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What does this have to do with my question?

Is this satire?

This looks like a scene out of Enterprise.

See also: AOL's search data release

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

There always seems to be an incompatibility between the people who made it, the people who use it, and the people who want to contribute. The latter two often try, but the former isn't interested in the help or has a very specific vision for the project and doesn't allow any input that isn't in line with that even if it's not in conflict.

It's hard to fault anyone in that triad 100%. Open source has a way of becoming infrastructure. People come to depend on tools made by people without the resources, interest, or personality to run an infrastructure project, or who won't budge on their vision to allow contributions outside of it that might help get the project to a point where it can attract enough vision-aligned contributors.

Forking potentially shifts the problem to a new triad, so it's not an obvious solution in all cases.

Internet Archive has three:

https://archive.org/details/tiger-direct-pc-price-blitz-cata...

https://archive.org/details/tigerdirect-v15i5a

https://archive.org/details/tiger-direct-web-safe

The classic NAND-me-down. My first personal computer was a "broken" 486 system I got for $25 at a yard sale. All it needed was a hard drive.

It could have been bought old and upgraded. Not everyone had the luxury of a brand new first computer.

Blogger was new when TV was 75 years old. Glad to see it's still around.

What is it? The page is vague to the point of uselessness.

Threads pages don't load for me. Is there a non-Threads option for this?

Do they? I haven't seen any research. My non-scientific experience watching people use Google tells me they mostly cycle through the ads at the top until they get to the right thing, or forget what they were doing and follow the first advertiser's funnel.

Occasionally I have to help someone find something through Google. The hardest part is getting them to not impulsively click the first link, which is invariably an ad instead of the right thing. The second hardest is helping then navigate back to the search results. The third, of course, is stopping them from clicking the second link. Also an ad for the wrong thing.

I stopped trying to help people with computer stuff unless I can take over and trust them to not blame me when some random, unrelated thing breaks down the line.

5-room dungeons: https://www.roleplayingtips.com/5-room-dungeons/

I don't do tabletop, but I do write, and making these is helpful for worldbuilding.

"Pack contains 6 Mega Rolls (224 Sheets Per Roll) of Charmin Ultra Soft Toilet Paper"

to

"MEGA ROLLS, MEGA VALUE: Pack contains 6 Mega Rolls (208 Sheets Per Roll) of Charmin Ultra Soft Toilet Paper"

Everyone saw that coming when they changed roll sizes and reframed it, right?

I don't see any confusion. Ozone is a mixing and mastering tool with buttons to find the best settings using ML, from the company Izotope. People who use it use something that the company calls AI. Where does the band come in to this?

A representative portion of the anti-AI crowd is against any use, even personal.

I'm keeping an eye on Graphite (https://graphite.art/) as something to move to from Affinity's stuff, but it's good there's a new option for people who need more.

I don't buy a lot of hardware, but the last thing I bought (Vocaster One) came with the driver installer on a small USB mass storage volume when the device plugged in.

I didn't say it was. This discussion is about relative difficulty of setting things up. It is, objectively, more difficult when you need to download a driver for new hardware and the NIC on your laptop needs a driver your distro didn't come with.

Most explorer issues are really file system issues. It's touchy. chkdsk in offline repair mode usually fixes it. For the rest, clear the thumbnail cache.

The ways Windows breaks are different from the ways Linux breaks, but there are still ways to fix it. Most of the rest are solved with one or two commands, and it's usually the same two: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-fil...

The difference was the device came with a disk containing the driver for DOS and Windows.

I'm waiting on Ableton, Arturia, and Native Instruments. The latter two should have the easiest time since all their stuff is already VST3 and it can support Linux.

Some of the stuff coming out of CES is nice. Whether the apparent quality survives in production is another question.

I can never remember what's what with Markdown. HTML has the important feature of providing a hint to function in the tag. I struggled learning HTML, but I eventually memorized all the tags to the point that I can still hammer out boilerplate all these years later. It's always a coin toss on whether I'll bold or italicize the first time I use Markdown in a while.

I still prefer WYSIWYG.

For example: my #2 submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38468326

Raymond Chen tries to document it, but he's just one person.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing

I'm familiar with the standard suite of proposed solutions, but maybe this will help someone who can use it. Thanks for sharing.

Hopefully all this news Linux is getting for games translates to pressure on makers of all the tools that don't run reliably/at all in Wine and co. to start working on ports. Or at least on making changes to make API translation work better.

I can't move until the software I've invested in moves too. There are no Linux alternatives.

What is this, the lawyer planet from Farscape? You shouldn't need a contract to be prosocial.