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Okay, story time. I was asked for the tale of my laser eye injury, so here you go. I'm fine. Customers were fine. No children were harmed. The only victims were me and Bob's career. funraniumlabs.com/2024/07/how-

@technomancy @jk i will legit pay for an official greggs linux. they've done christmas jumpers, come on, it's the next logical step

theres got to be a secret linux that i've never heard of, which costs $99, comes on two DVD-ROMs, has a team of hundreds of developers who have created a polished and professional distribution with good supported software and hardware, and has millions of happy users who don't ever experience anything even remotely like "xrandr command no longer working and your screens are in the wrong place after an update" or "sound not working after an update" or "updates not working after an update"

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@mousefriend html and css? barely a few hundred kb, not mb. your mbs are in the images at best

at the resolution i want these posters the way tou downscale them makes a massive difference

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@jk one of the things that pisses me off the most is webminidisc because finally we have software that lets you control netmd devices again without having to use 20 year old sonicstage but it requires chrome because they decied to build it as a webpage that can control your usb ports

every new and successively more inane javascript framework that came out in the last 15 years was another salvo for google's embrace-extend strategy to "make the web so Fucked Up that the task of creating a browser with less than 30 million lines of code becomes impossible", and you all fell for it! maybe like 9 web developers pushed back against the 25,000 monthly blog posts extolling the virtues of yet another new way to do something on a computer which they had already solved at xerox in 1977

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i'm not crazy about the downscaling algo so i'm gonna play with it. i made it full res obv but it's narsty because it was meant to be downscaled

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dicked around in photoshop for about an hour and made a little movie poster

bring back animated gifs bring back marquees and blinkies make the web annoying again

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