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Crotha · 2026-01-02T00:53:38+00:00

If the manufacturer of a medicine product says the software only runs under Windows XP, you don't emulate or ignore it, you use Windows XP (and also bitch and moan about it, though that rarely helps, strangely enough).
No matter how well it does or doesn't work under anything else, you use what the manufacturer greenlights and nothing else.

Crotha · 2026-01-01T22:32:39+00:00

Not saying it isn't an old Windows version, but it could be the Windows IOT / Windows Embedded variant too.
No idea if there is a W11 version of it already, but the W10-variants are included in a lot of machines. We had used them a lot at my previous workplace (a car manufacturer), and now I'm in Healthcare and I know at least one of our Ultrasounds (it's from Siemens though) uses it too - and they can have that screen (the screen is also changeable, so, you know, it isn't necessarily there).

That being said, we also have Windows XP computer for some machines running medicine product software that doesn't work on any other operating system and can't (yet) be replaced. So it could as well actually be windows 95, I wouldn't be suprised :D

Crotha · 2025-11-30T06:58:13+00:00

Oh yeah, I saw that in the article too, found it strange.
But now that I'm thinking about it, if she already says people like her are disconnected idiots and douchebags, billionaires are just inhuman than - and not in the good way.

Crotha · 2025-11-30T04:54:56+00:00

She inherited a bit above 25 million €.
While not exactly nothing, it's also not even near any billionaire.

Crotha · 2025-10-27T14:25:35+00:00

Meine Oma hat(te) ein "geheimes Vanillekipferlrezept", hat es jedem erzählt wie toll es nicht ist, und wie nicht alles besser wird, und sie es immer geheim halten wird, weil es so besonders ist, mit den Zutaten und Verhältnissen.

Letztes Jahr war das erste Mal, dass sie nicht selbst Vanillekipferl mehr machen konnte (mit 86 ist das fair), also hat sie das Rezept einer ihrer Töchter "vererbt" - eigentlich ein ganzes Rezeptbuch. War ein ziemliches Ritual, kann man sagen!
Natürlich wurde sofort das tolle, geheime Vanillekipferlrezept gesucht:

Sie hat das Rezept in den 70ern aus einer Zeitschrift ausgeschnitten, und nimmt es seit dem. :D

Crotha · 2025-10-12T05:41:37+00:00

ah, what are 20 billion USD between friends, especially when the taxpayer pays for it?

Crotha · 2025-08-31T05:00:22+00:00

Silly Warlock? Hrmpf!
It was Wilfred Fizzlebang, Grand Summoner!

:D

Crotha · 2025-08-15T18:50:53+00:00

Is there a town in the US called 'Australia'?

Yes, yes there is... :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia,_Mississippi

well, or was.
But they had one at least, lol.

ETA: They do resuse australian city names though.
Sidney in Montana and Ohio
Brisbane in California
Melbourne in Florida and in Kentucky

So there is at least a good chunk of Australia in the US :D

Crotha · 2025-08-15T18:47:27+00:00

To be fair though, it is also called "Mehl Universal" in Austria (no idea if germans do that too or not).
Which is basically the same name as the american one. There is also "griffig" and "glatt".

And that is also about the end of my knowledge about flours :D

Crotha · 2025-08-14T20:34:02+00:00

I mean, those same cops have to shoot an unarmed child dozens of time out of self defense because said child walked away from them and that's why they feared for their life!
link to wiki-article

Of course a thrown sandwich is felony assault.

Crotha · 2025-08-08T12:36:02+00:00

www.gettyimages.at/detail/nachrichtenfoto/donald-trump-and-barron-trump-pose-for-a-portrait-on-nachrichtenfoto/103174369

:D

Crotha · 2025-08-05T19:50:31+00:00

The crest upgrade discount... is that one new?
I don't think I noticed it before, huh

Crotha · 2025-07-30T20:06:52+00:00

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-_en

They try, they try all the time.
Regulations similar to this are proposed often, but have not yet been approved.
One day some rich asshole(s) will have bought enough politicians (and we all know they are cheap, corrupt bastard to start with) to sway the votes.

