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OpenComputeDesign
@OpenComputeDesign

An idiot with many interests (and bad opinions)

A programmer (who's never gotten anything to a working state)
A writer of short stories (That I never let anyone read)
A hardware tinkerer (who can instantly devalue any hardware)
etc

Also whiny AF

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Recent Notes

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People online: "This $700 laptop with no upgrade path is almost _too_ cheap!"

Me, using a $100 laptop that I've upgraded several times, and actually has the same amount of RAM and storage as the $700 laptop: "No. No, it's _really_ not"
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Scott Williams 🐧 · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpql53rxaesyqzd6zxxsd323c66k75pvw7nz2uhj6yeptvm3hf54rasf9u0ky I think I paid $240 new for the laptop that got me through my PhD coursework and it had a touchscreen, DVD burner, and plenty of USB ports.
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Genuinely working on daily driving Windows 2K.

As I'm getting this set up, one of the first things I'm noticing is how much better the mouse behaves.

I thought maybe the reason I miss click on stuff so much is because I've got bad muscle memory, or my nerves have just gotten burnt out and lazy, or something like that. But no, it genuinely looks like pointer tracking on modern software just absolutely fucking sucks
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I know file permissions are very important on multi user systems, but tbh I'm pretty sure the bast majority of computers only have a single user, so file permissions are, the vast majority of the time, a complete friggin nuisance