JackbyDev

Any pronouns. 33.

Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I’m using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

  • 90 Posts
  • 6.51K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 13th, 2023

help-circle



  • JackbyDevtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldTHAT'S DIFFERENT!
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    5 hours ago

    PC absolutely has to do with the OS in certain contexts. Do you not remember the “Hi, I’m a Mac.” “And I’m a PC.” Line of commercials?

    Example of the usage: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1568544/mac-vs-pc-cost-analysis-how-does-it-all-add-up.html

    This is because long ago there was the Apple Macintosh and the IBM Personal Computer. So things that were “PC compatible” were not Macs. So the term got applied to Windows stuff. It’s not used very much now, but that article is from 2007.

    So while it’s correct terminology to say Windows are PCs and Macs aren’t, it’s pretty outdated and another example of his failure to be recent on tech trends. I don’t think I’ve used the term PC to mean Windows since 2020 at least. Probably longer.













  • JackbyDevtoProgrammer HumorDOGE employee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    2 days ago

    I’m still mad there’s no straightforward way to convert a PDF into semantic HTML. There’s plenty of tools to convert it into HTML that looks the same with pages and such, but I just want the content.


























Moderates