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Defenestration 7 years ago

Easy to see the connection for this word when learning that the German word for "window" is "Fenster."

2019 on Spotify 7 years ago

Love these end-of-year recaps because I find the split between podcasts \ music is getting much better recognition in the past few years. 51 days (~74,000min) of total listening this year, wow.

I believe the typing content was itself the changelog for that particular release and the flak received by the author will prevent it from happening again in the future afaik.

I am rather concerned that this failed to leave out Eli Whitney[0], whose contributions for interchangeable gun parts were taught to me in university history class.

By January 1801, Whitney had failed to produce a single one of the promised weapons, and was called to Washington to justify his use of Treasury funds before a group that included outgoing president John Adams and Jefferson, now the president-elect. As the story goes, Whitney put on a display for the group, assembling muskets before their eyes by choosing (seemingly at random) from a supply of parts he brought with him. The performance earned Whitney widespread renown and renewed federal support. It was later proven, however, that Whitney’s demonstration was a fake, and that he had marked the parts beforehand and they were not exactly interchangeable. Still, Whitney received credit for what Jefferson claimed was the dawn of the machine age. [0]: https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/interchangeable-pa...

Needs a lot of work from a prototype I've built in the past using HTML + JS.

Some criticism: Start menu doesn't open when clicked. Can't drag + drop icons. No file menus. Menu bar is missing application icon when app is open.

Closing txt window and reopening didn't preserve text. Cannot resize windows.

The Indian scammers are calling people saying their computers told Microsoft they need help and it works.

My grandmother-in-law was trying to tell me something to this effect last month; that her computer was "acting up" and someone called her "from Microsoft" and she hung up because the sheer coincidence scared her away from the PC.

My friend has an old cassette boom box hooked up in his garage to nice speakers and plays The Cure and old Industrial music from cassette tapes and it honestly feels like the music was written for that specific medium.

I can confidently admit that when I was a stupid teenager, I had consisted on Soda & Coffee and potentially only getting raw water content absorbed from foods for multiple weeks on end.

I ripped my entire catalog of CDs accumulated throughout the 90s-2000s into digital format and threw that collection into Plex so I can listen to my own personal (paid for!) music library remotely. I also took digital download codes for recent Blu-Ray purchases and stored those in Plex so I can watch lower-quality versions of the movies I paid for.

For all I've heard, KODI was the platform that harbored the most piracy in terms of user base but that is just as baseless of an assumption that this article makes for Plex.