Came here to say this! Take my upvote!

This is really cool, thanks for sharing!

You can find plenty of ISO files on archive.org. I’m not sure about the legality of it, so I’ll say I don’t condone doing it, etc. But some of them have been there for several years, so I think MS doesn’t care.

Just be careful about clinking links in the user comments. People have been known to post shady links and moderation seems to be lacking, from what I’ve seen.

Good luck getting your game to run! Oh, and long live archive.org!

I have a virtual machine with WinXP and one with 98, for when I’m feeling nostalgic :)

Sorry to hear you have to use Windows… I’m still stuck on 10 but I’ve been enjoying the hell out of Mint Xfce and I’ll complete the move soon enough!

Dunno why PowerToys isn’t bundled by default tbh.

PowerToys give the user more power, which goes directly against Microsoft’s own goal.

Also, less seriously, “toys” implies the user might enjoy the experience, and you know they can’t let that happen.

I’ve also cone to realize that this is the real purpose of ads.

Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world, you have the right idea, but the other key thing you should remember is to never talk about the corps to anyone, even if you’re dragging their name through the mud. “No such thing as bad press,” as they say.

It’s good to denounce the practice, but it seems naming and shaming specific companies just doesn’t work anymore at this stage.

I haven’t had a crash happen on that screen but it takes its fucking time loading a non-paginated list of thousands of elements. And there’s no search bar IIRC. MS made this process as painful as possible and I’m convinced that that’s exactly the way they want it.

I was gonna say that Texas’ flag is the only one “allowed” to be at the same height as the U.S. flag, but apparently I’ve been taught a big ol’ lie.

In fact it looks like we’re both wrong, according to Snopes.

I’ve seen fonts on all kinds of filesharing sites like Mediafire etc. But archive.org feels like a good bet for some kind of longevity. As for making it findable, I’m afraid I can’t think of any advice.

Yeah, I’m in a similar spot with After Effects. I think there’s just nothing out there that comes even close for motion graphics, except maybe Blender. I simply haven’t taken the time to learn it.

By pure coincidence I found a font just last night that I had been searching for, on and off, for years—on archive.org of all places. Kind of funny that you came back and replied to my comment today in your post about fonts 😄

Out of curiosity, did you ever find a solution for removing the DSIG data?

If anyone here wants a fun way to memorize more digits, enjoy this song!

Really glad I have a legit reason to share this old thing

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I remember reading about how silicon is theoretically possible, but I had (erroneously) assumed there were more potential candidates. Thanks for the additional info. This stuff is so fascinating!

It’s impossible to tell if that’s an indictment of the people’s attitude or the “healthcare” system. Probably both. This country sucks rotten ass sometimes.

These answers are all really fun but I didn’t see anyone point out one thing: why should we assume that our creators’ “computer” architecture is anything remotely similar to our technology? I’m thinking of something like SETI—We can’t just assume that all other life is carbon-based (though evidently it’s a pretty good criterion). The simulation could be running on some kind of dark matter machine or some other exotic material that we don’t even know about.

Personally I don’t subscribe to the simulation theory. But if it were true, why would the system have any kind of limitation? I feel like if it can simulate everything from galactic superclusters down to strings vibrating in Planck Time, there are effectively no limits.

Then again, infinity is quite a monster, so what do I know?

Curious, where are you from? I like it when people from other countries use y’all, especially when the apostrophe is in the right place 🙂

I use Adobe CuckCloud at work on my boss’ subscription. For personal stuff I have the Affinity suite. I know it’s also proprietary, but it’s a one-time purchase, and more importantly, not Adobe.

Man I tried using Inkscape to make a small icon and it took me maybe 30 mins to do something that would have taken less than two minutes with Illustrator. I know there’s a learning curve to all software, but my experience was very bad. Pretty much every hotkey I wanted to use was different from its Illustrator counterpart. And even looking past that, the interface was horribly laggy on my machine. I have no idea what made the UI refresh at like 20fps but tolerating it was untenable for me.

I’ll probably try it on another computer, and remap the hotkeys I use the most. If/when I eventually ditch Windows for Linux, I’ll need something that works, since Affinity’s stuff is Windows + Mac only.

Could they not just (in Illustrator) use the type tool for the characters they want and convert each character to paths? No tracing required!

This is based solely on memory so I’m probably wrong somewhere lol

To be fair, Group B gave us some of the sexiest cars ever created. My all time dream car is the 037 with that Martini livery. I’d even settle for a kit.

This proposed competition and its monster participants will definitely not feature such pretty sights (or sounds) as, say, a Group B Quattro flying down a dirt road… Growling… turbo hissing 🤤

I’d still watch it of course.

Exactly. With “AIs”, people need to remember that coherence ≠ cogency.

For the common user, it’s almost like that one quote that gets tossed around equating sufficiently-advanced technology and magic. The less-informed (those who truly believe the “AI” moniker that has been tacked on these things) read the output and it’s astonishingly readable, so they assume that since the nerdy experts built this thing, it must be correct.

Then as you said, managers/execs don’t make any effort to understand the lower echelon because capitalist Darwinism has caused them to chase numbers instead of, I dunno, connecting with the humans who actually keep their business running. LLMs are just their newest toy for slashing the shit out of wages on their P&L for the next several quarters.

Hah, I didn’t mean to sound like a crazy person, and I definitely don’t have a solution for capitalism, but that’s just my frustrated two cents.