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(DIR) Post #AdS4urqsCzA5lbz196 by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T00:21:39.753667Z
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Having intractable problems getting things working, people that complain about modern computers need to try configuring a sound card in DOS and they'll shut the fuck up real fast because computers work great now
(DIR) Post #AdS4ygLAwtczDvyY8u by allison@hidamari.apartments
2024-01-03T00:22:23.341845Z
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@Moon there's a reason macs were as popular as they were back in the 80s and early 90s
(DIR) Post #AdS537NUMnsWEkAmQa by Kerosene@bae.st
2024-01-03T00:23:13.388571Z
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@Moon My game booted in the wrong resolution, billions of motherboards must be melted in a volcano.
(DIR) Post #AdS6mNHkAcb2Yed5iy by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-01-03T00:42:36.395573Z
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@Moon what if we skip past the>IRQs must be correct or it won't workbut stop before the>web browser needs 1,400MB of ram just to launchbecause that's what I mean when I bitch about modern computing.
(DIR) Post #AdS6qp8OZN745aNWTI by gh0st1984@decayable.ink
2024-01-03T00:43:24.151891Z
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It's so fucking bloated for no reason
(DIR) Post #AdS6wDB6bRjo6iDP4C by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T00:44:09.316460Z
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@BowsacNoodle everything done since 1991 adds up. I don't exactly know why Windows 11 needs gigabytes of RAM when xp needed 96 but it's way more secure for instance
(DIR) Post #AdS73X4P2m8RpOZSeO by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-01-03T00:45:42.494178Z
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@gh0st1984 @Moon YES! Old systems had constraints which forced creativity. Too much of the modern stuff seems lazy. I'm just going to bitch like an old man if I say more because I'm explicitly not a programmer but I've written code a few times and built computers for 30 years and I remember things not sucking this much. It wasn't useful nostalgia when it was like 10 years ago.
(DIR) Post #AdS7FmEaUOGaKmAoOu by 3AM_drunkpoaster@poa.st
2024-01-03T00:47:55.365488Z
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@Moon I'll take needing to read a manual to understand how my equipment works over most of the problems we have now.
(DIR) Post #AdS7GzGdWBT92qi0VU by gh0st1984@decayable.ink
2024-01-03T00:48:08.169880Z
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I feel like they forgot how to into compression, or it's corponiggers forcing us to buy more powerful hardware for no reason.
(DIR) Post #AdS7HoxdK5ALMyDZ6e by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-01-03T00:48:17.375167Z
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@Moon Unironically can't even tell if I should agree or rage scream into the void because computers will never be as good as I once thought they were and will never be as good as they are right now. Every day, computers and the internet get worse.
(DIR) Post #AdS7ISKKxbV3Sg8kPQ by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T00:48:22.284557Z
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@3AM_drunkpoaster I;ve been fighting with this sound card literally all day
(DIR) Post #AdS7L9kgTinsikkeA4 by 3AM_drunkpoaster@poa.st
2024-01-03T00:48:53.660494Z
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@Moon Have you tried telling it it's pretty?
(DIR) Post #AdS7WwfewI8Dcr1SJk by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T00:50:58.764333Z
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@BowsacNoodle I am sympathetic but I also think people overdo it. I have a hard time getting over the memory difference with windows, I feel like probably you should be able to run a base windows os on 256 megabytes, it should be possible to do that but incentives are not set up for MS to fix this,
(DIR) Post #AdS7ZC76Ujfy6DvptQ by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
2024-01-03T00:51:22.853970Z
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tbf, it's sorta impressive that they turned a program intended to show xml into 16 different application platforms integrated into one. But of course it's bloated thereby....
(DIR) Post #AdS7jzxi0wGNb6gnGi by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-01-03T00:53:22.923624Z
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@gh0st1984 @Moon Dude I seriously think it's just the overabundance of power.>"Wow there's so much power available and ram in the average machine now. I can definitely not even worry about sloppy code and a bloated UI because who's going to miss 2% cpu utilization and 200 MB of ram?"t. every developer ever. except now we have so much crap running at once that our screaming machines run like crap and everything is loaded on LE CLOUD through some stupid web interface so the speed doesn't matter. And web pages are all bloated as hell and nobody cares for the same reason. It takes 2x as long to load a damn web page today as it did a decade ago. What the hell!?
