toddestan @ toddestan @lemm.ee

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While we're at it, let's also vent about cars and trucks with loud modified exhausts.

I use BiglyBt on Debian. I use BiglyBt because I previously used Vuze, and I used Vuze because I previously used Azureus. I don't really remember why I went with Azureus originally, but it may have just been because it was popular at that time.

I get the impression most people use other bittorrent clients nowadays, but BiglyBt does what I need it to do. I never really used any of the "advanced" features of Vuze myself, pretty much only using it for torrents.

The sad thing is back in the Windows XP days Microsoft had the focus stealing thing pretty much solved. Well okay - I remember you had to install some of the PowerToys or make some registry edits to get at some of the settings. But once setup pretty much nothing could steal focus away from the current window, which was a welcome change from where we had been. That started to break again in Windows 7, and has gotten worse with every release since then.

Admittedly XFCE isn't perfect either, but it's much better behaved than modern Windows.

Rock n' Roll Racing.

Challenger had a fleck of paint damage one of its windows on an early mission.

I see enough weird behavior out of the Dells at work and their USB-C docks so I can believe it. Not detecting the dock, not charging from the dock, ports not working on the dock, randomly insisting the dock isn't compatible. Even the machines that end up as folding desktops that never get disconnected from their dock end up doing this stuff. I really had no use for a laptop anyway so I finally convinced them to give me a desktop.

Why not use gvim on Windows? That's my "IDE" on Windows. Though with modern versions of Windows, trying to run vim in the Command Prompt isn't a complete disaster like it was in the past.

"IDE" in quotes because I consider vim a text editor, and I don't try to make it an IDE with a bunch of plugins.

Generally, Google shows the appropriate name based upon where you are located. So for everyone outside of 'murica, it's still the Gulf of Mexico.

I managed to get this: How to Fire a Gun.

So it's at least plausible.

And you'd know they'd gerrymander it into a small handful of high population blue territories and a giant pile of mostly empty red territories.

Canada is one of the founding members of NATO. But so is the USA. Could get interesting, but not in a good way.

I've not had that issue, but knowing Reddit's algorithms all it probably takes is one accidental click on a single post and it will forever keep adding that to your feed after that.

Our base is under a tack.

Funny enough duct tape ceiling guy is playing on an LCD monitor.

Youtube was founded?

Well, it definitely looks to have backfired on US government. The politicians figured that they could force Bytedance to divest TikTok using a ban in the US as a threat, assuming that TikTok wouldn't want to lose access to the US market and the 180 million or so (!) users. Instead of complying, ByteDance did nothing and the politicians and the US government were put into a position of actually enforcing a very unpopular ban.

The timing of course is interesting. This comes right at the end of Biden's administration, allowing for Trump to swoop in and lift the ban and take all the credit for that. Of course ignoring that is was Trump who originally kicked this whole thing into motion back in 2020 with his executive order to ban TikTok.

Unfortunately, it's the corporate standard. With that said, it's actually kind of surprising how little I use the Office suite on my work computer (other than Outlook I guess). More and more things are becoming web based.

I'm expecting pretty decent software support for Windows 10 for another three years or so. Sure, there will be things here and there that won't work, but most things will continue to work and many people who are on Windows 10 can just keep on using it for the next few years should they chose to do that. That'll more or less match what happened with Windows 7, where it wasn't until 2023 that I started to see support start to massively drop off. With that said, if Microsoft actually breaks Office on Windows 10 that'll really change things.

Also, I'd offer up 2001-2014 as a period of time where it was entirely possible to stick with one OS (Windows XP) the entire time.

That's impressive. Even the IT-managed corporate Windows 11 Enterprise installs at work have ads in it. Nothing like what you'd find buying a cheap Windows laptop from someplace like Best Buy with the Windows Home edition, but there's still ads in places like the start menu. I can get rid of some of them, at least temporarily, but not being an admin on the machine I can't seem to squash them entirely.

It didn't help that Netflix was also one of the big users of pop-up ads back when that was a thing. I've never forgiven them for that either.