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New comment by fx1994 in "“This is not the computer for you”"

fx1994 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:54:36 +0000

Most of us learned a lot that way, trying to squeeze and make something work out of nothing. That's why we understand much more than kids today. In the end that is the reason I still optimize stuff in my corporate company and I have a pretty awesome job, so it's a good path.

New comment by fx1994 in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

fx1994 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:37:14 +0000

and tweaking 95 with nlite so it was blazing fast after stripping all useless stuff, great era

New comment by fx1994 in "Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens"

fx1994 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:59:27 +0000

to be fair someone started using computers and has x worthelss security certificates but yes he will teach me how to use computer/Internet...okidoki... I just move to trash all their tests as it's just spam.

New comment by fx1994 in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

fx1994 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:24:19 +0000

This might be true but most of time its just bloat no one uses.

New comment by fx1994 in "Nano Banana Pro"

fx1994 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:36:32 +0000

Yeah, I'm not a dev and not using AI at all but had a need to create oauth keys and some APIs for some project... sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt and it's so complicated...but got it working in the end, thos it stops working after some time, it was like, Google, really?

New comment by fx1994 in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

fx1994 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:53:14 +0000

Who even uses WA when there is blazing fast and feature pumped Telegram. ps. it even has a portable edition. Goat.

New comment by fx1994 in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

fx1994 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:23:52 +0000

that's what I always brag to my devs, why is our DB 1TB, and only 20 users are working in our app. They are collecting all garbage and saving it to DB. Poor development skills I would say. Our old app did the same thing, and after 15 years it was barely 100GB with tens of users. devs today are SELECT *. If it does not work, they say we need more resources. Thats why I hate cloud.

New comment by fx1994 in "Apple M5 chip"

fx1994 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:46:30 +0000

That's why I did not upgrade :) I upgraded VM and when I saw how slow it was, it was a no no for my M2...

New comment by fx1994 in "The Synology End Game"

fx1994 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:50:07 +0000

yup, thats why I alwys end up with microatx board, it just works, it draws power but does the job I need

New comment by fx1994 in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

fx1994 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:35:42 +0000

We don't have enough time to go over things like this over and over again. Somebody already analyzed/tried all this and wrote in a book and they teach you in school from that book how it works and why. Yeah if you want to know more or understand better you can always dig it out yourself. At least today you can learn tons of stuff.

New comment by fx1994 in "How Not to Buy a SSD"

fx1994 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:44:57 +0000

Lots of stuff on Amazon is also from Aliexpress or Temu. Crap, so if I need crap I'll try it on Aliexpress.

New comment by fx1994 in "I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)"

fx1994 — Mon, 12 May 2025 07:44:31 +0000

try to open "new" calculator on win10/win11. It's like loading another operating system... useless.

New comment by fx1994 in "Starlink User Terminal Teardown"

fx1994 — Fri, 09 May 2025 07:06:12 +0000

Provider will not support my modem that is for sure so if you have any issues you are on your own. I use my own Mikrotik + Zyxel PMG3000 GPON SPF and no issues at all.

New comment by fx1994 in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"

fx1994 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 06:35:15 +0000

It was always me and them. They are either "nobel" or just rich. me is the rest of peasants. We pay everything and we give everything to the rich ones. Thats it.

New comment by fx1994 in "Layoffs Don't Work"

fx1994 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 13:42:33 +0000

We are a small team in big company, and management that made wrong decisions is still somewhere there but not my direct management, still getting same paycheck, car, cards and benefits but new managers (that accepted to take over and got brand new car for 100k€, cards and bonuses, bells and whistles) started to layoff workers so we know this is the end for my team, and of course they will do whatever it takes to "save the product", but not fix the the real issue... lack of good developers to fix terrible bugs in our product.

New comment by fx1994 in "Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)"

fx1994 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:14:26 +0000

I'm old school, I will never store anything in somebody's "cloud", rather buy X TB of disks, setup backup/sync to secondary location and I'm happy with that solution for more than 15 years.

New comment by fx1994 in "Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson"

fx1994 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 +0000

random Internet user, yes, Sabine... no, it's all hyped, you know sometimes you just have to come to your own conclusions

New comment by fx1994 in "DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency"

fx1994 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:40:31 +0000

Make people unemployed and desparate so they will work for some other private company like Amazon or Tesla for pennies. It works fine in Russia, literally millions are volunteering to kill people in Ukraine for money, so why not try it in USA?

New comment by fx1994 in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

fx1994 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:02:21 +0000

maybe we are locked with o365 from our IT department...

New comment by fx1994 in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

fx1994 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:58:38 +0000

No one asked for AI integration anywhere. But still we are fed with that shit.