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A relative lately wanted me to burn an Audio CD on their Windows 10 PC. I had little to no idea how to do it, since last time I did that was on Windows XP.

There’s a reason why modern browsers have multiple processes. Each tab and extension is sandboxed for stability and security reasons. There are also memory mechanisms that free up memory when other non-browser processes need it, but I am not an operating system expert/engineer so I am unable to explain it in details. Google Gemini it up.

Also Firefox tends to use similar amount of RAM as Chrome, and it’s silly that it’s only Chrome is being making fun of for that.

Of course it doesn’t meant that modern web is fucking shit, but you cannot only blame modern browsers for that. It’s just mostly bloated JavaScript bullshit.

By the way, I wish there was some alternative to modern Web which works like basic HTML + CSS, maybe even without using two languages for two different things (website content and stylesheet). If we had this, we could even have lightweight Markdown/WikiText/You_name_it viewer if exported to that format on the fly (by an app not JS).

Even if the source is open, you need to understand it to know for real.

Even more importantly, software can be exploited.

I was always wondering why there’s no real audio-based interface for blind people, instead of trying to describe what’s on the screen. Have this ever been tried out?

Programming for accessibility is one of these things that I always fascinated me, and it makes me sad that support for it no longer matters for a lot of software developers. Maybe it’s something I am going to try to do? Is there any documentation where to start with that?

Huh, that’s a pretty good idea. I already have a Raspberry Pi setup at home, and it wouldn’t be hard to duplicate in other location.

I don’t 🙃

Scheduled is ok. It’s unscheduled stuff that makes me angry and I lose any interest to do anything afterwards.

I really want to make some PC sleeper build disgusted as oldy Unix workstation, with some Linux desktop (Debian probably) running ancient window manager like FVWM. Would be cool to surprise people with it running modern games, lol.

Why not make Ubuntu a GNU/ Redox distribution at that point?

Dude (Dudess?). You are so young. This doesn’t matter in a long run.

WTF is an AI computer? Is that some marketing bullshit?

No, because that’s not how fascism works.

I really wish they had easier way to switch to newer version. It works for me, since it’s not that hard to edit sources.list (or debian.sources nowadays), but I don’t get why they don’t make a tool that does a release upgrade like on Ubuntu. Could even list changes made to the sources file during execution for that matter.

I’ve switched to Linux because at this point it’s easier to deal with problems on Linux than using Windows and getting it to usable state.

And if something doesn’t run on Linux… I use something else, easy as that.

I remember having 10 inch netbook. It was okay for a while, but I would never want to go back to 10 inch display on a laptop. It’s just horrible to use. 13 inches is ideal for me =)

I have never used Limewire, but if they had distributed binaries that you should pay for, it is a copyright infringement, even if you could technically compile it yourself. There are applications that do this and it’s compatible with GPL license.

Then I don’t know what are you smoking. From the taskbar, window decorations to system settings - it’s very similar to how Windows 10 is designed, although with much less padding (by default, but it’s a good thing).

There are also some settings for the taskbar to behave more like a Windows 11 one, if that’s what you want.

Also as for icons they look much more modern than what’s on Windows, at least for me.

It works fine for me, and I use Wayland.

It looks very similar to Windows 10. You think Windows 10 looks like something from 00’s?