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by jwells89 3y ago
While women are absolutely disproportionally affected by a couple having children, in general raising a family needs to be made such that it isn’t so disruptive to… well, basically everything. In today’s economy once a couple has even one k
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by jwells89 3y ago
Hamburger menus are among my greatest gripes with GNOME. In apps with any functionality at all they end up being poorly organized junk drawers filled with odds and ends, and because they have to be somewhat short to be effective, functions
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by jwells89 3y ago
Not sure either but people with Indexes, Vives, etc seem to be competitive on the Beat Saber leaderboards so any loss can’t be too bad.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Doing so requires a SteamVR headset, though. I’m using a Quest 2 which only works well with Windows. Up to date compelling SteamVR options are starting to appear however so I might see if I can move over to one of those in the next year or
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yep. DRM’d online stuff and VR mainstays (Beat Saber, primarily) are the two sets of games that are keeping me tethered to Windows at the moment. VR games can be played via a Windows VM with GPU passthrough but for DRM’d online games you do
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by jwells89 3y ago
That is very interesting, thanks. Will have to pick up an extra TB cable and do this.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Same. I’ve had great luck with both the TS3+ and TS4. What few minor gripes I’ve had with them have been resolved by firmware updates. It’s other brands, especially USB-C (rather than Thunderbolt) stuff that I find extraordinarily flaky.
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by jwells89 3y ago
I do this too. Main monitor has sets of desktops for “primary” tasks (e.g. IDE windows) while the secondary has several “auxiliary” desktops (one for email, one for chat, one for documentation, etc). The ability to mix and match these betwe
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by jwells89 3y ago
I have one of those Thunderbolt Displays and it’s been a trooper. Sitting at around a decade old now and still works great. Its connector is getting worn out but as long as I don’t bump the TB2 → TB3 adapter it’s connected with it’s solid.
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by jwells89 3y ago
The local nature of farmers’ markets is important for many people, I suspect. Regardless of actual impact it feels good to support small farmers within driving distance.
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by jwells89 3y ago
This was also my thought. Farmers’ markets often have varieties you’d never see at grocery stores, which is part of the appeal.
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by jwells89 3y ago
And much of the “noisiness” stems from tooltips, popups, etc explaining changes and additions. I can see where some users might want those but it should be possible to disable those entirely, or at least make them more “quiet” (e.g. a notif
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by jwells89 3y ago
Firefox is not my primary browser on macOS for similar reasons. Given how similar iOS is to macOS I wouldn’t expect the situation to be much different with a hypothetical Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS — the performance and efficien
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by jwells89 3y ago
Agree that my biggest gripe with iPadOS is third party apps that don’t take advantage of the platform. Cross-platform apps are the most notorious, usually being stretched out phone apps rather than proper tablet apps. It’s still a far sight
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s rumored that the OLED panel used in the new iPad revision won’t be a bog standard OLED, but instead a variant that emphasizes longevity and burn-in resistance by stacking two OLED layers atop each other (on top of the usual binning App
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by jwells89 3y ago
Closest I’ve found is manually switching the machine plugged into a TB 4/USB 4 dock (CalDigit TS4), with the cables for each computer being managed when unplugged by a magnetic cable pad[0]. It’s a bit clunky but not too bad once you h
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yes, ports where each platform is treated as a checkbox to be ticked are practically always poor, with little to no testing. The dev dumps a cross-compiled binary they may not even be capable of running themselves and that’s the end of it.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Interlinked heterogenous documents aren’t unique to Obsidian, but somewhat uncommon among local-first note systems that sit beyond the confines of browser chrome (though this is changing, for example Apple Notes in macOS 14 and iOS 17 suppo
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by jwells89 3y ago
It seems like a lot of the newer UI frameworks are weirdly lacking when it comes to a few highly functional widgets like that… UI-as-branding custom styled buttons are prioritized over rich textviews and tableviews/datagrids.
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s been probably a decade since I last tried it, but Enlightenment is interesting and somewhat quirky… definitely a change of pace from the usual suspects. Might have to try it again just to see how it’s changed.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Even if older devices are less secure, it’s a shame that GrapheneOS doesn’t support them. I have a Pixel 3XL that runs great with the latest Android, but to run latest I’ve had to opt for Pixel Experience since most other Android distros le
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’d get surprisingly close. The biggest issue would be 1-bit alpha preventing window transparency, but that’s more of a limitation of classic Mac OS than it is of kaleidoscope. Just about everything else including window chrome shape, titl
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by jwells89 3y ago
I love that this exists and in fact in many ways prefer how it looks to the stock KDE theme, but it’s unfortunate that modification of KDE itself was necessary to achieve this level of accuracy. It underscores a more general frustration of
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by jwells89 3y ago
Have been doing dev work on Apple platforms in some capacity or another for over a decade now, and though I’ve tried iTerm several times I always find myself coming back to the stock Terminal. Stock just feels smoother and less quirky someh
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by jwells89 3y ago
For things like text readability, much of the fault lies on developers for not using parameterized colors (e.g. “primary text”, “secondary text”, etc) which can change as needed to fit light/dark mode, accessibility modes, and even thi
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by jwells89 3y ago
Propensity for distraction varies a lot between people. For me it varies on a day to day basis. Some days I could focus through a hurricane while others people buzzing around me is enough to make it difficult to think at all, let alone deep
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by jwells89 3y ago
I think I get what you mean. In my experience, declarative frameworks are great for simple UIs but don’t scale all that well with UI complexity. Eventually you find yourself doing somersaults and handstands to achieve what you need with the
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by jwells89 3y ago
I’m not well-versed on the internals of FirefoxOS, but I’m not sure it really counts as embedding because to my understanding, the entirety of the user-facing UI was built with Gecko. Embedding entails usage of the engine with unrelated too
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by jwells89 3y ago
On the other hand, from a user perspective who knows when that recompile will happen in the case of devs who are less attentive, too busy, or only doing this app thing as a side hobby.
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by jwells89 3y ago
And it’s not just Rust. I think there’s a handful of newer languages people would love to use for writing native desktop apps, but the frameworks and tooling aren’t there. For me that’s Swift. I don’t even need a UI framework that tries to

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