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jhildings
11y ago
Stealing would imply that they no longer are in possession or in control of the content, which of course is false. Copying illegaly however, yes
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Well if the tradeoff is to use a lesser OS or desktop environment compared to for example Fluxbox then it could be worth it ?
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11y ago
A pity that the WM totally sucks and does not even support themes or configurable behaviour
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11y ago
One thing that sucks about the display is the "glossy glass"-style which makes it very sensitive to sunlight or strong indoor lightning
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11y ago
I put most of the things i download on the desktop, and when it's to cluttered i create a folder like "downloads2" and repeat until the "downloads3" is needed ;D
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11y ago
Too bad if there was electricty outage, a blizzard or something else blocking access to this cafeterias..
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11y ago
>- Time: No need to spend hours cooking, cleaning, washing dishes, driving to and from the grocery to stock your fridge, take out the trash, etc. Put part of those things are fun, the cooking and buying different groceries and walking ar
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11y ago
i don't want a tiling one, i want a configurable lightweight one like fluxbox
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11y ago
>The Linux distros, for all their good, requires too much handholding and prodding to get a productive desktop development environment working. At least you CAN get a productive environment. The OSX window manager really really sucks and
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11y ago
True, that is a good point!
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11y ago
apps? Whats wrong with saying applications as for the last 20 years in windows environments ?
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11y ago
One great advantage by staying up late rather than waking early is the amount of people active. More people are outside, or want to communicate with you, traffic is louder and so on. In the night after 12-01 those things calm down
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11y ago
oh thx man
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11y ago
the main thing that annoys me is that it is not possible to turn of the animation for desktop switching, window switching and so on. after three times those become annoying...
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11y ago
At least they could implement a way to switch or at least configure the window manager, withe everything from behaviour to look and feel.
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11y ago
>* Rounded corners >* Gradients on buttons >* Text shadows >* Superfluous drop shadows Basically all of those were replace by "flat design" stuff right?
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11y ago
What about the video backgrounds on webpages? Haven't seen them the last 8 months or so compared to early 2014 when everyone from Spotify to web agencies used them
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11y ago
Just use screen and detach it :) https://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi/
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11y ago
Why not just use IRC ?
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11y ago
Don't forget the stupid new keyboard :(
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11y ago
Or maybe just use WebRTC or WebSockets for push state change ?
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11y ago
For text or voice? For voice Mumble is far much better and stable
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11y ago
But they won't even know where someone is right? Anyway I understand the point which also makes the argument for cryptocurrencies much stronger
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11y ago
That's stupid, how can this kind of thing not be "available" in a country? It's totally isolated from the service
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11y ago
A browser without all this new stupid checks of "malware sites", HTTPS complaining and so on. I want to use it as a program, not as an secure antivirus tool
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11y ago
How does this mean that he doesn't use it for the thing this thread is addressing ? O_o
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11y ago
But, wouldn't it be that per definition that the most people are average? You can only be exceptional compared to something that is not exceptional
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But, why not just run then on your local machines? 99% of the hackathon project never gets updated afterwards anyway
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11y ago
I see, and as mentioned in others comments it's probably more marketing than anything else. But the argument "doing X is for robots" is quite flawed when X can be improved in a lot of ways
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11y ago
>First, I never cook. I am all for self reliance but repeating the same labor over and over for the sake of existence is the realm of robots. Well then he does cooking wrong, he could also try to improve himself but in the craft in itsel
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