Knusper

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hours into his testimony, Trump attempted to read from a piece of paper he retrieved from his pocket. “I’d love to read this, your honor, if I could. Am I allowed to do that?” Trump asked. The judge said no.

Now I'm just imagining him reading a chapter of Shakespeare or something, like he thought he was in literature club.

Not that I could imagine Trump visiting a literature club, but I can imagine him thinking it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, so if it's truly the download or install size you care about, then Via is a good choice in that regard (I know nothing else about it).

But in terms of program complexity and runtime resource usage, it is basically Google Chrome with a different UI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's an idea: Fix the myriad of bugs. That would have me excited.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

May I introduce you to the concept of Microsoft Excel?

One time, someone from HR asked me, if I could help them with an Excel formula. So, I quickly looked up how to do something like that in Excel, adapted it as needed on my laptop, then sent it to them. And well, it didn't work on their system, because I coded it in English, whereas their OS was in German.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This, but like, unironically. It's literally an averaging machine. Sure, not everyone can be above-average in everything, but if you think it produces really good texts, maybe your standards just aren't very high...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can, but it's a shared workplace, so I can't just leave it unplugged.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't want to go too much into detail, but there's basically two different paths you can take. Either you get a preconfigured setup, but then have to rely on the attrocious support from our IT supplier, or you choose a DIY setup.

I could DIY it, so the ethernet works as intended, but it's just not worth the effort...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a shared workplace, so I can't just leave the ethernet unplugged.

And yes, it has DisplayPort and potentially HDMI, too. I do have an idea why it might work that way, but from a user perspective, it's still useless and annoying...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I did write construct, not context. So, yeah, I do mean that you need to make up a fundamentally different reality (where everything happens in a singularity) for it to then potentially work as the theories say.

And while we can have arguments on whether those theories with fundamentally wrong axioms can still be mapped to reality, monopolization is a very obvious example where it falls apart and we do need regulation from the outside.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Somewhat tangential, but USB-C docking stations, as useful as it is to have everything in one cable, it can also be annoying.

At the office, I often just want to charge my laptop with them, but they also give me a wired internet connection, which, thanks to corporate networking shitfuckery, doesn't work. So, every time I plug in, I have to disable that wired connection.

Also, recently a colleague had problems getting her headset working when she was plugged into certain docks, ultimately due to a bug in the OS.
Like, alright, that should be fixed in the OS, but that USB-C dock doesn't even have a speaker attached to it. It's completely useless that it shows up as an audio device.
And even after we found a workaround to fix her headset, she will now have to switch over her audio device every time she plugs into a dock.

So, basically it's now one step to plug in the cable, but potentially multiple steps to undo half of what you unwillingly plugged in...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well, as you've likely noticed, capitalism only works a theoretical construct. It makes the assumption of an 'ideal' market, which very much violates the laws of physics. As a result, no country actually employs unregulated capitalism.

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