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by alxlaz 4y ago
I have, I've actually written my own GTK theme years ago, before I gave up on it. B00merang Project's stuff is cool -- still way larger than it ought to be but indeed better -- but GTK theming is a raging dumpster fire.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> You can get even better space efficiency with a tiling WM. If you try to run the numbers on e.g. sway/i3, that barely makes a dent. Realistically, you can squeeze maybe 6-8px out of a sane window decoration before it gets impracti
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by alxlaz 4y ago
I don't mind window dressing, it's touch-sized buttons, tabs & co. on a desktop monitor that makes it all suck.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
No, it's not mostly a Gnome problem. The default KDE theme, Breeze, is equally tablet-quality, and unless you want to fiddle with old QtCurve (which is nowhere near as space-efficient as macOS anyway) you're largely stuck with Qt&
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> Top menu with reasonable use of available space rather than the half-assed attempt to appeal to a hypothetical normie user on a 2014 tablet/netbook that gnome is doing This (space efficiency, not necessarily the top menu bar) is t
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Lots of comments here are trying to poke holes in the parent comment, and missing its substance as a consequence. There is, first and foremost, the elephant in the room which everyone ignores because everyone's thinking Russia these da
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> So, just to be clear, when migrating from git to a hypothetical new VCS, you're saying that it will be beneficial to have exclusion rules for some files in the repository, and for others locally on every developer's machine,
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> Instead, you appear to be enforcing in which arbitrary location to place ignore rules for debris, seemingly having spent considerable time implementing that, for entirely puritanical reasons. They're "puritanical reasons&quot
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> The freedesktop standards just seem to be offensive to BSD people as a matter of taste, though. The freedesktop standards should be offensive to everyone as a matter of taste :-D. They are the ACPI of the desktop world. (Note: if anyon
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Or: Microsoft heard the voices of the entitled souls who looked at working applications and thought they were bad because they weren't DRY enough or something. That's how we ended up with CRUD apps that are practically indistingui
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> These young people learned a very important lesson: Rules are rules are rules, and they must be followed, even if they don't make any sense. That is very obviously not the case, seeing how they literally followed the rules. This i
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by alxlaz 4y ago
I'm clearly not versed in AI but at least two of their examples are quite obviously wrong. Their Study Notes example asks for five key facts about Ancient Rome -- one of them is borderline incorrect and only applies to the Roman Empire
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by alxlaz 4y ago
"Easy" is clicking a "Local account" button. Turning off the bloody router is the opposite of easy.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> In general I find that most people who have (or claim) a productive workflow sync their mail locally (rather than letting the client connect directly over IMAP). So decoupling your reader application from your mail fetching application
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Oh, a milion humble apologies, my liege, I was entirely unaware of your decades of experience. Surely machines work better under your touch, for they can see the twinkle of authority in your eye. I shall revise my erroneous configuration fo
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Right? Not to be a Negative Nelly but IRC handles this just fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> What do you mean? I sometimes use Teams on an AD-joined computer, and the multiple-account situation is beyond absurd. Ah, no, I mean, if you're using it for your corporate account on your AD-joined computer. These things usuall
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Yeah, the fine print also needs a "works on my machine" bit :-).
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by alxlaz 4y ago
I have zero shame about it so I might as well confess: I have no bloody idea how to use Teams with more than one organisation. I just set up a VM for each one. I am smart enough to automate a minimal install (the bar for that is pretty low,
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Yeah, see, the fine print kills it. It's a "rock solid"* desktop, it does everything I want. * Unless you use large network mounts, as long as you drag icons one at a time, for a fixed screen resolution, doesn't apply to
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> You need to install at least dozen applications on macOS to come near to features/capabilities of a run of the mill KDE desktop. I can get my run of the mill KDE desktop to hang at startup by dragging a networked folder with a cus
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> Historically, a labor strike means people walk, at risk of being fired, and don’t work until negotiations are resolved. No, it doesn't, it hasn't worked like that for decades. Most labour organisations have some form of agree
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Yeah, that's not how the real world works. If the publisher indeed had zero reason to "indulge" the strikers, they would just fire them. They don't because they've left their concerns unaddressed for so long that it
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Strikes are, historically, one of the means through which governments pretty much everywhere (including the US) was pressured to introduce, and then adjust, minimum wage. (inb4 smug citation needed see, for example, the Lawrence textile str
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Yes. Not literally everyone is on strike literally all the time -- shifts still get covered, in part because the people who are actually on strike actually want the company they're with to grow, and still want to work there, otherwise
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Working conditions are awful enough that companies can afford a high turnover rate, but can't efficiently fill too many positions at once. If people quit two or three at a time, management just redistributes work around, with extra pre
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by alxlaz 4y ago
I know I'm old but I still see light switches all around me. Doesn't anyone flip them anymore? It's cultural but this has nothing to do with Windows, Linux, and iOS. You flip a switch, the light comes on immediately. This is
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by alxlaz 4y ago
I dislike it because the autocompletions are hilariously brain-dead most of the time. Like, it usually autocompletes folder names correctly, but I can't really rely on that feature because some of them are never offered as candidates
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by alxlaz 4y ago
That is still substantially more expensive than flat/symbolic icons, simply on account of it requiring human effort. A substantial number of modern-style icons and logos that you see in the wild are obtained by (lightly) retouching the
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> The other is a product of pandering and crazy talk. Spot on. No sane person would ever say they saw a man in business suit levitating in their driveway. That emoji is a textbook case of pandering to mental ilness, treating hallucinatio

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