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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I have played around with elementary OS for a bit, and even though it was "coding like at work", it was really refreshing to see how much elementary's tiny team has already achieved. At the MegaCorp day job, every new button
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
elementary is already moving in the right direction by trying to combine flatpak and AppCenter (=payments) -> https://blog.elementary.io/elementary-appcenter-flatpak/ From there it's not a huge jump to allow fl
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I have an iPhone 12 mini, and sometimes when I drag down to enter the search field, it feels like I'm waiting for an HDD to spin up (stuck for a second or two). It's probably not a hack, but just the towering complexity of all the
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
It's not that connecting speakers is hard with the new iMac (2021, sorry not 2020), but that having anything permanently plugged in will look silly: https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/20/m1-imac-relocates-the-he
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Little room for imagination? The iMacs that came after the G4 are not even height adjustable. They also didn't just cut down on useless material. Power supplies are still large, but Apple has moved them out of the iMac in 2020. The r
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> presumably the demand isn't really there I loved the 4" iPhone form factor (5, 5S, 5C, 2016 SE), and was really looking forward to the iPhone 12 mini. But the reason I like small phones is because I don't use mine all
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I guess it refers to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
It's hard to prove any of this, but I feel that I see a lot more astroturfing on Twitter than on FB.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Not bad, but right at 9:10 in the video, you have white text on a bright translucent background with terrible contrast (in the widget list). This is not an issue with this particular theme... Building a theme that looks great across the ope
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I don't mind the K per se. It's great branding! But the specific apps shown on kde.org are Krita, Kdenlive (needs a pronunciation guide), Kontact (looks painfully asymmetric), Kdevelop, GCompris (needs an explanation, a pronunciat
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> It’s about being more than …. I would understand that objection if people could only own a single computing device. But us who want the iPad to be a dumb consumption device probably own a proper computer for creation. In fact, having a
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> Human beings are more than vessels for SV douches to make billions they don’t need. If I buy an iPad to read PDFs or books, many of which are free, I am hardly making SV douches more money than when I buy a "Pro" device for p
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I've been meaning to try KDE several times, but I can never get over its look, or the silly names for everything, like "Kontact" and "Kdenlive". I wish there was a project like elementary OS, which takes the tech of
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> I was a pretty staunch opponent of the iPad for a very long time. Tablets were clearly a consumption device I have no doubt that the iPad is great at the things you list in your post, and I wish I had any skills that would justify buyi
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> Unless you run flatpak... Well yes, sandboxing should be the goal! Installing Steam from Flathub is a good first step on desktop machines. But as long as games require anti-cheat software at the kernel level, I'll keep a Windows p
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
"...other humans that you don't trust" I often care about online multiplayer, but only with my friends (who I trust not to cheat). I don't want to install a rootkit for that.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Hard to pick a neutral source about this, how about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v... > According to his testimony, if an Asian-American applicant with certain characteristics (li
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
No disagreement about ethics, but: > This is a basic truth of economics. Is this basic truth backed up by anything tangible? Ethnic Chinese already face unfair hurdles by the current push against standardized testing. But one more obstac
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Yet, when people make jokes about dongles it's also misogynist, because sexuality at the workplace makes women feel uneasy. From a European standpoint, the simpler explanation (in this particular case) is that the US tech scene is incr
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
This is a recent development. When gay marriage was less popular among voters a couple decades ago, "conservative" meant "neoconservatism", which was exactly the same as neoliberalism, but without the LGBT+. (I hope that
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I doubt it, given that Microsoft now actually owns the Candy Crush IP.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Going through the Rubocop configuration ordeal is probably a good investment of time if you have a large codebase where every developer has a different style, and you don't want everyone's code to look completely different. But mo
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> You don't have to render identically. A 720p phone and a 4k TV are quite different. Yes, but that's kind of the problem. The 720p phone has a lot of horsepower per pixel, but is crippled by touch controls. The Apple TV is _sl
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
No matter how much money you throw at the current Apple Arcade, most people will play the game on a 5" touch screen. If you want to target living room gamers with a gamepad, the same game has to work on an Apple TV that struggles to re
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Thanks, I didn't know kurzgesagt had them on their shop as well. I've ordered mine from the waitbutwhy shop after reading the blog post, which was pretty silly for a piece of paper to be sent to Germany. Oh well. Then I got stuck
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Apple Arcade is for casual games that have to work on all of Apple's form factors (minus the watch, thankfully). I've tried it out twice. It is, with very few exceptions, in a completely different category from PC gaming because m
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Mh, I don't know. Some of the changes that people complain the most about (from Leopard's 3D dock to Safari 15 tabs) were undone by Apple. And for some changes that haven't been undone, like monochrome icons everywhere, I sti
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I actually liked Exposé a lot more in Tiger and Leopard than in Snow Leopard, where all windows were resized to a grid, and you lost relative window sizes as a visual cue. Thankfully, there was a hack to get Leopard Exposé in Snow Leopard,
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Thanks! I think I've used that, and a SIMBL bundle for Finder when it became necessary.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Well, what about Vala? Obviously C, Python, and especially JavaScript are infinitely more popular programming languages. Yet the number of developers building GTK apps with any of them seems to be in the same ballpark.

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