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thomondon Our commitment to Windows quality

Part of the problem is the unpredictability. I have Nvidia too and I never had these problems.

thomondon Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

> 1. insisted on a pre-war version of ubuntu

Which war?

thomondon Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app

Why would they even need an genAI? Grindr isn't even a dating site, it's a hookup site. A few if statements would do it.

thomondon Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes

I'm a bit shocked the EU allowed them away with this.

thomondon ./watch

Casio watches never looked as cheap as this watch does. Going with light grey plastic was a mistake, makes it look like a cheap prop of a metallic object.

thomondon OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours

Surely you can download the extension from a mirror and install it manually(ie the "old fashioned way")?

thomondon A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work

The first layoff is always the worst. You'll treat future gigs as transactional and be better for it. The younger you're laid off the sooner you'll learn this.

thomondon Drag and Drop Images into Bevy 0.15 on the web

No explanation of what Bevy is?

https://bevyengine.org/

thomondon ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers

North Korea says their excellent Human rights is reason for low emigration rate.

thomondon Reactive HTML Notebooks

I think you mean thirty years, 2004 was almost web 2.0.

thomondon Notepad++ is 21 years old

Fond memories. Look up also Crimson Editor from the same period, great editor.

thomondon Notepad++ is 21 years old

I love SciTE but it feels like a technical demo compared to Npp.

thomondon J2ME-Loader: J2ME emulator for Android devices

Was this Opera Mini? I remember installing that on my Nokia many years ago. It used compression as well. https://www.coderanch.com/t/229735/Opera-Mini-browser

thomondon Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files

You can claim this about all slurs, my point is that most websites don't care and blanket ban them.

thomondon Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files

The 'N' word has seen a similar adoption and "historical negative connotatione still lingers for those who remember it that way" as well. I doubt they'll allow that particular slur however(and rightly so).

thomondon No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda

I have my emails well filtered. For me, It's Slack/Teams that's full of useless groups of inane chatter and DMs that pop up and annoy me.

thomondon No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda

It's why I don't use IM and just block myself off on those platforms. If it's not meaningful enough to write in an email then it's not meaningful enough for me to read.

thomondon IrfanView

There a post earlier regarding paint.net and people there mentioned irfanview.

thomondon Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover

Might depend on how much you sweat and the climate where you live. I personally change every week during summer but fortnightly during winter.

thomondon Global cancer cases will jump 77% by 2050, WHO report estimates

> Global cancer diagnoses will reach 35 million in 2050 ... from the 20 million cases diagnosed in 2022.

How much of this can be attributed to population growth?

thomondon Mod_blog: A Blogging Engine in C

I get where you're coming from but this is hacker news, what do you expect? There's alot of people here interested in the technology rather then the "product".

thomondon Mod_blog: A Blogging Engine in C

I don't think this is a "loveletter". It's at least 23 years old and is still maintained so it seems to be a serious project with people using it.

https://boston.conman.org/2023/01/19.1

thomondon Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

Ironically your advice of watching YouTube videos and reading SO posts sounds more like those "Teach Yourself in 24 Hours" books. There's no easy shortcuts to truly learning any topic.

thomondon Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time

The Android and iOS versions of stellarium are not open source or GPL. Only the desktop versions are.

thomondon Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time

The Android and iOS versions of stellarium are not open source so you can't compile you're own versions.

thomondon Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled

> lack of sunlight

Might be actually too much if the increase is caused by skin cancers.

thomondon Book of Kells (2018)

Do you have any more information on this? It sounds just too crazy to be true.

thomondon Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital

> newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse

Why on earth would they allow him these things?

thomondon Sigil II, a Doom WAD from J.Romero, has been released

Daikatana really torpedoed his reputation, it never recovered from that.