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by downtide 7y ago
The history here, is that Opera introduced tabs, and they were cheaper in terms of resources. Tabs in Windows were cheaper than many windows. Then tabs became a sort of replacement for Bookmarks, because bookmark UIs are so so bad. That&
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by downtide 7y ago
And it has only gotten worse and worse. I still resort to Foobar2k on Linux under Wine, because it seems to be one of the only apps that has it all.
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by downtide 7y ago
About as intuitive as comic chat - seems you need a mobile and phone number to get going with Whatsapp.
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by downtide 7y ago
I'm surprised when it works. I still don't know how to unpair on some black boxes. My partner has a speaker, and I think auto-pairing occurs if used previously, so we have a strange ritual of turning off bluetooth on other device
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by downtide 7y ago
I didn't see Whatsapp singled out in the article or by the parent. But good to know it has a simple UI. There is a comment in the story about cross platform woes and incompatibilities. I've never managed to install Whatsapp on my
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by downtide 7y ago
I'm reading this as you'd prefer something inherently intuitive. Which yes would be great. Some tools need at least some instruction and guidance.
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by downtide 7y ago
Still with a lot of this tech, if someone sat you down for an hour and helped you, the barrier wouldn't be there.
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by downtide 7y ago
I tried the Samsung app store briefly on my Android. I didn't last long with it, it was not that great, and reluctantly intstalled Google Play. It's yet another company trying to usher me into signing up, and trading my data pri
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by downtide 7y ago
Prefer the text only version, at least it reflows.
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by downtide 7y ago
I'm exactly like that, if I feel the product has value, I can get behind it. I'm a good salesman for a 'good product'. The flip side is that I have worked on many a drab project and site, that could have been improved w
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by downtide 7y ago
I get that, but the more intimate you are with a product, it's also hard to see the warts, especially when it comes to usability. I remember using ebay for the first time, and absolutely loathing the experience. I had to get used to
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by downtide 7y ago
I always wonder about small acrylic hairs and such that float about the house. In a bright room just flex your jumper, there's thousands of these weird impurities, and I can't imagine they can be filtered out easily before or aft
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by downtide 7y ago
That's my take home. I hate being in a room that has no ventilation. I even get pains in my chest quite quickly. So have learned to always throw open windows if possible. All year round I have the kitchen window open when cooking.
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by downtide 7y ago
How do I run this?
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by downtide 8y ago
I'm trying to work out if Signal can leak my contact information. And came across this piece. That doesn't really answer my question. In fact the more I read it, the less assurance I have. Was this problem solved partially or w
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The difficulty of private contact discovery(signal.org)
2 points by downtide 8y ago|1 comments
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by downtide 10y ago
What a waste. What a waste. What a waste.
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by downtide 10y ago
The demo locked up my machine while trying to add an event.
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by downtide 10y ago
I don't like the working name/domain name. 'One View' itself isn't that bad. But I end up thinking of: "One's view", which sounds more like a comment board or Virtual reality app.
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by downtide 10y ago
I like the zoomable/scrollable view that's a UI improvement. The add event form could do with some UI tweaks. I'm not the biggest slider fan, but that might be a better control for the reminders (with sticky graduations) (i
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by downtide 10y ago
Cut and paste.
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by downtide 10y ago
Why not just a magnet for the C? I don't like the new or old logo.
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by downtide 10y ago
.diary, .journal, .thoughts, .musings might be a better choice ;).
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by downtide 10y ago
Wow 19 million for a couple of characters, that are an impish abbreviation of 'web log', for virtual placeholders. Does anyone even use the word blog anymore? It sounds soo last decade. How very odd. These vanity domains just
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by downtide 11y ago
1st birthday?
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by downtide 11y ago
I like the categorisation aswell as a name (and version). In your desktop environment, 'Open web browser' (as an action), can be associated with whichever browser you prefer. And perhaps a context menu on that to choose between m
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by downtide 11y ago
I've felt the same thing with many Ubuntu releases.
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by downtide 11y ago
Twitter makes for an easy way to publish and consume status feeds. And I like the shortform. There are other ways to do the same, but the tools weirdly are still not ready for mass consumption.
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by downtide 11y ago
There is a little mention about it being hard to consume one's feed. And that you have to do a lot of work for little information. I remember a few years back, there was talk that web tools that employed good filtering would be the ne
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by downtide 11y ago
Another excellent idea I read about was storing solar heat in massive batteries underground. The battery being made of brick or stone, or earth. You catch heat in the summer and pipe it below ground, and warm up this underground store&#x2

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