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by jjrh 7y ago
This is the /real/ killer feature for me that I would find very difficult to live without and I don't know of any other editors that offer this functionality. Being able to remotely open my editor (either from a terminal, or
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by jjrh 7y ago
From a end user we aren't really seeing drastic changes in quality of life. My midrange Android phone is going on 3 years and is still snappy and fast. Used to be after 3 years you were starting to rethink your app choices, constantly
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by jjrh 7y ago
The sound definitely helps but I think the reason most people like the mechanical switches is that you get a good feeling for when the key has actuated. Lot of the time I have headphones and music on to drown out sounds so i'm not hear
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by jjrh 7y ago
Never got this complaint. Just because something different is installed by default doesn't mean you can't install something else (or use one of the many _buntu's to make life a little easier) A constant window manager is actu
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by jjrh 8y ago
No one wants to install ANOTHER app just to talk to you. Most of us already have at least 3 messaging apps they use on a daily basis and probably a whole lot more they use on a weekly basis.
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by jjrh 8y ago
I barely use facebook's website, I don't post anything but keep a account around for family, folks who want to use messenger and the odd event/group. It's a bit like having that hotmail address from highschool for the od
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by jjrh 8y ago
I mean the idea isn't to never use the mouse, just use it where appropriate and don't do the back and forth of mouse to keyboard which slows you down. (One great aspect of thinkpad's trackpoint is that you never need to move
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by jjrh 8y ago
There are quite a few very large XMPP deployments in industry. I'd hardly call it dead. As a protocol it's alive and well.
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by jjrh 8y ago
> group messages go into some archive-window (instead of showing up in the chat window like in every over program), sometimes the archive misses them... Not sure what that even means. Worth reporting. > pictures are a link to the ser
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by jjrh 8y ago
What do you mean? Unless you're using a very old client like pidgin, this stuff shouldn't be a problem.
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by jjrh 8y ago
But why do you need that on a laptop? Just run it on a server. If you work for a employer with deep pockets I guess sure why not? Otherwise a workstation you can remote connect to (if you work from home or travel) is probably good enough.
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by jjrh 8y ago
90s and 2000s was a pretty different story. These days a 5 year old i7 with 16g of ram is pretty damn fast. Maybe it's a different story if you're running windows with a big IDE.
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by jjrh 8y ago
Only argument I really buy when it comes to needing bleeding edge hardware is if you're doing something like game development where it's reasonable you might be compiling, testing, and running a big IDE. This whole "productiv
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by jjrh 8y ago
I think guy above was talking about the proprietary driver. While I have tried to be a fan of AMD/ATI because of their stance on opensource, for a long time AMD proprietary drivers sucked and had all sorts of problems and the open one
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by jjrh 8y ago
https://www.absint.com/ is the company that sells licenses/support and they advertise: > For two decades now, Airbus France has been using our tools in the development of safety-critical avionics software for sever
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by jjrh 8y ago
Even if you despise python to the core, it's hard to shrug off the massive number of well documented, mature libraries. Usually there are 2 or more choices with at least one of them being fairly mature and maintained. Not to mention th
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by jjrh 8y ago
Never searched for 'hours' but it's been a annoyance before, usually related to copy/pasting. I certainly have run into the indent issue where my editor doesn't know what block it should be in but that's more e
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by jjrh 8y ago
Boblightd ( https://github.com/bobo1on1/boblight ) is great if your source is a computer. There is a plugin for Kodi - I personally haven't tried and just start boblight-X11. Since boblight can use a capture source,
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by jjrh 8y ago
> I think the Bose hate is mostly tribal nonsense - it's cool to signal audiophile virtue by hating a dominant brand that lay people like. I think most of the Bose hate comes from their speakers which cost quite a bit for the sound
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by jjrh 8y ago
Those Sennheiser are not active noise cancelling which is the defining feature of Bose QC headphones - and why people are paying the money. Closed back headphones do work great for blocking noise, but are usually heavier and less comfortab
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by jjrh 8y ago
Replaceable batteries aren't even just about the 3 years later when it stops holding a useful charge, it's about day 1 ownership where I happen to want/need more flexibility. I loved that with my now rather old G2, I effectiv
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by jjrh 8y ago
I really liked the /idea/ behind google plus where you could put people into circles and selectively post to them. - Family photos go to everyone in the family circle. - Articles about politics go to people in that circle (who mi
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by jjrh 8y ago
It's not just "on the way into the office" it's at night, it's being on call without being paid to be (expecting one to read emails after hours) Companies didn't persuade people, the tools (smart phones, laptop
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by jjrh 8y ago
Well in the case of games, you end up with the big players making their own store like EA did with Origin (or Epic, Blizzard....) Which kinda sucks since you now have a bunch of apps with different logins. I'm also not convinced you wo
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by jjrh 8y ago
Because depending on the version of GPL (Linux is GPLv2) Some restrictions might not work with whatever you're doing. GPLv3 specifically has turned off many for various reasons.
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by jjrh 8y ago
Exactly, folks above need to be more specific when they say 'GPL' because there are radical differences between GPLv3 and GPLv2.
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by jjrh 8y ago
KiCad has made incredible progress over the last few years and shows no signs of slowing down. Mindshare for kicad is growing with folks like digikey now offering symbols and footprints in kicad format.
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by jjrh 8y ago
You're not wrong, but if history is any indicator: tech companies need to innovate or die. I'm not convinced facebook is here to stay.
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by jjrh 8y ago
> Federation is cool. I have the feeling it needs its "Ubuntu Moment". When federation is done 'right' you don't even notice it. Email for instance. In my opinion social networks being in silos is as silly as som
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by jjrh 8y ago
For micro and mini there are some adaptor thingies. I bought a few to deal with the couple of older devices I have with mini. One probably exists for USB-C so you only need one cable.

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