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Bruncvik

@ Bruncvik @lemmy.world

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  • Trump Says Maduro Captured After US Airstrikes Hit Venezuela

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  • I've been in the US two months ago, in a very Democratic city, socialising with only very anti-Trump people. Not a single one cared what happened outside US borders. They were upset about the inflation, cost of living, loss of privacy and civil liberties, etc. There may be some who do care about the US foreign policy, but unless thousands of Americans start returning in body bags, there won't be enough critical mass to stage any revolt or even protests worthy of Trump's attention.

  • Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

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  • My company (130,000 employees) sticks to 24H2. IT wouldn't approve the 25H2. Don't know whether the refusal to upgrade hurts Microsoft in any way, but if it does, I think we're big enough to be on their radar, and perhaps they talk to our IT about concerns and complaints we may have.

  • when you die you get to see all your life stats

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  • I was recently thinking that if I died and went to hell, the greatest torture that could be inflicted on me would be to show me how much productive time I wasted pulling the meat.

  • 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge.

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  • I recently did a return trip from Dublin to Boston and back. Each ticket was 1 Euro; rhe rest was airport taxes, government levies, etc.

    In the past, pre-covid, 1 Euro tickets were not unusual. Part of the reason why Ryanair became so dominant was that they contracted with secondary airports that had much lower fees, so the final price was below what the competitors could offer.

  • Have a good one

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  • Mouse jiggler running for third day, volume on max to hear a potential Teams message, and I'm spending my days playing board games with the kids.

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  • 6 and 7. For now, I'll be monitoring their activity, and we'll see whether they'll need any locks. Probably internet filtering on the router.

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  • My kids are getting mini PC's for Christmas, preinstalled with Mint. They use tablets now, but I want to introduce them to the joys of keyboards and mice (and The Secret of Monkey Island). I hope they'll like it, so that in the future they'll stick to PC's and laptops, which offer far more robust control by the end user.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • That was actually Windows. I think I first encountered it in Win 3.1, but I started really using it in 95. It's not actually Windows that controlled it, but software. Application windows used yo have a top bar, and on the very left they had a small version of their shortcut icon. Clicking on it would roll out a short menu for minimizing, closing, etc, and double-clicking would exit out of the program. I think Chrome was the first popular software to remove it.

    Using this method for closing programs is just a matter of preference and muscle memory. I guess it made sense when the last thing you did was File -> Save, so your cursor was already near the top left. Nowadays it's not as obvious, but some of us are too rigid to easily change.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Brimg back double-clicking on the top left corner of a program to close it. Actually, bring back the top bar and the file menu while you're at it. And for software that opens tabs, allow the user to position the tabs bar on the bottom or side of the screen.

  • G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you

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  • I don't watch others playing games, either, but someone who likes those streams told me he didn't see a difference between watching good gamers play games and good football players play football.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • You are absolutely correct about the ambiguity and problematic emojis. The trigger issue was the usage of hearts as "kudos" reactions. That's where we use the thumbs-up emojis now.

    The idea of a reference webpage is a good one, but with Slack allowing you to upload your own emojis (and us using some - such as the Piccard facepalm and "modern solutions" meme), we'd have to be very careful to show only the default ones.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • Those would be emojis not emoticons.

    Thanks. I never knew the distinction between the two. These emojis are usually used as reactions in our company to indicate you read a post, are investigating, giving kudos, etc. We actually have an entire document in Confluence specifying which ones to use, for which reactions.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • That's where I learned to type, and the double-space is so ingrained in my muscle memory I can't get rid of it. I also used to use lower case "L" for the number one, and upper case "O" for zero. I don't do the former, but occasionally I catch myself doing the latter.

  • What "ruins it" for you?

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  • Same here. I personally can't stand Bill Burr, regardless of how many of my friends tell me he's funny. With an f-word in nearly every sentence, I can't listen to him for more than a minute.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • I guess I'm a bit old-fashioned. I still put two spaces after a full stop.

    But I digress. The question was about other unwritten rules of texting. Over the past year, it's become frowned upon at my company (a multinational with around 130k employees) to use the default yellow emoticons. People are gently reminded to use the colour that most closely resembles their skin. This is for conversations over Teams and Slack.

  • What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?

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  • Professionally: Waterfall release cycle kills innovation, and whoever advocates it should be fired on the spot. MVP releases and small, incremental changes and improvements are the way to go.

    Personally: Don't use CSS if tables do what you need. Don't use Javascript for static Web pages. Don't overcomplicate things when building Web sites.

  • THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short

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  • Dude. I still use 8 of them. And you'll only take those eight from my cold, dead fingers. Which, apparently, won't be long...

  • If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS

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  • We have separate bathrooms, but I still have PTSD from the time I changed the skirting boards in hers.

  • Where will Europeans flee too?

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  • The question implies war in Europe. The reality is that once the enemy breaks though Poland and Czechia (and even there I wouldn't put much credence into the latter), the rest of continental Europe will fold without a war. People will not flee, but gradually adjust to the new overlords. There may be small migration of the intelligentsia, which is in danger from any oppressive regime, but that will be likely in form of orderly emigration, rather than flight.

  • Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day …

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  • On the other hand, Anazon once shipped me a lightbulb for my oven in and envelope. It came nice and flat, in many, many pieces.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Waiting in a queue to see a Web site