m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@lanodan @kirby
meson is as good as autotools, except it's python instead of m4. With both I can see why things break and fix it, would that be idiomatic? Not so sure. I don't get why people hate autotools — sure, it's lots of generated boilerplate code, but you can figure out what ti does just by looking at it. Unlike CMake — which is pure evil!

@lanodan @kirby
Meson still sucks though 😂

@cvtsi2sd @guenther @atom
It was in the later stages of XP lifecycle so I doubt anyone was actually installing it, but they did exist and with those, XP looked very similar to the (mock) screenshot in the opening post. This Windows Live suite is the reason for this screenshot to not look that alien to me 😂

@cvtsi2sd @guenther @atom
I can definitely remember this "order prints online", there might've been other "tasks" like that — like I said, I never was an avid Windows user.
There also was this Windows Live Essentials thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Essentials which offered even tighter integration with online services.
XP didn't come preloaded with it, but AFAIR, it was offered via Windows Update among optional updates.

@cvtsi2sd @guenther @atom
Yes, it was definitely possible earlier, but I don't remember Windows older than XP coming preloaded with links to external services. This is what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Explorer#Task_pane
"…a set of "Picture tasks" is shown, offering the options to display these pictures as a slide show, to print them out, or to go online to order prints"

@gray @astrid
Took me time to realise that it's not the original, I didn't know this song 😅
Nice arrangement!

I use "Forget Me Not" extension in Firefox and I otherwise have cookies cleaned up on exit, so I only use private windows for one-off empty sessions and in private mode, I don't use uBO — to avoid figuring out what I have to allow to prevent the page I might need to open one time from breaking.
And I've just tried opening YouTube in private window — not only it shows ads, but it attempt to inject them EVERY FIVE seconds (!!!) 😱
I can't watch videos like this!

@McMongoose @kirby
Remove-AppxPackage is a pretty good one 😉
Followed by DISM /Online /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage is that thing comes preinstalled.

@eric @kirby
If you have to do all this anyway, won't it make more sense to use the system that you have complete control of from the get-go?

@eric @kirby
And it doesn't matter what mode you have to use — you can do it using a system installed to a different volume, essentially what "recovery mode" is, point is — you can't do that on a running system. Same as you can defeat the TPM requirement of Windows 11 really, same as you can uninstall Edge, or disable that new Retract — but won't it defeat the original purpose, isn't the end-user experience ruined this way?

@eric @kirby
Of course having to do it for curl was an artistic exaggeration, but you have to do this to be able to use dynamic libraries from a different directory: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60126159/how-to-set-ld-library-path-dyld-library-path-on-macos
Might be not the thing you do every day, but it's still rather basic stuff.

@GeriAQuin
One of my cats can do fetch and roll over — she brings her toy when you start calling her from far away and she starts rolling on her back when you start praising her 😸
True, cats can't tell different words apart, but they can probably discern the tone of your voice, so they still can probably be trained.

@mntmn
Self-hosted hardware development 😁

@kevinrothrock
Why let good dirt go to waste if you can just pin it on someone else? 😏

@neural_meduza
Моё лицо, когда забавные каламбуры, созданные нейросетью, ничем не отличаются от настоящих новостей: 😱
Особое внимание привлекает советский клон феминитивов «участниЦКам» 🫠

@eric @kirby
You do know what hyperbole is, right? 😏

@not_benis @kirby
Not cute enough! Bad AI! 😅

@swaggboi
It's not even like it was with desktop operating systems in the 2000s, it's like on mobile we have two flavours of Windows now. And both suck! 😖

@swaggboi
In case with X11 vs Wayland, both are viable at least, in case with Android vs OS, both are utter garbage, seeing someone claiming that of those things is superior is somewhat entertaining, but ultimately rather weird.