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Pixel 9 Pro XL is sometimes ignoring corner taps in c/googlepixel@lemmy.world
[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

I have pixel 7 and it always takes 3 or 4 taps in the corners for it to register my touch

Saudi man earns world record for 444 game consoles hooked to one TV in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] xycu@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

I have a bunch of different old consoles and vintage computers (not "444" of course) and used to try to have them all hooked up, it was such a miserable rats nest of wires. I eventually settled on just using one at a time (I am only human, after all).

Whatever I'm playing gets the prime hookup spot in front of the TV, everything else gets stored neatly on a shelf or in a box. Cables and controllers are in individually labelled zipper storage bags, in bin drawers, out of sight until they are needed...

Of course, hooking them all up is a hobby itself... It's easy to go down a rabbit hole of scalers and SCART switches and RGB mods and then you suddenly find yourself a couple thousand dollars poorer.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

When IBM killed OS/2

Trump Promotes A.I. Images to [Falsely] Suggest That Taylor Swift Endorsed Him | The former president has been preoccupied with the popularity of the pop music megastar, who endorsed Biden in 2020 in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] xycu@programming.dev 18 points 3 weeks ago

And more money, too

So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
Switching back to Windows. For now. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looking-glass.io is what most use for that

Trump mocks Kamala Harris' name but her campaign is putting it front and center in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

कमल is the word kamala written in Sanskrit.

Before your change to Linux in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] xycu@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My "main" OS timeline was:

  • Apple II/C64
  • MS-DOS
  • OS/2
  • Linux

Technically I used windows 3.1 at times in DOS and OS/2 for some specific piece of software, but it was never what I primarily used and I don't consider Windows 3.1 a proper operating system, it's just a desktop environment.

Not sure exactly when, but I know by 2000 I was fully on board the Linux train.

Started using Linux in the days of floppy boot and root diskettes. Lived through the days of hand-crafted SLIP scripts for dial up internet. The days of needing to pay for working sound drivers. Manually calculating modelines in Xfree86.

I have primarily used Windows at work, probably been 99% windows and 1% Unix/Linux. I have had windows laptops and virtual machines for certain specific use cases but it has never been my main.

Zelda II Has Been Ported To The SNES | Time Extension in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] xycu@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago

Modern journalism: a chatgpt summary of a reddit, tiktok, or twitter post, with an ad in-between every sentence.

how easy is it to install arch? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] xycu@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo has binary packages now, so install can be quite fast.

Prove youre an OG, State your distro couz in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] xycu@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

Gentoo for the last 20+ years. Slackware before that.

Ran something or other off dual floppy drives at some point in the ancient times... A boot diskette and a root diskette.

Many such cases in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Ironically, Microsoft has retired the "Microsoft Office" name.

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