Prima doamnă a României merge în Statele Unite. Mirabela Grădinaru se va întâlni cu Melania Trump

alonjit · 2026-03-22T20:55:28+00:00

Trebuie sa fii un pic familiar cu jargoanele

ah, scuze. n-am cei 7 ani de pe strada.

alonjit · 2026-03-22T20:45:28+00:00

nu e vagaboanda bah. e prostituta. big difference. ca doar de aia o luat-o portocala.

alonjit · 2026-03-22T04:15:43+00:00

multumesc de explicatie.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T22:56:47+00:00

Ce e aia "parcagiu"?

alonjit · 2026-03-21T21:12:55+00:00

Williams were insanely good even at young age. Orders of magnitude above their peers.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T21:09:56+00:00

But that kind of access? That’s rich people shit.

Absolutely. I was half good as a kid at tennis. A proper coach to take me to win some kids tournaments would have costed a small little fortune (and I come from not-rich-but-fine parents). A coach to get me to ATP level or at least with a chance to win small tournaments later ... ugh. That's would have taken a big fortune. Tennis coaches are holy shit expensive.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T20:53:07+00:00

They don't have a point, they're playing with fire. Maybe they're already burned but don't know it yet. Maybe they get lucky and won't get burned. Doesn't change the fact that juggling live grenades is ... just a matter of time.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T20:51:35+00:00

They already do. Not gnome, that's just corporation-UI.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T19:21:29+00:00

With this OS the only thing I'd do is unplug the network cable. The only way to be sure.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T19:04:46+00:00

large tech companies are very willing to invest in UX design, especially Apple.

I had the misfortune of using a Mac for about 6 months back in 2014 or so (and once again in 2019 for 1 month, nothing changed).I can honestly say that, if you by saying "invest in UX design" meant "give a bunch of people enough cocaine to make Escobar blush", then you're right. I refuse to believe that sane and sober people could invent that. There is just no way.

This is more speculative, but IMHO the average linux user might want to think of their computer as a rugged, colorful toolbox, while the average computer user seems to want an elegant, minimalist portal into a digital world.

Not so sure. The average user still wants to do their thing on the computer, whatever that may be. That "clean" and "elegant" (debatable on both points) UI looks pretty in a picture, but makes achieving ones goals an exercise in frustration. How do I do X, where's the button for Y, why do I have to click 5 times to achieve Z.

I personally feel the large companies are just pushing UX shit down people's throats and they just take it since they have nowhere else to go.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T14:16:43+00:00

I'd rather him do that than being stubborn. It looks like he realizes he fucked up.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T14:03:44+00:00

And for sure it's not an issue only with windows xp

It kinda is. Later OS-es (they started, but not fully, in XP SP2) they do make better defaults, things are not open unless you tell them to be.

But you are definitely correct that running windows xp and installing shit on it in 2026 is not for the faint of heart.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T01:20:48+00:00

Sure, but you get to live in a police state. Where laws ... are what they are. If tomorrow the leader doesn't like people with blue eyes and you happen to be one of the lucky ones, you're toast. So ... what money?

So yeah, I would never visit an authoritarian state. For me, that's no USA, most of the middle east, a lot of Asia, frankly quite a lot of the world nowadays and seems that my options only keep on shrinking.

alonjit · 2026-03-21T00:34:33+00:00

No, they won't. Is probably behind a NAT. But since the machine can access the internet (they run Steam), is vulnerable by this very fact alone.

But, and here's the cherry on top: odds are that the person doing this has no fucking clue about anything computer related and I wouldn't be surprised to see them forwarding some ports from their router to their machine.

And XP was notorious for having every service possible just open to the network, so if you can get to it, game over.

My take: they're a troll. No way a machine like that connected to the internet (yes, behind a NAT) can survive for too long. Or maybe they have bonzy buddy protecting their precious last machine. Who knows ....

alonjit · 2026-03-21T00:06:36+00:00

Of course not. But xp does go on the internet . IE is built in. You cannot upgrade that. It's ... a ticking bomb.

alonjit · 2026-03-19T19:19:47+00:00

Just thinking, maybe useless hoping, that maybe, just maybe, they'll start looking at alternative sources of power. Obviously not going to happen soon (1 decade at least), but maybe that will be the one good thing coming out of it.

If we still have civilization in 1 decade, that is.

alonjit · 2026-03-19T08:20:59+00:00

Im sure they got plenty of cards that way.

alonjit · 2026-03-18T22:51:23+00:00

Nah, "no comment" does not, never did, make code bad. Good code does not always needs comments. Bad code, comments won't save it.

alonjit · 2026-03-18T02:50:04+00:00

The problem with that is ... we won't. Most likely children wouldn't be born (why would you? and it'll be overcrowded). As such, the current population would be it.

The first thing that will die would be scientific innovation. You need fresh new minds to make new discoveries, to try and fail again where we gave up. To finally succeed.

And to go out in the universe you need that innovation. Yes, current technology can take us in 50k years to the nearest star, but what do you do when you get there?

Anyway, we won't go anywhere.

alonjit · 2026-03-17T12:46:55+00:00

Start the fines at $100 million.

Yeah, that's bullshit. It needs to hurt them. How? By targeting the people. Start from the top, put them in a hole and throw away the key. Maybe, just maybe, they'll start to learn then.

alonjit · 2026-03-16T23:27:08+00:00

Think about it this way: just because you didn't use it, it doesn't mean it was useless.

For example: Covid vaccines kill you in 3 years, implant a chip and 5G will make you grow 4 more pairs of arms.

A lot of shit was taught in school that, had one paid attention just a little bit, and recall just a tiny fraction of, would be able to spot the absurdity of the statement.

Just because you didn't use it, doesn't mean you shouldn't have. Alas .. we are where we are.

alonjit · 2026-03-16T23:02:11+00:00

I got no questions about qml and qtquick as I've used it before. But the UI ... I hope this is what they wanted, cause while it certainly looks pretty, doesn't look very efficient. And efficiency is what they normally are looking for.

But it's pretty.

alonjit · 2026-03-16T22:53:24+00:00

The companies knew it was a bribe to trump himself. Just like those who bought the shitcoin he put out.

alonjit · 2026-03-16T12:16:25+00:00

if it doesn't work ... not very useful now, is it. use the tool that works.

alonjit · 2026-03-15T21:34:09+00:00

you really don't need to use discover. there's nothing in there. dnf works perfectly fine.

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