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by genthree 7mo ago
I believe Zuckerberg has a term for people who willingly break online anonymity because someone with a domain name and website asks them to.
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by genthree 7mo ago
Last I checked, every distro of note had its own patchset that included stuff outside the vanilla kernel tree. Did that change? I admit I haven't looked at any of that in... oh, 15 years or so.
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by genthree 7mo ago
> "Wow that company has so many employees and yet, in practice, does so little" Some of it is real need for things like support, payments, and compliance in a bunch of languages and jurisdictions and across a bunch of platfor
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by genthree 7mo ago
Anyone on Bedrock Minecraft is probably there for the cross-platform multiplayer. The Java version doesn't substitute for that. (MS made Bedrock and Java incompatible so they can rent-seek on closed mod and server-hosting "marketp
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by genthree 7mo ago
I value performance and stability highly, and Apple's productivity programs are so light I can leave them open in the background and forget they're running for months at a time even on fairly old, weak machines. And I'm not s
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by genthree 7mo ago
Apple's office suite is my favorite I've ever used, and it's not close. After that, old copies of MSOffice. Next-best would be a hodgepodge of the lighter options on Linux and such. Gnumeric, Abiword, that sort of thing. Not
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by genthree 7mo ago
Been auto-hiding the taskbar since Win 95, and feel the need for the feature all the more with the macOS dock. I doubt I’ve spent a collective hour without auto-hide on the dock in more than a decade of macOS :-)
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by genthree 7mo ago
Oh, I was there for a good deal of it. Win 3.1 was my first GUI OS. Remember wacky compositor add-ons to x-window to get the wobbly windows and the really good transparency that doesn’t wait for you to stop moving the window to update, on L
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by genthree 7mo ago
I’m on macOS, it’s where I started working this way… uh… 12ish years ago. Still using Spectacle for window management, despite its being long-discontinued. Still works, never a problem or glitch at all.
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by genthree 7mo ago
I sort of miss when my way of using GUI desktops involved the wallpaper sometimes being visible. These days It’s all quarter/half/full windows that rarely close, and certainly are never minimized.
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by genthree 7mo ago
The entire point of any such system is the latter thing anyway, regardless of how you go about it. I mean the higher-level point, like “why do we have any system at all?”
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by genthree 7mo ago
Yes, it’s different if you live in the actual country. “For most ”
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by genthree 7mo ago
Carter: “This energy crisis shows us how vulnerable we are to foreign autocrats. We should work toward energy independence via renewable energy and waste reduction, to lead the world away from this risky and unsustainable fossil fuel market
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by genthree 7mo ago
I once read a claim that once you remove the distance that exists between places because of cars (large set-backs, unusable "green space", wide freeways including the medians and buffer around them, giant parking lots, et c.) ca
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by genthree 7mo ago
I find avoiding legible and most "graphic" clothing, period, works great. Plus it usually looks better. Not sure why you need any flag on you.
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by genthree 7mo ago
> There are of course exceptions like critical medical applications and rocket/missile guidance systems but as a general rule code quality is only a problem when it inevitably bites you much farther down the line, usually when custo
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by genthree 7mo ago
I don't see any reason to doubt that plausible-next-token-guessing could sometimes plausibly-next-guess a sequence that happens to decode to the answer to some question we'd not yet solved. ... it'd be even more likely if, as
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by genthree 7mo ago
That it tends to become a caste system with extra steps (which steps provide a defense of the system as “fair”) is one of the chief criticisms of meritocracy (and criticism of the idea is where we got the term itself)
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by genthree 7mo ago
Yeah, it’s great.
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by genthree 7mo ago
No choice.
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by genthree 7mo ago
> Can I ask which version of iOS was perfect in our mind? 6.
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by genthree 7mo ago
For little utility apps where you don’t care to deviate from UI default appearance and behavior (and, as a user, it’s much better if you don’t anyway, though it’s very trendy to make UX worse by customizing everything) iOS and Android both
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by genthree 7mo ago
Functional websites would be wonderful. Instead we get “webapps”.
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by genthree 7mo ago
I was under the impression that some of the anti-screen-tearing and other features in Wayland unavoidably set a higher (and, higher-enough to be noticeable in some contexts) floor on latency, though, because of how those features necessaril
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by genthree 7mo ago
I think a lot of folks don't consider that each child comes with a high-enough-to-worry-about risk of negatively affecting the life of everyone in your family to a level on par with one of the adults in your family becoming permanently
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by genthree 7mo ago
It also used a large multiple more memory than Alsa + basically any existing plausible combo of mixer software on top of alsa. While doing nothing. For no clear reason. And chewed processor cycles, while doing nothing. Back when 50MB was
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by genthree 7mo ago
I maintain Red Hat backed it as part of a play to make it harder to develop competing distros that aren’t basically identical to Red Hat’s product. Their actions on systemd, Wayland, plus gnome and associated tech, sure look like classic
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by genthree 7mo ago
The Steamdeck loads games into some kind of nested x11 renderer-in-a-window, I think. If for no other reason than to try to avoid Wayland’s extra input latency? Dunno. Maybe you lost some component it needs to work, if regular Steam also do
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by genthree 7mo ago
I played some Web version in the late '90s or very early '00s, which is my main experience with the game, and it had 'ludes.
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by genthree 7mo ago
Each one's a reverse-lottery-ticket, though. Get the wrong draw and it's not a gift. Can easily massively reduce the QOL for everyone around, including other siblings. Mostly due to chronic illnesses, of either the physical or m

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