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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon
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It's not you. There are many things you simply cannot do in the settings app.
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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon
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It's not you. There are many things you simply cannot do in the settings app.
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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?
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I enjoy your comment so much because your methodical and patient approach to debugging code is exactly what's required to fix a printer. You literally are really good at computers even if your aren't armed with a lot of specific knowledge. It's the absolutely worst because troubleshooting without knowledge and experience is painfully slow and the whole time I'm thinking"they know so much more about this than I do! If they'd just slow down and read what's on the screen ..." But many people struggle to do even basic troubleshooting. Their lack of what you have makes them inept.
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Actually, let's give them another 30min
My wife once sat in the room for a very long time before someone came to prep the room for the next patient...
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Phones with actual keyboards
I liked my droid.
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Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance
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The main improvement Rust provides is memory safety. It's very easy to make mistakes in C where you could overrun a buffer or something, introducing unexpected crashing and making it vulnerable to exploitation by malware or whatever. Rust eliminates a whole category of issues with their clever memory management paradigm. The improvements in this schedule probably have more to do with the strategy used than code efficiency.
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Looking for "R-rated", gritty, gorey high fantasy books
Mark Lawrence - Prince of Thorns. Loose fit but it scratches that itch for me anyway. Maybe it will for you too.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 - Discussion post #1
I'm nearing the end of act III with a couple of friends and I'm having a great time. I'm very likely to have a 2nd and maybe 3rd playthrough coming up. I love the game as it is, but I do have a few complaints.
My biggest complaint is that we can't just let a more appropriate character take over a conversation. One of my clumsy, dim-witted brawler friends runs ahead by one pixel triggering a cutscene, and I can't jump in mid-conversation to smooth things over with my bardic talent. This is our most common reason for loading a previous save.
Second biggest complaint is the number of things that you can mis-click to destroy your character's reputation. I'd love to be able to opt-in to an "are you sure" dialog when you accidentally click a random item on the floor while moving around. This is our second most common reason for loading a previous save.
Absolutely loving the game despite some very confusing storyline elements that must have relied on earlier foundational elements that we missed.
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Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo?
Last Epoch scratches that itch real good for me and it's hitting release in a few days.
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How do you moderate yourself?
I think the best way to moderate gaming addiction is to be deliberate and disciplined about your goals. I love gaming and don't want to be interrupted, so I try to deal with responsibilities first, to get more enjoyment out of an uninterrupted gaming session. Make hard rules for yourself. You want to be fit? Work out before gaming. You don't even need a great workout routine; consistency will get you there. Use your drive for gaming to reach your goals. That's my opinion
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Actually, let's give them another 30min
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Really common. Hard for many of us to not do this. It's the same when you're in technical support; people lie about the circumstances because they don't want to look bad in front of the techie. Or doctor. Or dentist. Or mechanic.
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Sudo is coming to Windows 11
Do ssh-copy-id next please.
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Nicki Minaj arrested in Amsterdam, claims officials 'took my bags without consent'
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In that case, the grammies are just a private back-patting club, nominations and winners are meaningless anyway and Minaj is a talentless lip syncing influencer. All of which is maybe a little bit true!
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I know how to buy xorg users
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HDR makes stuff look really awesome. It's super good for real.
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How do you find out about new games?
Steam tells me about new releases that are in my area of interest. I'm mostly into multiplayer games so there are a few of us who keep an eye out and talk about upcoming games and stuff so it's not just up to me.
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Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years
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I was honestly excited about the new Settings when Windows 10 arrived. I was a Windows sysadmin for more than a decade and am intimately familiar with control panel and think it sucks. I hoped Settings would modernize and streamline. But here we are, so many years later, and many common tasks still lead us to control panel. Such disappointment.
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I started on kbin. The content I was enjoying was all from lemmy.world so when I ditched kbin I just came over here.
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I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".
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Solidworks is the same way.
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I have Raynaud's Syndrome. Occasionally, my fingers will lose all circulation.
My hands and feet are nearly always cold. Maui, sunny day sitting on the beach, cold feet. My hands never look quite as radical as yours, but the dermatologist says it's Raynaud. When I have to handle frozen food or whatever it literally hurts in my chest. Kind of a lot. Do you get that too? ... Weird how I sometimes forget to ask the internet about this stuff but I just googled and apparently chest pain isn't uncommon.
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Your first distribution
Slackware. Installed from 3.5" floppy disk.
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I just got my first library card.. I’m 50
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It's one of my favorites.