colonial

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[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

We need better alternatives

We'd need a quantum leap in storage and bandwidth first - orders of magnitude better, if we want competing to be financially sane ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

Maybe when Google is (hopefully eventually) shattered into a million pieces by some US judge, YouTube could be splintered into several smaller companies, each with some portion of the infrastructure and channels/videos - thus forcing competition. Vaguely similar to the Bell divestiture.

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not well versed in the machinations of the Chinese government, but if a relatively "normie" VPN like Nord works in China... it's probably controlled opposition (i.e. they're logging everything to a government server.)

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (17 children)

set timers

This broke for me a few months ago. It just randomly... won't start, despite saying otherwise.

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like more effort than just... writing the code.

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't beat Iosevka in my opinion. I use the Term variant for my shell as well.

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Too late, already moved to Garmin after my third dead Charge 5 in ~1.5 years.

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Good, I would like to avoid interacting with the hallucination machine.

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Wow, I can talk to the hallucination machine! What an innovation!

... God, imagine if this all this effort went towards fusion power or space infrastructure. What a waste.

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, no thanks. My third Charge 5 in 1.5 years "randomly" died a few days ago - I'm not that gullible.

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unicode versions (what this is talking about) and encodings are different things.

Encodings kind of by definition don't really change. Unicode versions add new codepoints (such as emoji.)

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Full Unicode text and images is likely all we'll get, but honestly I never understood the appeal of all the crap they stuff into (say) iMessage.

 

I was 11 when I took this screenshot - Ubuntu 14.04 running on my very first (incredibly bad) PC. As I recall, I couldn't install Windows 7 without a DVD drive, and that was out of my budget :p

Pretty sure I had it riced out with the Compiz cube and everything.

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