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by ho_schi 5y ago
I love TUIs. They are usually clearly structured and fast. They require creators and users to focus on workflow :) While these are experience values and not strict rules: Astonishingly older users are performing better with TUIs than GUIs
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by ho_schi 5y ago
The "I want it like Windows" people are an issue. Actually they were always? Old and bad behavior patterns. This hits the responsible people themselves. I'm feeling myself bad regarding using plugins from Github which aren&#x
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by ho_schi 5y ago
When the AV killed here the first laptop I was surprised about how. It turned out that this "special" product sneaks into the hardware disk encryption (which is actually reliable) and rendered it useless. IT department shrugged
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by ho_schi 5y ago
Yes. That was bad. The thing is that Lenovos ThinkPads are still good. Honestly, we just accept what Apple, Google and Xiaomi are doing every day. Maybe they note it somewhere in the terms or not. The difference is, that we've access t
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by ho_schi 5y ago
Will be difficult. Most people are trained in a way that . "Antivirus" means "Ass covering successfully applied. I'm no longer responsible!". The "antivirus" was sold as solution to the MBA people for thir
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by ho_schi 5y ago
I've the users act right and use the package management and Steam, they will be fine. If the users decided to "save money" with warez, cracks and black market software they will suffer. And Antivirus software is available f
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by ho_schi 5y ago
They once setup here the scanners to prevent modification of executable files. The linker called by GNU's GCC was...well...surprised. Not a problem if you build the Windows stuff also on Linux.
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by ho_schi 5y ago
Good work! The only "correct" approach is telling Adobe that they need to provide native ports of their software or switching to other software. Regarding laptops, buy business laptops (Lenovo ThinkPad, Dell Developer Edition) or
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by ho_schi 5y ago
I warn about using any kind of snake oil. Often sold under the marking terms "antivirus" or "personal firewall" or "cloud cyber security". Known side effects of this treatment are high CPU load, high RAM consum
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by ho_schi 5y ago
Running Epiphany (WebKit2) on Linux. But it seem like not turned ON up until now? https://libre-software.net/avif-test/
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I've the impression that most maintainers and project founders care about the project and the source. Contrary to what in industry happens often, where other things are more important {sales, features, marketing, blingbling}. One of th
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by ho_schi 5y ago
Feels fluid for me :) C++ overs all kind of high-level features and allow to go low-level when need. I know the core stuff and what I use regularly in addition. Will likely never learn all possibilities of C++. I don't think that is ne
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by ho_schi 5y ago
Yep. For GNOME their are packages available for DevHelp through third parties (e.g. Archlinux->AUR). DevHelp could make good use of a direct installation option for users.
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by ho_schi 5y ago
git --everything-is-local Which is the next thing. Git works just local and uses servers to sync. The purpose of servers is syncing and not depending on them. From this everything else comes, autonomous usage, speed, reliability, recovery
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by ho_schi 5y ago
> Windows clearly doesn't want people to GET to their home directory, for some reason. That seems goofy. If people don't understand that $user contains the rest of those folders (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc) they'l
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by ho_schi 5y ago
It feels like the author didn't like tree based file structures? The provided software in the screencast remembers me of iTunes. Which I dismiss because it doesn't provide a logical *tree like structure*. And it is not a filesyste
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by ho_schi 5y ago
MBA-ed to deadth hehe German "Tod durch BWLer". If a company suffered from this it is IBM. They sold they're hardware business with long term earnings and the entry path to many customers was lost. Now there is Red Hat with
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by ho_schi 5y ago
Reminds me of ThinkPads old good seven row keyboard and the new six (DISASTER) row keyboard and a lot of changes from Apple with th Touchbar (++DISASTER). Where is my context menu key? Why Fn+F4 doesn't suspend the machine anymore. Who
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by ho_schi 5y ago
TLDR I'm fine without JavaScript? I've the impression that JavaScript is worse than ever assumed during early 2000s. I don't criticize the language it is the actual usage scenario which was bad for people and got even worse
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"Human Resources" Department I think that says enough about how company and it bosses think.
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Gtkmm3 with C++ works well for me. I'm looking now on Gtk(mm)4 and Libadwaita. They improved the docs recently but the C++ documentation is kind of separated.
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by ho_schi 5y ago
I suggest this tiny thing named "key" is an appropriate solution. Hard to break through dropping, no battery, the home doesn't need electricity and so on. While I understand the tinkering here for fun, the author did ignored
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by ho_schi 5y ago
I've replaced on my X220 the screen (TN->IPS), keyboard, bluetooth chip, memory and drive. But I really respect that cell replacement thing! Please share your knowledge! Maybe it is above my level but it can help everyone :)
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by ho_schi 5y ago
If the manufacturers only provide batteries for at least ten years, don't lock it with dongle chips and provide specification requirements for third parties. Well. Lenovo doesn't sell new batteries after fives years, uses dongle a
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by ho_schi 5y ago
With Linux 5.17 S0ix maybe works: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/Linux-S... With Linux 5.17 AMD should provided also something similar to pstate, which should improve the things further: htt
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by ho_schi 5y ago
Pedantic? Yes. But the difference is significant between "remove" and "delete" and there is a difference between "while" and "if". Regarding APIs I'm hopefully pedantic.
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Wasn't IBM's philosophy to have always two vendors for each component, therefore a clone from AMD and later an own chip? Probably manufacturing everything exclusively would've counteracted the idea of exclusive rights. They h
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I likely use often also incorrect or misleading terms. Yes. The mass market works (thinks) like that. Like you said, we're here on a tech board and therefore I refer to the actual definitions. Depends on situation when correct terms mu
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by ho_schi 5y ago
PC != Windows And was never. The Personal-Computer is an original product of International Business Machines (IBM) and not Microsoft. Contrary to most products shipped today it's architecture is open for industry standards and other co
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I'm not surprised. The complete company doesn't provide any actually required product or value, just aggregating "users". And the company has the worst imaginable reputation (closed-source, awkward and stupid censorship,

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