pedz

@pedz@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit ironic given the fact that they want to push everyone on the cloud and run Office apps in a browser. Or is this just corporate?

  I’ve been doing tech support for a few corporations and they were literally removing the local applications like Word, Excel and Outlook to force users to use the web versions because it was costing them less money for licensing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The chairs of Trek⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course there is a detailed list of all the chairs that have appeared in Star Trek. I never thought I’d say this about chairs but… interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still hear every sound including the error at the end...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a specific 56K protocol. There were a few different types of 56K modems and they did the last part of the handshake differently. One did the “boing boing” and another common one had more of an ascending tone at the end of the handshake.

  You can hear the boing boing one at the end (1m54s) of that example www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k