nickb333

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[–] nickb333@fedia.io 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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[–] nickb333@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago

Then there's her resignation honours list...

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 6 points 11 months ago

She probably gained an endless supply of pillows.

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago

BBC already have a Mastodon instance but it doesn't seem to get much use.

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago

I class myself as having similar experience to your friend having used Power Basic and Turbo Pascal mainly under DOS. I was able to use tkinter to produce some simple gui front-ends to produce dialogue boxes, process data and feed it to GnuPlot.

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 5 points 11 months ago

Is it people that want to switch away from Windows or switch to Linux?

In my case it was the former, having spent a lot of time on FreeBSD so in 2007 I bought a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.3. This gave me most of what I wanted and when I needed something Windows (XP) specific I installed a VM running under Parallels, then Virtual Box. I was able to run most of the open source software at that time such as Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird in preference to the Apple supplied apps.

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate it when someone sends me a PDF form and tells me I can complete it using Acrobat (or whatever it's called this week). Last one I successfully completed with the Firefox PDF ed.

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I fail to understand how they ever ended up there in the first place. Maybe it makes sense for businesses but why put government stuff there when ultimately they may be subject to moderation at someone else's whim.

Add the past government's use of WhatsApp to this too so they can't conveniently lose data when a device is replaced.

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 3 points 11 months ago

@scott@lem.free.as

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago

@Servais@discuss.tchncs.de Subbed, thanks.

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I watched the movie "Enemy of the State" the other day. It was released in 1998, but it was a true prediction of the future.

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

Update - sorted, I can sub from a browser interface so something to look at in Interstellar.

@anytimesoon@feddit.uk

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