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   Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:21:43 JST Sexy Moon
   Having intractable problems getting things working, people that complain about modern computers need to try configuring a sound card in DOS and they'll shut the fuck up real fast because computers work great now
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     :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:22:25 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans:

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     @Moon there's a reason macs were as popular as they were back in the 80s and early 90s
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:42:37 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @Moon what if we skip past the
     >IRQs must be correct or it won't work
     but stop before the
     >web browser needs 1,400MB of ram just to launch
     because that's what I mean when I bitch about modern computing.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:44:19 JST Sexy Moon

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     @BowsacNoodle everything done since 1991 adds up. I don't exactly know why Windows 11 needs gigabytes of RAM when xp needed 96 but it's way more secure for instance
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     gh0st1984 (gh0st1984@decayable.ink)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:45:44 JST gh0st1984

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     It's so fucking bloated for no reason
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:45:44 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • gh0st1984
     @gh0st1984 @Moon YES! Old systems had constraints which forced creativity. Too much of the modern stuff seems lazy. I'm just going to bitch like an old man if I say more because I'm explicitly not a programmer but I've written code a few times and built computers for 30 years and I remember things not sucking this much. It wasn't useful nostalgia when it was like 10 years ago.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:48:19 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @Moon Unironically can't even tell if I should agree or rage scream into the void because computers will never be as good as I once thought they were and will never be as good as they are right now. Every day, computers and the internet get worse.

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:48:24 JST Sexy Moon

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     • all work and no play
     @3AM_drunkpoaster I;ve been fighting with this sound card literally all day
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     all work and no play (3am_drunkpoaster@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:48:28 JST all work and no play

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     @Moon I'll take needing to read a manual to understand how my equipment works over most of the problems we have now.

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:51:01 JST Sexy Moon

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     @BowsacNoodle I am sympathetic but I also think people overdo it. I have a hard time getting over the memory difference with windows, I feel like probably you should be able to run a base windows os on 256 megabytes, it should be possible to do that but incentives are not set up for MS to fix this,
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:53:23 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • gh0st1984
     @gh0st1984 @Moon Dude I seriously think it's just the overabundance of power.
     >"Wow there's so much power available and ram in the average machine now. I can definitely not even worry about sloppy code and a bloated UI because who's going to miss 2% cpu utilization and 200 MB of ram?"
     t. every developer ever. except now we have so much crap running at once that our screaming machines run like crap and everything is loaded on LE CLOUD through some stupid web interface so the speed doesn't matter. And web pages are all bloated as hell and nobody cares for the same reason. It takes 2x as long to load a damn web page today as it did a decade ago. What the hell!?
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     gh0st1984 (gh0st1984@decayable.ink)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:53:24 JST gh0st1984

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     I feel like they forgot how to into compression, or it's corponiggers forcing us to buy more powerful hardware for no reason.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:54:39 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @Moon I'm being a bit dramatic, but not entirely. I also think you made a good point and don't wish to pooh-pooh your thread.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:55:46 JST Sexy Moon

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     @BowsacNoodle feel free to jump in to any of my threads to disagree, friend. but I appreciate that you looked for areas of agreement between the two of our positions.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 19:08:02 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @Moon Reminds of discovering that Solaris 10 doesn't auto-discovers hardware like network cards, you need to reconfigure the OS from installer or something like that.
     Plus I think I'd need to change the modeline bullshit in Xsun configuration for my display to work correctly (currently there's like 20 pixels being cut off).
     
     I got way to used to plug-and-play on everything.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 19:19:33 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @Moon Also xrandr doesn't seems to be supported so it would involve fiddling with a configuration file and restarting the thing on every change if not doing a reboot.
     So I just cope with a column of 20 pixels being cut off.
     
     I'm not a fan of most new things, specially as sometimes it's plain removal of good features, but holy shit there's some stuff that we got that I wouldn't want to see ever go away.
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