This golden oldie has some dust on it. Looking for an appraisal.The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Antique Memes Roadshow@lemmy.world – 913 points – 10 months ago49Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsI used to (and sometimes still do) use the mouse cursor rather than my fingerI don't remember the last time I saw a big ol' loading bar, honestly. Maybe a small one in steam? SSDs have made it a rarity for me.Downloads. SSD doesn't help much there.But then you get a download rate and watching the bar is pointlessI've had ones that don't show a rate, and it's maddening. Usually something like downloading an MMO through a launcher.Brew and yum and apt do this in ascii. EDIT I don’t know about Pacman. I don’t use arch.You obviously don’t work in IT.OS install. Even then, it's not much of a chance.And windows just displays a %age. Linux of course depends on the distroI literally used this method while stuck in the Ticketmaster queue for Taylor Swift tickets.
I used to (and sometimes still do) use the mouse cursor rather than my fingerI don't remember the last time I saw a big ol' loading bar, honestly. Maybe a small one in steam? SSDs have made it a rarity for me.Downloads. SSD doesn't help much there.But then you get a download rate and watching the bar is pointlessI've had ones that don't show a rate, and it's maddening. Usually something like downloading an MMO through a launcher.Brew and yum and apt do this in ascii. EDIT I don’t know about Pacman. I don’t use arch.You obviously don’t work in IT.OS install. Even then, it's not much of a chance.And windows just displays a %age. Linux of course depends on the distroI literally used this method while stuck in the Ticketmaster queue for Taylor Swift tickets.
I don't remember the last time I saw a big ol' loading bar, honestly. Maybe a small one in steam? SSDs have made it a rarity for me.Downloads. SSD doesn't help much there.But then you get a download rate and watching the bar is pointlessI've had ones that don't show a rate, and it's maddening. Usually something like downloading an MMO through a launcher.Brew and yum and apt do this in ascii. EDIT I don’t know about Pacman. I don’t use arch.You obviously don’t work in IT.OS install. Even then, it's not much of a chance.And windows just displays a %age. Linux of course depends on the distroI literally used this method while stuck in the Ticketmaster queue for Taylor Swift tickets.
Downloads. SSD doesn't help much there.But then you get a download rate and watching the bar is pointlessI've had ones that don't show a rate, and it's maddening. Usually something like downloading an MMO through a launcher.Brew and yum and apt do this in ascii. EDIT I don’t know about Pacman. I don’t use arch.
But then you get a download rate and watching the bar is pointlessI've had ones that don't show a rate, and it's maddening. Usually something like downloading an MMO through a launcher.
I've had ones that don't show a rate, and it's maddening. Usually something like downloading an MMO through a launcher.
OS install. Even then, it's not much of a chance.And windows just displays a %age. Linux of course depends on the distro
I used to (and sometimes still do) use the mouse cursor rather than my finger
I don't remember the last time I saw a big ol' loading bar, honestly. Maybe a small one in steam?
SSDs have made it a rarity for me.
Downloads. SSD doesn't help much there.
But then you get a download rate and watching the bar is pointless
I've had ones that don't show a rate, and it's maddening. Usually something like downloading an MMO through a launcher.
Brew and yum and apt do this in ascii.
EDIT I don’t know about Pacman. I don’t use arch.
You obviously don’t work in IT.
OS install. Even then, it's not much of a chance.
And windows just displays a %age. Linux of course depends on the distro
I literally used this method while stuck in the Ticketmaster queue for Taylor Swift tickets.