Trillian Instant Messager had this feature a long long time ago.

Whenever someone typed in "LOL", it replaced that with a graphical emoticon with a WAV file playing. (This was many years before the word Emoji was used by English speakers)

Why the hell would you want a 486 handheld mini PC? You can emulate one on an ARM chip instead, and get better performance and battery life.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*breathes*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's a good one....

OLED has horrible screen burn-in. It's only good for devices that you will dispose of in a couple years.

The speed limiting factor becomes your system bus. To go faster, you need a cache. And to have a cache, you need a way to describe the memory map, so it knows which addresses are plain RAM, plain ROM, bankswitchable memory, memory-mapped IO, memory shared with other hardware, etc...

You can run a TI83 or TI89 emulator on a phone, provided you have a way to obtain a ROM. TI has given out the firmware update files for free, don't know if they still do that or not.

Oh no! How will Texas Instruments continue to manufacture their Graphing Calculators?

Steam wants to install an old version of a game because it's a native Linux build rather than install a new version that's Windows-only yet fully compatible with Wine.

If someone steals money from the casino then gambles it all away, did the casino actually lose anything?

there is human selection on things that get posted. If humans don't like the look of something, they don't post it.

Judging by the AI-generated spam sites out there, this is not true at all.

I've read through the article several times, and still can't figure out what the intended act was, and what was instead done by accident. It says they "Opened the wrong file" when applying for a divorce. What's the mistake? Are they not trying to divorce?

Two completely different approaches to AI art:

* Just prompting text
* Actually doing work

For those that are actually doing work, you begin with a rough sketch (lines or a simple color image), then constrain the AI art generation to use your line art sketches.

Then you follow up by inpainting areas which look janky, rerolling the AI art RNG for small areas.

Why does the headline use an apostrophe to make a word plural?

For people who liked Gnome 2, the MATE desktop is still around. Gnome 2 dates back to 2002, and the MATE project continues to update Gnome 2 so that people don't have to switch to a radically different UI. You don't get that kind of thing on Windows.

Windows 11 makes Linux look really tempting. I haven't switched yet, but if Microsoft fucks with the UI too much with no workarounds (see the recent blacklisting of ExplorerPatcher), I may have to reconsider my choice of OS.