digi_owl

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by digi_owl 9y ago
Interesting. And the dependencies seems reasonable as well. I'll gice it a look later.
782.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Had a aimilar experience recently after getting a fiber line installed and grabbing a game off Steam. Would have taken me hours on the old DSL, never mind a 33.6 dial-up. I think my aging LAN gear capped out way before the fiber did, and an
783.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I think i pissed off some kids in the neighborhood when i started doing CDRs for the cost of the disc (or bring your own and i'll fill it up), when they had been selling them at a 100% (or more) markup...
784.
by digi_owl 9y ago
> So? An app isn't meant to hang in a museum and look pretty for the developer. Oh how many devs i have encountered over the years with that exact attitude, in particular post iPhone...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Used to be a thing on Linux DEs, but then one of the major interface libs kept screwing around with their themeing APIs...
786.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Could have sworn that browsers have the capability to load custom CSS. But then writing CSS may well be a full time job, so...
787.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Not sure if should be impressed or appalled. These days i think i'll just use Foobar2k on Windows, and Deadbeef (or a terminal player) on Linux.
788.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I fear though that command level compatibility is under attack these days, as fewer and fewer see shell scripting as something positive (never mind trying to do more and more via dbus rather than pipes and such).
789.
by digi_owl 9y ago
NTFS was introduced a few years before BEOS. More likely that they were both inspired by a common source. Never mind that MS have been working on a fully database driven FS (WinFS?) for ages.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Well there have been some straight up expensive "luxury" phones over the years. Apple in that regard is perhaps more in the BMW or Porsche end of the scale.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
At least any sane DE allows me to define them to be less gymnastic.
792.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I get the feel that stable APIs are undervalued as a user retention element. Being able to get a new computer but install from the same software library (i can hear the _sec people getting hissy already) as was used on the old one makes peo
793.
by digi_owl 9y ago
And already with 8.1 the "start screen" could behave like a very large start menu. Hell, you can today configure Windows 10 to behave much like 8.1. The one thing i see some people miss with the 8.1 to 10 transition is the charm b
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Seem to me that Apple and MS focus on different kinds of change. While Apple may retain the UI across time, they are more than willing to change APIs etc on a whim. MS on the other hand may change the UI (though outside of 8.x, the core lay
795.
by digi_owl 9y ago
And watch them take that as cudos...
796.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Had he grown up anywhere else, with any other friends, he would have been one hell of a car salesman...
797.
by digi_owl 9y ago
While true, it does not alleviate the finger yoga...
798.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Drag and drop is one of those things that looks oh so fancy on demos, but is horribly imprecise to use as a daily action. It also gets in the way when trying to use Windows via a touch screen.
799.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Sadly the workspaces are very much mouse oriented (want to switch between workspaces? Thats win+ctrl+number!). And there is no proper UI element for checking if you have anything open in a different workspace without opening the switcher.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
That tabbed beginners UI gets me thinking of the netbook UIs that popped up for a short while before Intel and Microsoft buried the segment in red tape.
801.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Sadly this also allows a sharply dressed conman easier access.
802.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Certain elements of the tech industry is heading that way as well...
803.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah he followed it up with "civil war on GPC", where he basically started to favor "DRM". This with the caveat that it was the owner of the computer that would have control of the keys, and frankly i do not see that hap
804.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Most likely because i used terms that to valley-dwellers are a bunch of big red flags.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The longer i deal with computers the more brittle the Python ecosystem appears to be. Yes it may be a wonderful language, but it seems so damned easy to get the interpreter to not find libraries that should by all accounts be right damn the
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by digi_owl 9y ago
What has happened is that "we" have divorced software from hardware by adding an increasing number of abstractions. There is a increasing number of people that never had to deal with boot sectors or config files to get a computer
807.
by digi_owl 9y ago
And in the end he didn't learn a thing.
808.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Beyond that, that nothing on the hardware side stops you from running any software you want to. Expect the PC to morph into something more akin to a tablet or "smart" TV if the MAFIAA get what they want (and Intel and crew seems a
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Gobolinux because i found the project interesting at one point and was fed up with Windows at the time. Really exposed me to the sausage factory that is upstream userspace btw...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Heh, i knew i should have left the laser part out. Anyways, would be interesting to see this way of doing 3d printing find its way to the hobbyist market at some point.

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