toddestan

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Internet Explorer was originally based upon the Mosaic browser. Like a lot of Microsoft's tech, it's something they acquired.

Up to IE4, it was a standalone browser. It's IE4 where Microsoft integrated it into the OS and made do double duty as Windows Explorer, which is what you're thinking of.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Juno is still around and still offers dialup internet plans. Earthlink was still offering dialup until last year.

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

As someone who also likes VFDs, I've fully expected that they'd be extinct in new products by now thanks to cheap LCDs and OLED. But I find it awesome that they're still hanging in there.

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

That was revised in slightly newer cars, where the vacuum lines from the engine were required to hold the headlights closed. So when the mechanism inevitably failed, you had permanently deployed headlights until/if it was repaired.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You're not getting anymore security patches, but as long as you keep your browser up to date and generally be careful about what you download and run (as you should already be doing) you'll likely be just fine.

I'd estimate sometime around 2029 or so the major browsers as well as security software will start dropping support for Windows 10 and at that point you may need to start thinking about moving to something else if you haven't already done so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Essentially, no. If you don't care about the cost, maybe with a MSDN subscription.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

The main thing is to find a good external speaker though that doesn’t auto-sleep in the middle of one’s show…

That's a thing now? It's been a while since I've shopped for speakers, but other than those Google/Alexa jobs they seemed to be about as dumb as rocks. Which is exactly they way I want them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

The video player in Winamp is also completely non-functional in Wine the last time I tried it, as it relies on DirectShow in Windows which has very iffy Wine support. That may also be why it's marked as silver.

It's too bad as I really liked using Winamp as a video player in Windows, despite it's quirks.

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

DDG has also really gone downhill for me. It's still noticeably better than Google, but DDG nows does a lot of the same shit that originally made me give up on Google years ago. I'm assuming a big part of this is because DDG heavily sources their results from Bing, and while Bing does manage to be better than Google, it's not much better.

I really need to put some effort into trying out a few more search engines and seeing if they are any better. Last time I looked, many of them were also pulling results from Bing so they all had similar issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Other than hoarding up the houses, everything is pretty general Monopoly strategy I figured out a long time ago. Basically try to get a monopoly ASAP and then develop it ASAP. I've found that strategy to be good, but it depends a lot on luck. Sometimes despite everything you try, the only monopoly you can get are those horrid green properties and you're pretty much doomed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (14 children)

What they are doing is comparing your answer and seeing if it is consistent with how it has been answered previously. They realize that not everyone is going to give the exact same answer, so as long as you answer it in a way that enough other people have answered it, it should let you in.

I'll usually go with the minimum number of clicks that I think will get me through, since I'm lazy and it'll also at times slow down how fast you can click which is annoying.

I'll also answer them wrong if I think it's a mistake that enough other people will make. "Yes... that RV over there is a bus..."

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