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KDE desktop cube effect returns(phoronix.com)
199 points by leidenfrost 3y ago|109 comments
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
I'm sure it looks miles better with a CRT
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Is it me? Or did Linux become boring from a hobbyist perspective? Exploring the system was fun as f*ck in a geeky way. Now I just go the fastest route to a Kde install
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Apple showed them that an ARM desktop is totally possible. And also that making the pi 2x or 3x times faster would make a great arm linux desktop. It's more like they're expanding their top line.
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
> I also think they believe they know better than their users on what they need when they really don't This. They have this kind of Apple syndrome of belittling use feedback, minus the part of being a billion dollar megacorporation
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
It's a lot more understandable if you consider the state of computing he experienced while growing up: Programs were way simpler, and shipping the source code in paper was the de facto way of distribution. It's not like he was a w
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
> And lastly, how about you open up your very own market to everyone by lifting protectionist taxes I'm sure that this is the only thing preventing cheap chinese and indian labor to stomp over all the overpriced EU market.
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
You know? This canned argument is being used in countries other than the us. At first, I thought it did happen there, but it can't just be imported elsewhere. Now this article gives me the idea that this is not an accurate assesment of
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
I only see it used that way in the US, where everyone is obsessed with race Elsewhere, it's just used in its original meaning
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Yup, and you have to be pretty lucky to hit the nail in the head on your choice of vocation and profession. A lot of people diversify, which is good for the mind, but bad if you have to compete for success. Other people choose very unforgiv
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Younger generations are more engaged in Twitch streams, talking to each other while a central person, doing as "presentator", streams video.
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Maybe, once you take out the rose colored glasses, the past internet wasn't so great? I remember being a kid and having a blast on the 2000's internet, but it was really hard to bump into a really good site. Tbh most of them were
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Obligatory blog entry made by Alyssa when dissecting the M1 GPU hardware: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
I made my lunch the day before and carried it on a small tupperware (how are these called?) Wasn't as great as fresh food but at least I made sure it was healthy.
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Another (unrelated) problem with Remote work is how harder is to lose weight when you stop moving throughout the day. Before the pandemic, I usually got up to make coffee, to ask for help or to make consensus with my fellow coworkers (other
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XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down(phoronix.com)
28 points by leidenfrost 3y ago|8 comments
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
My experience with LFS is checking a few makefiles, the doing ./configure && male && make install because I got tired os checking everything by hand. Personally, gentoo is nice because, once you know your way, you can
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Haha you're right. I was mistaken.
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Depends on how you define "noticeable". If you can measure a small enough distance, you can see the lensing effect of any object.
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Totally unrelated, but since we are talking about QOL tools on macOS, i thoroughly recommend BetterDisplay[0] It enables reting scaling functionality on any external monitor, regardless of the resolution or the Apple compatibility. It'
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
And, tbh, at least MacOS has Independent Virtual Desktops per monitor. I'd sell my soul to have that on KDE
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
This. Macbooks are okayish computers but terrific laptops. The MBP shines in things like screen quality, performance per watt and integration between every part of the laptop. And it doesn't take much knowledge to tweak things a little
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
It's not "bad". It's that it's very opinionated towards its real target: Designers, "high level" developers (e.g. web), and office 365 users. Of course it won't do the trick if you want to do somethin
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
The problem is that first world labor is totally overpriced and their lifestyle is simply unsustainable. 20 years ago it "could" be justified by selling the idea that American or European labor is light years away in terms of qual
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The mysterious origin of the Windows XP Autumn wallpaper(youtube.com)
3 points by leidenfrost 3y ago|1 comments
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
I like that specific loment of learning when you are using your usual tool but at one point you ask yourself "is this tool really neccesary? I think I'm using it because habit more than real utility"
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
There's a free course in Coursera called "Learning How to Learn" and it radically changed how I view learning and education in general. I wish I knew about this when I was a teen. If I take a valuable nugget of information ab
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Windows is a behemoth of legacy protocols, abandoned projects, and software support that ranges from bleeding edge gaming hardware to obscure ancient machines required by long term support partners and investors. Devs at MS have to make eve
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
Not only that. It's not Wirth's Law. It's the fact that manpower can't keep up with the exploding amount of complexity and use cases that happened to computing in the last decades. We went from CLI commands and a few gra
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by leidenfrost 3y ago
There was a small accordion in some Google search results that opened around ~1 second after the results page was loaded and I think it was the most infuriating thing ever. And we are talking about Google here.

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