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by dylan-m 4y ago
It’s a dumb argument anyway because it’s misunderstanding who the “users” are that would be impacted by this type of thing. I cannot think of a workflow outside of programming where I would need to think about case sensitive filenames. If I
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by dylan-m 4y ago
> We have seen the same thing happen to Star Wars where the legitimate criticism was painted as toxicity of the fandom. Hold on a minute here. Yes, the racist assholes got more attention than they deserved. But Rise of the Skywalker was
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by dylan-m 4y ago
Dropbox is also terrible toward people who don't want to use their service, in a way that paying users are conveniently unaware of. Someone shares a folder with your free account? That counts against your quota. Once it exceeds your
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by dylan-m 4y ago
Was it a thing anywhere except recently? Going through some different native Windows apps, I see a host of different file choosers (many of which were once "the one" for their version of Windows), and they all belong to the same
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by dylan-m 4y ago
> … but something like a file chooser cannot be its own program? That's happening! Gtk 3 and 4 include GtkFileChooserNative[1]. It works like a file dialog except the application doesn't know about its widgets. That means it ca
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by dylan-m 4y ago
The window decorations stuff drives me batty. Titlebar and buttons aside, there seems to be a widespread misunderstanding about window shadows. There is some vague effort afoot[1], but a surprising number of developers don't really car
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by dylan-m 4y ago
I hope not! Outside of the Chrome part, ChromeOS is a mess of awkwardly attached virtual machines. If you want a "native" app (unless your native app is Steam), your best option is Android, which means you're inside an Androi
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by dylan-m 4y ago
The new Text Editor is really nice! You all should give it a chance. Especially if you're using Builder as well. They share a lot of code, so it's pretty much Builder minus the IDE parts. (If you want the IDE parts, Builder is exc
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by dylan-m 4y ago
Or that was the hope , but unfortunately a lot of what made WebOS good was the synergy between his team's excellent design thinking and the clean, practical, well designed platform underlying it. Android is a mess because it tried to
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by dylan-m 4y ago
> However, even in the face of that, still lots of people just pissed and moaned but failed to come up with a decent alternative. Which is, alas, typical. Sources of truth in free software are, of course, not very coordinated, but one do
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by dylan-m 4y ago
> Every admin issue I've had over the last decade save two has been due to SystemD. Do you administer systems with SysVinit as well? If not, please consider that of course the system which manages startup and background services i
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by dylan-m 4y ago
I feel like that has been the problem with the Mini. I love mine (which I got because I was fed up with Pixel and Android in general), but I know I only have it because I got in at the right time. My wife bought an iPhone at the wrong tim
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by dylan-m 4y ago
Not to mention Google Wallet, an "amazing new" product by the same name of an existing product they keep renaming and haven't finished retiring yet. They could just say they were updating Google Wallet or whatever it's c
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by dylan-m 4y ago
They will never do it willingly, but I wish Google would split the POI stuff out of their maps app. It's all getting incredibly bloated the way it is, anyway. Then I could look up a place in there - because it's an excellent servi
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by dylan-m 4y ago
Yep, management sins abound. It made sense to me that some people would be picking at Ryan Johnson's film as defiling the saga or whatever because it was divisive, but obviously if you're trying to tell a good story - and it isn
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by dylan-m 4y ago
> The "Harmful Partnerships" section is a list of issues the author has with third-parties, not DDG. Guilt by association. That is literally Roy Schestowitz's entire thing , and it has been … since 2006, apparently. He&#x
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by dylan-m 4y ago
On Linux / GNOME, the Tootle app is quite nice: https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle . It’s available on Flathub. Looks like it could use some more contributions with commit access, but it works well as it is! Edit:
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by dylan-m 4y ago
> Not everyone wants a dedicated book-reading device when a multipurpose device can, besides everything else, also read books. Someone definitely flunked the messaging on this one, and I find it very disappointing :( The key advantage to
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by dylan-m 4y ago
So, the grandparent post is hopefully not betraying my actual thoughts on the matter too much, but I am indeed in the anti-IQ crowd. My thoughts on the matter: - IQ scores are not a standard measure. There are several different internationa
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by dylan-m 4y ago
> Basically linux is moving from a hobbyist operating system that a single person can reasonably manage in their spare time to an enterprise ish complex monstruosity that requires training and a time investment This is less a Linux probl
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by dylan-m 4y ago
> This is incorrect - iq has risen steadily In particular, we recently invented this peculiar notion that one can boil intelligence down to a number :b
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by dylan-m 4y ago
As this is unfinished software which should have extremely high safety requirements: I would very much like for it to be stuck on minor bumps and whatnot. In fact, I would like it to stop moving the car, sound a very loud alarm, and immedia
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by dylan-m 4y ago
Every time Netflix raises their price, it hits the news, and people think "hmm, maybe I should cancel Netflix." This is antithetical to their success so far, which has been a cheap enough subscription that people stay subscribed b
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by dylan-m 4y ago
> But I want to use the current folder as a namespace limiter :( And it is! The files in the current folder _always_ sort to the top. The only real loss between this and the previous behaviour is that the view changes slightly, so the o
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by dylan-m 4y ago
Photographers don't tend to use regular file managers, either. I mean, previews are good and all and there are definitely problems here, but the photographers I know use tools like Adobe Bridge for a multitude of reasons.
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by dylan-m 4y ago
At this point, Nautilus really is just a file manager! It isn't the file chooser; it doesn't mount external devices; it isn't the desktop background. If something is hindering one's ability to create an alternative file
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by dylan-m 4y ago
I can't remember what version this changed in, but in the header bar you can right click any of the folder breadcrumbs to open a context menu. Once you have 42, there's actually a menu button for the current folder, and you can cl
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by dylan-m 4y ago
The file picker isn't Nautilus; it's GTK. It's all library code, usually running in the same application. One nice effect of applications moving to FileChooserNative (which they need to do if they want to be sandboxed nicely)
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by dylan-m 5y ago
> Having a good incremental build/test system is far more important to developer experience, IMHO. This is very true. Used poorly, monorepos are a crutch which allow a team to pretend that stable interfaces, versioning, and boundari
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by dylan-m 5y ago
I love the train magazines in this. I hadn’t thought about them for ages, but they have a very distinct nostalgic feeling that immediately made me happy :) It works neatly in VR, too! I just wish the terrain editing was better. It has a fru

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