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by csdvrx 3y ago
I think it's an issue of separating keyboard/trackpad/mouse scrolling: it may be beneficial in some cases, it may be burdensome in others. I wouldn't like smooth scrolling when I use PageUp/PageDown, unless it added
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> I'm a cinema person, so, for me, 24 fps is the right framerate for everything. I have found that I like TVs using interpolation to achieve a higher FPS: it makes old movies feel more alive. Some people have reported they don'
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Very interesting, thank you! I didn't think it was stupid, I had genuine trouble understanding how could an extra feature be hated - it didn't make sense: I thought it was maybe not the feature itself, but either the default setti
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> "unixporn" is appropriate. It's a wonderful sub to find inspiration and great ideas! > What I'm kind of grokking from your comment is the text on image just doesn't really bother you It sometimes bothers me,
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> I have never been able to do transparency or background images in a terminal- it's so distracting to me. Maybe this is a problem of the background image you've selected? Or maybe you don't like it 100% of the time? I lik
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> It's distressing that (G?)PP either doesn't understand this, or is unwilling to spend enough time on reading I already know there are many things that I don't understand, but I'm willing to spend large amounts of ti
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I understood that as hating the presence of the feature, so I got it wrong
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> You have trouble understanding how someone could hate an optional feature and -because of that hate- turn that optional feature off and keep it off forever? No, I have trouble understanding why someone might hate an optional feature th
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> We had smooth scrolling on the VT-100. I hated it. I found it far too slow, even on low baud rates. It's a feature you can configure > Personal taste, to each their own, but I hated it. I have trouble understanding how someone
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Hmm, not sure. The first thing I do in Firefox is disable smooth scroll. On Edge I do the same with `edge://flags/#smooth-scrolling`, but I've found there're 2 separate usecases, one where smooth scrolling help
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by csdvrx 3y ago
For a good companion to smooth scrolling, check out parallax background scrolling: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/v2jb9o/wezterm_pa... A programmatic "infinite parallax wallpaper" m
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Transformer tutorials might be the new monad tutorial. A hard concept to get, A hard concept? But a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, so what's the problem?
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> This makes GPU hosting far more competitive and ensures that i.e. participants choose the countries with the cheapest possible energy etc. That seems good: I'd rather have GPUs next to where power is being wasted rather than have
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> If you have to pay $X for AI inference, then it proves that the work is worth at least $X to you... Which suggests the obvious marketplace scheme: Compute providers are paid (or credited) $X/k to contribute their nodes to the netw
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> But we're talking about you deliberately not securing or even actively reducing the security of your property We have different preferences about what's the right security/freedom ratio. > You're not supposed to
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Do you also think it's fine to shit in other people's wells or for companies to dump their toxic waste in the middle of other companies parking lots as long as you/they haven't signed a contract explicitly agreeing
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Do you believe that the operator of a deliberately insecure system should be liable Only if said operator signed a contract. No contract=no liability. Here in the US, the Supreme Court has made it clear that law enforcement agencies ar
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Some of those suggestions are things that sound good at first glance but are simply not great ideas. Actually, yes they are. I'm not a big fan of legislation, but the upgrade crazyness has to stop at some point! > For example,
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> updates that break otherwise perfectly-functioning hardware? "Every update is a downgrade": http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000606.h...
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> MacBooks still on top, got it. What I care about: - OLED screenshortcut - ECC RAM (min 32G, ideally 128G) - having a touchscreen - having a trackpoint - having physical page up and page down keys An internal 4G LTE module is nice to ha
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> I'd jokingly say "ed" or "windows notepad" Then I would take you to heart because I love Notepad and its minimal set of features. SciTE is nice too > I have no idea what that second sentence means. Nothing,
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by csdvrx 3y ago
It was linked in a few commends so I look at the readme: > Setup > ChatGPT > Other LLM backends > Azure Llama.cpp is down to the end, so I think it's for those having priorities than freedom.
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Would you argue this is somehow relinquishing control? I like it, since it's very quick and cheap, I don't mind it running more often than I use it, because it saves me the keyboard clicks to explicitly ask for completion. I
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Then I'm curious, mhat do you use? And why were you condescending of BSD users?
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I've gather information from many sources and removed what I've found to be no longer applicable, but there must still be some cruft hiding! Thanks a lot for your suggestions! I'll prepare a new revision!
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I don't know what you mean by color management - is it the calibration of the display with xrite/argyll? For ICC profiles colormgr can help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ICC_profiles#Wayland If you just n
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> emacs, which can be configured in vastly more dang ways. Including ways which are a superset of vi, as you yourself admit. lol I think this may be turning into a emacs/vim war :) > The point of vim is to be vi but with more fea
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Yesterday's Technology, Tomorrow (2004)(itre.cis.upenn.edu)
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I follow a similar approach but maybe more extreme : whenever possible, I use "YESTERDAY'S TECHNOLOGY TOMORROW" It's nicely presented on http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I have no nice release but on hyprland, I use the following to increase /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness by steps of +- 200 units that I calibrated with my eyeballs and /sys/class/backl

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