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by kps 1y ago
Better than Gnome, but that's not a high standard. It's a mess, but KDE at least wants to improve things, with the ‘Union’ project — https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2025-02/moving-kdes...
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by kps 1y ago
A test would be to compare against technology-oriented subreddits where there isn't money on the table.
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by kps 1y ago
Back on the original Macintosh, which was a single-tasking system, there were special keyboard shortcuts that bypassed the current application and invoked system functions. Command-Shift-1 ejected a floppy from drive 1, …2 from drive 2, and
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by kps 1y ago
I don't want a phone, I want a pocket computer (with connectivity).
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by kps 1y ago
And I'll be happy to see Dolphin get decent keyboard navigation.
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by kps 1y ago
I've been using Tellico for some years. Normally I scan the ISBN and have it look up the rest of the book data.
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by kps 2y ago
I'm now reminded of an unrelated mini-vi: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/1991/ant/ant...
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by kps 2y ago
And that I suspect originates with ASCII Control-H = backspace (cursor left), Control-J = line feed (cursor down). Control-K and Control-L don't match but weren't so important that they couldn't be repurposed by an early disp
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by kps 2y ago
This is a geographical difference. North American market dishwashers don't typically have that; people use whole-dwelling water softeners that feed all washers (including human).
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by kps 2y ago
“We believe you should be able to hack on your own property, but if you do it's not our fault if something breaks.” — https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/refer...
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by kps 2y ago
Piggybacking: for computers , what is a good epub viewer? What I'm personally looking for: - Linux and/or OS X - No ‘import’ requirement (a viewer, not a collection manager) - Single page or continuous (no forced double spread)
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by kps 2y ago
ACCESS.bus by Philips (who developed I²C) and DEC, and the DEC variant SERIAL.bus (with different voltage levels) used by their keyboards and mice for a little while.
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by kps 2y ago
This is the only “Trackball Mouse” I know of: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Mighty_Mouse_W... It's a pretty small trackball.
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by kps 2y ago
I want a *nix laptop around 6″–7″, with a modem and GPS.
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by kps 2y ago
[Removed by Reddit]
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by kps 2y ago
I use ellipses & dashes… perhaps the former will convince people I am human.
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by kps 2y ago
It's very easy¹ on MacOS to make yourself a custom layout with the characters you commonly use. Personally, I put arrows on ⌥⇧HJKL, vi-style.² (Doing so for Linux is a little more work, as xkb is more complicated and less capable.) ¹
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by kps 2y ago
That is a Data General 6053, aka Dasher D2, terminal, with a trackball spliced in place of the number pad. The D2 was introduced in 1977, same year as the Apple II.
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by kps 2y ago
Fun fact: Vim ^K sequences follow RFC1345, but nobody else does.
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by kps 2y ago
Many keyboards don't have AltGraph and many layouts use it poorly.
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by kps 2y ago
X? Wake me when Wayland's director of engineering resigns.
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by kps 2y ago
The C alternative for the Fortran COMMON block.
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by kps 2y ago
Preprint of the main paper on pubmed: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10246135/ They rule out the objections in your top post — as well as whether people chose to get the vaccine, which would be a huge co
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by kps 2y ago
“Don’t anthropomorphize computers — they hate it.” — Andrew McAfee (no, not that one)
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by kps 2y ago
First person to get a postgraduate degree in CS. I still miss his satirical writing.
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by kps 2y ago
> … hacked my Sun 3/60 L1-A to bring up the boot monitor. Search memory for `/bin/login` and replace with `bin/ed`. Enter any file name as your ‘user’ name, or just junk, and use `!sh`. (Amazing what you remember from
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by kps 2y ago
> I've never looked in to why this is happens. Toronto. Low bidder. We're sorry.
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by kps 2y ago
If the US leadership hadn't started threatening Canada, there would almost certainly¹ have been a government open to cutting trade barriers by the end of the year. Canadians haven't been thrilled with some of our protected oligopo
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by kps 2y ago
Should also toll the ‘shortcut’ between Detroit and Buffalo for foreign high-axle-weight vehicles like transport trucks and maybe some electric cars.
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by kps 2y ago
> This is why Apple didn't have to do battle with the Beatles until they got into the music business. That went back to the Apple IIɢꜱ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi

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