Starbuncle

joined 2 months ago
[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not just the bandwidth, but RAM usage, energy consumption, and cache storage space. Ads cost us money.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I have high hopes for the future. It's just not quite there yet.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If people only hated it because it works, paying customers wouldn't be cancelling their preorders!

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Microsoft did ruin Windows with Windows 8, then they made it even worse with Windows 10 and now they're making it even fucking worse with 11. Windows 7 was the golden age of Windows.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I had Windows 10 on an older (but not ancient) machine and it was literally unusable. 10-15 minute boot time and another 5 or so just to get a browser to open. The misery didn't end once things were open; everything was still slower than when I had windows 7 on what would now be considered a truly ancient machine. I put Linux on it and experienced a roughly 5x speedup.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Trying to get games to run without being a Linux pro is much harder than I was led to believe. Some games just work out of the box, but a lot of them absolutely do NOT, even if protondb says they will.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think that any operating system that mostly runs 3rd party software should be legally required to open-source at least the components necessary to run said 3rd party software. Also, OSes should just straight up not be allowed to show ads, full-stop. Making people buy hardware and then bloating the OS with ads in updates is a bait and switch and if our government had any balls, would be illegal.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

It would have made more sense if they had shown the distribution of hue as a polar graph and just had one every decade to show how it changes over time.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust someone who tried to visualize hue like this to make that calculation correctly.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Value is essentially luminance.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The simple AFAIK version is much more common. I have never seen FAFAIK specifically.

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