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Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 169 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The computers get faster and the software gets slower. Tale as old as time.

[–] morto@piefed.social 90 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

* as old as unix time

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Markdown formatted that as a bullet point. You can avoid that by putting a backslash in front of the asterisk.

Typing this:

\* Test Message

Will get this:

* Test Message

Without backslash:

  • Test Message
[–] jape@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

I would argue a dot is also as old as time.. ;)

[–] morto@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the heads up

[–] db2@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • as old as time_t
[–] Mondez 2 points 1 month ago
  • as old as 32bit time_t
[–] NiHaDuncan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • as old as time_fast32_t