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really wish xmpp ever took off since it's the only IM service that runs on Windows 98 that's still online

the UNIX filesystem layout makes sense if you view the entire OS as a single piece of software with thousands of components that all work together and depend on one another, and can be composed together using scripts. but after using computers for decades i am now fairly certain that, for me at least, this is not, in reality, actually what an OS is or does, and package managers and other such tooling are really just square-peg-in-round-hole management utilities

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Falsehoods programmers believe about Windows 10:

We don't have to list builds in our minimum requirements because surely everyone is just on the latest build of Windows 10, right?

PSA: you can make a bootable CD from a floppy image (for example, for using boot floppy images on a retro laptop which has optical but no floppy drive) using imgburn and going into the advanced tab like so

hi i need money would you like to buy some hand crafted pixels maple.pet/commissions bring your face, bring a picture, bring a pet, that's right, we'll draw your pet

i really need stable income but since jobs aren't real anymore i'm taking any help i can get. i have a ko-fi you can send money to and there's even some pins left to buy there. i have a patreon where i don't have any rewards because i couldn't think of any and nobody has suggested any yet. you can also get a pixel portrait for a very reasonable price. or you can tell your employer about me

i need money. i want to work for said money but i can't find any avenue how. none of my job searches are turning up anything. could really use help

Hello tech bros a reminder that dark mode gives some people with certain kinds of astigmatism (me) eye strain and headaches and so no it's not always "the accessible option"

Test your software on light mode please

If the icons on your buttons are now white on a white background because you never did this, you made an app that I can't use

If you are wondering what I did to my #website... well, this is what i did, lmao

Me and @gianmarcogg03 have decided to block users who are using #chrome or #chromium based shit browsers in response to #manifestv3.

For more information on why we are doing this: gianmarco.gg/blinky/

TL;DR: Manifest v3 will kill #adblockers.

ENTRP03G.ICO - Transport, Space

...Enterprise, Launches, Starships, Tardis, Ufos, Warp

TEL14E.ICO - Comms, Telecom

....Aerials, Mobiles, Poles, Satellites, Telephones

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