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Comment Re: UI design (Score 1) 87

Debian offers both things, but I am using nvidia so Wayland won't work even as well as it can work, which is not as well as X11.

I expect to get an error explaining something about why a program failed, even if it's not very informative. Any program which cannot manage that is crap, and I should not have to go out of my way to get some kind of error either.

I will just keep using zoom in the browser when I have to use it, which is thankfully infrequent.

Comment Re: Ahahahahahaha (Score 1) 129

I should point out that in either case, the manufacturer gets to say what's your fault even if it isn't true - at least without wasting a lot of time and resources to prove otherwise.

If they are signing contracts that don't let them service the equipment when they can't get a tech, and if the equipment is so fragile and complicated that you can't use it without fucking it up, then multiple people fucked up badly and at multiple points. And just to head it off, I don't want to hear any ignorant fiddle-faddle about "these are complicated devices" blah blah blah which is all over this thread. No they fucking are not. They are ovens. There is no fucking oven used for food rather than aerospace grade carbon fiber that needs more intelligence than you can get for two fiddy from aliexpress. It doesn't matter how many timers it has, how many fans it has to operate, how many zones it has, or how many energy sources it can run on, an oven is basic fucking shit compared to other systems on the ship that they can service. There is no excuse for the level of incompetence and/or malfeasance that created this situation and it is absolutely incomprehensible why anyone would want to invent one solely to juggle the balls of some corporation not even named in the article.

How can you possibly defend such an indefensible and most likely born of corruption type of decision with some completely irrelevant horseshit about the vendor can blame you for things? The military doesn't give one tenth of one fuck, it's not their money and they never pass an audit and congress just keeps giving them more, they can be told that because they worked on it when they needed to get some meals out that they will need an entire oven and they will shrug and sign the PO.

Comment Re:What an incredibly bad name. (Score 1) 24

Asif anyone in their right mind would use a format with that acronym.

You think your data is in that disk image? As If!

But seriously, I'll think about trusting it in three OS releases. I remember all the problems with sparse bundles and Time Machine, so that's not an "I'll trust it in three releases," but rather an "I'll start experimenting with it in three releases."

Comment Re: Near native performance? (Score 0) 24

So, no idea why you think Apple fucked up, when they invent a faster disk image?

I want to know how they fucked up with the first disk image. That's why you have no idea why I would want to know something I didn't want to know.

So if you think something was fucked up before, perhaps point out what it was?

It was obvious to everyone else. This is a you problem.

Comment Re: How do people get stuck with Teams? (Score 1) 87

I never used the original Wordperfect, I was only near people who were using it, but by the time I wanted to do any word processing at all I had an Amiga. And while I still had it, Workbench 2 came out, and brought scalable fonts along with it.

Of all the DTP software of any description, I align myself with PageMaker -> InDesign. I have used a number of packages and still go back to Adobe when I want to do some layout and typesetting. I go back to before they required a sub, though. My experience with it also goes back to Aldus. I've tried Quark, and yuck, they never did get the UI figured out worth half a shit compared to Adobe... or even Aldus.

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