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by jwells89 3y ago
Personally speaking I’ve always found Inkscape frustrating compared to Sketch or Affinity Designer, but it’s in a different way than GIMP is. GIMP I think would mostly be fine if they just ditched all the quirky GIMP-unique UI conventions i
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by jwells89 3y ago
I’m increasingly tempted to buy a second hand license for one of the old single-purchase Creative Suites and just run that in a VM or with period-accurate hardware forever. For me practically all of the value in current graphic editors is c
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by jwells89 3y ago
Disappointing, because this likely spells the end of one-time-purchase Affinity products, and as mentioned in the article up until now that has been a big selling point for them. I hope I’m wrong, but if I’m not it doesn’t fare well for Aff
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by jwells89 3y ago
Xcode doesn’t require the yearly fee, it’s downloadable for free, and you can get a barebones compiler toolchain with a terminal command. Devs who distribute outside of the Mac App Store can notarize their apps to make them run without the
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by jwells89 3y ago
> apps with in-app webviews can roll out a custom engine, but otherwise it uses WebKit regardless of default browser. It should obviously use the webview facility provided by the default browser, if it offers one. This has massive potent
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s still not good though, because it essentially rules out the creation and growth of new browser engines. A group shouldn’t need to be a multinational gigacorp to pull that off.
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by jwells89 3y ago
If said project has a monopoly marketshare which the parent company can then use to drive profits in its main lines of business, then yes I think it can. In this case the engineering resources presents a moat of sorts — it means that anybod
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by jwells89 3y ago
We’ll have to see how it plays out. It’s also possible that iOS having a distribution model similar to that of the Mac opens it up to a bunch of high quality single-platform indieware similar to that macOS has enjoyed for decades, which cou
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by jwells89 3y ago
Even today I find USB 3.x drives to be considerably more flaky than my FW400 drives were back then.
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Not sure. I’m not aware of any EU regulations on laptop charging (though I have not looked), and Apple was actually one of the earliest implementors of USB-C PD in laptops so if such regulations exist, MacBooks have likely always complied.
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by jwells89 3y ago
The distinction doesn’t matter that much in my mind, because Chromium reskins give Google just as much power over the web as Chrome reskins would. If for example the marketshare of Edge and Chrome suddenly traded places, very little would c
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by jwells89 3y ago
Even that’s a mixed bag, though. When it came out, Lightning was a legitimate large step up from micro-USB and their old 30-pin iPod connector, and on MacBooks MagSafe was loved enough by users that it managed to come back from the dead and
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by jwells89 3y ago
Chrome needs to be addressed, too. It’s achieved near-monopoly status (especially if lumping in Chrome reskins like Edge) and posing meaningful competition to Google’s cross-promotion, marketing, and army of engineers working on the project
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by jwells89 3y ago
Opera GX sponsors a lot of popular YouTubers and YouTube/Twitch livestreamers. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if this has lead to it be disproportionately popular with younger people.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Is it even possible to buy a mainstream laptop without Bluetooth now? Maybe absolutely bottom of the barrel bargain basement sorts of laptops, but probably even those come with it considering how an Intel AX210, a good recent WiFi+BT card,
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by jwells89 3y ago
I can get VRR via Thunderbolt with my gaming PC through a couple of different docks, but it’s flaky. Running a display through TB on that machine is kinda flaky even without VRR enabled, though… I think it’s either Nvidia drivers or the car
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s something I need to get better about, but man, it’s so tedious and if I try to do something else while flossing in invariably do a bad job at flossing.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Google could use another pass to put a stop to their aggressive cross-promotion of Chrome, which is difficult if not impossible to compete with given how many Google products people use on a daily basis. Every time I visit Google, YouTube,
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by jwells89 3y ago
As someone who’s lived in Japan, immensely enjoys its train system, and wants to see an equivalent established in the US… Unfortunately, I don’t see a way for it to happen in a timely manner. Even if everybody dropped everything and started
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by jwells89 3y ago
Settlements on the Moon, Mars, or anywhere else beyond Earth’s orbit are going to be brutal for decades to come, no matter how much money gets poured into them. The first settlers are going to be spending every waking moment securing their
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by jwells89 3y ago
Particularly when considering how small the amount going towards space is, which in the US, Congress is all too eager to pare down even further. Funding would be better sourced from cuts to things like military spending, which is well known
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At minimum, I think iOS should have something similar to the system in macOS which blocks known malware/badware. Some kind of local heuristics that can flag suspicious apps and informs the user when something fishy may be afoot may als
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by jwells89 3y ago
GNOME is somewhat frustrating to me because there’s a number of things that I feel it gets more “right” than KDE, at least for me , but there’s about as many things that it doesn’t. KDE gets a lot of things “somewhat right” but also gets m
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by jwells89 3y ago
This is probably one of the best yet most underrated features of the various stock Apple organizational apps: they work just as well as vendor agnostic clients for standard protocols (IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etc) with relatively little favor
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by jwells89 3y ago
I can remember a handful of scenes dating back to age 2 or 3, and maybe a bit earlier. How well varies, like as I’m writing this my recall ability is somewhat weak, likely because I’m tired. If they happen to cross my mind earlier during th
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yeah, it’s almost always at night while I’m asleep that it’s charging multiple things. It also has a port marked to plug a laptop into, which I’d assume it prioritizes over the other ports.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Been pretty happy with my GaN Anker brick, which is 150W and smaller than not only the 87W Apple brick, but also the 140W Apple brick and can charge up to 4 things instead of just one. It packs into my laptop bag nicely and makes it unneces
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by jwells89 3y ago
Some of it might be misunderstanding, but complication of distribution may also play a role. Making sure that your application is correctly dynamically linked and packaged to run without issues across all supported platforms and configurati
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yes, even just using UIKit will take you a decent way for a11y, and if you try to use parameterized fonts and colors where possible, replace image assets with SF Symbols, and fill in accessibility labels it’ll take you into the home stretch
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by jwells89 3y ago
Which is another reason why an HTML-native recycler is desirable. The browser could be easily avoid this is issue if it were the one to implement the recycler, rather than it being a third-party bolt-on.

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