brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

Dan Dare by Art of Noise

[–] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 8 months 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 0 points 8 months ago

If you say so.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 8 months 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 9 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 53 points 9 months 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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