PersnickityPenguin

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That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let me also tell you a story about them dumping windows mixed reality...

That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Elite smugness

That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Photoshop
  • AutoCAD
  • Revit
  • Civil3D
  • ReCap Pro
  • Outlook
  • Bluebeam Revu
  • Large Format printer support drivers
  • AMD drivers
  • Steam VR

I can run outlook and MS 365 in a browser so it's really the other stuff I need functional to be able to switch.--

That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm halfway competent, spent 10 years in IT and even compiled my own kernel back in the early 2000s.

My last 3 attempts at running Ubuntu turned into complete and utter failures, including having to totally reinstall the system over the top of itself because the system became so corrupted it wouldn't even boot.

And, I barely got steam to work on it. I wasted hundreds of hours and ended up with a barely functional computer that couldn't print, didn't support my computers wifi card, and 90% of my work programs aren't available.

Oh, and someone please support AMD video cards.

We're cooked y'all 🤣 in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah but what about those 18 toed porn girls with stumpy legs?

We're cooked y'all 🤣 in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There actually isn't a single human programmer in the entire world. Every single one was fired and replaced by Grok, ChatGPT and Deepseek.

I know all my old friends who worked at Microsoft are now janitors!

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

China uses little kids to build them. If we did the same in the US, America s would want to have MORE CHILDREN because they would literally pay for themselves!

Just imagine if all middle schools in the US required 2 hours of iPhone assembly per day. It would be excellent industrial training for the future generation!

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I'm hoping for 1USD = 1 yen, then were really going to be #winning by stealing all of the Japanese manufacturing industry!

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What? They do. Apple sells tens of millions of iPhones each year in the US.

California to negotiate trade with other countries to bypass Trump tariffs in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Why does that look like a photo of a bunch of Nazis?

California to negotiate trade with other countries to bypass Trump tariffs in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

California is already home to a large naval fleet and Marines. They should pay them to switch sides.

6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Linux doesn't support VR.

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If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century? (techxplore.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The first commercial PV solar product was nah just in 1909.

See story above, and original article in Modern Electrics magazine in 1909:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051407073

EDIT

Since people didn't read past the headline, the article is about a startup company in 1905 that developed a commercial electrical solar panel by 1909 and was worth 160 million in today's money.

In 1909, the inventor of the solar panel was kidnapped and ordered by his kidnappers to destroy all information about this solar panel. He was eventually released, although he did not destroy the solar panel or his documentation, he did shut down his company.

So this is a pretty fascinating development considering that at this time period we actually did have early production electric cars that were manufactured in larger quantities than gas vehicles, and now we learn that solar panels were commercially available, at least for a short time.

And the solar panels could generate a fair amount of electricity:

500 volts per 10 square ft, and a smaller demonstration panel that was 3 ft x 4 ft could generate 60 watts of power (10 volts @6 amps).

Additionally, the panels were designed to charge a battery backup system.

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Street mural art in Portland (lemm.ee)
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