GeneralMaximus

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by GeneralMaximus 4y ago
I use tons of GUI apps with mostly a keyboard (or sometimes only a keyboard). For example, my Git client of choice is Tower, and I’m able to get all my work done without taking my hands off the keyboard. It took me a bit of time to get used
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by GeneralMaximus 4y ago
The Input font family by David Jonathan Ross focuses on monospace programming fonts, but it also contains a nice sans-serif font that kind of has a similar aesthetic. I’m not a typeface person, so I know I’m not explaining it very well. The
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by GeneralMaximus 4y ago
You can still do this with Windows 11! I had to do this recently because of an old, well-known, but relatively rare bug with Windows installs. I created an 8GB partition at the start of the target hard disk, booted from it, and installed th
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Stage Manager on Ventura Has Made Me More Focused and Less Stressed(ankursethi.in)
1 points by GeneralMaximus 4y ago|1 comments
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by GeneralMaximus 4y ago
Could these translations be moved to another repository? Maybe they could be published as a separate NPM package that devs could install if they needed to look at the translations?
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
I feel the same way. All of them have come a long way and are more or less usable for anything you might want to do on a computer. There are strengths and weaknesses of course (e.g pro audio on Windows is pretty bad, gamedev/3D art on
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
That's what the default Mac keyboard layout has been for decades. Just because Microsoft/IBM won the desktop OS wars and forced everyone to use their keyboard layout doesn't mean Mac users have to comply. I'm used to swi
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
Netflix in India serves a niche audience. The Indian creators Netflix has brought on board so far mostly produce what's best described as prestige TV. While I've enjoyed some of these shows, they barely have a market outside of th
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
It's not just about the IME. I'm on macOS, where it's possible to type Devanagari/Gurumukhi into both iTerm and Terminal.app without any issues. However, neither of the emulators can render the typed text correctly. I tr
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
Then you make your software unusable for everyone who needs to use languages other than English. For example, I can't reliably type Devanagari (the script used by Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and a bunch of other South Asian languages) into
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
I had sleep issues for years until I discovered that I'm allergic to dust and pollen. Washing my sheets every few days, vacuuming them with a small hand-held vacuum cleaner before sleeping, and using an air filter in my room dramatical
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
Linux phones are entirely impractical for most people. I live in India, and there are several apps I need to use to access government services that only work on iOS and Android. Some services aren't even available over the Web. We&#x27
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
Oh wow, this sounds quite painful. I almost bought the X1E, but now I'm glad I didn't. I'm on a X1 Carbon Gen 9 at the moment. I've had no issues with anything at all, besides having to change some settings on the WiFi
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
While I've recently stopped using Macs as my primary computers, I can definitely see the appeal of Apple computers for a large segment of the population. E.g I still have my old MacBook around for running Ableton, because support for p
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
I recently switched to Fedora and discovered that it's straightforward to create native GUI apps for Linux these days: just use GTK+ with your choice of official binding (C, JavaScript, or Rust) and you're done. Things are well do
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by GeneralMaximus 5y ago
This is not true in India, at least. There is so much SMS spam here that everyone defaults to WhatsApp for any kind of actual communication with a human. SMS is reserved for bank OTPs, 2FA, and and and endless deluge of marketing messages.
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SerenityOS Update (July 2021)(youtube.com)
2 points by GeneralMaximus 5y ago|0 comments
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Avalonia – A cross platform XAML framework for .NET(avaloniaui.net)
2 points by GeneralMaximus 6y ago|0 comments
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by GeneralMaximus 6y ago
Have you looked at RateYourMusic.com? I don't participate in the community very much, but I regularly lurk there and find tons of great recommendations, reviews, and discussions about all kinds of obscure music. Some of the subreddits
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by GeneralMaximus 6y ago
I really like this idea! There are tons of CLI tools for which I've burned pretty much every flag that I'll ever need into my muscle memory. But there are far more tools that I use only ocassionally -- like mysqldump -- where I ha
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by GeneralMaximus 6y ago
I've been very happy with Plausible.io for my dinky little blog. It has all the information I need, and isn't as intrusive as GA.
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by GeneralMaximus 6y ago
I wouldn't be as uncharitable about popular music as you are. Like you, I don't enjoy much of it, but you can't deny that most of it is extremely catchy and fun to listen to. Especially in group settings, like parties or club
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by GeneralMaximus 6y ago
WordPress, because I just want to write. I've been running it since 2004 or 2005, and I don't see a point in fixing what isn't broken.
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by GeneralMaximus 6y ago
I've always wondered why Mozilla doesn't make it easier to embed Gecko everywhere it possibly can. If Electron was built with Gecko, it would go a huge way towards preventing Chrome from becoming the de-facto way of accessing the
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by GeneralMaximus 6y ago
Fancy Indian restaurants in the West as well as back here are almost certainly using ghee. Cheaper places might use vanaspati (a ghee substitute made with palm oil) or oil. In general, though, you can never tell for sure unless you're
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by GeneralMaximus 6y ago
While everything tastes better with ghee, you can cook a lot of Indian food using plant-based oils. I use sunflower oil for a lot of dishes, but you can also use vegetable oil, olive oil, or mustard oil. With a bit of effort, you can elimin
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by GeneralMaximus 7y ago
Hello, I'm Ankur! I've spent the last 8 years building frontend applications with a variety of tech, from modern-day React to jQuery and DOM soup in the Olden Days. While the bulk of my professional experience is with front-end de
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by GeneralMaximus 7y ago
> The one thing English has going for it is the ease of typing it on any keyboard everywhere. Is that an inherent property of English, or because we haven't invested enough effort into making non-English keyboards better? Here'
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by GeneralMaximus 7y ago
Only programmers from English-speaking countries like ASCII. There are millions of us living in other countries who are thankful that Unicode exists, and who are constantly annoyed that a some of our tools don't support it well enough.
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by GeneralMaximus 7y ago
> There's a rather irritating tendency to frankly insult the intelligence of anyone that's not working on $BIG_NAME_PACKAGE [...] I apologize if what I said came across like that. I don't mean to insult the intelligence of

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