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by crispinb 7y ago
You're adding to my list of cross-platform apps. I agree that most of the important ones are fine under Linux, but I still haven't seen many (any?) great linux-specific ones. There are obviously reasons to use Linux (I do), I just
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I see more and more great apps for Linux Bit of an aside here, but what for example? I'm using Linux these days as the least-worst option, but I wouldn't have claimed app quality as one of its advantages. It has the best ter
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Americans have a stronger case that a foreigner is running their news We'll accept blame for his having been spawned, but he's totally yours now!
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by crispinb 7y ago
Oh yes thank you. I remember the first time I heard this cretinous locution used by a fellow countryman (rather than an American corporate type from whom you'd expect no better). I was gobsmacked and ignored the rest of what he said.
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by crispinb 7y ago
To be fair to @burfog there, it was me that brought the 'foreigner' thing up. > I am absolutely a foreigner when I visit family Yeah, isn't that odd. I'm a UK expat living in Aus & I feel the same. I'm far m
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by crispinb 7y ago
Citizen Initiative - an umbrella term for referenda, assemblies, etc. Apologies I don't think the initialism is standard & should have spelled it out.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Rupert Murdoch is somewhat a foreigner to you, He gave up his Australian citizenship to further his US business interests. He is widely considered to be an enemy of the nation. I regret my 'foreigner' cheap shot though. It&#x
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well, it's arguable that the corporatist right has (entirely knowingly in the case of oil companies & the Murdoch press) stalled dealing with climate collapse for 3 decades. If so, that act will eclipse the victim counts of the atr
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by crispinb 7y ago
States yes, cities no (I think). South Australia was an early leader here, but that has been retrenched somewhat (again I think - it's not where I live). Australian politics is inherently very 'centrist' for cultural and poli
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well 'loose' is a matter of judgement. But as you correctly point out, medical use is ludicrously limited. Also 'more or less decriminalised' is an exaggeration, given the number of people I know with criminal records du
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by crispinb 7y ago
Says something for the value of some sort of CI process. Here in Australia there are clear popular majorities for some form of loosening laws re marijuana, yet any politician who makes serious moves in that direction is crucified by the far
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by crispinb 7y ago
Not legally here (Aus) - we have compulsory voting.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I read that for a moment as you claiming the Cube as your laptop (cool: definitely, but laptop: no). But I see what you mean now.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Fair enough. I didn't want to live with the loss of the Fn keys as much as anything. But my decision to jump the Apple ship was also partly economic, and if not for that additional pressure I'm not sure what I would have done. So
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by crispinb 7y ago
I think you can install msbuild + tools without VS. No doubt still pretty big though. More than I can be arsed with just for this purpose. Will have to wait for the release.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Makes sense. Thanks. I quite look forward to checking it out.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well except you're not allowed to run MacOS on a laptop with a real keyboard. (To be quite honest I agree - but Apple doesn't make any hardware of interest to me to run MacOS on).
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by crispinb 7y ago
Sure, hard to argue with that. The effects are pronounced enough even from an end-user perspective, and it's clearly Microsoft's job to fix.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I agree Windows file access is noticeably slower than on other platforms. But it seems like the issue has quite fundamental roots: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... . Add to that
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by crispinb 7y ago
As they're using a linux kernel, I wonder if they're using an ext4 filesystem for the wsl stuff, hosted in a file image on NTFS? Windows apps could still get access to the wsl files via the 9P file server.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I hope that this article is wrong Time (and further research) will tell, but truth be told nothing in it surprises people who have watched specific local nonurban areas for decent spans of time. Ecologies are collapsing. It's visi
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by crispinb 7y ago
Yes agree on the shortcut 'for free' aspect, but I'd consider expunging unused default menu items as part of a very basic pre-release checklist, rather than 'polish'. I don't share the frequently-expressed anti
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I wasn't disputing the plausibility, rather the knowledge. You can't intuit your way to rationally justifiable prediction of future global events by thinking through a few toy models. Even predictions far better founded on reams o
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by crispinb 7y ago
In this particular case it's because I wanted to move all the items from a single imported 1Password vault (I have a few for different purposes) into a Bitwarden folder. But more generally, when trying new software I tend to exercise i
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by crispinb 7y ago
The parent mentioned specifically wanting a Surface device, on which surely Windows would work better? As another osx refugee, I've spent time on both Windows and Linux. There's no "just" Linux, it has plenty of its own
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by crispinb 7y ago
The new wsl, along with VS Code's new remote development extension, could make Windows an interesting beast with two identities: a primary host for regular business and consumer software, and a linux client for development. I did use W
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by crispinb 7y ago
> One thing we know about humans is that, as a species, we were never and are not currently capable of making such collective decisions I'm pretty sceptical re claims of knowledge about complex systems, and human ecology is about as
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by crispinb 7y ago
> gave up on Windows a long time ago, as did many people I know My impression is just as anecdotal as yours, but it's exactly the opposite. Windows seems to me to be gaining amongst developers, due to a combination of push and pull
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by crispinb 7y ago
> it's INSANE And the death of our living planet isn't? So-called 'economic growth' was never much more than a global entropy increase, as high quality self-organising evolved systems were ripped out to feed crude tec
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by crispinb 7y ago
"Individual actions don't matter" would be overdoing it, but spontaneous "lifestyle" change can never be more than a minor contribution to change. The reason people emphasize system transformation is because it real

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