Okay, but writing a .desktop file takes like 10 seconds.

So deal with Reddit style mods and hoops and maybe you can do exactly what you are already doing? No thank you.

I have severe adult adhd and this has never been the case for me.

Often patents like this are for the manufacturing process or physical construction rather than what the device does, this one appears to be on the construction. Specifically on a new method for making it smaller.

Lots of Windows 95 machines made a big todo about supporting VCD around that same time. But I never remember seeing any in person at a store. I do remember burning VCDs to watch in the DVD player in the living room before we had a DVD burner.

Sony also bought Columbia TriStar following the failure of Beta and their lesser known failed music format DAT (Digital Audio Tape, looked like a cassette acted like a CD that needed to be rewound, not to be confused with Phillips’ follow up to the cassette the DCC or Digital Compact Cassette). Sony really wanted to charge licensing fees for their formats and that is largely why Beta and DAT failed* compared to the freely available formats from Toshiba and Phillips (CD, VHS, and DVD). Sony flooding the market with Columbia’s back catalogue is what really defeated the HDDVD format being pushed by Toshiba. Toshiba was also working with Microsoft on the Zune at that time and created a HDDVD add-on for the Xbox 360. HDDVDs used a version of Silverlight which was made by MS where the Blu-ray stack was written in Java, a language that MS notoriously hates.

UMDs that PSPs used, though similar in appearance, are not minidiscs. They use a completely different method of reading and writing the information. Minidiscs are magneto-optical where UMDs are just optical like CD, DVDs, and Blu-ray’s. Magneto-optical discs use a laser to heat up a small area of the platter and then, in very laymen terms, flips a magnet in that spot to be either south down or north down. This creates a slight optical variation along the track that can be read back by a lower power laser in much the same way (but at a different angle and wavelength) to CDs. While they did have mastered minidiscs that you could buy in a store, you mostly bought blank ones to write yourself, and they were rewritable years before CD burners became ubiquitous.

* Failed at the consumer level; DATs were wildly popular in the radio and recording industry because its failure gave it a built in copy protection through obscurity. Betas had a higher quality than VHS and were heavily used in the local broadcast and syndicated TV industries. In fact the last blank Beta was made after the last blank VHS.

Tel Aviv, Israel… Illinois???

I stopped selling on Craigslist after being ghosted at meetups multiple times.

As a Native American I have been asked more than once if I live in a teepee by other Americans. I often respond that I do but it has doors and windows and running water and we call it a house.

The problem with this idea is that it assumes that those areas are politically aligned. I highly doubt people in liberal areas like Austin are going to be okay with being lumped in with whatever happens in Texas and I am confident that the Native Americans in Oklahoma will never be okay with it.

The divide in the US is largely rural vs urban not north vs south or east vs west anymore.

I know a couple lesbians who, while otherwise as liberal as is stereotypical for the community, are vehemently anti-trans. I have been told by some gay friends that this is more common than one would think.

The main issue with that is MS made a million different versions of Vista and some of them had significantly higher requirements than others. So you had OEMs selling machines that were ‘Vista Ready’ in the lead up to launch but they barely made the requirements for the basic version. Then you had people going to Best Buy and getting the premium version and having a horrible experience.

I had Vista on my MacBook Pro and it was a a solid OS, especially if you needed 64-bit support. In fact the Pro was PC Magazine’s #1 pick for Vista machines which caused quite a stir at the time when Bootcamp was still new.

95 didn’t even ship with FAT32 support originally. I agree with the original comment that it wasn’t until the OSR versions that it got good. But they never sold those in the box, you could only get an OSR version from a prebuilt computer. So a lot of people never experienced them or didn’t experience the original 1995 version of 95 that still required 8 character filenames.

Where do you think white people came from?

Native Americans didn’t come up with this shit. It’s absolutely an import, just not from the 1930s.

On Fedora I go to the repo (app store) and install the Nvidia drivers… on windows I have to download them from the Nvidia site. I’m not sure what you are talking about. Linux is easier but it’s pretty much the same process.

For Logitech use Solaar, also available in most distribution’s repos.

They aren’t police… and they charged the line first. From what I read, if the less-lethal round had gone just 7mm deeper he would have bled out while ‘throws-his-helmet-guy’ was faffing about.

This might be the worst take I have ever seen on this site.

I didn’t call you a name I described your actions. I also freely referred what I commented as an anecdote. You can accept that I have heard other people use that phrase or don’t I don’t care. But using a search screenshot that didn’t return the article we are commenting on and then ignoring that isn’t making the argument you think it is.

You looked for the phrase that is literally in the article and when nothing came back you still assumed that it showed you everything? With this incongruous search result you then decided to challenge my anecdote? I don’t have any time left for trolls today.

And?

I have heard both directed and distributed. They both make sense to me as a description of the attack.