Usb and display resolutions are in a contest for the shittiest, most confusing, naming convention. So far the displays are slightly ahead. We’ll see if it lasts.
In France, websites have biscuits. However, the cloud has gâteaux, because it’s larger, of course.
So that you didn’t waste your time reading this, biscuit comes from bis (twice) cuit (baked), as some recipes called for a second baking to dry them (so they were crunchy).
2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.
Back when the world was young, I had to produce a fairly large chunk of documentation which I started to write in MS Word 2.0 (which ran in Windows 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups).
However, at around 100 pages, I started to have trouble with file corruption. So since the company I worked with had contacts with Microsoft, I got in touch with them. “yes that’s a known bug, there’s a new version on this FTP site” (we were in the nascent ISP business).
So I got Word 2.0c. Which promptly crapped all over my document. “Oh, yeah, I guess the bug isn’t fixed then”.
Around the same time, a coworker had been telling me about those guys who were busy writing a Unix from scratch (hah, so silly) and who had, already gotten a usable and stable system (wait, really? cool!). So I grabbed a copy and tested that. It ran fine (it did help that I already knew a bit of Unix). And I did my document there, I don’t remember in what, if it was LaTeX or Applixware (maybe that came later).
Since then, Linux has always been on my desktop, with Windows coming and going on a secondary disk or partition, mostly relegated to the running of games.
Just to be preemptive: I know you hate me for this. (lemmy.world)
What really popular movie or TV show have you never seen?
When I tell people I’ve never seen the Lion King they are really baffled by that.
So, we gotta trick the rich into letting us eat them. (sh.itjust.works)
Interesting thought (lemmy.zip)
Year of Linux on the Desktop (lemmy.world)
2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.
Are you a microwave? (lemmy.world)
Hurry up. (lemmy.world)
the main differences!! (lemmy.world)
this is just a meme, I know that everyone is different and not all GNOME or KDE users are like that!!
A flock of sheep in London, used for keeping the grass in the parks short, 1926 (lemmy.world)
He did though. (mander.xyz)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter?wprov=sfla1
Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first... (lemmy.ca)
what caused you to get into Linux?
What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?
Crash reporting (discuss.tchncs.de)
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The teal shirts were Starfleet's janitors. (lemmy.world)
Enjoy your Call of Duty (lemmy.world)
Copper Age woman survived two skull surgeries up to 4,500 years ago (www.livescience.com)
Thousands of years ago, a woman underwent two surgeries to her head — and survived both procedures, her skull reveals....
Their barbarism knows no limits (lemmy.world)
Shit would have gone down differently on the biggest continent, just sayin'. (sh.itjust.works)
Testing a prototype football helmet, 1912 (lemmy.world)
Random 2-16-2009 (sh.itjust.works)
D and D had multiple 10 episode seasons to get it done. Lucas did it in three movies. (lemmy.world)
Anakin has a clear motive, and a logical progression from naive to evil....
Public Transit my beloved 😍 (lemmy.ml)
But it's all about convenience (teacup.social)