cosmic_cheese

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by cosmic_cheese 16d ago
Yeah, I much prefer the higher PPI and metal chassis of the Kuycon, but its apparently spotty QC and uncertain brand reputation would make me lean towards the BenQ RD280UG if 3:2 aspect ratio were my dealbreaker. It's just too much mon
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by cosmic_cheese 16d ago
It’s a factor, but the bulk of those devices can be generalized into a handful of categories. Google could also throw around its weight a bit more to get manufacturers to form a consensus on things like how various components are addressed
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by cosmic_cheese 16d ago
> WindowSizeClasses, Postures, Navigation3, ListDetailScaffolds, the list goes on. Yes, those are the loose parts. They still have to be assembled correctly for everything to work as expected and every app does it a bit differently (ther
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by cosmic_cheese 17d ago
As a dev who regularly works on apps for both platforms, I think one of the main causes for poor support for form factors beyond a standard smartphone on Android boils down to Google refusing to give developers fully fleshed out APIs to sup
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by cosmic_cheese 18d ago
> Really what I want is a “give me 2020 software” toggle. But if we’re wishing, a 2010 toggle would also probably be nice… No kidding. It feels like by some time around 2015 the majority of the commercial software development world gave
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by cosmic_cheese 18d ago
The thing is, all they really have to do is add an off switch for AI features so they’re not taking up space in the UI and aren’t consuming any extra resources. This toggle should also hide aggressive AI promotions in places like launch scr
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by cosmic_cheese 18d ago
Speed Download on early OS X releases was a lifesaver back when I was still on 56k dialup. Its multiplexing was the only way I could get decent speeds half the time (browsers would often drift down to single digits) and being able to resume
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by cosmic_cheese 18d ago
The important part is the quality of the code, how well-considered its design is, how well it gels with existing code, how readable it is to other humans, how well documented it is, how well its author understands it (and thus, can make sur
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by cosmic_cheese 19d ago
A lot of folks might not want to hear it, but realistically some there's going to have to be a cultural realization that machine-generated low effort slop is not any more desired or helpful than human-generated low effort slop. That&#x
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by cosmic_cheese 19d ago
With the disclaimer that I've never operated in this space, I would imagine that a significant barrier to the creation of new dating sites is that most people who care enough to try to build a good service are spooked by the liability
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by cosmic_cheese 19d ago
Technically true, though that comes with the caveat that doing so requires considerable time and technical skill… we're talking compiling your own kernel and assembling your userland and desktop. The nice thing about classic Mac OS is
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by cosmic_cheese 19d ago
I’m not convinced that it’s impossible to build a modern OS in a way that’s properly modular and allows most functionality to be disabled entirely (as in never even loaded into memory). Windows almost categorically can’t because it’s only e
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by cosmic_cheese 20d ago
> But the OS should be as lean as possible because the entire reason is to run other programs. In my mind Classic Mac OS (minus its design issues) is the ideal to strive for here. It was barely even an OS and more like a substrate for GU
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by cosmic_cheese 20d ago
RCS was DOA from day one as far as I'm concerned. The carriers being involved in any capacity deeper than providing dumb pipes alone was enough to make it pointless, but no E2E in the base spec makes it extra pointless. They may as wel
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by cosmic_cheese 20d ago
Something something Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. While I don't necessarily endorse the view, it's understandable that one might find it difficult to care much about the bigger picture when it feels like their own life is dest
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by cosmic_cheese 20d ago
I've been fortunate to not been impacted as severely as others, but yeah, the combo of the first half of my 30s (and everything that should've represented) going up in smoke, career continuity coming into question thanks to AI, an
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by cosmic_cheese 20d ago
Yep, I suspect the goal is to reduce support footprint/burden to the absolute minimum possible, which is also why they don't maintain their legacy virtualization/translation layers indefinitely (Classic mode, Rosetta 1 (PPC →
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by cosmic_cheese 24d ago
Broadly I agree. Unfortunately the major browser devs haven't moved bookmark UX forward since the late 90s.
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by cosmic_cheese 24d ago
In general, I find that good defaults are rather undervalued and downplayed in the FOSS world. Configurability is great but without good defaults it can also be a liability. Would-be users will bounce off long before they like the software
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by cosmic_cheese 25d ago
I'm around middle age and keep tons of tabs open simply because I have a number of projects/tasks or soon-to-be projects/tasks going at any given point and managing associated websites is easier with tabs than it is with book
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by cosmic_cheese 25d ago
I think there's a very good chance that history will rhyme a bit. DOS/Windows and PC clones were by no means the best available, but they were cheap, ubiquitous, and versatile compared to alternatives that were either much better
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by cosmic_cheese 25d ago
Apple Music has native clients on macOS and Windows (the latter being a greenfield WinUI app rather than based on iTunes heritage). No native Linux app, but unlike Spotify they actually allow third party clients to exist and even furnish a
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by cosmic_cheese 25d ago
Yeah last I knew the Spotify desktop app loads many dependencies in triplicate or more because each pane is its own independent iframe universe, all so the engineering teams don’t need to talk to each other and they can A/B test incess
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by cosmic_cheese 25d ago
I think this is one of those cases where “build it and they will come” applies. The corporate giants are their own thing, but indie/small Mac devs are among some of the most steadfast early adopters in the software world. They routinel
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by cosmic_cheese 26d ago
macOS isn't perfect, particularly in its incarnations since Ventura, though gripes have been piling up since the "great flattening" with Yosemite, which is why Mac users might be interested in a similar alternative. As a whol
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by cosmic_cheese 26d ago
The more technical side of the Mac user base would probably jump ship if a polished, open macOS analogue appeared. There's been a lot of discontent with changes dating as far back as 10.7 Lion, and has been gradually mounting more rapi
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by cosmic_cheese 26d ago
Hmm, isn't EndeavorOS in the same vein as CachyOS? Mainly a pre-configured Arch variant with a custom point-and-click configurator built in? I don't see where it'd be of particular interest to would-be switchers using macOS.
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by cosmic_cheese 26d ago
I haven't downloaded or played with it because I'd rather not toy with software so obviously full of landmines, but from what I've seen it also falls into the "surface level" bucket. It goes a little further than on
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by cosmic_cheese 26d ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware of this, but it's good to know. My needs haven't been demanding enough to notice a difference.
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by cosmic_cheese 26d ago
Perhaps the biggest reason is that the existing FOSS OS world has little to offer for people who like a Mac-style desktop. It's possible to customize DEs to have a very shallow visual resemblance but the details are all wrong, with Win

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