Why does he even want it?

No. Thinking about it terrifies me. I can’t comprehend nonexistence, and trying to make sense of it ties me in knots.

Is this as a child, teenager or adult?

If adult, that’s definitely not normal.

Child/teen I can see good reasons why they might.

For me the answer is never, but I was goody two-shoes and boring, so there was nothing of interest to find.

The problem with customisable selected state icons, is the inconsistency in the select state. Means it isn’t always immediately obvious whether something is selected or not. WB 2.04+ added borders around the icons to resolve this. Most of the time you don’t need them though, especially if people stick to the more modern GlowIcons style.

But otherwise, Workbench/Intuition did nearly everything right in terms of UI design. Close gadget nowhere near anything else you’re going to click on, menus at the top (pointer constrained by the screen, makes it easier to get to the menus), windows that don’t come to the front as soon as you look at them (makes it easier to rearrange windows the way you want them). If you want something full screen it can go on its own screen, and if something is multi window they can all be grouped together on their own screen.

Window drag bars shouldn’t be full of clutter.

Yeah, I’m looking at you especially Microsoft, with random toolbar buttons, search box (!), and lord knows what else crammed into the drag bar of your applications. So much so that there’s very little actual drag bar to grab should I (gasp) actually want to move the window somewhere else.

Which brings me onto windows should not all be full screen. Especially with the size and resolution of modern monitors, there’s no reason to have everything full screen all the time. But, from what I’ve seen, most people do. I think this is why drag bars are increasingly being filled with garbage. And probably why lots of apps seem to be designed to only run full screen size.

I do wonder whether the text next to the toggles changes depending on the state of the toggle. It seems to be arbitrary whether they do or not, leaving me unsure as to what the toggle actually does.

Swipe from the side to go back can be really annoying, if you’re trying to highlight text from the side or do some other operation that Android decides is a swipe from the side. I’m forever going back when I don’t want to.

Smaller = cheaper to make, less space needed for storage, etc. They also look thicker, so might be more robust. I’d be surprised if any record player couldn’t play 45 rpm, the reason for 33⅓ will be because they are smaller they need to be slower to increase the playing time.

After not knowing for ages, I recently discovered it was pronounced pooned. The W is pronounced the same as in Welsh.*

• The Welsh language, not the word “Welsh”

@toiletsinvideogames@mas.to

Jumpers.

Try aidungeon - it does exactly this.

I’ve been using it recently for generating alt text for images (my bots on Mastodon and Aunty Madge on !yoursinclair@retrolemmy.com specifically). It’s pretty good at that, although does sometimes give weirdly wrong details - especially the TED Music Bot, if it gets the usual +4 startup screen it says it’s +4 on key F1, instead of 3-plus-1, and tells me the wrong colours for the text and background (I think it may be getting it confused with the C64, bit the colours are right there on the image!). It’s infinitely preferable to having no alt text, which would be the alternative.

The other thing it’s really good at is summarising articles.

I’ve also used it when I’ve had an error in my code I can’t track down, or a bracket missing that I can’t figure out. It quite often gives nonsense but I’ve had some success. Usually a normal web search is perfectly adequate though!

I now have a cute image of a mouse in a chunky jumper in my head.

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Thanks!

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Press Enter.

I see from your photo that it’s a Lenovo - pressing Enter to interrupt normal startup will give you a menu which then lets you get into the BIOS.

If it doesn’t go past the “press Enter” point you might need to remove the HDD (or whatever storage it has) and try again. Reconnect once you’ve changed the settings back.

That cat’s living like a king there - nice room, comfy bed. I see why it left you.

!meow_irl@sopuli.xyz

Just missing a random pile of files on the desktop.

Yes, you need to copy the Lemmy link (original link), I think it is a colourful Fediverse icon on the default UI.

Search for that URL on Mastodon and it should appear.

You might not see all the comments though, depends if they have federated (you can search for them as above).