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by dylan-m 5y ago
One unfortunate reality is, for a lot of new users - especially people who haven't used desktop computers before - their first computer was a mobile device. If we don't want Apple and Google to take over the entire space, we need
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by dylan-m 5y ago
I think Daydream and Gear VR set VR back more than anything, and if they were going to keep doing what they were doing it's a good thing they're gone. See the many comments in this thread conflating 3DOF headsets (glorified pano
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by dylan-m 5y ago
I do wonder if they've considered the side-effects here. Surely if they're implementing this fee, they're going to have to change their terms of service, right? And if they do, I'm going to have no moral qualms sharing a
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by dylan-m 5y ago
I like that this goes straight into more advanced topics after doing the basic “Hello world” thing. One suggestion: once you ended up with three copies of that label I was thinking that’s a good opportunity to do some property binding, whic
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Playing it in VR, I get a ton of enjoyment from the ship interfaces. (I wish it supported hands for pretty much that reason). It's a beautiful exploration of how this kind of sci-fi FTL travel would work from a UX perspective. Assuming
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Sorry, but this article is bad. What exactly are they comparing GNOME to ? It sounds like they want GNOME to be like Windows, such that "lack of desktop icons" and "there are no minimize and maximize buttons" is an auto
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by dylan-m 5y ago
YouTube's ads are a colossal mistake waiting to happen. Back in the day, Google was successful because they realized advertising on the web was a problem: ads were trying too hard to grab attention, resorting to hostile tactics that ba
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Or Zim [0], the file format for giant offline-readable Wikipedia archives. [0] https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM
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by dylan-m 5y ago
It was the same for me. Somehow, once you look past the fact that everything is at Apple's mercy and I can't make an app that runs on my phone unless I buy a computer I don't want to run a desktop OS I don't like (boo!),
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by dylan-m 5y ago
COVID should have helped them a lot: plenty of big, well made films suddenly needed a way to get in front of people that wasn't a movie theatre and they went with Netflix. (The Mitchells vs The Machines, for instance). Unfortunately, I
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by dylan-m 5y ago
I like the idea of this. There's so much information on the web, but we still need a way to bring that information to other applications, without being tied to a particular source. That was really the dream of the semantic web, after
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Ah, I wish I could recommend some documentation outside the Ubuntu Core docs, but my learning process was pretty much Googling ad nauseam - usually ending up on https://forum.snapcraft.io , which is rarely a good sign :( For the
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Alternatively, instead of a futile attempt to reinvent the universe, services like NPM could stop pretending that dependencies are easy. They should be encouraging people to pin versions, keep track of updates, and avoid packages with poorl
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by dylan-m 5y ago
I've used Ubuntu Core for a few things. I've used it for my nextcloud + syncthing + home assistant server; an abandoned photo booth project; and a plug and play slideshow thing using a web app in kiosk mode (hilariously involving
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by dylan-m 5y ago
It's a completely avoidable UI problem, too. There are two kinds of notifications: - Notifications while I am actively using a thing - for example, "your upload is finished," or "." - Push notifications from some we
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Oh, for sure. Reconciling a bunch of different things' ideas of what libturkey they think they need into a single image must be a nightmare. In theory, that's what BuildStream should be helping with since gnome-build-meta[1] is on
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by dylan-m 5y ago
> As a replacement for "native" package management? No. Flatpak makes sense if you have a small number (< 5) packages that you want to run from upstream so you can always have the latest version while continuing to use your
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Yep, as I understand it the Snap thing is also obsolete information. Older snaps are still slow, but new snaps are more efficient to start, and that has been the case for a while now.
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by dylan-m 5y ago
> Basically, what Linux distributions have failed to do is to create a higher level SDK for their platforms - instead, they rely on a soup of libraries and on the package maintainer model to know which of these is which. At the same time
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by dylan-m 5y ago
> Memory and CPU-wise, Flatpaks are very light containers Adding to that: it's really worth noting, on "Memory Usage, Startup Time," the author of this article went straight into Snap ("the slowest of all") and d
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by dylan-m 5y ago
I think the GUI applications thing is another of those times where it's a tradeoff. Much like the way drivers work, it's fair to be annoyed with it, but it replaces (more or less equally) annoyances in Windows's opposite appr
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by dylan-m 5y ago
4. Please don't buy Shopify. They don't have a messaging app.
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by dylan-m 5y ago
> there are fades in the interface that cannot seem to be disabled. Unjustifiable. That's an accessibility option. GNOME Settings -> Accessibility -> Enable Animations; or `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-anim
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by dylan-m 5y ago
The weird screenshot thing also leads to confusing issues like this one: https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/issues/223 . Zoom for some reason tries to avoid sharing its own windows by using an X window pr
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by dylan-m 5y ago
At some point Google is going to add a Google Assistant Apps Store and a Google Assistant Dialer, and before we know it they'll release a phone with Google Assistant OS and we'll be back to square one. Seriously, this thing is get
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by dylan-m 5y ago
I'm really curious to see how they plan to deliver system updates. Arch always makes me think of highly customized systems with per-package updates. For a little handheld with limited battery life, relatively short uptime, and a straig
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by dylan-m 5y ago
I had an awesome professor for a QA course at SFU, who for a project had people choose some piece of open source software at their leisure and work on something substantial for it related to QA. (Adding a different test suite, improving the
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by dylan-m 5y ago
> Systemd was forced down our throats by Red Hat […] That's a very emotional take on the whole thing. As I saw it, systemd happened and the Ubuntu developers eventually concluded "well, that's better than upstart, let&#x27
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by dylan-m 5y ago
It's also just a really good tool for reading logs. Sure, it's always possible to cobble something together that merges a bunch of text logs and orders entries by date, but with journalctl that's just what it does and it&#x27

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