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.
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.
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.
We have first gen core ultra laptops. They only use defender for security but holy fuck they are slow. Like my 11th gen i7 laptop updates faster I feel.
Uh oh, but now that you've used the proper word - easily searchable by automated tools - are all of us involved in this conversation going to suffer mysterious deaths soon?
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.
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.
I tried something ('multiplayer demo', I suspect outdated/barebones export) and it has some neat stuff, the official demo doesn't work though (Picotron Playground is resting.).
::: spoiler 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
We have first gen core ultra laptops. They only use defender for security but holy fuck they are slow. Like my 11th gen i7 laptop updates faster I feel.
WTF is this?
I have no idea but thank you for also seeing it because wtf
It gives me creepypasta vibes.
Oh, Jimmy? He's friendly once he gets his daily pound of human meat.
dont even try to run!
An edit.
Maybe Jack from Nightmare before Christmas?
You... don't want to know.
(It is her familiar, within which she stuffed her soul)
Phylactery
Uh oh, but now that you've used the proper word - easily searchable by automated tools - are all of us involved in this conversation going to suffer mysterious deaths soon?
A girl's gotta have some secrets, ya'know ⁉️
original pic: https://laprensademonagas.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GkHm-rYkkkkkXIAAa1wj.jpg
Looks like a cat with no eyeballs or ears
An outdated OS apparently.
Is that Shakira?
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.
This is awesome. Stuch great genuine persona here being that this isn't a stretch. Almost looks like right out of a Disney or Nickelodeon scene.
Back then she was 22... She is still 22 but back then she was too.
if keeps running... chips don't lie
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.
https://www.windows93.net/
...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
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
Scripts don't lie -shellkira
Oh, baby, when you sudo like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise, and keep on
Reading the lines of my terminal
(Shellkira, shellkira)
present day ... present time!
🎵And you don't seem to understand...
People just don't take this style of photo any more
Is this to say, extremely euphoric?
I would love to look this cute!
Still pretty dope?
Someone hack Shakira's Anglefire page?
Why did you have to remind me of better days.
wat?
Wat
What?
Some of you linux nerds need to try Picotron
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.).::: spoiler 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.
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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
Slestak ftw!