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Re: Burn My Windows

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Shocking to see what passed as acceptable video quality back in 2007.

$ yt-dlp -F 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ' [youtube] xC5uEe5OzNQ: Downloading webpage [youtube] xC5uEe5OzNQ: Downloading android player API JSON [info] Available formats for xC5uEe5OzNQ: ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── sb2 mhtml 48x27 │ mhtml │…

I've been looking for youtube-dl with saner and parsable -F output. Thanks for suggestion!

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Show HN: How we saved $2MM in AWS transfer fees by storing years as 2 digits (2051)

By that time $2MM will buy you a Pepsi and a broken record player.

Many would pay decent money for a player that can revive broken records!

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Boy do I miss how magical graphics used to seem back in the day. I remember one GPU I bought came with a 3D "computer house" simulation where all your files were in drawers, the control panel items were in the utility closet, etc. It was the most incredible thing I'd ever seen.

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Ahh, you've brought back fond memories of grade school powerpoint presentations :)

Me: “There are people who had PowerPoint in grade school!” *googles PowerPoint release date. Answer: 2004. I guess that checks out. I’m old now.

I'm pretty sure PowerPoint is way older than that. It was already there in basically its current form with all the terrible animations in office97 but it goes back to the late 80s.

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> That sounds arrogant and condescending. In order for that to be true you would have to presume that any given behavior was objectively better, and therefore the anyone who prefers different behavior only does so because they are comfortable with the 'wrong' behavior. That’s the literal opposite of what I said. I was saying what’s “right” is often subjective and people (ie not just technical users but non-technical…

> And here lies the problem with people who say one is better than another: they look at the differences and say “I don’t like it” but think it’s a technical decision when in fact it’s just an emotive response based on what they’re comfort zone is. Give me a way to interpret this other than condescension. You're saying that people who espouse a preference are not doing so based on valid reasoning, and the only eviden…

You’re literally the only one who’s been name calling and insulting people. You keep making wildly inaccurate technical claims that even a beginner in Linux would know better then admit that others have pointed out to you how deeply ignorant you are on this subject. And at no point agreed your opinions were subjective, repeatedly stating they were based on technical merit and even going as far as accusing me of thinking people were “idiots” for being subjective.

…and now that you finally grasp enough comprehension skills that you’re not making wild presumptions and insulting interpretations of my posts, now you accuse me of being arrogant and the “stereotypical problem with people in IT” in your very same post that’s agreeing with the entire point that sparked all the initial venom? Even now you cannot bring yourself to be polite with other people and instead insult them while simultaneously agreeing with them.

We’ve chatted a few times before and each and every time you’ve failed miserably at even the most basic comprehension while repeatedly making aggressive and insulting remarks. On one occasion even berating me with the same point I’d literally made the post before. And Ive seen you do this to other people too. So I’ve been more patient in this conversation than you deserve. There’s one tangent where you can’t even follow the thread and keep referring back to the wrong parent while making a big hoohar about how everyone else has misunderstood the conversation.

Maybe the reason everyone in IT always disagrees with you and comes across a certain way is because you are the one being an illiterate ass to them? Communication is a two way street and I don’t have this issue with literally anyone else on HN apart from yourself. And after this experience of insanity I’ll certainly make sure I don’t bother to engage with you again too.

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I know I said wouldn’t reply (and frankly this meta debate is every bit as worthless as I predicted it would be) but I feel I should point out that you haven’t traced the thread back up to the OP when conducting your analysis. You need to hit ‘parent’ on the post that you thought was top. Might need to do that a couple times in fact. That should add the context I was describing which you couldn’t see. :)

The flagged parent didn't mention Windows at all. In fact, the only comparison made was to MacOS.

That’s still not the OP and you’re misreading my posts again because I didn’t say the OP mentioned Windows, I said they discussed Linux and had replies mention Windows (that OSX comment just being one of many replies).

But don’t bother looking it up. I’m done chatting to you after the last barrage of personal attacks you’ve made in the other thread. There’s only so many times you can post offensive remarks and miscomprehend the conversation while others are being polite and patient before their patients eventually wears out.

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Compiz was probably the single most impactful event for desktop linux of the mid 2000's. Not that it itself made much of a difference, but the ripples affect many areas we take for granted today. A few reasons: - it put linux ahead of windows and mac in terms of appearance; - it brought many new users and most were a good mix technical and enthusiasts; - it showed the advantages of modular software; - many plugins we…

Yes, Compiz, yet another point where Linux could have grabbed massive mindshare in the desktop market, when there was massive ... what do I say ... confusion? incompetence? exhibited by Windows especially. And... it went nowhere. A shot at a truly amazing desktop that would put it even above OSX. Squandered. The desktop market is STILL, ten years after windows 8, STILL ripe for the taking.

Sorry no one gives a shit about these. The majority of users hate visual effects. Those that add useless delay into the task they are doing, tasks that in some cases are already repetitive & tedios without the delay. Same for modern web design, just egoistical style over functions.

Windows won because of software written on it, OSX because of exceptional hardware that comes with the OS. Things like compliz are for nerds and inconsequential on the grand scheme of things

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post #157

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Me too. Desktop "progress" is now sadly now mostly done by Microsoft (geriatric at best) and Apple (mostly just implementing the new graphical design whims every year).

My god I wish companies would stop iterating on desktop “default” design. The only features on a Mac I use are Cmd+space and Cmd+tab. Beyond that it’s just a host. Every time they add crap I have to find and disable it all. By all means make cool stuff but also make it opt in.

I feel the same about the control panels. Windows 11 has like three or so? I can't keep up, thankfully they added a search function some time back and so, I only have to remember the keywords.

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I miss that feeling. Desktop moves at a much slower pace today.

Me too. Desktop "progress" is now sadly now mostly done by Microsoft (geriatric at best) and Apple (mostly just implementing the new graphical design whims every year).

I don't miss desktop progress the way it was done on Linux between 2000 and 2015 (ish). It was exciting but now, I'm happy with what I have with Plasma 5. It is a fast, stable, solid desktop environment.

Plasma 5 is great and ages like good wine. The interface does not change much, but receives big improvements each version that don't break habits. Focus is on fixing usability bugs. See the weekly posts at [1] for instance.

It gets refined instead of changed.

[1] https://pointieststick.com/

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