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Comment · 7 months ago
If you start banning everything that causes addiction, a market big enough to trade on the Nasdaq would collapse, vanish.
Comment · 7 months ago
How can I disable the horizontal wheel? Not the one between the regular buttons but the one on top of the thumb.

It’s useless for me but no piece of software acknowledges my neurosis

Comment · 7 months ago
It’s a great desktop environment. I wish I could install it. I’m trying to install the CDE on a parallel’s FreeBSD VM but it doesn’t relaunch after rebooting it.
Comment · 7 months ago
“Calm down, Postalcoder. We can vent tonight on our blog”
Comment · 7 months ago
We used to live counting the days in awe for the surprisingly new Google invention or release.

Then, one by one, Google started killing more services than it was announcing (Wave, News, +, etc), and enshittifying with spyware those that were still up

Comment · 7 months ago
MacOS mail used to have RSS integration
Comment · 8 months ago
I dream of a macOS installer in which you can decide the level of bloat, instead of then fighting against apple’s super user in your device (SIP) using scripts from generous Internet friends.

“Warning: installing the service ‘Siri’ will add up to an extra GB of memory usage”

Comment · 8 months ago
“ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

Every living thing that moves might include other ethnical groups

Comment · 8 months ago
The iphone air isn’t popular either and yet here we are. They preferred releasing a huge thin phone than a tiny thin phone. Even if the % of clients is small, there are still millions of potential mini clients
Comment · 8 months ago
I found myself closing Linux windows sometimes only with alt+F4; sometimes only with ctrl+Q; sometimes with both; sometimes with none
Comment · 9 months ago
which is not that bad if you want to warm your room a bit. The heat is not wasted, but added to the room. We use 250 watts to warm under the coffee tables. These are infrared-coated incandescent bulbs
Comment · 10 months ago
you joke but Latin teachers are very sought after in my region. There are none. I have just bootcamped myself to become one and shift careers due to the high demand
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
browsers should be developed so they do not provide the web server any more information than any other visitor. web browsers should curl the website and process it locally without telling the server anything else.

It seems like web browsers were developed in a pre-surveillance capitalism world

Comment · 1 year ago
so maybe the future folding iphone with double screen will mimic binocular vision

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