brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 9 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Do they mean "buying" instead of "owning"?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

I really like the tiling window support in Pop_OS!'s Cosmos desktop.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Dan Dare by Art of Noise

[–] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the same argument I've heard about the "complexity" of Mastodon: too many choices, which is I guess why people largely stopped going to websites outside the major social networks. Monopoly over competition, it's like everyone is pining for a monarchy.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Democrats aren't authoritarians. It's a bad comparison. Democrats are always fragmented, it's virtually a defining characteristic. Post-Biden unity has been quite unusual.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The fixation is because there is no clear line of succession. If he fails, who steps in? They'll splinter and fragment. They'll still be deplorable, but less effective when not united behind a single authoritarian leader.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

I guess the chicken and egg may have appeared at the same time.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

I've always called Word documents and PDFs "dead-end formats" (DEF). Once you export your data to them, there's no reliable way to retrieve your data from them for further transformation like you can for YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, Markdown, &c.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)

None were leftist, and only one got as far as violence.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 53 points 1 month ago

I had that computer, and it was much more than a calculator, unless you mean a modern programmable one. This one could be programmed in BASIC. It also had a receipt-sized printer you could get.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NQheo52J3BM

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