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drooopy
·25 days ago·discuss
It boggles my mind how modern gnome doesn't come with a traditional desktop that you have to install an extension to enable.
drooopy
·29 days ago·discuss
The Ryanair website is a who's who of everything you're supposed to avoid in UI/UX design.
drooopy
·30 days ago·discuss
Same! My PC broke down and I couldn't afford to repair it for several months. Yet I didn't miss it much as I had a Dreamcast with a keyboard and mouse. That web browser became one of my most used apps of all time. Good times!
drooopy
·last month·discuss
Whenever I was forced to interact with OneDrive, I couldn't help imagining the proverbial digital duct tape holding everything together behind the scenes.
drooopy
·last month·discuss
Thanks to AI, Dylan and Brenda can finally end up together.
drooopy
·last month·discuss
My first thought was "what year is this"?
drooopy
·2 months ago·discuss
The amount of overlap in Stelantis’ lineup is completely absurd. I can’t understand how anyone thought it was a good idea to develop seven or eight models in the same segment (this repeating across all segments) that all end up competing and cannibalizing each other. At this rate, they’re going to sacrifice a lot of legendary car brands just to stay afloat.
drooopy
·2 months ago·discuss
I miss the crazy, unconventional Citroën of yore.
drooopy
·2 months ago·discuss
Even though I don't necessarily like it, I understand why they solder the RAM on the SOC: Higher bandwidth/greater performance, better power efficiency, etc. But they have no excuse for the SSD.
drooopy
·2 months ago·discuss
Vista was an absolute dumpster fire but in no way compares to the awfulness of ME.
drooopy
·2 months ago·discuss
I've lived through every evolution of Windows from 3.1 up to 11 and Millenium/2000 still remains my favourite and I will always consider it the most 'get-shit-done' UI that Microsoft has ever built. Up until W10 removed the feature, I used to turn off the Themes service so that I could get the classic UI back.

And I also completely agree with your point that everything else since then has felt like a poorly placed theme on top of something else.
drooopy
·2 months ago·discuss
I believe that Firefox does it but not as frequently as Chrome does, but don't quote me on it. However, I am using a "tab suspender" addon on firefox to control how fast the unloading happens on tabs that are not active.
drooopy
·3 months ago·discuss
HN is as close to social media as my 3rd grade talent show was to Michael Jackson's Super Bowl halftime show.
drooopy
·3 months ago·discuss
Calling 2026's facebook, instagram, tiktok, xshitter, whatever "social media" is like calling a casino "the 3rd place that you socialise out with your mates".
drooopy
·3 months ago·discuss
There aren’t any 3rd party repair shops close to me that are in Apple’s Independent Repair Provider network, so if I were to choose a random repair shop my only real option with them would be a battery from a 3rd party manufacturer, which I’ve had bad experiences with before. I wouldn’t mind as much if I could easily replace it again myself if it started swelling like last time.
drooopy
·3 months ago·discuss
In order to have my iPhone 11's battery replaced by my local apple authorised repair shop, inexplicably I have to leave my phone with them for days. Since the phone is old they have to order the battery from Apple and that could take up to a week, according to them. Of course it's impossible to stay without my phone for a week+ so my only option is to buy a new phone if I want to fix my battery capacity issues.
drooopy
·3 months ago·discuss
No kidding. Last time I used Enlightenment back in the late 90s, both KDE 1.x and GNOME 1.x were orders of magnitude more usable on my lowly Pentium MMX 166 with 16 MB of RAM.
drooopy
·3 months ago·discuss
They’re doomed to repeat the cycle of reinventing Clippy every few years and always failing at it.
drooopy
·3 months ago·discuss
That must be an american thing because I guarantee you that it doesn't mean anything for the rest of the world.
drooopy
·3 months ago·discuss
She and Technology Connections are two of my favourite YouTube channels. Also I love her geocities website so much: https://lauriewired.com/