to me, it’s one of those “spent so long trying to see if we could, never thought to question whether we should” things.
now that we have text and email, I could do without traditional phones altogether, not to mention video.
although for conferences, having the visual component probably helps everyone follow the conversation better, I would imagine. I don’t know since my job doesn’t use that. but as far as using Duo for a regular call, fuck that.
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I’m with you.
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Agreed.
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I’m mostly fully dark here now. Windows is on a dark theme, steam is, the console windows naturally are, most of my other programs, firefox, even this site. One standout was that I would often put Youtube on the second monitor and unless I made it fullscreen, there was a lot of bright white.
So I looked today and it now has a dark theme option. Nice. Only 25 years since Windows 95 and enough people have already decided that we can go back to dark screens that are easy on the eyes, like it was before.
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I honestly have to think how to make a call on my mobile.
And i would wager, if the have to punch in a number, I’ll start with 9-1 + number because the majority of my phone time is in the office.
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Seizure warning for the video.
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Those things we used to call “computers” apparently jumped the shark in 2011
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These articles always blame tablets and mobile devices, but there’s another really notable point they never mention.
During the '90s, many people were buying their first computer. And back then, by the time you got it home it was obsolete due to the rapid advancements and changes. Every few years up until the mid 2000s, you could get a new one and it would be much more capable. So there were two major factors in lots of sales.
But by the mid 2000s they were more than sufficient for most people’s needs. And since then, there have only been marginal improvements in most hardware. Around 2010 the switch to 64-bit OSes like Windows 7 with more RAM was the last significant full-system change. Since then, the switch to using SSDs is about the only thing that would make a noticeable difference to most people, and that’s an easy upgrade.
By 10 years ago most people had one. And they were faster than most people need, had immense storage, and incredible graphics and sound capabilities, so people don’t need to replace them as often. As a power user, I had a 2006 model that I only replaced in 2016 because it was limited to 4GB RAM, and I expect this one to last a decade as well.
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My experience too, though in 2007 and 2017 respectively.
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This is an excellent point. Just last summer I replaced a computer from 2008, which was still totally fine for any game I threw at it at reasonably normal resolutions. (I was pushing it a little hard for audio production work but it honestly had served me pretty well for that too.)
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It’s Fran! Yay!
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Remind you of anything, LOL?
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I liked days when the electronic device did what you told it to.
I swear, one of these damn iPads might as well start saying “Why are you doing that, Dave?”
Adventures in Modern Device Management.
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why? what’s changed?
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Yeah, I just updated too, but haven’t done more than scroll twitter and plink at a mindless game for a little bit.
I am not concerned something got fucked up…
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