Okay, but writing a .desktop file takes like 10 seconds.

So deal with Reddit style mods and hoops and maybe you can do exactly what you are already doing? No thank you.

I have severe adult adhd and this has never been the case for me.

Lots of Windows 95 machines made a big todo about supporting VCD around that same time. But I never remember seeing any in person at a store. I do remember burning VCDs to watch in the DVD player in the living room before we had a DVD burner.

Sony also bought Columbia TriStar following the failure of Beta and their lesser known failed music format DAT (Digital Audio Tape, looked like a cassette acted like a CD that needed to be rewound, not to be confused with Phillips’ follow up to the cassette the DCC or Digital Compact Cassette). Sony really wanted to charge licensing fees for their formats and that is largely why Beta and DAT failed* compared to the freely available formats from Toshiba and Phillips (CD, VHS, and DVD). Sony flooding the market with Columbia’s back catalogue is what really defeated the HDDVD format being pushed by Toshiba. Toshiba was also working with Microsoft on the Zune at that time and created a HDDVD add-on for the Xbox 360. HDDVDs used a version of Silverlight which was made by MS where the Blu-ray stack was written in Java, a language that MS notoriously hates.

UMDs that PSPs used, though similar in appearance, are not minidiscs. They use a completely different method of reading and writing the information. Minidiscs are magneto-optical where UMDs are just optical like CD, DVDs, and Blu-ray’s. Magneto-optical discs use a laser to heat up a small area of the platter and then, in very laymen terms, flips a magnet in that spot to be either south down or north down. This creates a slight optical variation along the track that can be read back by a lower power laser in much the same way (but at a different angle and wavelength) to CDs. While they did have mastered minidiscs that you could buy in a store, you mostly bought blank ones to write yourself, and they were rewritable years before CD burners became ubiquitous.

* Failed at the consumer level; DATs were wildly popular in the radio and recording industry because its failure gave it a built in copy protection through obscurity. Betas had a higher quality than VHS and were heavily used in the local broadcast and syndicated TV industries. In fact the last blank Beta was made after the last blank VHS.

Tel Aviv, Israel… Illinois???

As a Native American I have been asked more than once if I live in a teepee by other Americans. I often respond that I do but it has doors and windows and running water and we call it a house.

Most people don’t realize that many organizations require devices that have email on them to be enrolled in device management. So when you put your email on your phone you are also making it so the IT department at your work can track your location and remotely erase your phone. One place I worked also required a PIN on the phone so you couldn’t use fingerprint or Face ID.

Suffice it to say that I haven’t had work email on a personal device since Blackberrys were a thing.

The main issue with that is MS made a million different versions of Vista and some of them had significantly higher requirements than others. So you had OEMs selling machines that were ‘Vista Ready’ in the lead up to launch but they barely made the requirements for the basic version. Then you had people going to Best Buy and getting the premium version and having a horrible experience.

I had Vista on my MacBook Pro and it was a a solid OS, especially if you needed 64-bit support. In fact the Pro was PC Magazine’s #1 pick for Vista machines which caused quite a stir at the time when Bootcamp was still new.

95 didn’t even ship with FAT32 support originally. I agree with the original comment that it wasn’t until the OSR versions that it got good. But they never sold those in the box, you could only get an OSR version from a prebuilt computer. So a lot of people never experienced them or didn’t experience the original 1995 version of 95 that still required 8 character filenames.

On Fedora I go to the repo (app store) and install the Nvidia drivers… on windows I have to download them from the Nvidia site. I’m not sure what you are talking about. Linux is easier but it’s pretty much the same process.

For Logitech use Solaar, also available in most distribution’s repos.

In my experience people who let work violate the personal life boundary have issues with other boundaries and are generally difficult to work with.

That would likely mean civil war. For instance, I can’t see the Lighthorses (Tribal Police, technically somewhat federal in jurisdiction) where I am from allowing that, and I imagine there would be similar resistance elsewhere.

You don’t mean the same guy who took out full page ads calling for the execution of the Central Park 5???

Elections are controlled by the states. They can’t cancel them, they can only ask the states to do so.

I would definitely try it without the KVM at all and see if it still happens.

Paying money to prevent spam is different than paying money to avoid helping people and doing your share in society.

In fact, recreating the computing experience of the Commodore 64 (and BBC Micro as they are a British foundation) was one of the specific purposes of the Raspberry Pi.

Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

I think you are giving people too much credit. Lots of people have a budget they can spend on appliances (like a credit line) and they get the best (most expensive) one they can get on that budget. Others will do the opposite and get the cheapest but only people like you find on Lemmy (Linux users for instance) in my experience will make a choice in the middle based on feature set.

For what it’s worth an NPU is why your phone could tell you that photo is of a cat years before LLMs were the hot new thing. They were originally marketed as accelerators for machine learning applications before everybody started calling that AI.