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by jwells89 3y ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but isn’t it pretty common to e.g. have a list of non-duplicate items on screen which have a specific order they’re supposed to be displayed in which can be changed as a result of user actions (like adding new it
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by jwells89 3y ago
Had heard of this and it’s cool, but would involve tossing my still-good AC unit which doesn’t feel great unless the installer offers trade-ins or something (which doesn’t seem likely). Will consider going with a heat pump nonetheless.
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by jwells89 3y ago
I have an aging gas furnace that’s about due for replacement and a heat pump may be in the cards. Something I’ll need to research is how a heat pump would compare to electric heated flooring, though because the way my house’s HVAC system is
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by jwells89 3y ago
The kernel modules problem really highlights why the push to do more in userspace in recent years increasingly makes sense. Hope to see more kernel changes to support this push.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Might be missing something here, but shouldn’t native scrolling behavior be obtainable by just letting the browser do its thing instead of manually managing it?
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by jwells89 3y ago
If notifications are ever opened to regular Safari there needs to be a toggle added in settings to globally disable requests, effectively restoring current behavior. It’s bad enough being pestered to enable notifications on desktop Safari,
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by jwells89 3y ago
To add a few: - Ability to stay in memory for longer due to lower consumption - Less weirdness with navigation - More “solid” feel (less layout shifting, “flashes”, etc) - More good practices on the default/happy path (less UX to have
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by jwells89 3y ago
Podcasts also tend to carry different metadata than music files, e.g. chapters which makes a dedicated client a little nicer since it’s guaranteed to handle all of that correctly.
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by jwells89 3y ago
I doubt anybody would care about Spotify putting everything in one app if podcasts, etc were just sidebar items, especially if there were settings to hide them, but the issue is that they’ve intentionally made these things hard to avoid. Th
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by jwells89 3y ago
I could easily see someone preferring macOS to Windows, with how ad-ridden and pushy 10 and 11 have become. To me it would’ve been more understandable if someone preferred Windows back in the days of 7, which I liked even as someone who’s l
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by jwells89 3y ago
I can do the same machine (MBP 16”) for about 30m on a plane or couch before my neck/shoulders start bugging me (not severely, but enough to notice and act as early warning for further problems). Can go for longer sitting up in bed but
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by jwells89 3y ago
For me the main value add over a laptop is ergonomics in some situations. If at a desk or table a portable laptop stand can also address this, but that won’t work in an airplane or while lounging, both of which are situations where craning
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by jwells89 3y ago
My memory may be failing me but I think Firefox 3 was also where it started to feel less like the snappy minimal utilitarian “just a browser” it was in versions prior and started to feel more clunky, branded, and product-y, which also didn’
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by jwells89 3y ago
That DirectX filter hack for PNG transparency haunts me. What makes it so much worse is that Tasman, the engine used in IE for Mac, had awesome support for CSS, transparent PNGs, and more years earlier, but for some reason it got dumpster
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by jwells89 3y ago
Electron bundles Chromium, not Blink directly. Believe this is true of WebView2 too but am not well-versed in Windows internals. In fact I’m not aware of any major non-Chromium usages of Blink, except maybe in Qt (where it replaced WebKit
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by jwells89 3y ago
There were substantial differences even from day one. As I recall one of the differences of opinion that was a driving cause of the fork was the multiprocess model; WebKit team wanted that to be part of the framework, letting any WebKit-emb
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s also got nearly the entire library of iPad apps available to it to tide users over until native alternatives appear, plus for many apps providing a native version is little more than ticking a box in Xcode on existing iOS projects. Thi
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by jwells89 3y ago
Have known about LFS for a long time but never messed with it. Would it be suitable for someone who’s not quite up to the task of writing an OS from scratch, but has higher level ideas (e.g. filesystem arrangement/structure) they want
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by jwells89 3y ago
Ethics go out the window so long as the flow of shiny new features remains unimpeded. The only reason devs turned against IE is because Microsoft got complacent and essentially abandoned it, letting Gecko and WebKit steal the spotlight… a m
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by jwells89 3y ago
Another thing the EU could do which would help is to prohibit cross-promotion of browsers, as Google has quite aggressively done since Chrome’s inception and Microsoft is returning to doing with Edge. That means no more “download Chrome” pr
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by jwells89 3y ago
The point remains that they’re throwing stones in a glass house. There’s no reason that they should be held to any lower of a standard than any other company.
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by jwells89 3y ago
librespot is a fine piece of engineering, but because it’s reverse engineered there’s a risk of getting banned for using it, which a lot of people aren’t going to want to take a chance on. It also means that apps built on it can’t promote t
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by jwells89 3y ago
Or with how they shut out third party clients for paid customers by deprecating libspotify without ever providing a playback-capable replacement (despite promises otherwise). I’m sure paid Spotify users would like freedom of choice just as
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by jwells89 3y ago
WebKit is also a bit better than other engines in “nativeness” too, with e.g. in-page widget behavior and such. Blink is second best here probably thanks to its shared heritage with WebKit, and Gecko is last with unstyled widgets and little
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by jwells89 3y ago
As an owner and frequent user of a Quest 2 (and a original Rift) I don’t really seem them as being in the same category as the AVP. They’re obviously related, but have significantly different trajectories, and I think visionOS in particular
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by jwells89 3y ago
I touched on this elsewhere, but it’s my belief that Meta has largely fumbled its strategy with the quest. In short, outside of games it’s not a very appealing platform. It’s underdeveloped, with a middling SDK and shoehorned-Android UI tha
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s niche in its current form yes, but I don’t think the AVP is Apple’s endgame for visionOS. It exists merely so a robust platform and ecosystem can be developed and will be there from day one for more broadly appealing products in the fu
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by jwells89 3y ago
Similarly I do better with multiple monitors and infrequent app/workspace switching than I do with one monitor switching apps/workspaces constantly. In fact one of the reasons my gaming PC doesn’t often do double duty as a Linux w
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by jwells89 3y ago
Will mirror this as someone who uses a Quest 2 somewhere around 10-12 hours per week. In terms of hardware the Vision Pro is much better, which already shows and will only become more evident as intense apps make obvious the difference in C
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by jwells89 3y ago
> I'm curious to hear what you (and anyone else) would see as a useful app for this device :) Still figuring this out, but most things that are useful as phone or tablet apps for one since you don’t want to switch to other devices i

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