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by jwells89 2y ago
Yep. While Sidebery, TST, etc have done about as well as they can given the limitations of extensions, the resulting vertical tab experience is half-baked without userChrome mods. It's also still kinda janky even with the mods unless
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by jwells89 2y ago
Overall, GPU strength is the best it's ever been in portable Apple devices by a significant margin. The problem isn't the hardware, it's that game developers are reticent to support anything that's not x86 Windows+Direct
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by jwells89 2y ago
Really depends on how batteries develop, in my opinion. If we see a jump in energy density and charging speeds that allows e.g. a VW Golf sized car to have a range of 400-500 miles (with larger vehicles with larger batteries being able to g
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by jwells89 2y ago
> Every US launch site is next to a de facto or a de jure wildlife refuge. Yes, this is difficult to avoid for various reasons, perhaps the most pertinent being that all the safest places to launch things from are along coastlines where
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by jwells89 2y ago
As someone who's spent a large amount of time in Beat Saber I think half the problem is that as good as VR headsets have gotten since the introduction of the original Rift, they're still full of compromises. None of them do everyt
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by jwells89 2y ago
For games that old the most trouble-free option is probably a Windows 2000 or XP VM using some VM software that offers graphics acceleration.
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by jwells89 2y ago
Particularly if you want to play with a controller (as is common for a living room/couch setup). Windows somehow has the worst controller support out of all operating systems (including mobile OSes) and if it weren't for Valve pat
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by jwells89 2y ago
App bloat really is out of control, to the point that I wonder if maybe Apple shouldn't somehow incentivize developers to minimize bundle size and resource consumption. Maybe well-crafted, efficient apps get an "eco friendly"
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by jwells89 2y ago
I've noticed overall improvements in responsiveness as well as the number of apps that can stay in memory without some getting evicted, though the latter is most noticeable when using smaller indie sorts of apps (think Ivory for Mastod
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by jwells89 2y ago
I've seen a few blogposts on the subject over the years but wouldn't be able to reference any of them on short notice. In short though, frameworks like SwiftUI tend to be designed around a very narrow set of use cases and if yours
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by jwells89 2y ago
> I can't speak for the author, but many systems programmers look at declarative/markup-based UI as a kind of black magic that you can't trust and that will get in your way sooner or later by not leaving a sane way for you
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by jwells89 2y ago
I use the Pocket functionality pretty frequently, it's nice for tossing articles and other things I'd like to read over to the Kobo from whatever I happen to be using at the moment.
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by jwells89 2y ago
QA for iOS has slipped in recent years, but I feel that’s a different matter. The issues I have with Android aren’t bugs, it’s more like odd choices for things like animation timing curves and nitty gritty things like that. Bugs aside, it f
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by jwells89 2y ago
Ideally, you want a screen that natively runs at a resolution that’s a perfect 2x multiplier of a mainstream 1x resolution that has the right amount of screen real estate for the screen size. So for example, a 20”-24” screen should be 4K so
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by jwells89 2y ago
Even when expanding scope to include laptops that run Linux well despite not officially supporting it, the selection available still have major issues, whether they be with build quality, screen panel quality, battery life, standby time, sl
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by jwells89 2y ago
The thing that keeps me on iOS is that Android just doesn’t feel right, and none of the tweaks that can be applied (launchers, etc) can fix that. Animations, interactions, etc just feel… off somehow, like I’m using an early alpha build of
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by jwells89 2y ago
It’s kinda tough, because a clean-cut, coherent vision of how the OS is intended to be used is necessary to build a great experience. The more you try to accommodate ways of usage beyond that, the more the vision falls apart and you end up
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by jwells89 2y ago
I’m not sure that they’re an unknown concept, because macOS has lots of little things tucked away all over the place for power users. It’s one of the things I miss most when using other desktops, particularly those that go maybe a little to
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by jwells89 2y ago
I think there’s probably small but strong market for “Linux MacBooks”, as in laptops with the same or better level of fit and finish and attention put towards things like battery life, standby time, reliable sleep/wake, etc and are des
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by jwells89 2y ago
I think you're right in that the trend started with Outlook, but at least for a while Microsoft offered an opt-out in the form of Outlook Express, which was just a mail client. My preference is that email and calendar are two entirel
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by jwells89 2y ago
I agree that using FreeBSD as the base OS probably isn't necessary, but it does make sense if they're trying to provide an alternative to macOS, with the macOS userland much more closely resembling FreeBSD's than GNU's.
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by jwells89 2y ago
> If I were them I’d just port one of the many macOS looking desktop environments like whatever ElementsryOS or PopOS uses to FreeBSD and build from there. That’s obviously more productive, but productivity can be boring because it’s rea
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by jwells89 2y ago
Totally true that it's not possible to catch all edge cases, but I don't think it's a strong enough reason to rule out user theming/customization altogether, plus as mentioned parameterization should be done anyway for g
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by jwells89 2y ago
To me, this is a big argument as to why devs should be making heavy use of parameterized values their UIs, as opposed to hardcoding things. An app making as much use of parameterized values as possible will not only remain decent looking an
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by jwells89 2y ago
Not the OP, but while my X1 Nano runs Linux beautifully, its CPU and battery life are disappointing and it’s a bit on the slow side when unplugged, because getting what little battery life it’s capable of requires putting it in throttled do
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by jwells89 2y ago
On top of no special casing for the terminal, I find the meta key (as positioned on Mac keyboards, to the left/right of space) easier to reach than the standard Control position. That’s also addressed by replacing Caps Lock with Contro
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by jwells89 2y ago
Having packages land in that goldilocks zone of not cutting edge but not old either is particularly pertinent for multiplatform users. It can get annoying trying to keep everything pinned on macs and windows boxes to match distros that are
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by jwells89 2y ago
There's a fair deal of resources for writing code-only UIs in iOS apps with UIKit, but not nearly as much for Mac AppKit apps. I suspect that this is because the average Mac window/view nib file is a great deal less complex than i
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by jwells89 2y ago
When IB really went downhill is when it got merged into Xcode, in my opinion. Performance and stability took a big hit and it never fully recovered.
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by jwells89 2y ago
Elementary's aesthetics are in the right place, but Pantheon is probably too closely coupled with GNOME to allow the degree of freedom such a group would desire. Depending on GTK, which has become well known for pulling rugs from under

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