The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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Well, familiarity is a plus. I’ve run AMD CPUs for quite long, but always with Nvidia cards.
A couple years ago I decided to do a full AMD build so the ecosystem helped itseld. Motherboard, drivers, data pipes, RAM access, even the monitor Vsync, all that stuff being managed by a single brand makes sense to me, and it works very fine. -
Damn. Look at the directory listing for c:\windows for Windows 1.04.
That’s all there was to it.
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Notepad since 1985…suck it vim!
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Was BASIC part of MS DOS? How about that game with the gorrillas throwing bananas?
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Was BASIC part of MS DOS
It would have been. From what I understand, Windows 1 wasn’t much more than a glorified menu system and a shared clipboard.
A search tells me the gorilla game came out in 1990. You can play it here:
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@Hog that’s it. That and mine sweeper. People were fired at work for playing those games. Solitaire and Mahjongg were big ones to.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Notepad since 1985…suck it vim!
vi was written in 1976.
And 10 years later it was surpassed by a far superior editor!!!
Ok boomer!!!
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Windows 11 tests Notepad autosave and better Snipping Tool
Don’t worry, you’ll be able to go back to manual-save-only Notepad if you want.
OMG. Auto-save now in Notepad. What’s next? AI integration?
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Is notepad becoming too powerful?
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Posted to reference later when needed
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Nobody actually reads the articles anyway. More useless tiktok BS!
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I read them! Most of them
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Obscure startup plans 10,000 TB cartridges with 'cheap' material used in restrooms
Updated: Ceramic may displace holographic, DNA and silica as the next big thing in exotic storage
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Google thinks Shorts-style videos in the Play Store will supercharge app discovery
Yeah that’s exactly what it needs. I was starting to worry I could still see the actual search results even with the ads, “limited time events”, more ads, “you might also like”, and “similar apps” sections crammed into the search results.
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So we will be bombarded with Tiktoks all day long? I am beginning to think Ted Kaczynski was right.
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@Gators1 “It will render dozens of coal fired power plants obsolete”
Otherwise said: It will render dozens of wind turbines obsolete…Now if they could only make batteries that thin and powerful.
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The tools used by real power users: Notepad, Paint and. … Calculator?
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Tigger would have never got his PhD without calculator! It’s like the ChatGPT for mathematicians.
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My work iPad uses C. It’s 3 years old. Maybe more. Pre COVID I think
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