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    Comment #48943529

    Modems were slow and a monthly cost that tied up people’s phone lines. This was another way to get people online. It wasn’t a given thing that we think of nowadays.

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    Comment #48638457

    Why is it a floating window and not a frame? Great work, btw

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    Comment #48519692

    You don’t think the country is mismanaged?

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    Comment #48493131

    Strange reading an article like this covered in ads

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    Comment #48360467

    One would have to assume that this was by design.

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    Comment #48315376

    In every AI prediction there is an obvious underestimating of the actual difficulties faced by workers and planners so the tool to automate those intelligent tasks always way under…

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    Comment #47903604

    Must be serendipity as I’ve been working on a TUI drama nd drop designer like a terminal Visual Basic 4. I’ve tried Visual Basic for dos and it was as streamlined as the windows ve…

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    Comment #47664130

    Thanks for the extensive write up

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    Comment #47507066

    Hilariously, the MacBook neo has the same taskbar issues since it was what Microsoft copied. No one is getting replaced so I’ll guess they’ll just add some customizations to make i…

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    Comment #47362950

    It seems like a lot is being left out. What is considered sufficiently wealthy and why are they going off grid?

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    Comment #46858623

    I decided to switch after notepad++ got hacked.

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    Comment #46601791

    It sounds like internally it’s a checklist item they have to mention everywhere.

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    Comment #46516800

    Strange how people never say this with swift and objc

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    Comment #46412502

    I’m actually glad because it seems like we are finally leaving behind the flat design that started in iOS 7, if I remember correctly. I’m not sure it would be good to go full skeuo…

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    Comment #46394833

    Thanks for posting this here. I star’d the project. Getting a portable computer with a minimal flexible and previously well supported operating system was one of my goals for the e…

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    Comment #46381333

    Merry Christmas to All

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    Comment #46291995

    This was a good one, but icewm was one better. FVWM2 went on to FVWM3, and FVWM95 was encouraged by power users and developers to stop being used in favor of FVWM3 https://ice-wm.o…

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    Comment #46290381

    It does seem like it is trying to force a trend without giving one solid reason.

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    Comment #46250411

    They don’t do the shutdown anymore if it’s any consolation, but they do slow down approvals.

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    Comment #46199182

    Maybe they could use Claude and speed up that development.

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    Comment #46199173

    I’d say the consumer front end is more of an afterthought. It also seems like something they want to get rid of at some point so that they have to deal with the resellers like Micr…

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    Comment #46010953

    Heh, when you started talking about venturing outside I thought you were going to talk about in real life meat space.phones and tablets really freed us up but we still don’t leave …

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    Comment #46005564

    Did China perform daily mass human sacrifice, too?

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    Comment #45930515

    I looked at the top 25 grossing apps on iOS and Android. There is only one explicitly ai app and it’s the one that ran a Super Bowl commercial, ChatGPT. I don’t see the demand from…

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    Comment #45662302

    They probably weren’t allowed around you if you were eating peanut butter. Did you eat a lot of peanut butter growing up?