adarza

joined 1 year ago
[–] adarza@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

haven't used xvid in like 20 years. do still have some old 'archives' though.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago

because the average user is kinda dumb, kinda impatient, and some of those ads and banners on google properties peddling chrome were very scary to them.. that they'd lose, or miss-out on something in, youtube or google or their gmail.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 51 points 1 month ago (15 children)

i just start with the basic rule of: whatever they want or suggest or default to, the opposite is probably what should be configured or answered instead.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

youtube, google, gmail. all better platform to market from than your desktop os. plus google spent a ton of money on mainstream ads, and had the perfect place on those aforementioned platforms to peddle their own and at no cost to them. and google is far from innocent here.. they've bullshitted their way to the top of the browser game and pull similar stunts as microsoft does.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and a lot of ie's bits were loaded into memory with windows itself.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago

but then where would you put the throne?

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

it's missing the gig of ram usage and thrashing the storage device for the entire duration.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago
[–] adarza@piefed.ca -1 points 1 month ago

so that's what's underneath those......

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago

and that's where my 1000s of bookmarks came from.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago

i hear he's conveniently in possession of a fine turkish-made one now, too.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

i had others, but i was listening to my 70s-80s playlist at the time, so this one popped in first.

the others: captain kangaroo, captain ron, cap'n crunch, and captain caveman.

 

re: raptor lake 'issues'

this one is a 14th gen on an asus board. less than a year old, i think. constant crashes and other 'quirks'. system builder (wasn't my purchase decision) is known to be a pain to deal with on warranty service. so we'll see what happens.

the first was a 13th gen xps. problems from first boot up. dell was great on addressing intel's issue. swapped the board and chip, and it had a brand-spankin'-new firmware that wasn't even pushed to their website yet. paid freight both ways, including priority overnight air return.

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