eric__cartman

It's such a shame because Windows is a good operating system for a lot of desktop use cases that happens to be smeared with shit all over the user interface. Honestly I'm expecting them to introduce mini advertisements in the task bar any time soon. It's not like those pixels are being used for anything when there aren't many windows open right?

God I wish I lived in a country where that were the norm. And not have some crack head steal something to sell it for peanuts later.

If you're developing a widely used web browser you have to take into account the people booting from a hard drive made in 2009.

I can't wait for a future were we could (hopefully) artificially grow meat in a lab so the meat available that didn't come from a dead animal is closer to the real thing. In an affordable and sustainable fashion at least. Maybe I'm being too optimistic and hopeful on this one.

What a shame. Inserting a floppy disk or tape into a drive is way cooler than downloading the file from dropbox.

They know most users don't have a choice and will upgrade when their current OS goes EOL or they buy a new computer. If it were for me I would have kept the Windows 7 shell and upgraded the operating system under the hood. Why change someone's workflow with a worse version of what you previously had. Like the awful search in Windows 10 that looks stuff up in Bing before searching the hard drive. Who thought that was a good idea? IT WORKED JUST FINE IN WINDOWS 7.

I have multiple consumer grade drives made in 2008-2010 that have been used a lot and have more than 7 years of recorded time of the head flying over the platters and they still work fine. Some with zero reallocated sectors and others with 1-10 in the last decade. But the number hasn't changed for 3+ years in any drive so it doesn't bother me.

Before you say it, of course I keep backups of everything. That's why I still use decade old hardware without much worry.

Who would have thought that an operating system with crazy minimum system requirements and no meaningful improvements for the average user wouldn't be a popular choice.

I would love to see that come true in the future but sadly nowadays the best way to have a fully free system is to use older hardware and stock up in spare parts to keep it running until an alternative pops up. Or one of those workstations with an IBM POWER CPU, but the price point is out of reach for most consumers.

What would this give me that something like ungoogled chromium with uBlock Origin can't?

I don't agree with Richard Stallman's political or social views but he was right all along when it came to being wary of software not having the user's best interests in mind.

That's a good advertisement for 486s because they were baller enough to pull that off.

I agree. It's not like 95% of the work to make a movie like that comes from thinking about a good story to base it on. Once you have a story like that, most of the effort is yet to come until you can see a fully produced movie on cinema screens. And 250k should be a life changing amount of money to someone in that situation if they really wanted to get out of it.

Are Roald Dahl's adult novels as good as his children's books? I absolutely loved to read his stories as a child and probably would enjoy a similar experience as an adult. Heck I should probably pick Fantastic Mister Fox or Danny the Champion of the World and read them again.

NetSurf doesn't support any of the new web standards so I would consider the current version pretty much feature complete for what it supports. I don't think the devs ever intended to continue development and turn it into a feature complete browser suitable for daily use nowadays.

How often do consumers plug power connectors into a GPU for that to be a problem? Spending a few minutes routing multiple power cables for an expansion card that once installed sits in place for years doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

I knew that piece of crap I've been storing in a closet for the past 7 years would come useful someday.

You can't emulate a real FPGA with a microcontroller

I live in Argentina so it's been affecting me for my whole life as far as I know :(

kek I thought this was a troll account until I saw your post history. I like your straight forward approach to username creation.

I'd rather send the bone headed executive that decided that drm should be a thing on a movie I bought a copy of.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was done in Flash. And that show went on for nine seasons.

Also afaik the first season of Bob's Burgers was done in Flash.

I misread this as Spanish Hacker News and got really confused and curious. I should probably goto sleep now.

It should be unacceptable regardless of country of origin.

the mere thought of that makes my skin crawl

I have a OnePlus 5 (a device from 2017) that's suffering the same fate. The hardware itself is fine. It has 6 gigabytes of RAM and a SoC that's fast enough that I don't notice any slowdowns in day to day usage. Yet the officially supported software by the manufacturer has been abandoned two years ago. I'm currently running LineageOS, and the phone is working as good as ever. Running a modern version of Android with monthly security patches.

It's a shame that expensive devices nowadays are made to be disposable. After getting a battery replacement, this phone is ready to go for a few more years at least. SoCs have gotten so good that even a half a decade old chip will perform well for the vast majority of users that don't play big games on their phones. It's not like you need a supercomputer to browse social media, websites and use maps for navigation.

I find it endearing how instead of having constants such as pi and Euler's number built into memory and accessible from some key combination, the calculator just prints it on the case for you to manually type in. This is a fantastic example of early developments in affordable computing devices.

Also, RPN ftw!

Reminds me of the "safe space" from South Park.

I don't think it'll be brain related. After all there's no use in have a healthy body at an old age if the patient is suffering from degenerative illnesses that affect the brain.

Money!