kasabali

> You won't find that level of stability in Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows 7.

Nice try but you won't deceive any attentive readers. Everything you've told in that paragraph was applicable to Windows 7, it had all the stability and none of the user hostility of later versions.

Why the hell would I want a file manager to be run on the GPU. it's supposed to be light on requirements and run on a potato, it's a file manager ffs not a 3rd person shooter.

Yet somehow PEAK Windows versions ( whether it was 2000, XP or 7 depending on person) all predates introduction of forced or opt-out telemetry.

> We’ve also made changes to the Power menu so you’ll always see the standard Restart and Shut down options without having to install a pending update first. You decide when updates happen, not the other way around.

Great! We've progressed back to Windows XP of 22 years ago.

Linus has had been fussy about maybe like 5% of the things because even then he couldn't keep up with the sheer volume. Nowadays it's more like 1‰

Good

...still not an excuse for using 2.4GB for a tab.

"your tabs will be discarded" is not an excuse for using 2.4GB for a tab

Dell Optiplex 3040 or some configurations of Lenovo M700 may be using 6th gen Intel CPU with DDR3.

that was like $80 last year.

iPhone 12 wasn't low end

I mean, as an outsider, this is exactly how it seems to be working.

Damn, Rapidus couldn't come soon enough.

THIS. This boggles my mind ever since zswap landed in the kernel.

Actually, forget zswap. Why the fuck swap's on disk format hasn't been compressed in the last 2 decades when processing power has been abundant and compressors like lzo/lz4 has been in kernel tree.

What a huge sin. God forbid I could install whatever the version I want on the device I paid for.

> 15.6"

eww

I'm pretty sure there were more DRAM manufacturers back then, and spinning up a new fab probably didn't require as much know-how, capital or even time.

Firefox 4 was peak design, anything they've did afterwards is to keep designers employed.

> Bugs in MSI Afterburner.

Do you mean the OSD?

were they 3-bit flips?

> stop antagonizing blocs like the EU

Who antagonized who first, again?

Bigger issue here is they're removing everything that depends on gtk2.

> That CPU is ancient, though. Over a decade old. That DRAM is 2-channel DDR3.

6700 should be DDR4 unless they're using some weird-ass setup.

> The only people complaining about skeumorphism was designers chasing latest fad.

You're just proving my point. Notice how all of these were posted after Zune/Metro/Windows Phone/8/whatever it's called flat design craziness started.

Just look at this quote from Gruber's blog post:

...these hallmarks of modern UI graphic design style are (almost) never used in good print graphic design. They’re unnecessary in print...

No shit, guess what also wasn't needed in print: Buttons to be pressed and radioboxes to be selected. The whole fad just built on "old design is old and designers need to be employed".

You sure about that?

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram...

I don't know where this myth comes from, DDR4 prices have quadrupled since July.

Nah. Even goddamn 8GB DDR3 modules have tripled in price. SSD prices, similarly.

iPad 3rd gen can be downgraded to iOS 8 (which runs slightly better than iOS 9), and dual-booting to iOS 6 is also doable (and actually can run more apps than later versions thanks to the 3rd party mods).

There's a community around /r/LegacyJailbreak dedicated to running old iOS devices.

> people are now nostalgic for it because the backlash has been forgotten.

What backslash? Only backslash I remember is when flat design was introduced. The only people complaining about skeumorphism was designers chasing latest fad.