Bytemeister

joined 2 years ago
[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

My secondhand 1999 Crown Victoria went 284000 miles over 19 years. I had to put some work into it, but when I traded the car in, everything still worked, minus the trunk lock (super glued by frat boys) and the driver door handle (snapped off in my hand, twice, replaced with channel locks clamped onto the remaining nub).

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The safety requirements have gone up because the average size of the vehicles in the US has gone up. Has nothing to do with aero, and everything to do with rollover protection. Hell, even the dreaded "giant iPad" era of interior design is due to the requirement for backup cams on all cars, due to the reduced visibility, due to the increased size of structural pillars, due to higher strength to pass rollover tests due to increased weight of the vehicle duetolargertrucksandsuvsduetotheautomakerstargetingthemostprofitablevehiclesizesduetothechickentaxonimportedtrucks.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Managing printers in 11 is the worst. The sad part is that the old-style devices and printers menu is still in the OS, you just have to dig for it a bit, and it works 1000x better.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is true. Rumours I've heard is that all your data will just be in one big blob, and every application is just an AI agent sorting and displaying the info for you.

So you could open a word document in Excel and it would format the info as a table, or you can open a PowerPoint in Visio and it would make it into a workflow chart. Same data, just presented differently by AI "wrappers".

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Windows 8 came out in 2012, and was in development years before that.

Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available for download via MSDN and TechNet on August 15, 2012, and generally released for retail on October 26, 2012

Laptops is a subset of PCs. Only 10% of laptops were touch, not 10% of computers.

80% of users are dumb. A touchscreen laptop is an expesnive way to get your screen dirty.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Ah a windows 8. I remember reading the promo materials for it. An OS designed around touch, with the goal of doubling the number of touch enabled PCs on the market.

Guess how many PCs were touch-enabled when windows 8 launched...

1.5%. Whomever is driving at Microsoft needs to be moved to an Amish community and prevented from interacting with any kind of electrical device ever again.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Tell him loudly that he doesn't know shit and to shut the fuck up. This is the year you let it all out. You've been building a dam of tolerance for this person, a dam which he's been trying to undermine because he's too fucking dumb to understand the extreme restraint you have shown against the potential flood right behind those walls.

Let him have it.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

All user logons to a non-persistent OS installation such as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or equivalent as application packages must be installed each logon in such scenarios.

Cries in supporting multi-user AVD Hosts

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Real answer is that the direction AI is going right now is to save money for billionaires, not to improve the lives of everyone else.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately, running ads against all the shitty things that Republicans do would bankrupt someone as wealthy as Bezos. At a certain point, people need to take some personal responsibility in researching and making an informed vote, instead of just relying on who had the most recent snappy attack ad campaign.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's less "hate the poor" and more "being good dogs for their wealthy masters"

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