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For me it’s the grass, stones, and star patterns. They look way too busy on modern displays but at 640x480 or 800x600 they weren’t too bad.
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> Everything up through 10.6 makes me feel indescribably warm and fuzzy. 10.2/10.3/10.4 are the ones that do it for me. Spent way too much time on my Macs through those years, through which I frequently used the default desktop
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I think Apple has a significant leg up over Meta in the software space, and this shouldn’t be underestimated. visionOS has a proper AR UI framework with affordances for AR/VR usage whereas the Quest is just Android mapped to 3D space.
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The problem with Windows is that it’s just lacking enough in a few areas to drive me crazy. Its virtual desktops aren’t independent between monitors for example, so when you switch desktops on one monitor it switches on all monitors, whic
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Most of the time, I don’t. It sounds silly but macOS window management works best when you don’t micromanage and just let windows pile up at whichever size fits their content, kind of like papers on a desk. Instead I group windows by virtua
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GNOME is very consistent, but the downside is that it’s not great in terms of power user features and progressive disclosure thereof. In some ways it’s also more mobile-inclined, it’s basically what one would get if they took iPadOS and app
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Speaking frequently absolutely helps a lot, but I’ve found in my on-an-off language studies (as time allows) that vast amounts of input is also effective if finding speakers isn’t practical. Reading content a bit above your level with a dua
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And of course with any of the Quest products privacy is a major consideration, and to opt out of account requirement and data collection one needs to look to enterprise versions which are much more expensive.
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Really depends on the direction the technology develops in. For instance, as someone whose living is made with computers, if the computer I carry no longer needs a screen of its own and can just use my (sun)glasses as a display that’d be a
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A lot of that is subjective. For me for example, Explorer vs. Finder is mostly a wash with Finder edging out Explorer in a few ways (e.g. toggling hidden file visibility with the key shortcut ⌘⇧. instead of having to dive into settings), an
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It’s because despite those issues, depressingly macOS still delivers an experience that to most Mac users is preferable over that of Linux or especially Windows. Increasingly it’s not that macOS is incredible, but that the alternatives are
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The speed difference between the two has been a point of friction for me in a couple of different scenarios. It was something of a problem in university. While I’m not a particularly slow writer, I’m not a fast one either and as such it was
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Back when I switched, it wasn’t unusual for MacPorts packages to not compile for some reason or another, and at that point my skills in that realm were lacking which meant I had little ability to fix these issues, rendering its technical su
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I used MacPorts back in the 00s and early 10s but switched to Homebrew when it came out because it was less hassle. Wanted to give it another shot with my latest clean OS install, but wound up installing Homebrew again due to broken package
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Yeah, the custom keycap scene is dominated by Cherry MX-compatible sets. There’s a handful of custom caps for Kailh Choc low profile switches and even smaller handful for Topre, but if you’re a fan of Alps or especially buckling springs the
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Some of the discontent comes from Firefox not being very interesting compared to other browsers. The various Chrome-clones are doing interesting things like adding toggleable vertical tabs built in (Vivaldi, Edge) or even vertical-only (Arc
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Changing the user agent seems to make things work more often than not in the case of sites/apps like this. My inclination is that most of them don’t actually have hard browser requirements and just haven’t been tested against anything
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I think Apple hasn’t followed Microsoft on status item (that the name of menubar icons on macOS) management is simply because they didn’t intend for the API to be used even a fourth as much as it is. In older releases (back when in it was s
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Most of those other laptops have asymmetric bezels, which Apple was probably trying to avoid. They wanted thin bezels on all edges. The extra room in the notch is likely there in case they want to change webcam parts to something larger, ad
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Well, my thinking here is that increasing available time by reducing the number of hours people have to work to live is going to be a net benefit to individuals like you’ve mentioned in your first paragraph too. People are more likely to go
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This is where the difference between affordability and safety come in. Obviously someone making that much could afford to have kids, but assuming tech hub (e.g. SF) cost of living, it’ll take a few years of salary like that to accrue enough
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> There's only so much you can do. You can introduce as much subsidised childcare, parental leave, flexible working conditions, free higher education, etc, policies as you like – those things can alleviate the disadvantage to other
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NetNewsWire is excellent. Clean, responsive, blends into the desktop, and doesn't have memory leak issues like so many macOS RSS readers do. I wish all software could be like it. https://netnewswire.com/
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I can only speculate of course, but I think something that'd increase birthrates in urbanized society would "simply" be arranging things such that raising a family isn't so exclusionary. In a developed society, people ar
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I wonder if it might be time for a new “boring” UI framework. GTK often gets selected over Qt because it’s so much easier build high quality idiomatic language bindings for, has a good selection of widgets out of the box, and doesn’t rock t
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> Do most grandparents want to be live in caretakers to young children? No, they have better things to do. It’s also often not feasible even in cases where grandparents (or other relatives) are willing, due to the modern necessity for pe
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There’s more than just a bare price tag here though. It’s also about risk . In developed societies, it’s still somewhat reasonable (though this is starting to wane) for a couple with dual incomes to be able to establish themselves well eno
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Similar experience here. I was in objectively terrible shape in my teens through mid-20s; didn’t eat enough, didn’t sleep enough, didn’t drink enough water, and spent most of my day at a desk. Flash forward to today in my mid-30s and all of
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What I ended up doing is making sure all my computers support Thunderbolt 3/4 (or USB 4 at minimum), getting a single good Thunderbolt dock (CalDigit TS4+) and just swap out which computer’s TB cable is plugged into the dock. To ease t
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Do you have any recommendations for launchers to check out? I don’t daily drive Android but keep a couple devices on that side of the fence around for dev purposes and have been underwhelmed with the options I’ve tried so far. I was expecti

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