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Comment Re:Really should be honoring Woz Instead! (Score 1) 63

As it turns out, there's a reason why the publishing industry was more than happy to shitcan that company in favor of Adobe InDesign.

It's weird that the reason wasn't that Quark was shit. Quark's interface has always been pathetically inscrutable while Pagemaker's (and subsequently, InDesign's) were immediately approachable and logical. You didn't have to do hard work of memorizing counterintuitive locations to find functionality, because everything was (and is) laid out logically.

I go back to fairly olden times with Pagemaker (back to Aldus in fact) and continued to take a peek at Quark every once in a while, only to find out that it was always terribly fucking irritating. I have never understood how anyone preferred Quark. It had one feature which Pagemaker didn't, arbitary text rotation which you had to do with Illustrator. This seems like a big deal, but it wasn't, because practically all of those people had Illustrator anyway. Obviously Adobe implemented this eventually.

Comment Re:Just impacted by this myself (Score 1) 28

I'd set up a seedbox or a Tor relay on it just out of principle and just keep using your cable.

Nice, an AC comment worth reading for once. This is exactly the right answer. Fucking nail that connection, just keep it using the maximum transfer 24/7, however you do it. If they force you to have their service, then use it... use it hard.

Comment Re:gee (Score 1) 27

It was always arbitrary to claim they couldn't do a more secure OS without those specific features, since most of their security features do not require the not-that-Pixel-specific features they claimed were necessary. Since their OS is not 100% secure since none are, they were always able to achieve their goal of increasing security without those features.

Comment Re:Still ahead (Score 1) 71

The US is now carbon negative. It reached a max of 6 billion metric tons of CO2 in the 2000s. In 2025, we are putting out about 5 billion metric tons.

AHahAHAHHAHaHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Thanks for proving you know how nothing works, as if we didn't already know that.

Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 27

Yes, that is true, but the grandparent perhaps was referring to the fact that the user interface on phones is excruciatingly bad for anything other than entertainment and communication.

Yeah, sure, it only has ten times as many pixels as machines I was doing work on decades ago.

I'd argue for general use (e.g., writing, spreadsheets, light computations), screen size and keyboard will be the primary factors driving productivity.

A larger screen and keyboard can be attached to any non-crippled phone.

A lot of people are doing everything on phones and tablets now. And many of those phones have nearly tablet-sized displays.

Comment "Send solar probes at night to keep them cool" (Score 1) 71

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said solar power is unreliable because "you have to have power when the sun goes behind a cloud and when the sun sets, which it does almost every night."

Almost? In the GOP Science book, Fox Jesus sometimes forgets to turn out the light because he's too busy zapping transgender people; you know, the important stuff.

Can we somehow convince MAGAs that crude oil causes autism? Is it possible to bribe a brainworm?

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