westyvw

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[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Those examples are so bad. You do not need AI to do any of those. That's just cut and paste.

Hell, we have had fake reality video overlays that are better than that on our phones for over a decade.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why didn't you take the laptop out while you were still inside the pub? And typically wouldn't you use directions to get to the pub, and getting back is just going the way you came?

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Although if you click through a few of them, your comment is probably applicable!

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee -2 points 2 months ago

People let their TV's onto the internet? I thought we already had this discussion and nobody does this anymore.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Every time you click that link you will get a different web page... so...

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

No osm and on Linux?

Its just open street map data. Use the routing tool on their web page.

Or make your own if you want to using gis.

Or use the beta organic maps flatpak.

Or KDE Marble has OSM routing as well.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or better still firefox focus. Ad blocking built in and it drops all the cookies as soon as you close it.

I keep firefox on mobile for when I need to go to a trusted site, firefox focus for everything else.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

So you ever actually read his platform? Look into what he has done? Tim has sound and practical reasons for .... guess what... doing the right thing.

Feed school children for example. Turns out the grades go up and truancy goes down. Juvenile crime goes down. An educated workforce makes for better wages and a happier populace. He will tell you that... in plain English.

Instead of blaming everyone else and calling names he, you know, fills potholes and offers solutions. He isn't perfect, but you calling names and acting like an ass with no actuall reasons is just pathetic.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

My current environment - and one for many years, is just like you describe. No ads, instant launch (either from a launcher, or just type what I want and it pops up). No spyware, no account, no assistant. I even have a modern file manager that windows STILL hasn't surpassed.

But I remember at the time when XP came out, Windows 2000 already was all those things, Beos was all those things, Macs were all those things.

Without the nasty (and limited) XP colors and theme, the 10 minute exploits, the huge waste of space in all the dialogs, and the beginning of the Pro vs Home licensing, where they started with the bullshit of home has: only 1 processor, no remote desktop, no 64 bit, they even removed windows backup!

You could exploit and gain admin in a Windows XP machine right to the end, it could not be locked down if a user sat at it. Which, I know, if you have access to the machine usually all bets are off, but for a multi user machine it was less than acceptable.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I find it weird that people look back fondly on XP. I remember at the time thinking it behaved like crap, had an interface that looked like shit, and was extremely easy to compromise.

I guess Rose colored glasses for some people.....

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Fake news. He will make up anything for attention.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago

Thunderbird. It's great

I am not sure how to make it look shitty like Gmail, maybe you could theme it to wast a ton of space.

Seriously, do you want a useful email client or not?

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