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[-] 18107@aussie.zone 231 points 1 week ago
[-] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 42 points 1 week ago

Where is XP and Vista on this chart. Millennium edition is missing but we don't count That one anyway.

[-] BigPotato@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

They're all NaN and were discarded at outliers... Yeah, they're that bad compared to 2000.

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[-] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you could get *Windows ME to install without crashing.

[-] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 13 points 1 week ago
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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago

So... apparently Dragon Naturally Speaking (version 16!) has them all blown out of the water....

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

God that app was such trash. Voice recognition simply did not work in the 2000s yet everybody and their mother tried to push it upon us 20 years too soon, just like they're trying to do now with LLMs.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago

Remember when windows vista itself came with a voice to text assistant / keyboard thing?

I remeber trying to train that software for hours as a kid just for it to still not understand me half the time lol.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Ironically, it was LLMs that made voice recognition work, but nobody is interested in pushing them anymore.

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[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago

I don't know to me the level it worked, is what makes it really silly to me that so few things can handle local transcription today without cloud services. I felt like it was 99% accurate running on a crappy win XP system with like 256 MB ram. Seems to me that it's crazy that 20 years later we're "well we need to hook you up to a supercomputer to do that".

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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

Blast from the past, I remember having this included with some game I bought in the 90s and it felt very Star Trek at the time.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I used to work with a pathologist who was so old and stuck in his ways that when the practice was shifting to Dragon, they allowed him to remain on the old transcriptionist service, even though it cost them more.

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[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 90 points 1 week ago

It is worth noting that the same metric is the exact reason that web browser version numbers are so ridiculous.

What's that saying? Something about the moment a metric is used to measure performance, it ceases to be a good metric.

That's what's happening here. In one of the stupidest ways possible.

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago

Here's an episode of the excellent "99 percent Invisible" design podcast that interviews a philosopher who ho has written about this topic! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago

I listen to 100 percent invisible, thanks

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[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, Firefox used to take years to change major version number, then they changed to... what was it now, a 6 week schedule? To keep up with Chrome's versions.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

I hate their versioning schedule so damned much

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's gone to a 4 week cadence, now down to a 2-week cadence.

[-] inbn@lemmy.zip 55 points 1 week ago

They are not ready for my Xbox 360

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile, Atari is off the scale

[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

smirks in amiga500

[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago

My old Amstrad CPC6128 isn't too shabby either

[-] 13igtyme@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Transylvania 6-5000 is in shambles.

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[-] blackshirt@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

Chrome bumped its versioning numbers to overtake Firefox back in the day, that’s how we ended up with stupid version numbers like 124.1.2 instead of meaningful versions.

[-] teolan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I've started using CalVer (so a relase in October 2026 would be numbered 26.10). This is just so much better for end-user applications.

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

What's the benefits here? Why is the semver even bad to begin with? I'm not sure why I'd care that it's in the hundreds. It's a number, right?

Dates - I can just look at the release date if I want that.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago
[-] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I honestly love this idea unironically because its not really 1.0 until the bugs are gone and all desired features are present. If there are ever 2.0 plans, those are actually 1.0 plans and you were further behind than you thought

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[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 week ago

Important info: Sashi is supposedly a shitposter.

[-] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Has anyone checked on Bonzi Buddy lately, I think it's time to unfreeze him

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 week ago

Also, Clippy was special, but he wasn't evil.

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[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 24 points 1 week ago

This is a joke right? tell me it is please

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[-] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago

This is also why I use AMD over NVIDIA.

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

I'm literally the oldest I've ever been in my entire life!

[-] a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

More people have been to Berlin than I have

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Shit like this would be laughed at by my professors. What a bunch of goons

[-] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Windows 2000 has entered the chat

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