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wlesieutre commented on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?   windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/josephcsible
wlesieutre · 13 hours ago
> I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be.

And this is exactly why Microsoft can get away with a buggy mess of a user hostile operating system.

They only have an incentive to make a good OS if people are willing to leave when it’s a bad one.

wlesieutre commented on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode   apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/davidbarker
DonHopkins · 4 days ago
> sleep(rand())

You're being too kind. It feels like a 8 cores worth of parallel busy loops to me!

I bet Alan Dye insisted they put it in there so users can pause their busy to gaze at and appreciate his artistically minimal unpainted Liquid Glass window frame.

wlesieutre · 4 days ago
I like to take a few minutes to admire the content underneath/behind my sidebars
wlesieutre commented on xAI joins SpaceX   spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork
bandrami · 5 days ago
And specifically that if the music is about to stop SpaceX has an implicit government backstop
wlesieutre · 5 days ago
It doesn't have to; the government's rescue of GM in 2008 killed a bunch of brands that they owned.

But given the current administration, I don't have a lot of faith in the government looking out for anyone else's interests here.

wlesieutre commented on Apple I Advertisement (1976)   apple1.chez.com/Apple1pro... · Posted by u/janandonly
jrochkind1 · 7 days ago
A lot of corporate "philosophies" are actually just business models. There have been times between then and now they charged for the OS. They do charge for other software. But largely it's been a good business model for them.
wlesieutre · 7 days ago
In the 2000s I remember the OS releases being $130, which (depending on exactly what year you start from) is equivalent to $200-250ish today.

Not a yearly cadence because back then they only released a new OS version when it was done and had features worth releasing, but even every two years that wasn't a cheap update.

wlesieutre commented on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client   xda-developers.com/gog-ca... · Posted by u/franczesko
p_ing · 8 days ago
Positive pressure means less dust.
wlesieutre · 7 days ago
Specifically less dust if you have filters on the intakes. Positive pressure means you'll have air coming in where the fans are blowing it in (through a filter), and any gaps in the case where there aren't filters will have air flowing out due to the pressure.

If you have negative pressure you'll be sucking in air through the gaps and that air won't go through a filter, hence more dust.

Is this really part of the ATX spec though? Or just something people have learned to do for modern cases with air filters?

wlesieutre commented on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client   xda-developers.com/gog-ca... · Posted by u/franczesko
dralley · 8 days ago
I don't think most people would argue that Windows 10 was worse than Windows 8
wlesieutre · 8 days ago
My opinion on that may be colored by the fact that I had a Surface Pro 3, the one place where Windows 8.1 was actually great to use, and taking away some of the focus on tablet use was a regression. Overall you're right though, outside of tablets W10 was an improvement, because 8 tried to stick the tablet UI into desktops.

I was recently connecting to some server with the Windows 8 derived version of Windows Server and gosh that full screen start menu is stupid with a mouse.

wlesieutre commented on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client   xda-developers.com/gog-ca... · Posted by u/franczesko
BoxOfRain · 9 days ago
Ironically I built a Linux box for mainly local models with some RGBs because I wanted tasteful accent lights to match the room, but my motherboard isn't supported by OpenRGB so they're stuck on either nothing or 'unicorn vomit' mode until some indefinite point in the future. This is the first time I've run into a stereotypically Linux issue in nearly a decade (on sane hardware) I think!

Not a fan of those aquarium PC cases though, they sacrifice airflow for aesthetics which isn't a great shout. I have a 5090 and a 9950X in a more traditional case and my temperatures are fine with air cooling alone. Not sure you'd get away with that in an aquarium case with poorer airflow, at least without it sounding like a hairdryer all day.

wlesieutre · 9 days ago
Anyone know of a living successor to Silent PC Review? Was a great site back in the day but it shut down and got replaced with a marketing slop page.

Great reviews back you could get cases with multi-layered sound deadening side panels instead of windows.

wlesieutre commented on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client   xda-developers.com/gog-ca... · Posted by u/franczesko
embedding-shape · 9 days ago
> Most gamers don't give a shit about openness

I don't think this is a given. I think most gamers so far haven't cared about openness because pragmatically, it didn't matter for them.

Now they're seeing the long-term effect of not caring about that though, which is why we're suddenly seeing a movement of gamers moving to Linux, and trying to get others to move with them, because they realize the importance now, as their desktops are slowly collapsing over Microsoft's decision to let AI do all the programming, and having zero QA before releasing stuff to the public.

wlesieutre · 9 days ago
They don't care about it as an abstract idea, but they do notice that Windows 11 is worse than Windows 10 was worse than Windows 8 was worse than Windows 7.

I'm not saying there have been zero useful improvements in later Windows releases, but 7 looked good and did what you told it to. "Openness" is a very abstract idea but "Only does what you tell it to" is a selling point for Linux.

You know it's not going to upload all your documents to OneDrive and then erase them from the computer.

wlesieutre commented on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app   macrumors.com/2026/01/28/... · Posted by u/pier25
mcintyre1994 · 10 days ago
I would be surprised by that because iPhone users would notice that. I think the App Store model relies on their fee being invisible to consumers, and the increased price you’re paying not being linked to them. AFAIK apps aren’t allowed to explain that they charge more if you subscribe on iPhone to users either, or why they do so.
wlesieutre · 10 days ago
True, hard for bank deposits where the user sees both ends of the transaction.

For bill payments though, they'd just insist on taking 30% of your electric bill payment and if the electric company's margins aren't high enough to absorb that then "Haha that sounds like a you problem" - Tim Cook, probably

wlesieutre commented on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app   macrumors.com/2026/01/28/... · Posted by u/pier25
silvestrov · 10 days ago
You could make the argument that Patreon isn't much more than a banking app.

It just focuses on the receiver of the money than the sender.

I think Apple is slowly killing apps with this policy. Everybody will slowly move to "web only" as 30% would kill their ability to compete with anybody else. This will likely be much stronger in countries where iPhones do not have the same market share as in the US.

wlesieutre · 10 days ago
Honestly I wouldn't be that shocked if Apple tried demanding a 30% royalty on bank deposits and bills paid using iPhone apps. They've decided the future of their company depends on being huge assholes about it.

u/wlesieutre

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