* Posts by Anonymous Kiwi

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We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage

Anonymous Kiwi

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Facebook tweeted...

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<strikethrough>You'd think they'd post it their Facebook page wouldn't you?</strikethrough>

Or insta

Take a look, and you'll see... Windows XP? Bit of Dairy Milk, Fruit and Bork at Cadbury World

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Finger of Blame

I can see the local Cadbury factory here getting taken down by cranes so they can put the new hospital in...

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Re: XP vs 10

Clean install on a 5yo laptop with hdd boots in 8 minutes, not including POST or GrUB.

Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status

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Re: Tea biscuits inspire creativity and help develop life skills

Sounds like an adequate mixture for lollie cake if it was any more moist and had colourful marshmallowy thingies on it

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: I am offended

Let not us forget hot or cold chocolate (yes, the latter is a thing)!

Don't like the new Windows 11 Start or Taskbar? Don't worry – Microsoft's got your back

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Re: Tired ? Older hardware ?

Yes, but s l o w. Windows apps often run faster in wine than on Windows, then there's the horrible boot times to deal with.

Anonymous Kiwi

even more heh

Leave them there, just put them at the bottom of the window to satisfy those people that put their taskbar on the right.

Anonymous Kiwi

> since when should an OS overstep is bounds into the realm choosing what applications get installed?

Since apple released the iPhone in 2007 if I'm not mistaken.

New Zealand internet outage blamed on DDoS attack on nation's third largest internet provider

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Third biggest? Not that big though!

<blockquote> Vocus – the country's third-largest internet operator which is behind brands including Orcon, Slingshot and Stuff Fibre </blockquote>

Never heard of any of those, when people here think ISPs they think Vodafone, Spark / Telecom, maybe skinny or 2 degrees but I've never heard of any of those four.

Those are probably all controlled by the top two though, just like Woolworths / Progressive and Foodstuffs manage to together own all of our supermarkets.

Borking on the corner, watching the world go by

Anonymous Kiwi

How they tell it's windows?

New GNOME Human Interface Guidelines now official – and obviously some people hate it

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Re: hate it

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This may be a feature of the desktop, though, to add the text "(as username)" to the title bar text.

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Yeah, that's Marco the window manager doing its thing. I used to mess around with a custom desktop environment, and I'd start X and marco as root, and every single window (the server side decorators at least) would say (as kettle) after it.

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Choice, anybody?

I'm starting work on a UI framework called Oui designed for just that: it's cross-platform, adaptive and will soon be themable. Put it on a touchscreen, it gets a tablet or phone UI depending on window size, it respects DPI settings, and more relevantly for this conversation is adaptive. I know kde users like choice, menubars and everything in front of them, so the UI reacts to that. It will be themable eventually, so that's an added plus. On Windows 10 it has the ribbon interface, and on Windows 11 it follows Fluent design. On OS X, it uses client side decorations, toolbars and will support the global menu bar. On Big Sur it uses client side decorations and the sidebar visually extends vertically the entire way down the window. On gnome it uses your beloved CSDs and shit in the titlebars.

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Have they ever wondered what the title bar is for?

b U t _ t H e N _ y O u R e _ w A s T i N g _ t I t L e B a R _ s P a C e !

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: We had global menus way back

Only daily???

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Re: Who cares?

Finally people who share my thinking. The best mac OS was either tiger or snow leopard.

Firefox and LibreOffice stick to their "traditional" designs because they WORK, and do so well. Even GIMP, which let's not forget was what gtk was created for, uses gtk 2 for a reason: it's familiar.

Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right

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Apple designed something for their later macs where the function keys are replaced by a single touchscreen key, that's long, and apps can program it to show certain buttons.

What I don't understand is why they don't just make the whole keyboard like that. It solves the keyboard layout problems...

And they are into minimising key travel...

Anonymous Kiwi

What's wrong with that?

I have both: a 4-core amd a6 from 2015

Edit:

wait no, 2016, but still, I'm considering upgrading to a Pi 4.

Anonymous Kiwi

Can you put linux on an arduino?

Anonymous Kiwi

Exactement. I have an eleven-year-old iPad that has yet to fall me as far as storage, ram, gpu or cpu goes. The only thing stopping me from using it for everything is outdated safari.

Anonymous Kiwi

Backups? What?

The best thing is if there was no need for backups, you're not replacing the mmc are you?

Linux Mint 20.2 is a bit more insistent about updating but not as annoying as Windows or Mac, team promises

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Funny you should mention windows update...

i t s b l u e t o o t h e d t o y o u r c o v i d v a c c i n e

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: painless

something we got to give the linux os credit for

Well... It should be expectation, we should discredit other oses for making you reboot while they install.

Anonymous Kiwi

I'm guilty of never having kept a distro installed long enough to see a systemd update :~)

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: All I know

5yo AMD here, Windows is unusably slow and Ubuntu is bloated. I switch between Mint and Debian.

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Linux Bloatware

Haiku runs like a charm!

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Linux Bloatware

Some people will laugh at me for this, but I find KDE Plasma to be faster than even Xfce.

Linux Foundation celebrates 30 years of Torvalds' kernel with a dry T-shirt contest

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Re: Tongue in cheek

Comic $an$ M$, you mean ?

