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Why is it a floating window and not a frame? Great work, btw

Thanks! It’s an undecorated frame. I wanted a “widget” experience of sorts.

You don’t think the country is mismanaged?

Strange reading an article like this covered in ads

Strange? Its the VC tech utopian ideal: ad funded ai assisted death.

One would have to assume that this was by design.


In every AI prediction there is an obvious underestimating of the actual difficulties faced by workers and planners so the tool to automate those intelligent tasks always way underperform what a person is capable of with the notable exception of merging the automation with human tasks as an augment. And that is a totally ‘nother topic. But thanks for the investment money.


Must be serendipity as I’ve been working on a TUI drama nd drop designer like a terminal Visual Basic 4. I’ve tried Visual Basic for dos and it was as streamlined as the windows version


Thanks for the extensive write up


Hilariously, the MacBook neo has the same taskbar issues since it was what Microsoft copied. No one is getting replaced so I’ll guess they’ll just add some customizations to make it more Mac-like to win users back.


It seems like a lot is being left out. What is considered sufficiently wealthy and why are they going off grid?


> What is considered sufficiently wealthy

What you might consider "middle class", suburban households, and up. These "upgrades" are something that you can roll into your mortgage.

> Why are they going off grid?

Electricity and water availability issues.

For example, I live in an area where water is unavailable between days and weeks, every few weeks. The systemic issue in my municipality is that they have not kept up with the maintenance of water pipes, which means a significant portion of water pumped from the national provider is lost via leaks. Thus when some pumps and reservoirs go offline due to power disruptions, the loss of flow can lead to no water in higher lying areas that takes time to restore.

There are private solutions to this - the most affordable option is to install a big water tank on your property that in affect acts as a water battery. A more expensive solution is to install a borehole on your property, and to draw water from the water table (this might make sense for a complex, or a rich household).


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis

Not OP but it's because there are rolling blackouts.

> What is considered sufficiently wealthy

Ability to afford your own solar. A lot of South Africans can't, and with prices increasing 100x over the past 20 years, it makes it difficult to get out of that poverty.


I decided to switch after notepad++ got hacked.


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