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Am I the only one still butthurt about how Windows 10 (and 8/8.1/11) doesn't have a classic theme? Shit sucks, I know I can disable all of the effects but then it just looks weird and mismatched, like a modern interface with a 2000s feel.
I like larping as if my computer is a super secret embedded system...
 
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polaris_VII said:
Am I the only one still butthurt about how Windows 10 (and 8/8.1/11) doesn't have a classic theme? Shit sucks, I know I can disable all of the effects but then it just looks weird and mismatched, like a modern interface with a 2000s feel.
I like larping as if my computer is a super secret embedded system...
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I liked that Windows 7 looked kind of like Windows 9x if you disabled all of the effects.
 
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polaris_VII said:
Am I the only one still butthurt about how Windows 10 (and 8/8.1/11) doesn't have a classic theme? Shit sucks, I know I can disable all of the effects but then it just looks weird and mismatched, like a modern interface with a 2000s feel.
I like larping as if my computer is a super secret embedded system...
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There's still third party software that allows you to use older themes and whatnot on modern windows, but it is a bit of trouble just to give your desktop that Y2K feel.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Can you imagine a world where the only junk electronics are used-up "smartphones"?
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Not sure how it is elsewhere, but in eastern Europe there are battered GSM shops scattered around the cities. All of these are operated by gypsies and they only sell chinkshit cables/cases/etc, and used smartphones. The price of these phones range between ~30-250 USD and many of them are stolen (surprising, I know).
So, they are basically just that: electronic junk shops with only smartphones.
 
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Back in the day, turning JavaScript off meant some extra features could be missing, but a website was usually usable.

On the Current Year Clown World honknet internet, websites can be more or less nonfunctional unless JavaScript is on.
 
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Meow Mix Fan said:
Expandable storage on phones being almost completely a thing of the past makes me sad. Especially with the sheer amount of apps and shit that people need on a daily basis taking up the little storage you actually have. I just want to put music on my phone...
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They do this so you're forced to use their cloud subscription service. I hope whoever started this bullshit gets eaten alive by a pack of rabid chihuahuas.
 
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Hellwalker said:
Look no further than YouTube. I don't think there is a single thing that is squared off. It's rounded corners up the ass over there.
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Oh, I thought you meant the website itself had rounded corners but you just don’t like rounded rectangles?
 
polaris_VII said:
Am I the only one still butthurt about how Windows 10 (and 8/8.1/11) doesn't have a classic theme? Shit sucks, I know I can disable all of the effects but then it just looks weird and mismatched, like a modern interface with a 2000s feel.
I like larping as if my computer is a super secret embedded system...
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The classic theme still exists within Windows, and there's an entire community dedicated around it. The thing is, you have to essentially break and then fix Windows in multiple ways to achieve it, Microsoft changed way too much with Windows 8 and the subsequent versions for the classic theme to go back in the way you remember, you'll just have to deal with it or switch to Linux where there are all sorts of themes that faithfully recreate it.

Personally, I'm fine with a good custom dark UxTheme to make all Win32 programs dark. I'm over "ricing for cool looks/nostalgia" stage and now I'm firmly "do the minimum to make it more functional" stage. I have to choose between two shitty operating systems to just be able to use my computer and I can't be bothered trying to make it look super cool and nostalgic or whatever anymore. I just want shit to work, and current day software is shit enough.
 
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I don’t like how the newer iPads and iPhones don’t have a home button. I tried using my mom’s iPad without one when I was teaching her how to pirate ebooks and the touch gestures you’re supposed to do to go to the Home Screen aren’t as responsive and don’t feel as good as just pushing a fucking button.
 
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Elysian said:
I don’t like how the newer iPads and iPhones don’t have a home button. I tried using my mom’s iPad without one when I was teaching her how to pirate ebooks and the touch gestures you’re supposed to do to go to the Home Screen aren’t as responsive and don’t feel as good as just pushing a fucking button.
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Also, I forgot when, but newer Samsung phones don't have a Power button, meaning that you have to press and hold 2 buttons (I think), if you want to turn off or restart your phone.
 
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Everything being overly complicated.

For years I've been using OpenHAB to manage my Z-Wave network. I upgraded the controller. It broke. So I started looking at other options. Oh, yes, Home Assistant, the thing everyone uses. "Just install the Home Assistant OS", um, fuck no. Here's a pip/venv install we don't support because it's super hard and we don't support add-ons with it. Ok, what are these "add-ons", docker containers containing other open source stuff, why are you using containers for this shit on a thing designed for a Raspberry Pi. Ok, let's look at the underlying Z-Wave stuff, "Z-Wave JS UI", well, it's NodeJS fuckery, but they provide a single binary, that's nice. Oh, and it has no REST API, just websockets and MQTT. I guess I'm writing a quick shim to take the MQTT output from my Z-Wave power sensors and sending it to MySQL and adapting my cron jobs to turn stuff on and off to use MQTT. Well, that sucks but at least it's somewhat simple.

Fine, on to fixing my object detection Raspberry Pi which has been crashing. I have a shiny new Pi AI HAT. Hook it up, load the software and check out the examples for YOLO use. Finally figure out how to grab the precompiled YOLO version instead of apparently having to run the model compiler on an x86 PC(stupid). Then the samples are all GUI apps using layers of layers to hide where the actual SDK calls are to simply parse an image. At least I finally found one example, not in their main "Pi Examples" repo that does what I need to swap it in for my pre-existing code.

Guess I'm doing some programming today.
 
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Sunflower Samurai said:
NAPS2 was a good enough solution, i used it with my shitty Deskjet and it works better than the in built windows shit when it comes to bypassing HP's kikery

https://www.naps2.com/
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I believe I discovered NAPS2 through its mention somewhere on the 'Farms. The only negative for me is the help documentation is a bit lacking. I've had to discover what certain features/functions do on my own through chance because the online manual is a bit lacking in some specifics. Still, it's far more useful than Windows Fax & Scan and handles my scanning needs quite well.

Thread tax: The fact people expect everyone to have the latest apps on their phone without regard to whether they're actually needed.
 
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