(DIR) Post #AdS7r617tqRAP7fjgO by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-01-03T00:54:37.386396Z
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@Moon I'm being a bit dramatic, but not entirely. I also think you made a good point and don't wish to pooh-pooh your thread.
(DIR) Post #AdS7xF4r7wnuF1LatM by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T00:55:43.561556Z
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@BowsacNoodle feel free to jump in to any of my threads to disagree, friend. but I appreciate that you looked for areas of agreement between the two of our positions.
(DIR) Post #AdS8BMevjcZNoHxG6K by gh0st1984@decayable.ink
2024-01-03T00:58:19.264907Z
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Do we still have the Linux option I opted for that when windows 7 came out
(DIR) Post #AdS9fgKdFzQxSuTs9Y by porkcow@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T01:15:00.779221Z
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@BowsacNoodle @gh0st1984 @Moon FFVIIR (and probably everything made after 2008) does the Sonic '06 bit of having a 12 hour loading screen for a minigame that takes place in the same location you're standing in. And the chocobo cabs are a waste for the same reason.I don't have any comprehension of computer sorcery and am forced to agree with everything you just said.
(DIR) Post #AdSBe92PkzUNpDM2Qi by miscbrains@misc.brainsoap.net
2024-01-03T01:37:02.076Z
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@Moon@shitposter.club @3AM_drunkpoaster@poa.st Is it a gentlemanly aureal vortex?
(DIR) Post #AdSVLbluhPKCWT4hJA by Noraweed@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T05:17:53.632229Z
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@Moon Though the decades may change, the adage remains the same:Teaching sand to think was a mistake.
(DIR) Post #AdSoqRXSh4YStKjRAm by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T08:56:17.188699Z
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@Moon Isn't that the boomer argument "things sucked more in my time so you shouldn't complain about the stuff that suck slightly less in your time" ?
(DIR) Post #AdSp2pKa3oaE9mbzii by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T08:58:34.449279Z
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@Moon @BowsacNoodle > but it's way more secure for instanceIt's way more secure because the obvious stuff got patched, but the surface attack got expanded by 400%.
(DIR) Post #AdSpEhA4GDUaIJLzW4 by orekix@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T09:00:39.479827Z
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@mangeurdenuage @Moon that's right :boomer:
(DIR) Post #AdSpmTEkXPSIxDeIXA by 1iceloops123@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T09:06:49.781197Z
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@mangeurdenuage @Moon mean the video games and entertainment sucks now but I can slap parts in and make a emulator box out of old xp machines and duck tape if I wanted to.
(DIR) Post #AdSr41v8wBsHOvPnLU by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T09:21:12.544361Z
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@orekix @Moon
(DIR) Post #AdSugL9ACfNxtdvrTU by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T10:01:37.099203Z
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@mangeurdenuage software now uses too much resources but it works a million times better
(DIR) Post #AdSunVD5BeKz8NBGE4 by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2024-01-03T10:03:02.847235Z
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@Moon I agreed with that until the end support of win7.
(DIR) Post #AdSvG0qBB8X1LK3vzE by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2024-01-03T10:07:43.231440Z
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@Moon Reminds of discovering that Solaris 10 doesn't auto-discovers hardware like network cards, you need to reconfigure the OS from installer or something like that.Plus I think I'd need to change the modeline bullshit in Xsun configuration for my display to work correctly (currently there's like 20 pixels being cut off).I got way to used to plug-and-play on everything.
(DIR) Post #AdSwHroHpCNzrucpBQ by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2024-01-03T10:19:15.165087Z
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@Moon Also xrandr doesn't seems to be supported so it would involve fiddling with a configuration file and restarting the thing on every change if not doing a reboot.So I just cope with a column of 20 pixels being cut off.I'm not a fan of most new things, specially as sometimes it's plain removal of good features, but holy shit there's some stuff that we got that I wouldn't want to see ever go away.