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major505
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Comment #48890652
If someone here likes horror movies I highly recommend watching his work in Possession (1981) and Mouth of Madness (1995). If you prefer a more family focused comedy, go with Hunt …
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Comment #48586568
interesting. using Ollama I created a simple markdown file similar do a Dockerfile creating an agent called "boring as fuck". This is the content FROM qwen2.5-coder:7b PARAMETER te…
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Comment #48545333
Yes. I use Owen on my MacBook m1 (16gb) daily, running inside Ollama. Works well. Is not particularly fast, and I need to create a custom imagem that sets the temperature of the mo…
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Comment #48451840
This would be greate for google, because most people, specially in the apple environment don't much care to install new tools if they have a native tool that works reasonable well.…
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Comment #47764556
Well, anything that takes market from Adobe and their shit licensing is good news.
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Comment #47516582
Gaming is a problem of chicken and Egg. Devs wont support Linux in anti-cheat if theres no larger enought installed base. With the Steam Deck and soon the steam desktopo, tI think …
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Comment #47508051
Another thing that I consider hard tonreplace from microsoft is Active directory. This thing is universal. And after tring alternatives its easy to see why. Is its probably the mos…
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Comment #47507500
yeah, solidworks. forgot about it. A lot of people depend on that.
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Comment #47507112
This is exactly what I do with my personal computing. I would prefer to be on linux, but a lot of people still sends me data in excel spreadsheets for processing, and lets be hones…
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Comment #47506555
As I saw it, there are 4 things that lock people in the windows platform today. - Gaming: a problem being tackled by Valve mainly, and I getting better day by day; - Printing Servi…
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Comment #47001934
I tried this onece. But I have to do it digitally because my caligraphy is terrible and I have to write in a slow manner if I want to understand what I wrote latter. In the end it …
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Comment #46859742
This is what happens when you let all decision to the marketing team without any supervision. They became full retarded. Marketing need as much supervision as a toddler in a crista…
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Comment #46859720
I think is funny, because is not the first time I hear about microsoft employees not using the company products. I worked on a project with some microsoft engineers to create a cha…
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Comment #46856627
I think it can work. In about what? 10 years, maybe more. Tech is simply not yet on the same page as a star trekk computer that you can talk and make it work. And the main thing th…
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Comment #46856502
In the end is hardto see why they banked so heavy into it. When open AI started t o make promisses and everybody saw what it could do, Microsoft invested heavily on it, seeing some…
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Comment #46856346
While I did enjoy thunderbird its lack of hability to use microsoft outlook protocol for e-mail and calendas, always keeped me from use it. Also, to be honest, I dont trust mozilla…
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Comment #46855826
Its a fair point.
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Comment #46855624
Too be honest, thres is too much wrong with win 11 to save it at this point. Is not only AI bullshit in my notepad. The excess adds, intrusive online stuff, terriblee performance f…
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Comment #46855544
The problem with windows is not the kernel, as it is preety solid, but user space. Wathever problems windows have today, retro compatibility was always a strong point in favor of w…
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Comment #46855513
At this point I dont trust common sense in anybody inside Microsoft. They are doing dumb shit for about 5 years now, and killing MS Office, a brand thats market leader for more tha…
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Comment #46827150
Anything for a fast internet connection.
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Comment #46822947
I use it daily. Great little app for taking screenshots on mac, since the macapp is terrible, and the keyboard binding is even worse.
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Comment #46822905
Wifi routers are little magic devices that work only when they want. I talked before here, but I had a Dell Vostro notebook that everytime it connected with my router using windows…
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Comment #46311451
IT dosnet lag long, since both have pretty activity communities. There are other variations that are a little faster in issueing the updates, but they are maintained by small teams…
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Comment #46300179
They are probably a money laundy scheme this days. I used to donate every year to Mozilla. Of course, small ammounts because Im not rich. Today they would have to beat this money f…