lmao. I’ve been around FOSS long enough to remember when GIMP was considered a rip off of Photoshop much in the same light and Blender was a Maya rip off early on.

NP++ for Mac works, I’m running ut and it isn’t plastic fake anymore than GIMP or Blender are. They fucked up in using the name though, it’s not an official release.

Technical Debt:

1. Current company is running one of its main databases on Oracle 13 because they refuse to pay Uncle Larry a dime, but also cannot migrate it (Oracle eBusiness Suite EBS).

2. Last company made copies of all customer servers hard drives and kept them in a cold vault. So, they had to maintain systems dating back to the 1980s to current in order to recover data from drives in cold storage. The local data recovery company loved them too as drives freeze up and don’t spin after a while. They went under during Covid citing operational issues.

Was fun having a sun 2 pizzabox, a Sun Ultrasparc 10, an SGI Orion and a series of x86 systems on my desk all the time though.

3. A power company whose name I cannot share insisted on having 5 access and control rooms per power plant (most usually have 2-3 per plant) for redundancy. It drove them to near bankruptcy in the 2010s because of their tech debt trying to keep them all in sync world wide. Coolest part: I setup 20 x 70" Plasma TVs as a single C&C panel for their HQ back in 2007 using 3 Matrox video cards.

Welcome to the dark side for good and yes, it is better… overall. I’ve been on Lemmy now since the first mass exodus when I deleted my reddit account of 15+ years.

While Lemmy is now my ‘home’, I do occasionally visit 3 reddit subs that have no equivalent elsewhere. It just happens and I see nothing wrong with the occasional view. It’s not like /u/Spez can monitize my VPN anonymous visit. So don’t feel bad if you end up doing the same, Lemmy just doesn’t have the same volume.

CotEditor and BBEdit 15 are probably the best Mac alternatives that will fit most needs.

It’s a real application that looks and works just like NP++, but it isn’t NP++ and never will be as NP++ is heavily written using Win32 and C++.

NP++ would need a complete rewrite to work on anything other than Winblowz, which is what this Mac port is: a rewrite.

I think it’s valid that they have to change the name, but the app itself isn’t fake.

If I were forced to pick, I’d say it was caused by an inexperienced programmer using AI that caused this.

True, but downvoted posts get even less views.

I’m down voting because even a common HVAC tech could discredit this author into obscurity. This entire article is laced with assumptions probably as a result of improper AI use.

Edit: As a datacenter solutions architect I also can tell you this article is garbage as everything comes down to BTUs. The higher the electrical use, the higher the heat output resulting in the equivalent tons of cooling needed to negate it. Go look up ‘BTU calculator’ if you think I’m full of shit.

One thing I am noticing in all of these videos: Russian soldiers keep getting older. Not one 20 year old in all these faces of death; they all look 40-60 years old.

GPOs already suck and MS is forcing admins to adopt program rules out of Intune to get the same effect. See CoPilot GPO failures for further depth.

Psst… Soy de Mexico, but thanks for playing.

I knew a guy in the Navy we nicknamed Anadonda that would probably take a bet on this.

Increases in students from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Brazil, Russia, Georgia, Iran and African nations doesn’t mean ‘everyone’ LMAO.

“The Crack Combo” sounds better.

Would you like any condiments or napkins for your KFC crack combo?

Yes. I’d like 3 BBQ, 3 honey and 15 crack packets please…

I grew up on a small farm doing this, but have since given up the practice in favor of tumbling composter bins for two distinct reasons:

1. Rodents eventually live in 100% of them where rodents exist and it’s immensely unhealthy to humans.

2. Insects in general are attracted to them and I personally dislike giving certain invasive species any additional food sources.

Tumbling compost bins may not be as easy to maintain, but they definitely get rid of both undesirable insects and animals.

Sounds of air hissing out of a balloon.

Putin’s well on his way to getting back to the 18th century Catherine the Great. By these accounts, this puts Russia on par with the 1920s almost :

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-5924819/Haunting-images-Russian-peasants-selling-human-heads-1920s-famine.html

Fun fact: If an owl sees you yawn they may involuntarily yawn as well.

Yawning is a very old trait dating back to common ancestors.

Ah yes, when Germans are asked questions that can be taken literally.

Looks at 2022 NUC 13 that was bought for work…

Goddamnit.

Light or Chemical pollution will cause blue and green washing of nighttime photos.

Light pollution messes with your camera’s white and black balance settings. Similarly, airglow (natural light in the upper atmosphere) will also cause this, but usually only during long exposure shots or in the 3 hours near dawn.

Chemical pollution on yhe other hand can cause the entire spectrum of colors to show in nightime shots. Every chemical has a color signature.