black0ut

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is true, especially for games. But for some reason, even though some compatibility features have been removed from windows, others still remain. Hell, if you look into System32, you can still find the dialer app from windows 95 (still with its original icon, btw!), or Windows Vista's "bubbles" screensaver, and they still run.

Edit: this is not a windows praise, it's a critique. Those parts are dead weight, and windows isn't even that good at offering compatibility for old software

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago
  • How is that good for climate change?

  • Nobody listens to this guy. Have you been recycling just cuz Gates told you to? Also these kinds of yachts pollute so much with a single trip that it outweighs any good that he could have done by convincing millions to save electricity or water.

  • I don't need to know him well. It's not rocket science.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 59 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What Gates is doing right now is a massive publicity stunt to make people believe he's actually a "good person". He is not. He is still a disgusting billionaire that contradicts everything he preaches.

  • He is constantly buying farmland, to the point where he's the biggest land owner in the whole US. This is seriously harming small farmers.

  • He preaches about climate change and using cardboard straws while in his massive ($650M!) mega yacht

  • The "humanitarian/healthcare" stuff he did, while helpful, was only done because he could use it as a tax writeoff. He wouldn't have done it if it wasn't the case.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The sequel to none pizza with left beef

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

You just proved my point. I said none of that.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

No. Hardlinks and CoW filesystems are different things.

I don't know much about hardlinks on windows, but hardlinks usually are two different inodes pointing to the same file. This means, for the user, a single file appears duplicated, but without using any extra space. However, both files are really the same one, so if you modify one, the other one also gets modified.

CoW filesystems, on the other hand, are a bit more complex. When you store a file, its contents get first stored, and then a file references them. When you copy the file, a copy of the reference is made, and there is no need to copy the content, because it's already there. If you modify one of the copies, the difference between them gets stored (the modified content), but other parts of the file (or files in a folder) that don't get modified are not duplicated.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 13 points 2 months ago

The fact that it needs a bridge is what makes it not federated. Federation allows for interconnection without bridges, because everything talks the same protocol. You can bridge Discord to Matrix, and that doesn't mean Discord is federated.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social -2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

He isn't even being better than anyone, all he does is publicity stunts while not fixing anything. Everything he has donated was for tax writeoffs.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 23 points 2 months ago

There used to be a bug in ms word (idk if it's still there, it's been years since I last used any ms office app) where, if you had a separate printing server connected to a printer, and the printer was off but the server was online, it would try to fetch printer features, resulting in an unanswered request that would end up timing out. For some reason, word would completely freeze until the request timed out at 30s. No input worked, screen didn't refresh, window controls didn't work either. Completely frozen. And the worst part was that word would try to fetch printer features every time you clicked completely unrelated buttons. Want to export to PDF? Frozen for 30s. Want to save your document with a different name? First wait for 30s. Oh, you want to change the page size? You guessed it, 30s frozen.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The reality is that if you want to have access to that privilege, you should not abuse it. The fact that communities were built in a car centric manner does not imply you can do whatever you want because nobody can take your car away. Either you drive responsibly, or you don't drive.

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