• Undaunted@feddit.org
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    18 days ago

    I had a professor in university who didn’t use the grid layout and even had icons overlapping each other to fit more stuff on the desktop. It was wild

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      18 days ago

      I actually made a wallpaper like this by moving icons and screenshotting until the whole screen was filled. Was funny trying to figure out which shortcuts were the real ones. Now I have enough stuff that I don’t need to fake it. The trick is to have everything important in the taskbar, the rest is just there to fill space.

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    18 days ago

    Um hi.

    This could be a picture of me. It’s classic ADHD desktop, with things dragged ‘for later’.

    Later isn’t today.

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      18 days ago

      in my case i just have twenty different folders all for files “for later”, with a datestamp. oldest is probably around 2021?

      actually twenty is very generous, probably more like a hundred, all across different categories, with different and unique and sometimes duplicated files.

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      17 days ago

      Ahh the custom software we used in the warehouse I managed had an upper limit on the number of windows it could spawn.

      I found that, it was faster to keep a window open (as a child of the main process) than close the window which forced an update of the parent process current tab.

      So I’d have an absurd number of open windows for whatever I was doing for the day. It got to the point during CV19 where I’d have too many windows open, eventually opening another window would kill them all and prompt me with a dialogue to send an error report to our BDM (lead programmer too).

      He would daily get hit with multiple crashes from me, mostly just saying ‘hello “BDM Name”’.

      I’ve still got friends working at the same company, I don’t believe this has been resolved since.

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    19 days ago

    1 of the first things i do after installing linux on a laptop is disabling desktop.

    On a tablet, i can understand muscle memory kicking in and launching apps easily but this is incomprehensible.

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      19 days ago

      I love the concept of desktop, it’s just never worked for me, not on a pc, not on a phone. And I’ve been using Windows since version 1.

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        17 days ago

        A lot of us remember it. If you are a sysadmin you remember it. I’ve been a sysadmin for twenty eight years and working for living in IT for thirty five. Sales ‘dudes’ are the worst. They are just puffed up blowhards with little or no intelligence. the only talent they have is lying to people.

        Case in point from personal experience.

        I put wireless in a Chevy dealership one time as a side job. Every time apple came out with a update for the iphone they(the sales weenies) would complain it was slow. They just couldn’t understand that the problem was on apples end. I drew them a diagram one time and they said that it didn’t matter they paid me for fast internet. I ended up calling the owner of the dealership and told him I would be out to remove the AP’s and refund him. He asked why and I told him about the weekly calls about how it was my fault it wasn’t fast enough for them. He told me don’t worry about it and he would take care of it. A year or so later one of the AP’s ‘somehow’ defaulted to factory and had to be added back to the controller. When I got there the sales weenies went out of their way to ignore me. It was the AP in the main showroom where the sales offices were. Its no mystery that one of the half wits did a factory reset on it.