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by chacha2 6y ago
How is one company operating a monopoly on software distribution a 'democratizing effect'? This is like saying an authoritarian government is increasing freedom by militarizing the police.
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by chacha2 6y ago
Apple is based in a country that allows you to buy firearms in your local grocery store.
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by chacha2 6y ago
Have you checked out NuShell?
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by chacha2 6y ago
> I wish someone had written "nix but in python" (or bash, or whatever) that still used a nix-store equivalent, kept the overall design and the immutable and reproducible packaging, still connected everything by hash, did all t
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by chacha2 6y ago
He just explained all those reasons? He doesn't want RSI, he doesn't want to be distracted while he's typing, he doesn't want dongles, etc etc. What is this comment for?
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by chacha2 6y ago
I have an auto redirector that changes www. to old. It links this URL to this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/IWantToLearn/comments/vault/iwtl_ho... Very odd.
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by chacha2 6y ago
I've tried it recently and still find it true. Death by a million paper cuts.
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by chacha2 6y ago
Isn't Ubuntu much worse than this with the push for Snap packages? It can take 10-30 seconds to open software installed through it.
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by chacha2 6y ago
iPad pro still does.
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by chacha2 6y ago
Makes this website look like muddy water but I use dark reader[1] for all my web browsing. Ironically the only place it doesn't work is on the firefox addon page. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ad
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by chacha2 6y ago
Look at the new Firefox Preview on Android. They're embraced that way.
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by chacha2 6y ago
Guix + Git + Dat + Syncthing
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by chacha2 6y ago
about:config - privacy.firstparty.isolate = true
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PiggyDB – A Personal Knowledge Database(piggydb.net)
4 points by chacha2 6y ago|0 comments
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by chacha2 6y ago
Is it really too hard to imagine why the creator of the Free Software Foundation would rather people use a free software text editor over the current proprietary alternatives?
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by chacha2 6y ago
Seems a bit early to call 'permanent.org' a critical piece, even if it succeeds all it's doing is cloud storage.
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by chacha2 6y ago
GDPR only needs a cookie warning if it's used for tracking.
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by chacha2 6y ago
It's pretty poor though, try Gnome Web, which excels at it, and see how much more could be done.
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by chacha2 6y ago
What about OneNote?
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by chacha2 6y ago
Bats are known for their hearing.
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by chacha2 6y ago
You don't need a walled garden for that, a unified update api would suffice.
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by chacha2 6y ago
True that people shouldn't be upset because they repelled a bill sooner than it could be implemented? How does that change anything if people wanted the bill.
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The Case for HTML Word Processors (2016)(adamhyde.net)
1 points by chacha2 6y ago|0 comments
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by chacha2 6y ago
That has most the issues that this article complains about. It gets rid of both the minimise and maximise button, leaving only close because that's how the iPhone does it.
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by chacha2 6y ago
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu There you go. Brings back the Windows 7 Start menu/
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by chacha2 6y ago
If it needs to be said the right place to express it is where it will be heard.
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by chacha2 6y ago
Does 2 inches really make that much difference?
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by chacha2 7y ago
Anyone know where that remote is from in the picture?
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by chacha2 7y ago
Does it then matter how thin it is if it'll be protected in a bulky case?
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by chacha2 7y ago
Why is this all or nothing? There's no reason for it to be completely automated, it could have delegated responsibility to the person most in the know of the situation. That way a member of staff could have talked to them instead of pr

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