11-year-old graduate announces plans to achieve immortality by 'replacing body parts with mechanical parts'

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Re: IQ of only 145?

Give or take about 50 depending on which test you take.

Black screens in Windows 11? Bork has seen it all before

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It lives on in all of us. I'm sure I remember seeing it somewhere else about 2 weeks ago...

Anonymous Kiwi

Never had any of that with mine, the trick is to wait until your hardware is about three years old, then they've usually stamped it into the kernel.

Linux Mint was good, handled the hardware better than Ubuntu.

Anonymous Kiwi

I used to get one every two years, then it became every month, then twice a week, then not at all. You can probably guess what caused the not at all.

Anonymous Kiwi

But what happened to the Raspberry Pis ?

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Pink screen of death, anyone?

Is it RGBA? 00000000 anyone?

Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: What is an OS for?

Debian Cinnamon runs comfortably on 6 GB, 8 if you want third-party apps. You can update when you want to, and no restart is required.

I thought that was bloated.

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: What is an OS for?

IMO Windows 7 was great. There was no shit about Bing, Edge or the absolute mess of a Microsoft Store. It was fast, stable and had nice translucency effects. I have poor vision, and I liked having a bright blue titlebar on the active window. Now the text is slightly lighter.

I use a couple of OSes now, not one of them is windows. I have hoped Windows 11 might give me a decent reason to use it but Microsoft doesn't seem to care about what's underneath. Otherwise my 7-minute boot times wouldn't be a thing.

Apple scrambles to quash iOS app sideloading demands with 'think of the children' defense

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what Windows 8 did and only allow side loading if it is enterprise joined on a Windows Server based domain?

They did WHAT?

I never heard of this, mind you Windows 7 is and probably always will be the best Windows, and I stuck at it until business meant moving to 10.

But please, no, don't suggest that!

Stop. Look... Install Linux? The Reg solves Microsoft's latest Windows teaser

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: wishes...

There are plenty of applications people's businesses force on them that don't run through WINE...

SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband constellation to achieve full global coverage by September, boss claims

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Does this mean I get to ditch my Internet service provider?

Emergency mode? Bah! It takes a Microsoft product to really break a digital sign

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Windows is leaking something other than memory.

I was shocked when I found out you have to pay to use public toilets overseas, I've never had that at home.

Nobody has coins these days.

Although, now that the UK is in lockdown now it doesn't matter that much, because just as few people are using trains.

Anonymous Kiwi

Euston, we have a problem.

Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Breaking things

There is a _very_ good reason why Chrome OS and Android have two root partitions -- you can upgrade one, and if it's broken then you use the other one.

My Silverblue installation does the same thing.

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Desktop is boring?

I "discovered" Linux after my weekly BSoDs turned into daily BSoDs, and recall having two of them one day before giving up. I knew very little about Linux, all I knew was that it was an operating system (which it isn't really), and I knew what that was, from experience with macOS and Windows.

I found a blank USB in the draw under my desk, and went to the Ubuntu website and downloaded an ISO. After hours of trying to figure out how to put the ISO on the USB, I finally did it. I put the thing in and installed without hesitating.

Now I use Fedora Silverblue (sometimes, but only when I have to) and helloSystem. Fedora and helloSystem are nearly polar opposites in design philosophy, but they're both easy to use.

Tim Cook: Sideloading is a disaster and proposed App Store reforms would harm user privacy and security

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Re: It wouldn't be for people who like to tinker

That's the thing -- you don't own it.

Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: package systems and security

That is exactly what the devs are aiming for.

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: More than enough

The author of this article does make some misinterpreted remarks about security, and the quote given had very litte to do with security. This was brought up by Simon Peter on the Matrix channel for helloSystem, and what he meant was that you can't aim for total security: the user ends up with no freedom, the system becomes a maze, and in days new malware gets released that finds another hole to exploit.

Look at Apple: macOS and iOS are locked down to the point of barely being usable, and _still_ have security holes.

Anonymous Kiwi

Or are they both copying some other platform?

I feel like Windows never looked great - 3 was all pixely, 95 and 98 had too much beige, and were slow, ME was just generally shit, 2000 was okay, but a bit too grey, XP jumped out at you with blue and yellow, Vista was too shiny and transparent, 8 was flat and boring, and I usually see blue with white text and an unhappy face too much on 10.

macOS had both looks and function, now it has neither.

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It's getting worse with Big Sur. And Big Sur doesn't even look good either: lose-lose.

Everybody gets a Windows PC or a Chromebook, Ubuntu's market share passes macOS's declining one, Chrome has already passed it.

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Menus and application windows

Shutdown option

It took me a while to figure out why Windows 3 crashed every time I closed Program Manager...

What I despise about the leaked Windows 11 images is the start menu being in the middle of the taskbar -- for 25 years you put the mouse in the bottom left corner. Doesn't matter much to me now that I have a certain FreeBSD distribution as my primary OS...

Anonymous Kiwi

Re: Everyone copies everyone

What, sUn vAlLeY?

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It currently uses pkg, but I have something up my sleeve for that, https://github.com/linuxkettle/aPpShOp/.

Anyway, the point is that all is done with the Filer rather than the Terminal we've all gotten so used to.

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