eviks

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by eviks 10mo ago
Indeed, hackable is the solution: don't that one icon? Fn + Right click on it and select to hide it, also changing the menu description in the process. But also do provide 15 different themes for the OS and make sharing themes trivial
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by eviks 10mo ago
> I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration: > Fast forward to 2025 The past wasn't as rosy: while the left column is purposefully confusing (the icons don't match the desc
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by eviks 10mo ago
> While you obviously can't have highly paid engineers tied up dealing with user support tickets, You obviously can, that's one of the more visceral way to make them aware of the pain they cause to real people with their work,
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by eviks 10mo ago
How does splitting help save space?
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by eviks 10mo ago
Oh, that's an awesome idea to get rid of those awful splits and focus on apps! Scoop package manager on Windows works the same way. Though it has a few issues when some security apps ignore "current" symlinks (and don't
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by eviks 10mo ago
> User-Friendly: Designed with simplicity in mind for easy deployment and management. Makes sense, a single simple password is rather friendly
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by eviks 10mo ago
The steep decline started way before llms
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by eviks 10mo ago
While the decline started a decade ago in 2014 and accelerated in 2020, the huge drop since 2023 is remarkable
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by eviks 10mo ago
> Today I don't know where I would publish such a gem. In the same blog you published it originally, then mentioning it on whatever social media site you use? So same?
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by eviks 10mo ago
> Don't get me started with AutoHotkey. Indeed, I've purposefully avoided mentioning that because thought it's less "mass-relevant", but yeah, that's a huge blocker for any "advanced" customization
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by eviks 10mo ago
> Fsearch exists and is pretty much exactly that afaict No it's not, it's worse, and Fsearch dev said that it's not possible to implement it as well due to OS deficiencies. So nothing is getting better here.
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by eviks 10mo ago
There are ways to upgrade to Win11 on unsupported hardware, though also ways to extend security on Win10 for a few more years
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by eviks 10mo ago
> Explorer loads instantly, etc. Even search is performant and gives decent results. There is likely too big of a gap in "terminology". For example, the file explorer startup is so "Instant" that even Microsoft offici
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by eviks 10mo ago
> It was faster to rg to search files, drop into WSL and run find for file name searches. Fixed via the Everything app - instant search of any file in a nice resizable/sortable table > if something is broken I have the control to
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by eviks 10mo ago
> I think that Linux on the desktop is ready for the masses now, not because it's advanced in a huge leap/bound. Yeah, right, these types of shallow pieces about Linux "for the masses" have the same structure without
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by eviks 10mo ago
But they did, the whole drug nonsense was that justification
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by eviks 10mo ago
The last issue is solvd in software, the first one has a good workaround in software
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by eviks 10mo ago
So? Here is the post where VLC dev explains why you can't seek 1 frame back (you can do that in MPC and mpv) https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=126609&start=...
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by eviks 10mo ago
Literally don't stop at the first sentence!!! > It turns out that reading the (f.) manual actually helps a lot! The non-recommendation of VLC vs mpc/mpv is literally for playback as I quoted! MPC also doesn't do any encodi
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by eviks 10mo ago
> I would recommend you to just learn basic ffmpeg usage instead > but ffmpeg is fine for beginners No, that's just nonsense for any guide targetting beginners, it's not fine, it's too error-prone and complicated and r
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by eviks 10mo ago
what are you talking about? Of course it's only about playback just like the other 2 alternatives > single best media player out there ... VLC is not recommended.
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by eviks 10mo ago
> rather disagree with your opinion. So why can't you address it instead of coming up with an alternative argument again? > Formatting and layout are properties of the client No, I've given you a specific example - forced n
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by eviks 10mo ago
I'm amused by all the plaintext defenders not being able to parse this simplest of the file formats! > if you view the site on desktop ... , or mobile browser in desktop-mode (for me at least), or the source, the line-breaks form p
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by eviks 10mo ago
How does different count affect search? You can use a bookmark to change the view, and if using bookmarks is too much, ok, but that's not a bold universal reason. (also, what is "huge success" in methods of organizing issues?
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by eviks 10mo ago
> Imagine one account for categorizing supermarket spending, one for tracking your income, one for your Netflix subscription, and so on. Why would you go that unintuitive route instead of simply having a category "Supermarket"
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by eviks 10mo ago
> I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore. If you didn't care, you'd post the names
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by eviks 10mo ago
No again, the person qualified can edit the initial comment.
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by eviks 10mo ago
Well, that's not what they did, did you not read the last sentence of my previous comment (or checked for yourself)?
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by eviks 10mo ago
That's not true, you can limit comments to collaborators if you don't like them. Although note that it's something you've made up, comments are not part of the original list of reasons. Moreover, comments aren't lim
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by eviks 10mo ago
No, you can always summarize details neatly at the top, you can edit comments, you know?

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