNUstep are different, but still somewhat similar. I was using WindowMaker longer than any other WM and this certainly does bring back memories!

@RL_Dane TBH I didn't like it when these were arc shaped — grapes of wrath as I called them 🤭
I did like it 10.4-style when you got just a list of what's inside the folder when you long-clicked the folder in the Dock and I did like it more when they've made it just a rectangle, probably in 10.6 or 10.7

@lrhodes When I read Christo Grozev's tweet about this team I didn't realize they are not the team that developed the navigation software for the cruise missiles. I didn't get why there were so many comments that these men and women should be assassinated by Ukraine. Now I see how wrong I was, it's not about the software, they were responsible for the actual flight paths on the day when so many civilian casualties happened — this of course makes them guilty 😡