antisol

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by antisol 6mo ago
> Why should graphical applications be fundamentally worse (e.g. in terms of keyboard support) than terminal applications when terminal emulators are a graphical application? Why don't you ask the makers of gui software? &gt
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by antisol 6mo ago
You make a good point about dbus. It is sooooort of similar if you squint. But I think both your points are correct. I feel like the buy-in factor is probably the big one - I think if there was lots of buy in the tooling would probably get
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by antisol 6mo ago
I feel you. Same reason I don't use amiwm. > There is still a lot of things I miss from the Amiga, but I'm acutely aware that a lot of what I wish for are based on rather rose-tinted memories. Yes! I have often wondered
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by antisol 6mo ago
> personal preferences instead of work around technical weaknesses These are the same thing. Your personal preference is my technical weakness. Everybody has different requirements. The scrollbar is a great example: There might b
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by antisol 6mo ago
more "just the best, first example that springs to mind" - Great minds something something.
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by antisol 6mo ago
> or whatever the tycat thingy understands You're missing the point, which is that the EFL library just has media playback built into it - for a lot of different formats. Like Carsten mentioned, tycat doesn't do anythin
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by antisol 6mo ago
hey Carsten! o/ Haha, you beat me to it. Basically the same example.
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by antisol 6mo ago
> In a lot of cases, configurability is just a workaround for the issue that devs were unable to implement sth that just works 'fine'. No - You're making the assumption that everyone wants everything to be the sam
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by antisol 6mo ago
May I present: amiwm https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiwm
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by antisol 6mo ago
Nah, e is great! It works just fine - it's better at a lot of things because it's fairly low-spec and doesn't require a terabyte of ram and 47 quintillion floating point operations just to open a menu. And if you're usin
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by antisol 6mo ago
Hey! Someone sneaked into my brain and wrote down my exact comment!
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by antisol 6mo ago
Welcome! Physical media is the only way to fly. Looks great on a bookshelf, works when the series of tubes is broken, and as a bonus the studios don't sneak into your house and steal them from you. The price of discs these days, partic
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by antisol 6mo ago
That is indeed extremely likely to happen
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by antisol 6mo ago
> Markdown without formatting isn't usually the nicest to read imo Or to write! I use a bunch of features of markdown rarely enough that I can't remember the format for them half the time, and so I'm always looking
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by antisol 6mo ago
You had me at "non-HTML-based" ;) I've been looking for a simple word processor that will let me easily/quickly do basic things and which will let me export to markdown and HTML that isn't terrible like the type wor
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by antisol 6mo ago
> just the fact that they've ensured that k9mail is still maintained seems like an objective win, even if it's now called Thunderbird. Not if you liked k9 and wanted it to not get turned into trash. It's just a mat
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by antisol 6mo ago
Those people can think whatever they want to think, doesn't change what the facts are. I can't be bothered to look for them - I'm not sure which email address I used for which bugzilla (or was it something other than bugzilla
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by antisol 6mo ago
You actually got me thinking about it, because I've been living with a lot of this trash for so long now that I think I've probably forgotten a bunch of my gripes with thunderbird. So here are the ones that spring to mind when I g
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by antisol 6mo ago
omg best thing I've read all day. Thanks for the good long out-loud laugh <3
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by antisol 6mo ago
Maybe. I did try (politely, btw!) reporting a couple of issues on their bugtracker a long time ago, but the usual thing happened: nothing at all. IIRC there was no response of any kind. Which makes me reticent to put more time into writing
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by antisol 6mo ago
Exactly. It used to be good and they're making it worse every day.
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by antisol 6mo ago
Don't forget telemetry! The makers of the "privacy-focused browser" were super strong-willed about that, too.
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by antisol 6mo ago
> they are moving more to using a javascript rendering method instead of xul Yeah, that's what I said: garbage. > I am not really sure what the problems are with working with xul though I'm sure they'll y
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by antisol 6mo ago
Then how come everything they've done in the last 10 years has been garbage?
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by antisol 6mo ago
I agree that it should be "affect". Affect doesn't look wrong to me: and technology choices made in Firefox can and do affect Thunderbird, just like they effect e.g. Zen Browser or Tor Browser. I'm no expert on th
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by antisol 6mo ago
Thunderbird has always been mozilla. They split it out into the other company a few years back.
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by antisol 6mo ago
DO NOT donate to Thunderbird. Let it "die". As with all of Mozilla's software, that would be the best outcome - if it does, someone who isn't totally incompetent might fork it and actually improve it. Literally every cha
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by antisol 6mo ago
There are also a couple of bug bounty websites out there for exactly this kind of thing: you and others throw some money into the pot for fixing a given bug or implementing some feature, and coders can claim that bounty once they've wr
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by antisol 6mo ago
Good! I hope they do "kill it off" so that someone who isn't totally incompetent can fork it and take it over.
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by antisol 6mo ago
Oh No! Sad news! I missed hearing about it at the time. I'm also a big fan. He's awesome in a bunch of things, but my favourite is Cain in Robocop 2. Such a great performance. "Jesus had days like this. Hounded and attacked

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