MiddleEndian

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by MiddleEndian 5mo ago
>I'm pretty sure 95% of photoshop users only use a feature subset thats also available in GIMP (except for maybe the latest generative infill) It's been a few years since I tried GIMP but the last time I did, I couldn't ro
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by MiddleEndian 5mo ago
Mac OS used to have the benefit of a more native application philosophy. So even though the OS got out of your way, all the applications felt unified and consistent with each other.
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by MiddleEndian 5mo ago
Close Windows laptop and leave it on desk, open in morning... 50/50 chance: 1. Laptop has most of its battery life still because it slept successfully and predictably 2. Laptop drained battery to 5% and only then slept
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by MiddleEndian 5mo ago
Yeah I've found modern KDE's shortcuts are not only similar to the best parts of Windows, but also slightly better (Win arrow keys reposition without doing minimize/maximize, only win pgdn/pgup minimize/maximize) so
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by MiddleEndian 5mo ago
And people should be free to pick and choose whether they want to use sites that do that or not. Whatever hacker news does seems to be fine for me, and I did not need to verify my ID in any way (even though it's very easy to figure out
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by MiddleEndian 5mo ago
RCS barely works on regular Android. In the last week or so, multiple people have told me they cannot text me. I found that I was getting a "verification limit exceeded" error (perhaps because of my unusual behavior of usually bei
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by MiddleEndian 6mo ago
Not The Silliest Contrivance to happen to video standards :P
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by MiddleEndian 6mo ago
Anecdotally, my (smart but doesn't really care much about computers) fiancee was able to get all dozen of her mods for The Sims working on Bazzite Linux without any help from me besides a chmod +x to one script. But we don't play
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by MiddleEndian 6mo ago
>Apps require you to sign in again all the time, and send a verification code to your e-mail to do so. Changing locations is, yes, a reason to require sign in. What? TicketMaster is the only app I use that does this. Probably because it&
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by MiddleEndian 6mo ago
>For the up-front convenience you get with phone tickets Even as a person who does have a smartphone, I feel like phone tickets are anti-convenience because they rely on terrible apps like TicketMaster. It's only a positive trade-of
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by MiddleEndian 6mo ago
It's already been beaten into acceptance that I have to use the Ticketmaster app (shockingly awful) or Dice app (not quite as bad but still sucks) to get into a lot of music venues in Boston. But at one club they wanted me to install a
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by MiddleEndian 6mo ago
One of the straight-up benefits of TV gaming that Bazzite (and presumably any KDE environment, but it's been a bit since I used another) has over Windows is that you can label your Bluetooth devices. I have blue controller, pink contro
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by MiddleEndian 6mo ago
I agree that development sometimes takes extra steps, but honestly setting up dev environments almost always takes too many steps anyway lol. Overall it's worth it for the stability.
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by MiddleEndian 6mo ago
Yeah I have a Surface Laptop Studio. Windows 11 is generally awful to the point where I have switched to Bazzite for my desktop, but the form factor with touch support (and pen support) is great. Easel mode is great for drawing, tablet mode
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by MiddleEndian 6mo ago
I'd say it was both. I gave a pretty detailed explanation before, far more detailed than my post here, including a timeline of when it filled in one shot, then two shots, and then three or four (can't remember). I doubt they actua
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
Or even non-software tickets at large corporations. I reported a water dispenser filling too slowly at my office because it took me a few tries just to fill my 1L water bottle. They said it was fixed and closed it. It was not fixed. So I to
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
You can have both. Bazzite Linux lets you sandbox applications and also control your own device.
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
Eh they can be added to my contacts and then fall under "friend" I guess lol
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
>walled garden Makes sense to me. Ideally, people outside of my friends and family would not be able to call me on my regular phone either.
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
Pretty sweet. Do you have it hosted anywhere? Seems github doesn't want to let you load HTML directly (for obvious reasons lol)
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
Now they just need a third party who's never seen the original to rewrite their TypeScript solution in Rust for even more gains.
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
>Interesting. What would happen if it was found later that the match was thrown on purpose by either the judges or the fighters? This was over a decade ago so I don't remember the exact details, but I'm sure this was covered by
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
I'm not much of a gambler, but I bet on an MMA match once when I was in Vegas. I was informed that the payouts (or lack thereof) were determined by whatever the judges stated at the end of the night, even if the call was controversial
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
Ad networks yes. Also the website operators and application developers.
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by MiddleEndian 7mo ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-page-...
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
If 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, big email providers like gmail should automatically mark all of their emails as spam by default until they fix it.
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
The default experience probably sucks, but I aggressively block anything even mildly annoying on my Facebook newsfeed, and I like what's left: Mostly Simpsons memes, Seinfeld memes, Pro Wrestling memes, Sopranos memes, and then interse
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
A friend of mine says he was convinced by https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
That sounds about right. I've never used Kopete myself but the KDE team always puts out good work for OSS UIs
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
It's not rose-tinted glasses IMO. Aside from cross-device continuous chats (which weren't really relevant at the time) and maybe being harder to send pics (can't recall), Adium was a far better messaging experience than anyth

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