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  • The issue I have with GUI and wrapper tools on Linux is that I don’t know how they have implemented the standards, I know several tools that only deals with the basic stuff and leave you high and dry for the advanced stuff.

    Which I feel is missing the point, if you have a gui it should support advanced stuff as well as the basic stuff, else you will train your self wrong, and have to unlearn a lot of crap


  • stoy@lemmy.ziptoProgrammer Humor@programming.devWindows 7
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    24 days ago

    Eh, back in the Windows 7 days paying for Windows wasn’t that bad of a deal, but starting with Windows 10 it felt as if you were paying to get ads.

    As for your last part, I am not a native english speaker, and my phone has two dictionaries, sometimes it picks the Swedish dictionary, sometimes it picks the English.

    I have been in situations where the dictionary marks a word as being wrong and offers a suggestion, when I then pick the suggestion, that word is also marked as being wrong, and the original word is offered as a solution.

    This can be rather annoying, and means that sometimes stuff like this slips through.



  • stoy@lemmy.ziptoProgrammer Humor@programming.devWindows 7
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    24 days ago

    He used the Home version?

    He owned his own island, he could at least go for Professional!

    I remember Windows 7’s editions being a complete mess, but a come on!

    Either ask your IT guy or your friend Billy G, both will laugh at you for picking a Home version when you have the money to go pro.

    What a fucking loser.




  • Sigh, please stop using that argument, it is an easy cop out, and you don’t actually help your cause by analyzing the real issue.

    The real reason why people willingly use Windows is multifaceted and can be boiled down to a few points.

    1. It is the defacto standard. If you are going to use a desktop/laptop computer you will probably use Windows, especially at work.
    2. Most users know Windows in some capacity, this means that companies have an easier time finding staff than if they used something else, it wouldn’t be impossible but it would mean spending more time and money training the staff and causing them to be less productive for longer as they learn the system. This is slowly changing with the rise of web apps, chromebooks and Macs. But still, having IT support a fleet of Linux desktops/laptops when working in a non IT sector would be increadibly wasteful
    3. Software, like it or not, Windows has a huge amount of proprietary software dominance, organizations LOVE proprietary software and dislike FOSS for one reason. Liability. This means that they get a number to call, email to contact, a person to yell at, they can deflect complaints and seem like they are a strong decisive company by taking legal action against an external party, and not have the buck stop with themselves.

    I am an IT technician, this is what I have seen in the corporate world.

    By talking about “brainwashing” you remove most of the actual information that could help you figure out how Linux could be better suited for the masses, and to be frank, using a word like “brainwashing” makes the Linux community seem a bit unhinged/cultish.

    Focus on facts, then you can use them to change the actual issue.









  • I have used dd a few times without destroying my disk, here is my simple recommendation to stay safe:

    DON’T TYPE THE COMMAND DIRECTLY INTO THE TERMINAL!

    What I mean is that you should open a text editor, type the dd command you want to run in the editor, let it sit for 5 min, go back to the text editor, find the OF path, doublecheck and verify that it is safe.

    Correct misstakes, wait another 5 min and do the check again.

    Once you are confident that the command is accurate, copy paste it into a terminal and run it.


  • IBMs tabulation machines were never required for the functions of the death camps, but they vastly increased the speed and efficiency with which the Nazis were able to find and murder people through the death camps.

    There are clear differences in countries where the census database were poorly implemented and those that had a well established census database before the Nazis invaded, in how many people the Nazis were able to find and murder.



  • stoy@lemmy.ziptoFunny@sh.itjust.works2000s internet
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    I remember downloading and running random EXEs on my school’s NT4 machines.

    There was a few joke programs, the one I remember right now, would make the start button jump around on the screen.

    This was also around the time we all got on MSN Messenger, but us cool kids used an alternative client, Trillian, or later, Miranda IM.

    A clear favorite of the time was the demo versions of Unreal Tournament 99 and Return To Castle Wolfenstein, both was easily installed, ran decent on the computer and had LAN multiplayer, there were a few impromptu LAN parties after school…

    Later in my education I attended a trade school where I took networking classes.

    Someone had snuck in a copy of Age Of Empires 2 on all machines in the lab, so we spent the days setting up a network, and after school was over, we gamed on it.

    Brilliant fun!


  • This reminds me of a maths test I had when we had just been taught to calculate how many m2 an area was.

    I seem to recall seeing an example of the formula where the answer was 2 m2, ok, looking at the test there was a question that had answer to be 6 m2, but me trying to be clever, though that the 2 in m2 represented the value of the answer, wrote 6 m6.

    I failed that test…