You spent a few evenings downloading a hundred or so 1.44MB floppy imges over a 56kbps modem. You then booted the installer off one of those floppies, selected what software you wanted installed and started feeding your machine the stack of floppies one by one.
Once that was complete you needed to install the Linux boot loader "LiLo" to allow you the boot it (or your other OS) at power on.
All of that would get you to the point where you had a text mode login prompt. To get anything more you needed to gather together a lot of detailed information about your hardware and start configuring software to tell it about it. For example, to get XFree86 running you needed to know
what graphics chip you had
how much memory it had
which clock generator it used
which RAMDAC was on the board
what video timings your monitor supported
the polarity of the sync signals for each graphics mode
This level of detail was needed with every little thing
how many heads and cylinders do your hard drives have
which ports and irqs did your soundcard use
was it sound blaster compatible or some other protocol
what speeds did your modem support
does it need any special setup codes
what protocol did your ISP use over the phone line
what was the procedure to setup an tear down a network link over it
The advent of PCI and USB made things a lot better. Now things were discoverable, and software could auto-configure itself a lot of the time because there were standard ways to ask for information about what was connected.
If somebody has been diagnosed with a mental disorder it doesn't give them a free pass to be harmful to others. Their actions are still their responsibility. The diagnosis is there to help her explore options for managing her condition, getting treatment or medication. It's not there to give her an excuse for being a bitch.
It's interesting when America tries to make British panel shows (like the recent HIGNFY one). The competition aspect and the points, which are only a conceit in the British version, start having importance. They care who wins and it destroys the comedy. The right answer becomes more important than the funny answer.
Trump is certainly the wrong model, but they do need to communicate better. In particular I think they need to communicate the reasons behind their decisions.
Why aren't we standing with countries like Canada in response to Trump's sabre rattling?
Why haven't they just told Trump to get fucked in trade talks when his administration is asking for changes in our laws?
What are the cuts on winter fuels and disability benefits paying for?
Why are we not looking to rejoin the customs union to remove barriers to trade with the EU?
It's the ignoring of people's issues that's the key problem. If the people are hurting and the government aren't doing anything to help them, preferring to bail out corporations or enable their exploitation of their customers/employees, then the people will look for alternatives to vote for.
All the extremists need to do is pay lip service and they have a ready made electoral platform.
No, which is why people saying "Buy it and don't connect it to the internet" isn't helping. More people need to not buy it and tell other people not to buy it.
They're industrial boxes with a screen. Not aesthetically what I want in my living room. The displays are chosen for their longevity, not their picture quality. They're often actively cooled with fans, so adding a noise level to their operation.
Have you asked an LLM to translate anything bigger than a few sentences? It doesn't have enough contextual storage to keep a whole paper "in mind" and soon wanders off into nonsense.
I don't like the hate speech laws because I think they can be abused to include far too much, however NO LAW SHOULD BE CHANGED IN THE UK IN THE PERSUIT OF TRADE WITH THIS CUNT.
I agree, but with TVs (or large displays" we're at the point where there are no good options. Commercial displays are over engineered for the home and lag in technology Vs home TVs. So they're not an option. Lg and Samsung are the display technology leaders, but their TVs are full of crap— so no. Monitors don't go large enough for the living room.
I've put on a bit of weight since then, but I wouldn't say that I'm giant.