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Re:Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font
on Friday August 08, 2025 @06:02PM (#44842139)
The old text to speech voices are still around in Sequoia. Some have been changed to a generic "my name is x". But most still make their fun little jokes.
Found in the voice over utility app.
Accessibility > Voice Over > Voice Over Utility > Speech > Add Voice
Re:The tech that the US Post Office gave us
on Saturday July 19, 2025 @04:46PM (#44619228)
Restored 1908 Steam Engine [video]
The Machine
Dots, Color Halftone Hyperzooms [video]
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on ...
on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:48PM (#35796313)
Cyxie just moved to the account TreKs
Re:Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive
on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:26AM (#35437085)
it's just a crappy late april fools joke.
The SL-100 Story
Re:What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition
on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:42AM (#34216475)
Apple has done this since Steve Jobs returned to apple the late 90's, they cut down all of the unnecessary models and products lines that were causing this kind of confusion.
They've kinda gone that way again with sticking the "Pro" and "Max" terms onto everything, especially the iPhone models.
Apollo Comms Recreating TV from the Moon
Re:Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” ...
on Thursday August 04, 2022 @06:39PM (#32349210)
Same thing happened with the windows 11 file explorer icons. I can't tell which icon from a glance is cut, copy and paste since they all look visually the same.
Magi SynthaVision Sampler (1974)
Re:After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pi...
on Friday May 13, 2022 @03:35AM (#31364478)
> but there are no VHS cassettes that can match the clarity of 1080p or higher.
A rare VHS format from 2002 called D-VHS could do 1080p on VHS tapes.
Re:Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distri...
on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:02AM (#30329455)
Windows phone used to have this and it was called Continuum. Although it couldn't actually run proper desktop apps, only a few office apps made for it. The promo page for it is still up despite windows phone being dead for a few years now.
Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters
on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:17PM (#29926214)
youtube-dl is what makes most youtube music ripping sites function. Which are widely used by people who aren't paying for music streaming subscriptions.
Re:Is the madness ever going to end?
on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:57PM (#29901729)
I've experienced multiple copies of Spotify on different machines getting forever stuck just showing a blank screen when opened. Although that's probably more Spotifys fault rather than the tools used to build it.
Azure AD password reset page(s) looks like a phishing site
Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards
on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:13PM (#29102958)
or how about mining on a xerox alto? http://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xero...
They are cheating by putting it near to a known hash to verify that it works, you can't earn anything off it.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes
on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:07AM (#28404410)
> even has a loading screen
Slightly unrelated, but this is one of this things that annoys me the most about using gmail. Inbox by Gmail used to load instantly, there's really no good reason at all for it to have a loading screen.
Re:KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07
on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:59AM (#27893167)
It's a lot of small inconsistencies that add up. Like the wifi icon being the wrong size for the amount of spacing it has around it, and also the fact that it's unclear what it actually does without clicking on it.
The spacing in the settings menu in the final screenshot is horrible too, the text gap sizes just change for no reason and the design has two layers of headers that aren't visually distinct enough.
Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in ...
on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:52AM (#27559469)
Try right clicking anywhere. Almost everything has it's own fancy right click menu design for no good reason. Personally I don't find it annoying, but it's just silly that such a large company can't just stick to one design.
The Ident Zone – Television Graphics Through the Ages (2000)
Re:Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse
on Thursday June 10, 2021 @07:32PM (#27467441)
> The web player would just not load subtitles every other video
I had the opposite problem where it would not stop showing subtitles every time I opened a new video. I think it's reading a default provided by the video file and just using that.
Re:Introducing chrome.scripting
on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:33PM (#27443605)
Google's biggest source of revenue is from web ads. They deliberately choose to not have extensions on the mobile version as it would mean that users could install ad block extensions, causing them to miss out on potential earnings from mobile ads.
The History of the Call Centre
Re:Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche
on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:03PM (#27298139)
where are you pulling this data from? It seems to be missing two of my subreddits like (/r/wellthatsucks & /r/unraid).
Re:Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles?
on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:37AM (#26445330)
Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email ...
on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:02PM (#26428968)
This root period was mentioned on reddit a while ago because the domain "youtube.com." would fail to serve ads.
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/gzr3cq/fyi_you_can_...
Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear
on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @04:55AM (#26397150)
> Did you mean MacOS?
In macos I don't have to edit random .conf files in system/application directories just to make my wifi work correctly. The graphical UI is configurable enough that I rarely need to modify anything outside of my normal user directories.
Where as in ubuntu the forums/stack overflow usually say "go to this file at /sys/whatever and write in this". Hence the need for full file paths.