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by jwells89 2y ago
I started in the mid-90s, and though I didn’t use 95 much I did use 98SE (which is aesthetically very similar to 95) and 2000 plenty. For releases with the classic Windows look, I think 2000 is best. It makes a few refinements to the theme
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by jwells89 2y ago
GNOME resembles macOS in that it's not yet another Win9X-like desktop, but that's about where it ends. Its closest commercial cousin is probably iPadOS, even though that's not what the GNOME devs were trying for. While it&#x2
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by jwells89 2y ago
I think this would be a great feature, though faithfully reproducing a Mac desktop will likely be difficult, between making Command/Meta-based key shortcuts consistent through the system and making sure the global menubar actually gets
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by jwells89 2y ago
> There's an enormous number of Windows users who hate Microsoft's changes to the Windows GUI and wish they could still run XP or 7. The Windows 7 UI has aged pretty well too, even if the glossy visuals have become somewhat out
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by jwells89 2y ago
Something that isn't clear to me is why there has to be a hard divide between CSD and SSD. Is there anything in the Wayland spec that prevents UI frameworks from saying, "hey windowmanager/compositor, here's where contro
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by jwells89 2y ago
That would be a useful feature, so long as there's some associated UI that makes it obvious that the feature is active along with an easy way to toggle it off. Seems like it could be one of those features that users accidentally trigge
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by jwells89 2y ago
Yeah, many years ago I ran a crunchbang-style setup with openbox and tint2 and while the low resource usage and customizability was great, it was irritating having to find and set up daemons, tray items, etc (all of which seemingly coming w
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by jwells89 2y ago
Might give them a try when I get the chance, but I'm skeptical that those will be much better than tiling for my usage, particularly as someone who prefers a centered main monitor and angled secondary monitor over ultrawides.
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by jwells89 2y ago
I've never been able to make tiling-first environments work for me (even if they have a floating mode). Things that aren't terminals or text editors tend to not tile well, particularly on smaller screens, and using them entails a
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by jwells89 2y ago
You’re also not stuck with the official client and all of its decisions like with Signal. In addition to the official Qt and Swift/Cocoa Telegram clients, you can find third party clients written in WinUI and GTK as well as a CLI clien
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by jwells89 2y ago
The impression I get is that there's a substantial appetite for experimentation with (and attention for in general for) macOS among Mac fans that hasn't been satisfied since iOS began to suck all the air out of the room many years
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by jwells89 2y ago
The shuttle program had several problems, but perhaps the biggest was something of a "design by committee" issue. Too many interested parties wanted it to do too many things, making it somewhere between bad and mediocre at all of
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by jwells89 2y ago
It was nice. As long as you weren't doing something totally inadvisable like using IE 7 or something, things generally worked fine. Blink, Gecko, WebKit, whatever. Even random tiny FOSS browser projects wrapping somewhat outdated build
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by jwells89 2y ago
Built in JSON encoding/decoding is one of the things I’ve enjoyed about Swift. It’s nice when it’s not necessary to shop around for libraries for common needs like that.
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by jwells89 2y ago
The thing I worry about with replacement of SFSafariViewController is if the replacement will replicate its behavior of making each app's instance its own separate little world that keeps random apps from being to easily stick its hand
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by jwells89 2y ago
I’ve gotten that banner on Maps and YouTube too. Super irritating, and to me should be subject to just as much regulatory scrutiny as default browser on iOS has been. Google writing their web apps in ways that favor Blink/Chrome should
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by jwells89 2y ago
Also prefer Xcode. As long as you stay away from XIBs and Storyboards it’s more responsive than Android Studio. And yeah, if you let a project lapse on gradle and library updates for any length of time at all be prepared for a fight to get
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by jwells89 2y ago
My reason is that frameworks are generally more wide and deep than can be found elsewhere. It’s not difficult at all to build a polished app with nothing but Swift and AppKit/UIKit, with few or no third party libraries, which is increa
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by jwells89 2y ago
It has to do with what the resulting model is used for. It gets particularly dodgy if its commercial usage, because most if not all of the data used for training wasn’t licensed for that, making for a “laundering” effect. Though I also thin
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by jwells89 2y ago
Artists are increasingly souring on Photoshop and looking for alternatives in response to the increasing presence of generative AI in it, so in some capacity, yes it is.
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by jwells89 2y ago
One’s mortgage payment in even a moderate cost of living area can quickly go from manageable to difficult or impossible if something suddenly curbs their earning potential, and barring a lucky break that pays the mortgage off, this possibil
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by jwells89 2y ago
Not something I have experience with so can’t speak to that.
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by jwells89 2y ago
The explanation I’ve read in the past is that the difference lies in how VLC was initially focused on playback of video streamed over a network (hence the name Video LAN Client ), which was generally more rocky a couple decades ago when th
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by jwells89 2y ago
This has always worked well for me, handling anything that’s thrown at it with ease. Things may have changed since then, but when I first encountered the project several years ago it seemed like the thing that made this project stand out co
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by jwells89 2y ago
That makes a lot of sense, and I agree. Perhaps a good baseline to develop against today to produce a similar result on modern hardware would be something like a Core 2 Duo or Core i5-750 and Geforce 9600 GT.
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by jwells89 2y ago
Seems like this could be fixed by a system setting that disables automatic graphic switching which can be controlled by power profiles. That way the user can set the machine to use iGPU only when on battery, regardless of what programs want
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by jwells89 2y ago
It might also be good to mandate 10+ hours of battery life when the laptop is in power saving mode. A number of laptops that'd otherwise have decent battery life are hampered by things like half-baked power management of discrete GPUs
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by jwells89 2y ago
Mac OS 9 felt pretty darned fast on my 400Mhz iMac G3 back in 2000. Same for Windows 2000 on my parents’ PIII 750Mhz Dimension 4100. The only time anything felt slow is when a significant amount of data needed to be loaded from their hard d
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by jwells89 2y ago
Don’t know if Sony counts as a “tier 1” manufacturer, but Xperias still have SD card slots as well as headphone jacks.
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by jwells89 2y ago
I don’t have much to add, not having any experience as a parent, but wanted to say that it may be wise to take care in applying pressure in this situation. Some people (including myself) have a tendency to retreat into games when feeling ov

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