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[–] [email protected] 172 points 2 months ago (30 children)

Soo, booting your computer from someone else's computer?

I mean we've had thin clients and PXE for ages?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

DDG has also gotten much worse since the introduction of AI features.

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

It used to be somewhat better: Corel Linux and Creative apps existed...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you for the info! Otherwise I would have missed the deal. The affinity suite is the best thing since Photoshop 5.0

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

I'm still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For me the direct opposite is true. About two years ago Google stopped giving me any accurate results, feeding me a bunch of semi-related garbage instead. DuckDuckGo feels like the Google of old: results that actually (literally) contain the terms of the query and not much else. I'd hate using the internet without it.

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

Honestly all this feels like the railway's Dieselization 100yrs ago. When the end of steam powered engines was drawing near, coal hauling railroads and Baldwin Locomotive in the U.S. tried all kinds of whacky and hilariously inefficient engine designs, just to keep the ol' ways alive... none of these worked out - everyone who stuck to it lost hugely. Viz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_class_M-1

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

They can't!

As a teacher in luddite Germany: yes our smartboards still Run Windows Media Player + I need that bar visible so I'm able to stop the movie at the correct teachable scene.

(And before anyone suggests making a custom playlist with vlc and all those newfangled contraptions from around 2005: I don't even have admin rights to change the sound volume...)