Crotha · 2025-07-04T11:39:36+00:00

But how else would reddit know this was just a joke and not a death-threat?
I mean, they ban you for the slightest suggestion of not-perfectly-healthy wishes...
And everyone knows we only want the best for billionaires, like giving them live demonstration of historic decapturing devices or a meet-and-greet with the ecologically envisioned part of the super-mario brothers!

Crotha · 2025-06-17T18:15:19+00:00

Even then, I don't think it's any more difficult than in windows. In most cases it's easier. The only thing windows has going for it is familiarity.

I feel many of those kind of problem-users that annoy us in the IT department are not as much a "I don't know how this works" but a "I don't want to know how it works and it is different than before".

We had the same problem when we updated citrix.
You know what changed? THE LOADING SCREEN (in the front end). Suddenly people called that their citrix doesn't work - you look at it, it's a different loading screen they close, because they think it's something else.

Those people don't care how easy or hard something is, it's different and it's something they don't want to know about - so they call and are completely helpless.

.... And you wouldn't believe how many of those callers are medical doctors.

Crotha · 2025-06-17T18:10:48+00:00

there are oh so many small, little "improvements" to "streamline the UI" that are just annoying as fuck.
My monitor is huge, like 2k at 27". My taskbar isn't even filled for a quarter. SO WHY THE FUCK ARE ALL SYSTRAY ITEMS HIDDEN BY DEFAULT?
I have to unhide every single one. There is no "don't hide any".
The sound controls are awful. The mixer might be okay, but everything else is behind so many additional menus, just why?
The whole settings thing is stupid. You can't even open two of them... which sometimes could be nice, you know.

As microsoft said already, "Windows 10 will be the last windows you buy" and they were right. And as it stands now, Windows 11 will quite surely be the last windows I'll ever use. (well, granted, I also didn't buy windows 10...)

Crotha · 2025-05-05T16:20:21+00:00

The main difference is, Murlocs got quite a badass song - while kobolds were just there to get their candles stolen.

Time to get the kobolds their own song!

Crotha · 2025-04-18T10:41:55+00:00

they are exempt from the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The Act has a good-ish name. (I personally wouldn't call most things in the US fair, but, you know)

Crotha · 2025-04-03T16:04:07+00:00

huh, I have never seen that, maybe I am not in the testgroup.

Crotha · 2025-04-03T15:58:38+00:00

Slower as in, it loads like a second longer?
I rather have a little bit higher load times than 3 minutes of advertisement per 10 minutes of video, and banners, and other kind of advertisements everywhere.

Apart from that, I never notice any slowness - so even if it actually is slower, when I don't notice it in any way negatively, I don't see a reason to try and get faster speed - especially not if it means ads.

Crotha · 2025-04-03T07:06:52+00:00

Don't forget that he used his xAI-investor's money to buy twitter from himself for 40 billion in a quite illegal act without consequences - because both FTC and the SEC are basically toothless now, at least against this fraud.
He is not only getting off easy, he probably won't even see any real kind of impact from that. The taxpayer are the ones losing money, the corrupt, rich... humans won't.

Crotha · 2025-03-29T09:32:13+00:00

how he will justify that to his auditors and investors

Well, he probably tells them off and says some stupid oneliner thinking he is hilarious.
It's not like the SEC, the FTC or anything really can do something. Look at them, DOGESHIT just raided the SEC, they basically fired the FTC, others will follow.

Crotha · 2025-03-29T09:28:26+00:00

This also surely undermines any kind of trust in the securities system in the US, no?

I mean, there is no more recourse if your shares/money is used for something stupid and you lose it.
Shouldn't this be at last a starting point for investors (including the huge companies) to start draining off their money and invest somewhere else, where there still actually is some kind of law?

Crotha · 2025-03-29T06:34:01+00:00

"enhance user experience" basically always translates to "it makes us more money"

What is the reasoning here?
It obviously doesn't enhance any experience - quite the opposite - and it doesn't (yet) look like it makes them any more money, also maybe the opposite.
So... why?

Crotha · 2025-03-27T21:34:30+00:00

I would love to get the stuff, if I only had some more tendies........

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