cosmic_cheese

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by cosmic_cheese 1mo ago
They’re also just more user friendly in general. I have a nearly decade old Kobo that still serves its purpose well and I love how it shows up as a mass storage device when plugged into my computer. No clunky management software (Calibre ma
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
Even before the more recent enshittification, Windows has long suffered from prioritization of corporate/enterprise needs over those of end users, rendering various parts of the system more complicated than they need to be. This is vis
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
What really sets Haiku (and the preceding BeOS) apart is that it's built for the express purpose of being a desktop operating system. As good as desktop Linux has gotten it still suffers from servers being the chief use case for Linux-
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
I recall there being some techno-mysticism surrounding defragging regarding how often and when it was necessary, what it did and didn’t help, etc. I also remember the claim “Macs don’t need defragging” but I don’t know if HFS(+) was actuall
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
I think in the long term, such a project could be more sustainable than projects focused on an “original” experience. KDE, GNOME, etc spend a lot of resources on new features and overhauls to enable new features. A fixed-feature replica p
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
AeroThemePlasma is by far the closest that exists now, but I think there’s still a space for DE dedicated to being as close of a Windows analogue as possible while remaining legally distinct with a fixed feature set to prevent feature and r
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
For whatever it's worth, the new W10/11 designs aren't in line with traditional Mac design philosophies either. They're more in line with those of iOS and Android with how they tend to bury and omit options entirely and
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
> There's no option to bring up a context menu with the keyboard. That used to be the case but has changed. Since at least macOS 15 the context menu key on typical keyboards is recognized and functions, and on other keyboards it can
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
As a system macOS definitely has some holes in keyboard navigation, as well as a couple corners which are KB-navigable but the way to focus them is not immediately obvious. On the app level, keyboard navigability depends on the developer. I
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
Similarly, under macOS in most apps ⌘⇧/ opens a full menubar search which can surface most app functionality from the keyboard. Not quite as good as a command palette but close, and devs don't need to do anything to opt in except
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
Keyboard accessibility is one of those things that tends to get swept under the rug or forgotten about entirely alongside accessibility in general. The funny thing is that the former usually falls out of the latter. Part of the blame lands
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
On the other hand, the existence of alternative implementations in the form of mobile apps can on occasion be a saving grace when web apps are halfassed the other way. It's so frustrating when a poorly made web app that e.g. eats way t
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
I'm right handed and wear my watch on my left wrist, never had an issue.
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
Apple Watches also support it, which can make it even more convenient in some circumstances (no need to fish anything out of pockets/bags/etc, can be used while holding other things).
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
It can get pretty close if avoiding Chrome and Chromium wrappers, especially in airplane mode.
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
It’s more about not having to drag a cable + brick around everywhere and not needing to care about the location of the nearest power outlet, potentially for multiple days depending on usage patterns. You can instead leave the charging bits
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
Switching isn’t nearly as bad as some make it out to be. Much of iCloud is built with well-supported standards like IMAP, CalDAV, and CardDAV. Getting out of Google’s or Microsoft’s ecosystem, with how much both of those love their propriet
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
This makes a lot of sense if public participation is actually desired. Links need to be short, snappy, and memorable so they're easy to either type into a smartphone on the spot or be recalled at some point later when one has a spare m
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
With the caveat that one has the time and energy to fork and modify in the first place, and then additionally has time and energy to maintain the changes that upstream won’t take…
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
I run KDE on a secondary machine and it's the best it's ever been, but for me it's best for single-purpose machines where desktop differences basically don't matter. It's about on par with one of the better Windows
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
Perhaps, but one of desktop Linux's defining philosophies is the machine working for and adapting to the user rather than the reverse, so it's a letdown that this only really applies if you're coming from Windows or have been
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
From personal experience, back in the 2010s it was particularly harsh for those with a non-standard background. What few "opportunities" that existed were a handful of unpaid or grossly underpaid internships which were closed off
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
> Zune was probably a better player. In some ways, anyway. Never owned a Zune myself, but a university classmate did and I was shocked by how poorly it handled non-Latin languages… she had a ton of Japanese and Korean songs loaded onto i
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
If the browser being Chromium-based isn’t a hard requirement, it may be worth checking out the Firefox-based Zen Browser[0]. Its UI is very similar to that of Arc, to the point that I’d call it Arc’s spiritual successor. [0]: https:/&
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
It’s not just Omarchy, there’s really not much out there in the desktop Linux sphere for those who are mostly happy with how macOS works out of the box. Everything is either in a similar vein to the Omarchy setup (hyper-minimal tiling WM),
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
> For as awesome as Tiger was, it was RAM heavy compared with Windows XP at the time. 512MB really felt like a minimum to getting it running well, and 1GB if it really wanted to fly. I think that’s because XP is mostly 2K with a new them
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
ffmpeg is a beast, not gonna argue that. As another commenter noted however, only a small fraction of those options are necessary to cover a media center project, especially if you're not beholden to supporting esoteric/archaic fo
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
It's logical, but the low variety is disappointing nonetheless and makes it more likely than none of the available options are well-suited to one's needs/desires. In the case of media management, ffmpeg is easily usable with
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
It's certainly more challenging for user-facing apps with UIs, but still doable. XLD does it. The key is to keep the UI simple, avoid chasing design trends, and avoid custom widgets.
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by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
x86 translation will be slimmed down but remain for compatibility with the Game Porting Toolkit[0]. Their reasoning is likely that they want to limit the set of libraries that they ship x86 slices for as much as reasonably possible because

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