Laurel Raven

Nvidia’s really fallen hard, too, they’d reached the 9000s over 18 years ago and just plummeted after that

I hate their versioning schedule so damned much

Honestly, this isn’t even an AI issue, people have been doing that long before AI became a thing

Getting a ticket “I need you to change blah” and the request is either nonsense or “fixes” something unrelated to what the user is actually experiencing, but they’re so sure they know

This weirdly is way worse when you support technical teams, it makes it pretty clear how much Dunning Kruger is going around in IT… But yeah, AI is making it so much worse

A lot longer than that…Y2K was the result of corpos prioritizing doing things as cheaply as possible and kicking the can down the road for 4 plus decades at that point, and when they finally decided to fix it before it blew up in their faces, it was almost too late and the software engineers were forced to hack a solution to buy another decade, then promptly got canned when “nothing happened” (leading to Y2K10 actually causing some problems when it rolled around)

We’ll have another reckoning with this same class of error in January 2038 when the 32-bit UNIX epoch ends, and I have no doubt it’ll be a shit show with a lot of pushback against anyone trying to fix it because we “whined” so much with Y2K…

Sorry… Don’t drink and rant…

Honestly, I think Windows 8 Beta’s theme was the best looking (if you ignore the issues with the start screen): pairing Aero with the squared windows actually looked really good.

That they not only removed Aero in the final version but also soccer their lawyers on anyone who tried to bring it back was just incredibly shitty on their part

You mean the Fisher Price theme? While it wasn’t as bad as people seemed to think at the time, it really was kinda ugly and childish looking (but still an improvement over the corpo-boring '95 era theme)

I only keep Windows at home because simulator peripherals can be more headache than I’m ready to deal with when I just want to pretend to drive a truck or a tractor for a bit

I mean, they can be set up, but without the vendor software that only runs on Windows, it can be really kludgy

Congratulations and condolences

…more the latter than the former I think

Hey, “bad performance” is still a kind of performance!

No, not secure enough, you could still plug in an infected USB so better glue those ports shut

But if you want really secure, turn it off and bury it in a concrete vault

Not sure why you’d think that, I’m agreeing with you, though I’m referencing context from the post you were replying to… We can’t have free software while demanding it be denied to some, that’s the very antithesis of “free” (as in freedom). OOP seems to think companies should be denied access to software that was developed and distributed freely when that was literally the intent those developers had when they placed a free license on it. You seemed to disagree, and I was adding to that… At least that was my intent, if it didn’t come across that way then I apologize

And who literally gave the work away without asking for payment, for anyone to use freely?

Like, do we want free software or not? We can’t have it both ways

That’s fair enough, though sticky corners are a thing, and my multi monitor layout it would still work (big ultra wide main on bottom, three smaller above)

But I think there’s even value in it just staying in the same place. One big frustration I have with modern UI design is shit moving around, often trying to anticipate what you want, but I’m lost looking for it the last damned place it was. The start button moving a little left and right isn’t nearly as bad, but it’s along the same lines

Perfectly valid

Thanks! I’ll check that out, been needing a good temp monitor

What do you use for the thermal monitor?

Do you prefer Guake over Yakuake because you use Gnome or other GTK based DE, because of specific features, or because it’s what you’re used to? Or something else?

I’ve only used Yakuake (and I’m on KDE) so I’m not familiar with Guake, but I’m curious

There’s also activities, which are similar but can have different start menus, task bars, and themes

Probably can do more than that with them too, but I’ve never gotten that deep into them, unfortunately

So, one thing that Windows 11 did that I think was half good was moving the taskbar stuff to the middle.

I hated it at first (have to use it at work, and still some at home for specific things), but then I used Start11 for a little bit to try to get rid of the shitty start menu changes and noticed an option to keep the icons in the middle but move the start button itself back to the left. And honestly… I think that’s perfect. Puts the programs that are open front and center while keeping the start button in a fixed location next to a corner border so it’s easy to move the mouse to it without hardly even looking.

Anyway, while I didn’t keep Start11 (I never do… Like the program but it’s always been buggy as hell going back at least as far as Start8 (edit: it ate the 8 in Start8, fixed), I did make my Cinnamon, and later my KDE Plasma, taskbar look like that.

Also moved the sys tray next to the start button instead of next to the clock, and with a couple other monitors on the clock side (CPU and memory usage), the taskbar on my system is pretty balanced.

Maybe not as flashy or interesting as what you’re looking for, but it’s a layout I’ve really come to like

(ETA: the centralizing of the taskbar in Windows I think was bad only because it made the one part that should be in a fixed and easy to hit location, the start button, move around based on how many programs are open… I think if they’d gone with centralized programs and left side start button, it would have been much better received overall… But, this is just my opinion so do with that what you will)

Gentoo. It is, after all, the fastest penguin.