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by alxlaz 7y ago
> The author of this website is basically stuck using whatever version of Frontpage supports the markup of his website. But at least getting it done largely depends only on them, and it's not too hard. I have friends who swear by Pr
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Just a quick note that, unless there's a very specific reason why you want the original XMMS (nostalgia, or a specific plugin?), it may be more convenient to go with Audacious. It has a "Winamp" mode that gives you the same i
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This is pretty much the same in EU, modulo some controversy about the exact point during the course of higher education when you should be expected to be able to design things on your own. I have no idea how an EE curriculum doesn't co
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Maybe this is a problem of semantics, or something that I simply can't quite understand any longer because I am an electrical engineer (or at least I have a diploma that says I am :-) ). But this distinction is very strange, and I&#x
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by alxlaz 7y ago
The stable branch hasn't seen any commits since 2017. The last head of the -next branch is from last summer, I think, and the last time I've seen a patch on the mailing list was about three weeks ago.
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WindowMaker is not unmaintained, for what it's worth.
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Worth a warning: the recent history of GTK theming is pretty tortuous, and the GTK3 theming engine, while extremely flexible, doesn't really lend itself to non-modern (I can't think of a better euphemism) designs. There are some t
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I'm not a big fan of "large" DEs, but I take KDE for a spin every other release or so. The tiling features are all scripts now, they're not part of the base Kwin code anymore. They work pretty well in my experience. (Tha
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by alxlaz 7y ago
So, like I said in my other reply: this was back when i3-gaps was pretty fresh. I don't recall the inverse_outer outer setting, and looking at the github repository, it looks like it was merged in 2018. I'm talking about something
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This was before i3-gaps was a thing, if that's what you're referring to.
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Comparative advertising is legal in some (most?) European countries -- it's definitely legal where I'm from (and AFAIK it's also been legal in Germany for a while, although it has been banned for a long time). However, in mos
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by alxlaz 7y ago
So I guess you were talking about my post? Since I'm one of the "this is why I don't believe in the new Microsoft or that Microsoft has changed" people you mention :-). First of all, this isn't just about this ad. A
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> How are useless xterms different from uselessly used space for a simply centered window? You still have to open them and move them around, especially if you do change your layout eventually. I actually didn't have that problem wh
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No, not just because that. I was simply discussing it in the context of your analogy. In wider terms, Windows is very much not like a radio station. A radio station doesn't broadcast advertising for their competitors' shows, but i
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It's tongue-in-cheek of course :). That being said, I did find tiling WMs to be very unwieldy on most screens. When I first went down the tiling WM rabbit hole, I was using a laptop with a 15" screen, and that was great. After a w
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Ah, I'm in a similar-ish boat, I use WindowMaker :). This isolates me from most, but definitely not all dubious changes. I've been down the tiling WM rabbit hole a while ago but it's just not for me, I like the mouse, I like
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I'm sure Google is shady in this, and many other ways, too, but I really don't see how it's important in this discussion. If Google is doing the same thing then I hope they choke on their Bacardi and Coke, too, but the news i
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Rules for advertising on radio and TV are a lot older and consequently more comprehensive, and there's a lot of variation from one country to another, of course. But at least where I'm from, it's explicitly forbidden for radi
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I do, but that doesn't help much. I don't really have a choice about GTK applications, for example -- I'm going to get the GTK 3 open file dialog and the colour picker with every GTK 3 application.
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> I just don't understand why people run windows. I've used Linux for about the same time and honestly, I understand it completely. I would switch, were it not for muscle memory and for the fact that at least 50% of my work
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by alxlaz 7y ago
What does Google have to do with any of this?
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It's certainly shady, given that they own both the product they're advertising and the medium they're advertising it through. I don't expect that I'll be able to get them to give me a top spot for an ad saying &qu
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This, and every other screw-up in the same vein, is why those of us old enough to remember the Halloween documents don't buy the whole "new Microsoft" thing. Want to get me to try Edge? Great -- instead of a passive-aggressiv
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Do it anyway. I'd like to second that. Do it! A few years ago, through some bizarre corporate scheduling (and turnover) accident I ended up interviewing almost all prospective interns and university hires at $work for a couple of
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> I tried desktop version of Microsoft Outlook. Such an awful experience. Just trying to pick an available meeting room was surprisingly more difficult than on the modern web. That has nothing to do with Electron. You can totally bork an
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I mean, I didn't hate it, but my taste when it comes to movies is so bad that serious cinemas would ban me if they knew what kind of movies I watch.
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No one's claiming that it's malicious or illegal. It's just that a recommendation engine that recommends an old, unmaintained, copy-cat extension which wasn't exactly great back when it was new and maintained is not very
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by alxlaz 7y ago
There's a lot -- and an increasing amount -- of knowledge that's specific to each cloud platform, and increasingly specialized (and complex) software. In the last couple of years or so I've definitely seen companies having to
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Most of the bad parts that Keith Packards covers are about the pre-X11 days. But yeah, Wayland is developed more or less like X11 was developed after the mid '90s or so. The difference is that there isn't much commercial involveme
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by alxlaz 7y ago
It's a development model that worked reasonably well for the X protocol. Wayland isn't great now but it's not much worse than X was in 1994, after 10 years of development (and the first version of X11, which saw the light of

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