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by eitland 3y ago
The worst (level of nastyness * usage) offenders all probably have a reason for being popular despite their flaws: - Bash: installed everywhere you want to work (yes, who actually wants to work on Windows ;-) - C/C++: when speed&#x2F
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by eitland 3y ago
Agree. As long as you apply the same standards to what seems to be everyones darling: Javascript. Javascript has the same amount of footguns as PHP and Bash but has gotten away with it by being cute (and having a whole menagerie if support
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by eitland 3y ago
Not a Mac fanboy even if I now use a Macbook Pro for most of my work (and like it). But this is good. I mean: anything that brings back some sanity. Clear unambiguous controls. Menus instead of gear icons, hamburger menus and fly droppings.
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by eitland 3y ago
Mac users are worse than ordinary Linux users I think (writing this as a Linux user who right now uses a Mac :-) As an ordinary Linux user I at least welcome all applications with bonus points if they are well integrated into KDE. Maybe the
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by eitland 3y ago
And then you have vim. Same as always. Yet still the same as it was. Same goes for KDE (if you forget 4), Windows (more or less if you skip Windows 8) since 95, bash, LibreOffice.
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by eitland 3y ago
Look to Mozilla and Ubuntu to see and organization and a company that "bet the farm" on new users by systematically breaking everything we loved them for. The problem with these (and many other UX initiatives) is there isn't
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by eitland 3y ago
I was an early adopter and I still am. I came to Firefox because it was extensible and customizable and it was a community project I could like. I am leaving it because the only time Mozilla now think of us as a communicaty is when they hav
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by eitland 3y ago
It used to be quite handy back in the 90ies :-)
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by eitland 3y ago
> consistently fail to address the vast majority of the population who are not developers or extremely tech savvy. My feeling after a number of years in the field us we massively underestimate users. We have read all these blog posts abo
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by eitland 3y ago
Doesn't Gnome has the same application switching as Mac OS anymore for example?
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by eitland 3y ago
Heh, I think the last few years Windows has copied KDE, not the other way around. I say this as someone who has used the latest versions of KDE and Windows until around the release of Windows 11 (but I have seen that too).
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by eitland 3y ago
Nooooo! That is the most frustrating thing about some projects: They take existing users for granted and make a lot of changes to accommodate the new users they envision coming in torrents. These users of course never arrive and in the mean
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by eitland 3y ago
My primary reason for caring ATM is because a better query language for SQL, one that specifies what tables to operate on before what to do, could simplify tooling quite a bit.
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by eitland 3y ago
Here's the thing: Firefox was very usable for most users even when it had real extensions. The extension API didn't affect end users at all. It feels like a war against power users, were designers want to take away control from us
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by eitland 3y ago
If Atlassian did't use a full minute to update a certain roadmap view on my MBP from January I would be one step closer to agreeing with you even if it was still 50 MB. But I am old enough to remember Gannt charts didn't use to ta
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by eitland 3y ago
Most users also don't actually need modern processors. Most drivers don't need to pull a trailer. Most people don't need a wheelchair ramp. Still arguing for stopping processor development, removing the possibility to use tow
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by eitland 3y ago
> but they have to be a part of the browser proper… Raindrop is more or less perfect for me. Yes, for a lot of things I just start typing: <customername wiki> or < git customername> but that works without bookmarking. For lon
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by eitland 3y ago
I tried for a month I think. I cut all coffeine I was aware of. Coffe, Pepsi Max, everything. I felt no difference and noticed no change in my health tracking. The only thing I noticed was it was less social. That said, there have been time
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by eitland 3y ago
Unlike Google you still managed to not pull in a irrelevant pages but instead tell the truth whenever you didn't have any results.
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by eitland 3y ago
That was why I mentioned "return correct results". At the moment I am aware of two search engines available to me that doesn't try to drive me crazy by wasting my time on irrelevant results: - kagi.com - and search.marginalia
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by eitland 3y ago
Everyone says this. But Kagi often being as good as Google used to be proves this isn't the only reason. Lately I have felt Kagi also sometimes stray down this "knows better than me what I want" path. I recommend using the fo
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by eitland 3y ago
So which search engine do you recommend that takes privacy seriously and that actually works (i.e. doesn't block me and return correct results) in Norway?
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by eitland 3y ago
No. It is the single most important reason why I pay for Kagi. It seems to me "everyone" think it is always about privacy or features or something. But the main thing that keeps me on Kagi is the results. They seem to have most re
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by eitland 3y ago
This very website should be proof enough that real names are absolutely not necessary for civil discussion. I think we even get better discussions when the shy and thoughtful are allowed to speak.
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by eitland 3y ago
Safari is my current everyday browser, but anything that isn't based on almost anything modern that isn't tainted by the chrome should be fine. Just like IE 6 I refuse to touch it if I can at all prevent it. (Feel free to join in
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by eitland 3y ago
I think that is a better idea than demanding everyone ditching all wikis. Dokuwiki for example has a sane, plain text format. It can be extended relatively easily compared to Confluence (I have tried both). Unlike certain other wikis it has
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by eitland 3y ago
I know. It is really useful! The difference here is it would save it to the central repository so I know not only the steps I took but also the steps my colleagues took + K don't think local history track reason for change?
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by eitland 3y ago
I've been there. The boot camp for the Norwegian Air Force used to be next to that place and had a gate there so many Norwegian air force soldiers including me guarded the gate at Hell ar some point.
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by eitland 3y ago
Thanks!
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by eitland 3y ago
Edit: I now realize much (most?) of this already exist as part of the temporarily hidden Timeline feature in GitButler: https://docs.gitbutler.com/features/timeline Now we just need automatic (possibly virtual[1]]) com

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