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qwerty456127
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Indeed. QNX is the coolest OS I ever seen and Photon felt the coolest desktop environment. Although I like XFCE in the Linux context (more than e.g. GNOME), I am sad to see it replaced Photon on QNX. Photon just looked and felt so lovely and came with a visual C++ builder making GUI apps development so nice.
qwerty456127
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I don't believe children need to be guarded from porn and can be seriously harmed by it but if we assume they do - why not just disallow children to use devices and apps made for adults? Why not just give kids locked-down phones with special pre-installed apps and leave the normal devices and normal web the way they are?
qwerty456127
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
> especially with how My Documents is handled

I stopped using these long ago because every other app you install puts something there so it becomes a landfill automatically.

Just create an additional partition and put all your non-OS files there. This is a classic idea people have been using since the DOS days, still working great.
qwerty456127
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
> You had os/2 not doing that well, Amiga not doing great, NeXT hurting

What was ever wrong with these? I never actually used them but everything I know about them sounds fantastic.
qwerty456127
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
EU is just rushing into bullshit dystopia scifi with its useless and harmful anonymization and chat control ideas. These just ought to fail and be rolled back. Imagining these succeed seems nearly as wild as waking up in the world where people do yakuza-style thumb cut to every naughty kid who fails to do his homework.
qwerty456127
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
This is a duplicate comment.
qwerty456127
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
Sure - the reason is the want more control over their people, they want to surveil them (hence blocking Signal), they want them to only read or express "correct" texts and prevent them from participating in open loosely-moderated discussions (hence blocking Reddit).
qwerty456127
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
The grammar is our enemy here. Blocking a website may be Okay. Blocking a person willing to access it is not.
qwerty456127
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
I consider banning it uncharacteristic to such. I can hardly consider a state where people are not allowed to access Reddit (as well as HN, Wikipedia or StackExchange) freely and anonymously a healthy civilized democracy. It can still be a very civilized society in general but tightening control on the people like this indicates the government is going slippery slope.
qwerty456127
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
> "Services" here can be replaced with "control". I'm not super conservative, but social media sometimes do take control over our kids, and ourselves.

Perhaps we can think about YouTube or Facebook this way (Instagram - obviously). But I don't think Signal controls anybody yet they block it as well.
qwerty456127
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
> It is not wrong to regulate social media

Yet it is wrong for a government to deny the people to access foreign services over the Internet when they want. That is wrong in the same sense as disallowing them to travel overseas, read untranslated books and consume services of vendors right there is.

It can be sorta okay to require local ISPs stop providing necessary connectivity readily but if the users find a way, punishing them for this or actively attacking the ways they do it is wrong.

Hopefully Nepal is not going this far.
qwerty456127
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
Blocking Signal or Reddit sounds bizarre for a civilized democratic country. What sense can that make other than denying people the right for privacy of personal communications or uncensored information access? I am very surprised Nepal goes this way.
qwerty456127
·в прошлом году·discuss
This depends on whether you want to exchange data with other computers using even removable media, let alone the Internet. Also whether you want to use Unicode. In case you only want to hand-type, edit and print a plain English paper right away by dumping plaintext/PostScript/PCL to LPT you probably are fine with any computer you can find. It's just nobody is using standalone computers anymore, almost every modern computer is a network device.
qwerty456127
·в прошлом году·discuss
What I am glad to leave behind and forget like a nightmare is Windows local networking with shared folders etc - these never worked nice and the last time anybody I know used these was pre-2010. Today we just use NextCloud, Matrix, email and Git for all our collaboration needs.
qwerty456127
·в прошлом году·discuss
In my opinion Total Commander has always been the most ideal (also fast) file management tool since Windows 3.x. It was named Windows Commander back in the days but it still supports Windows 3.x as Total Commander.
qwerty456127
·в прошлом году·discuss
> I wish companies would go back to building fast apps

It seems fascinating how much more efficient Windows apps were back in the nineties, capable do to almost everything the same today apps do in a similar manner on orders of magnitude less powerful hardware, often performing even faster.

The last time I expressed this, probably also here, somebody suggested the performance drop is the cost of modern security - vulnerability mitigations, cryptography etc.
qwerty456127
·в прошлом году·discuss
> OpenOffice.org (predecessor of LibreOffice) copied this feature, which they called "QuickStarter"

It still does. Neither LibreOffice itself nor it's installation process with its components choice have changed seriously since the old days and I'm very grateful for this. The QuickStarter isn't as relevant anymore as we have fast SSDs now but some slow computers are still around and that's great we still have the option.
qwerty456127
·2 года назад·discuss
Indeed. Doing this to a game console is more "badass".
qwerty456127
·2 года назад·discuss
Not of Sisyphus hopefully :-)
qwerty456127
·2 года назад·discuss
This is subjective. I personally always loved upgrading the hell out of old PC (install the maximum possible memory and CPU after patching the BIOS and soldering the socket, add a SATA card to a computer which only had IDE etc).