What?
I swear to god, every time I encounter a straggler machine that never upgraded from Win10 to Win11 - it runs faster and more stable than newer and beefier PCs with 11. Insane.
Don’t even get me started on making 4GB of RAM perfectly usable just by installing Mint XFCE. Switch to Linux wherever you possibly can.
My decade old desktop at home falls under that, and indeed runs snappier than the beast of a laptop I got from work.
Depending on the type of company you work at, your work laptop will be on a spectrum of “locked down” which will often include a stack of mandatory security software that sometimes doesn’t even play nice with each other. It’s a mess.
I’ve seen a corpo run a new business fleet (2nd Gen Intel Ultras) that takes 10-15 minutes to become usable after logging in at a fresh boot.
Even when 11 came out, it was a decent bit heavier. I did back to back Geekbench runs on 10 and 11. 10 was a decent bit faster. 11 used a gb more ram too.
present day … present time
🎵And you don’t seem to understand…
Is that Shakira?
Back then she was 22… She is still 22 but back then she was too.
Inspired by a comment in the “Dai dai” video.
Yep.
Was this from an ad? What’s the context here?
According to this (the site is in Spanish) the photo was taken back in 1997 by the reporter Óscar Berrocal while Shakira was visiting the facilities of a newspaper called El Heraldo in Barranquilla.
Just a photo from when she started to get famous on a local level, she was just a schoolkid who sang at the time
Is this to say, extremely euphoric?
I would love to look this cute!
I needed to print something in a hotel today, and their computer was on Windows 7. No, I didn’t log into anything from it.
Ew, yeah, i also wouldn’t trust a computer running windows
I wouldn’t trust a public computer running Linux either.
I wouldn’t trust a computer.
I wouldn’t trust. I’m very lonely
I wouldn’t.
I.
I’m imagining the “you wouldn’t download a car” meme, but the text is replaced with 0000 so it becomes more general purpose.
Would be funny
This is the one
if keeps running… chips don’t lie
wat?
WTF is this?
Oh, Jimmy? He’s friendly once he gets his daily pound of human meat.
dont even try to run!
Looks like a cat with no eyeballs or ears
I have no idea but thank you for also seeing it because wtf
It gives me creepypasta vibes.
An edit.
Maybe Jack from Nightmare before Christmas?
An outdated OS apparently.
You… don’t want to know.
(It is her familiar, within which she stuffed her soul)
Phylactery
Some of you linux nerds need to try Picotron
try
It costs money.
I tried something (‘multiplayer demo’, I suspect outdated/barebones export) and it has some neat stuff, the official demo doesn’t work though (
Picotron Playground is resting.).more subjective
I’m really interested in 3-digit hex colors (12-bit-RGB) and it seems like something like this would use it. I’m working on my own palette that’s currently 49 colors (7x7) so I guess it would fit here as its own palette or maybe even in the 32 empty slots with some reworking.
That said, I’m not big on the pixel (or even rectilinear voxel) workflow/aesthetic though (more for polygons, 2D and 3D) though I know that probably eliminates most options.
It only costs money to unlock the developer tools. There are tons of projects you can try for free on the website.
3D graphics are possible, and the developer is adding tweaks in the next update to make n64/ps1-era 3d graphics more of a possibility
For anyone else who didn’t know
// Get Picotron for Windows, Mac & Linux ($19.99)
Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation: a self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware. Create and share cute Lua apps that can run on the Picotron desktop, be shared as cartridge files, or exported as stand-alone HTML and binary distributables.
People just don’t take this style of photo any more
When I boot up windows 98se I feel like teenage Shakira
When I boot it up, I feel like teenage me. I think I’ll boot it up again today, to feel young again.
…in the computer room.
At my first professional programming job workspace was tight so I was given a desk in the server room. This room was kept at 59°F because mainframes that the company didn’t even have any more required it. It sucked – I had to wear fingerless Oliver Twist gloves all day. I blame the cold for my executing a DELETE query without a WHERE clause on the production database. “Why is this taking so long?” I muttered through blue lips.
Hypothermia is a helluva drug
We’re turning your bedroom back into the computer room
Me when windows 11
Why did you have to remind me of better days.
