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queer robot squirrelbunny girl, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, making a return to upset those who told us to leave.
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flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
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it's also just a good way to get a good deal on ipod because i imagine snootier collectors look down on pre engraved ones so they sell cheaper
like, i just bought an ipod mini that has someone's full name engraved. how do i call this ipod anything but its previous owner's name. i own an old part of you now
there's something endearing and/or bittersweet about second hand ipods on ebay with a happy birthday message engraved on the back
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Reading about an early 90s tech exec complaining that public schools aren't replacing their old PCs with new ones fast enough for her company's bottom line, and suggests maybe we need to get rid of public schools and replace them with private schools that can afford new PCs that use her CD-ROMs.
So no, this BS didn't start with AI.
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Delphi has never changed.
If you took a Delphi developer who only knows modern Delphi, and sat them down in front of Borland Delphi for Windows running on Windows 3.1, they would be able to make hello world in about 10 seconds.
The user experience has remained fundamentally unchanged for over 30 years.
They designed a thing that worked, and it has stood the test of time.
Meanwhile, your android phone moves some button to a different place every few months, and adds three new gestures, one of which you won't discover until a year or so later.
but hey the haptics can play the wilhelm scream now
thanks valve
the steam controller 2026 suffers from being a steam deck with the touchscreen and the computer removed
the steam controller 2015 suffers from most customization support having been removed from the steam client
valve kneecapped two of their own pieces of hardware in one glorious fell swoop
sincerely i cannot understand people who think the steam controller 2026 is an upgrade over the steam controller 2015
the build quality is nicer and the trackpad haptics have better hardware which are almost not used by the software and that's about it
it feels like every single thing we try to do on the steam controller 2026 that we used to be able to with the steam controller 2015 is worse or completely gone
did the steam controller 2026 really drop the split keyboard functionality from steam controller 2015 entirely or are we doing something wrong
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RE: https://todon.eu/@redjives/117223317766147041
This is absolutely right, and I think a big part of the problem is that tech has utterly refused to standardise on *anything*.
Oh, you want a web server? You can get a cheap managed one but it'll only run certain languages and databases. Or you can rent a computer somewhere and install everything up to and including your favourite Linux distribution, and maybe you'll even set it all up securely. That's ridiculous. We've had the internet for decades now, you should just be able to download a zip file with an app in it in a standard format and put it on a standard server and expect it to work securely.
In practice, the nearest thing we ever had to that is that Lamp stack. This is, I think, a big part of why Wordpress is so popular — it's easier to find a hosting service that runs Wordpress and configure it with plugins to be what you need than it is to set up and install a second server stack.
Obviously we'll always want to be able to just connect computers running arbitrary code to the internet, but we should have *something* that's easy and standardised by now (but then, when have software developers every tried to make this stuff *more* accessible to regular people?)
Do you want more friends? — yeah https://alterspring.org/@maple/a/117328185816923118
What do you think about Bad Dragon? — it's too expensive and i have the wrong hardware to play with it https://alterspring.org/@maple/a/117328179861752484
Who is your favourite Retrospring user? — i didn't know anyone who used retrospring https://alterspring.org/@maple/a/117328177039132523
@Angela oni takeover
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Do you like terminals? Do you have too many terminals? Do you like things that go zoop zoop and move around? Check out my wideboi here.
(I'm screwing around with building a terminal multiplexer because I'm a masochist)
@lmorchard zoop zoop!
@selectric are any of us?
@selectric it's abandonware but honestly the best non-itunes experience we've had managing an ipod library
- website
- https://maple.pet
- ask me anything
- https://alterspring.org/@maple
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queer robot squirrelbunny girl, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, making a return to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, lowercase, check system link above, meatspace avatar is 32yo, it blocks minors indiscriminately
flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
HRT: 15/11/2015
⚠️ do not like or favourite its negative posts: https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/110573733959251340 ⚠️
Joined Jan 2021
