Freshman - Slashdot User

Comment We're trying, but (Score 1) 48

by Freshman on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @06:43PM (#65634226) Attached to: Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing 'Cathedrals of Complexity'

management is interfering.

Comment Re:They can't even make a decent remote (Score 1) 18

by Freshman on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:36PM (#64128077) Attached to: Roku Launches Its First High-End TVs in Search of Revenue Growth

Dang, sorry to hear that. I have the same Roku 3 remote from 2013 and it has functioned just fine for 10 years.

Comment The best new feature (Score 2) 47

by Freshman on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:54AM (#64065613) Attached to: Notepad On Windows 11 Is Finally Getting a Character Count

Is not losing the dozens of unsaved notepad windows when a Windows Update (or forced reboot) hits

Comment Re:Long COVID (Score 1) 211

by Freshman on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:26PM (#63013163) Attached to: US Workers Have Gotten Way Less Productive

My understanding is that the risk is cumulative --- the more reinfections, the greater the chances for disease

Comment Long COVID (Score 1) 211

by Freshman on Monday October 31, 2022 @03:13PM (#63012925) Attached to: US Workers Have Gotten Way Less Productive

My hypothesis is gradual brain damage / immune damage from reinfections and Long COVID.

Comment Sometimes (Score 1) 143

by Freshman on Saturday January 29, 2022 @07:59PM (#62219579) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your Web pages With Microsoft Edge?

Yes, who wouldn't if you care about supporting the broadest number of browsers out there?

And thanks for the reminder, it had been a while. I just discovered a bug in my server config about enforcing SSL --- Chrome apparently makes the switch on the client side automatically, but Edge didn't. I wouldn't have caught this without an Edge test.

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