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Anyone around London thinking of checking out the new Sonic run track murals 👀
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May 13
Family inherited an old WinXP-era laptop from circa 2003. Spinning hard drive, 256MB RAM, all of that. I've already heard stories about how bad modern software has become but my god it really is true. This thing literally starts up in like 10 seconds.
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😂😂😂😂 Literally this
It was instant before, I don't know what the fuck they are doing
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Oh my god they've done it again
May 1
Just want to make sure I'm reading this right: Microsoft rewrote the run dialog with performance "top-of-mind", and the best they could manage to do when putting up a single text box was 10fps?
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Apr 20
Write better software than 99.99% of the industry with this one weird trick
Apr 20
I wrote it from scratch with straightforward procedural code instead of importing 10,000 libraries and gluing them together in deranged ways
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Alex Burrows retweeted
Mar 16
people who read ongoing fanfics have too much faith in humanity
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Mar 15
Wow, had no idea Sonic the Hedgehog hated Wayland all along, who knew
Mar 15
Great to see a desktop environment that actively removes #Wayland dependencies. Way to go @SonicDesktop. Let's liberate our systems from all components controlled by XDG/Red Hat that have been holding back open source desktops for decades.
github.com/Sonic-DE/sonic-mo…
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Mar 15
(This is a completely and utterly pointless act, by the way, and absolutely the wrong direction imo. But I guess that's to be expected of a project that can't even update a sentence of the README?)
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Alex Burrows retweeted
Mar 8
Not a knowing smile.
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Crush 40 world tour announcements dropping on my birthday?? Wha-
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Jan 25
This *must* be deliberate at this point, right? Like I know they love their AI and their this and that but the issues are going so far through the roof atp, I'm almost starting to reach a point now where I wonder if there's some bigger reason for this
Jan 24
we’ve crossed the line from “What’s broken in Windows?” to “What still works in this thing?”
xda-developers.com/windows-1…
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>boot my old windows laptop
>its been force-upgraded to windows11
>sign in with microslop account
>immediately get blindingly bright pop up: “finish setting up your machine with Copilot”
>no ty, click “setup later”
>turn down Xbox gamepass offer
>turn down Copilot 365 offer
>unpin LinkedIn shortcut
>open edge to redownload Brave
>have to find it in Bing
>disable OneDrive (it’s erroring out anyway asking for money, ransoming my files)
>unpin copilot shortcut
>disable Copilot Recall spyware
>run windows update
>click shutdown, but it restarts instead
>blindingly bright pop-up “finish setting up your machine with Copilot”
>copilot shortcut enabled again
>try to use the start menu search bar
>hangs then returns “search with Copilot”
>click, it opens LinkedIn instead
>want to close it but it’s frozen
>open legendary programmer Dave W Plumber’s award winning software, Task Manager
>238 processes called copilot.exe
>mutter expletive
>Cortana Copilot pops up, “I can help with that!” and freezes
>Defender flagged it as malware
>immediately get another pop-up
>”OneDrive has run out of space! Your files are no longer accessible!”
>about to lose it
>I’ll just play a game, boot up CoD
>pop-up asking to enable Copilot gaming assistant
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The replies here are annoying. .webp is a technically superior format in just about every single way, and it's been around for 10 years, imo basically everything should have moved now. But, 'cause a couple programs are still living in the past it's "useless" and "the devil"??
I HATE WEBP FILES I HATE THEM SO MUCH THEYRE SO USELESS OH MY GOD JUST LET ME DOWNLOAD AN IMAGE REGULARLY WITHOUT HAVING TO SEARCH "webp to png online free" IM SO SICK OF IT
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But, I guess it's just the nature of it, and something to factor in when developing user-facing software. If you want confidence someone will like your thing I think you have to forget the technical "it's not my responsibility" and really try your best to make it always work
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because at the end of the day, if something goes wrong with your program, even when it's not "your fault" (e.g. missing library, poor disk I/O etc.), it's always your program that gets the hit, not whatever thing on their system was *actually* to blame.
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