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It’s a useful signal. As the web becomes more full of noise. I am not interested in having my time wasted reading an article that the purported author couldn’t even be bothered to …

Inspired by this I hooked up an old rotary phone to an ATA and got a number from a low cost SIP provider. Now my 5 year old can call his friends and family on his own. He loves whe…

I’ve worked on projects where a lot of work was done in highly collaborative drawings on Bluebeam, in which vendors add their markups and items and the program facilitates counting…

If they’re using Managed Apple IDs they will have no access at all to the app store and won’t be able to download their own apps anymore. IT department will have to buy and assign …

It's so mind-boggling that they have control over the default browser home page and the news feed on everyone's taskbar and they choose to show gossip and one weird trick that doct…

There is so much goofiness happening in those web portals (and also the New Portal, and the Legacy Portal) that issues like this don’t surprise me. Every time I click a button in t…

Some of these complaints feel like they aren’t specific to Firefox at all, but are UI conventions that used to be ubiquitous and no longer are, much to the chagrin of those of us o…

>>It's hard to describe but it almost feels to me like media today - this applies to games and films and everything - is often created at a meta level, a simulacrum of the real thi…

Dell (and IKEA, and others) source from Ecovative who have been working on this for a while: https://ecovative.com/

I’m very happy with my Matias Ergo Pro. No numpad, and reduced size F-row, but otherwise normal layout plus a few programmable macro keys on the side. https://matias.store/collecti…

Why would anyone watch a live stream of someone else poking a computer into completing a task? It’s barely more interesting than having someone tell you about a dream they had.

It makes sense that any product written after the advent of these AI code generators, including the AI code generators themselves, will get worse as it starts to eat itself.

Not for this, no.

They have been around for nearly 20 years. I viewed them as an also-ran until Broadcom decided they didn’t need any of us as VMware customers anymore. Now Nutanix seems like a viab…

You’re asking two different LLMs to help you talk more better to another LLM?

Sep 23, 2004 here! 285k scrobbles. Always been a loyal user. My use goes back far enough that I would have scrobbles queued up for when my dialup connection came online to push the…

Those icons were well-designed for the newly computerized office employee of the day. The new school of icons are made by graphic designers for other graphic designers.

Others have brought up the Office 97 style for good reason. Everything has an icon, on an icon toolbar. Every command can also be on a file menu but most of them there don’t have a…

I agree with the author. I understand many of the reasons others give here for why icons could be beneficial- localization, literacy, vision issues, etc. all are great reasons to s…

Growing grains is no longer relevant. You can just walk into any supermarket and purchase packaged cereals, breads, and cakes, and you don’t have to deal with operating a tractor, …

The article is too optimistic in its view of how short-form video allows everyone to partake in these trends. In an attention-driven culture where nothing cool can be kept a secret…

Plenty of search overview results I get on Google report false information with hyperlinks directly to the page in the vendor documentation that says something completely different…

Oh, that’s quite alright, the way I do it is to browse the site on my phone which lists the file names for each download, then just type them in to the FTP program. You really need…

If it helps, Macintosh Garden has a FTP server, but everything is un-organized in one of 2 folders, apps and games. Too slow to get a directory listing on these older systems but y…

Very cool and much needed. I run an iMac G3 on OS 9, and it’s a bit of a challenge to download files on because most websites don’t work, and the FTP directory listings on Macintos…