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  • Do corporations really do research?

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  • Both have their names on RFCs and have developed many of the protocols we all use. To give them credit, the R&D backend side of things they are both pretty good at.

    I'm not sure the research teams have anything to do with business models, or indeed research for what users actually want.

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  • It got away with it due to period accuracy (and it had a decent plot too).

    Now move that to a modern setting and it feels icky and gratuitous.

  • Are You Emotionally Prepared To Die?

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  • No. Thinking about it terrifies me. I can't comprehend nonexistence, and trying to make sense of it ties me in knots.

  • When you were living with your parents, how often would they go through your personal space? (aka; enter your room, search your drawers, your backpack, your electronic devices, etc...) Is this normal?

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  • Is this as a child, teenager or adult?

    If adult, that's definitely not normal.

    Child/teen I can see good reasons why they might.

    For me the answer is never, but I was goody two-shoes and boring, so there was nothing of interest to find.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • The problem with customisable selected state icons, is the inconsistency in the select state. Means it isn't always immediately obvious whether something is selected or not. WB 2.04+ added borders around the icons to resolve this. Most of the time you don't need them though, especially if people stick to the more modern GlowIcons style.

    But otherwise, Workbench/Intuition did nearly everything right in terms of UI design. Close gadget nowhere near anything else you're going to click on, menus at the top (pointer constrained by the screen, makes it easier to get to the menus), windows that don't come to the front as soon as you look at them (makes it easier to rearrange windows the way you want them). If you want something full screen it can go on its own screen, and if something is multi window they can all be grouped together on their own screen.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Window drag bars shouldn't be full of clutter.

    Yeah, I'm looking at you especially Microsoft, with random toolbar buttons, search box (!), and lord knows what else crammed into the drag bar of your applications. So much so that there's very little actual drag bar to grab should I (gasp) actually want to move the window somewhere else.

    Which brings me onto windows should not all be full screen. Especially with the size and resolution of modern monitors, there's no reason to have everything full screen all the time. But, from what I've seen, most people do. I think this is why drag bars are increasingly being filled with garbage. And probably why lots of apps seem to be designed to only run full screen size.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • I do wonder whether the text next to the toggles changes depending on the state of the toggle. It seems to be arbitrary whether they do or not, leaving me unsure as to what the toggle actually does.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Swipe from the side to go back can be really annoying, if you're trying to highlight text from the side or do some other operation that Android decides is a swipe from the side. I'm forever going back when I don't want to.

  • Both Ford and Mercedes own a /8 block of public IP addresses, that is 16 million public IPV4 addresses each

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  • I see now why we were predicted to run out of IPv4 addresses, and also why we don't appear to have actually run out of them yet.

    Although why they still have such massive ranges of IPs is crazy.

  • Which would you pick?

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  • Jumpers.

  • The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200

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  • If I had one I'd probably dedicate it to emulation.

    But I have a MiSTer for that, so...

  • A ghost story :) [Mrs. Frollein]

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  • Yay capitalism!

  • Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward

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  • How on earth?

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  • That cat's living like a king there - nice room, comfy bed. I see why it left you.

  • Love this

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  • Data Organization

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  • Just missing a random pile of files on the desktop.

  • Emojis and Lemmy

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    What cool python scripts do you have that you can share?

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  • More importantly, what cool pythons^[not a euphemism] do people have that they can share (pictures of)?

  • How do your toughts work?

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  • Mostly it's my own voice for comments 🙂, maybe a slight inflection. I don't usually go overboard on the voices unless it's somebody I know, or occasionally characters in books.

  • How do your toughts work?

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  • Reading in my head certainly takes the same amount of time as reading out loud (occasionally with different voices for characters, as somebody else said).

    If I read without doing that it's a lot quicker but it doesn't go in and I have to re-read it. My mind starts chatting away about something else rather than concentrating on the book.

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    Dark chocolate Toblerone to be discontinued in UK due to ‘changing tastes’

    www.theguardian.com /business/2025/apr/18/toblerone-to-be-discontinued-in-the-uk-due-to-changing-tastes
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    Derbyshire dad learned to code to create Peak District video game

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/crrzdpdzqv0o
  • Extra Ordinary Comics @lemmy.world
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    Signs

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    War and Peas

    Cat's Guide To A Successful Day

  • Dragons @pawb.social
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    Sarah's Scribbles

    Dragon Slayer

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    Bought a Lazy Susan on a whim

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    Greb Comics

    Free them

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    Admiral Wonderboat

    Too many choices

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    heyheymomo

    Magic

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    Admiral Wonderboat

    More witch business

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    Admiral Wonderboat

    Witch business

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    Greb Comics

    Smile!

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    Roonie the Rabbit

    My life's purpose

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    Snake's year

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    Bread

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    Mr Lovenstein

    Eye of newt...

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    heyheymomo

    A grey day doesn’t need to be a blue day

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that the Bitwarden extension can generate SSH keys

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    Cooking with criminals

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    Mr Lovenstein

    Ghost