My wife’s laptop has always had those lovely features with Win10. She’ll be doing normal Word stuff, some browser tabs open, and suddenly Windows decides to do something in the background, fans kick on high, even her mouse becomes sluggish. I had hoped that moving her to an SSD and 64GB(!) of memory would remove any of that, but nope, just Windows being Windows. Meanwhile, I have btop open all the time on my Linux machine, and my memory and CPU are always where I’d expect them to be (except for Snap stuff, I need to do a bit of extraction there for the rest of my normal apps).

Was running just the 2GB original, original HDD, and LM XFCE, and it “worked”, but it was painful.

I just put Linux Mint Cinnamon on an old MacBook and it’s running pretty well. I had an SSD that I could use and an extra RAM (total of 3GB now), and it made all the difference. Planning to get two 4GB RAM cards to max it out, yay for old memory that’s still cheap.

That’s a lot more feasible. It’s not about the initial damage, but the consequences and the effect on public confidence in security. Which isn’t that high anyway.

Don’t forget the sound, that clunk with every step is what sold it as real.

And magnetic shoes.

Now do the Nvidia DLSS 5.0 version.

No, j/k, do not do that. Pixelation, imagination, and simple but unique gameplay are what made those games great. Even back in 2000 for EverQuest, I said I would trade the graphical improvements of the game for the alpha test version’s blocky low textures and simpler animations if we could have all that its marketing demo had suggested would be possible.

Audacious isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than the others that I tried. Had been using VLC forever in WIndows, but for whatever reason I kept running into issues that I couldn’t resolve, so began a search for alternatives.

The only huge issue I have is when I add more songs to my music directory, I can’t refresh the existing playlist. I have to delete and add the directory again. Don’t do it a lot, so it’s more inconvenience, and everything else works so much better than other alternatives did.

people on Lemmy

It’s funny how “on Lemmy” is often used when it’s been that way even before the internet. Just like it used to be “on Reddit”. But yeah, it’s Lemmy that’s the problem.

The red label isn’t why they’re doing it though. It’s simply a consequence of the actions.

I’m sure that’s the condition, to use your data (that they protect of course) to better improve the browser. And I’m sure they are in a country where they don’t have to show logs (that I’m sure they don’t keep, yet somehow use your data).

They need to stick with just the browser, period. Stop trying to drift into other areas. Firefox has unfortunately gotten too heavy for what it should be, and adding even more features (good or bad) doesn’t help the core performance.

The other options out there have their pluses and minuses, but if Firefox keeps pushing people will live with the negatives of the browsers that seem to care about the browsing experience of their users.

Farming really destroyed some of the better areas of the continent.

The problem is it could be any of these guesses, depending on the region of the US. Even the hair style could have persisted into late 70s.

I will concede only in the fact that it made me look like a miracle worker to my parents when I “fixed” their mouse that had stopped working with my magic.

On the other hand, the Christmas I gave them an LED mouse was peak level for all of us.

Wired vs. wireless is whatever works for you, but no one misses balled mice. No one.

I actually do this. I have a small power bank I keep the mouse hooked up to, and when it falls low enough it taps into it. Every few weeks or even a month I recharge the bank up. But wires being a problem will depend on your setup and desk real estate. This doesn’t bother me, but having a wired keyboard would lose some space, so I’m glad for my wireless there. And that’s even less of a hassle, as it’s still running off the original batteries it came with years (and years!) ago. Makes sense, there is very little power usage there being a boring old Logitech non-backlit keyboard.

Seems most things are. Just being realistic.

Less total carbon. It’s morbid, but burning ourselves out faster ends up with a smaller number than if we persist in this. If you go with some assumption that economic collapse allows us to survive… well I guess you have a point.

True enough. But even if we had gotten a magic benevolent dictator decades ago, the damage was already done. We’re just piling it on at this point. In some aspects, maybe a speed run into hell will work out better than a long braking. Better overall, but still a disaster.

Don’t Look Up is more fitting as a documentary of our times. In lots of ways.