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@vkc It is the anti-reading thing that has been developing for a while. There is a section of the population that doesn't do long-format reading, tl:dr, for anything more than three or four paragraphs. If a summary isn't readily available, AI can make one.

@vkc It is definitely the muscle memory thing for me. It is hard to let go of it sometimes, I still want to hit SHFT+F7, then 1 to print a document.

@realcainmosni @nixCraft

I had to head down the historical rabbit hole; Red Hat ran a version of CDE that was a bit different than the Unix versions until they switched to Gnome as the default

@MrsMouse @nixCraft

Enlightenment is still a thing; I feel this looks more like CDE

@nixCraft In the US, it is not important. Most high school graduates can barely read and write and lack math skills. The OS they use to watch YouTube has no bearing on fixing those problems.

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#Switch to #opensource solutions:

Windows: #Linux
Photoshop: #Gimp 3.0-rc
Illustrator: #Inkscape
PremierePro: #Kdenlive, #Shotcut
Office/Acrobat: #OnlyOffice, #LibreOffice
Maya: #Blender
Media: #VLC
Unity: #Godot
ToonBoom: #SynfigStudio, #Pencil2D
InDesign: #Scribus
Nuke: #Natron
Procreate: #Krita
After Effects: #Friction
Mathematica: #SageMath, #SymPy
MatLab: #GnuOctave
Audition: #Audacity
Autocad: #FreeCAD, #QCad
Ableton: #Ardour, #LMMS (daily build)
Lightroom: #DarkTable, #RawTherapee

#foss

@vkc I am having flashbacks to installing 100+ NE2000 compatable ISA NICS on Windows 95 machines. They had a RJ45 and a BNC connector, we used the RJ45, and I took all the T connectors for the BNC attached them together in the worst, crokedest but chromeiest snake ever.

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By age 30, you should be able to use whatever text editor or operating system you want and not get upset about those flamewars.

@vkc, You Need to mark it as "non-altered" or something similar because you will upload the newer versions, too.

@nielsk This would be expected based on how the New Outlook works. It's just the web version in a window. There are no PST files for local storage for IMAP or POP accounts; it is all stored on the web.

Mike Trotz boosted

What is a common factor between the following lists?
* Traffic lights
* Parking meters
* Nuclear submarines
* Spacecrafts
* Smart appliances (refrigerators)
* Air traffic control systems
* Stock exchange
* Supercomputers
They all are powered by #Linux 🐧

@jacqui An old guy perspective: When I was a kid, they had been phasing this out (the early 70s), but the golden arches on the older McDonald buildings still hanging around were actual arches, part of the building, nothing to do with the "M" for McDonalds.

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Poll: Are your non-tech friends and family members using #ChatGPT instead of search engines? Please boost for reach. πŸ™

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Who thought this was a good move apart from OpenAI? πŸ˜‚ All this, because they didn't want to give humans money and keep everything to top 1%. #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT

@nixCraft I hope it evolves into the shape of a talking paperclip with big blinky eyes. "I see you are trying to write a script. Would you like some help?" ,

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