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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The rooster came before the egg?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh won't you please take me localhost??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Fuck I wish the politicians would give this to us straight like that.

Why is Albo's party spreading memes about three eyed fish instead of saying "yeah Dutton's nuclear plan is safe, but it maximises fossil fuel use in the short term and we'd prefer to focus on renewables"

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

My 2011 iPad 3rd gen.

A lightweight Linux distribution would make that thing killer for word processing and document reading. Might even allow YouTube videos to be watched again.

Any equivalent Android tablet would have custom ROMs etc. to get a bit more functionality out of it. I know it's not a tablet, but look at the Samsung galaxy SII - the amount of community development for that is incredible to this day.

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

I would argue modern MacOS is not "bad software" per se, it's just nothing to write home about. Back in the heyday you describe, it was innovative and quite spectacular compared to the competition. Nowadays it's rivals are better featured in many respects, but it still does everything it needs to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They acquired K-9 Mail a year ago or so, but it's still K-9 Mail. There's plans and a roadmap, but not much has happened that the end user can see, yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's alright. Personal preference has me sticking with Linux, and I'll never touch Windows with a ten foot pole if I can avoid it, but MacOS is certainly commendable.

Before I went Linux, I daily drove hackintoshes for a decade or so - back when the hardware was bad and the software was first class. Now it's the other way around!

If Asahi ever get their kernel perfect, I'm definitely buying a modern MacBook Pro. No doubt about it.

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

It really does just sort of "work".

"Sorry, there was a problem. (Error code 0x0000fkn69)"

Nothing Microsoft makes ever works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And one of the last major holdouts from web 1.0 :(

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thunderbird is great for me. I've used it for near on twenty years, and it flies compared to Outlook, especially for searching.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. The operation has failed.

As the de-facto IT admin in a small business, this message haunts my dreams and I hate that I know it by heart. Time to make a new mail profile and configure all the accounts again. Its not like it's the seventh time on this computer. It's not like I've reinstalled Outlook three times already as per Microsoft's "accepted solution".

There's a reason I don't use Microsoft software on my hardware.

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