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by lproven 10mo ago
> I really think GNOME is good at making an interface that works well on both, I agree with the comment from @zak on this. I have to disagree. I have used GNOME (both GNOME Mobile and Phosh) on phones, and it makes more sense there, but
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by lproven 10mo ago
darmok := jalad[talaka]
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by lproven 10mo ago
> Except everything that runs on electricity has a CPU nowadays This is true but it totally misses the real point. The point is that most "smart" devices could be perfectly functional and usable with a Z80 or a 6502 or some oth
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by lproven 10mo ago
No. It means bombs. It means bombing the fabs to stop them falling into Chinese hands.
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by lproven 10mo ago
Hi there. Register writer here, and personal friend of the author of this piece. It is a joke. You missed the joke. What the sentence means is "America's policy is that if China takes over Taiwan, it will bomb TSMC's chip fab
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by lproven 10mo ago
I think they meant Digital Rights Management, but it's only a guess.
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by lproven 10mo ago
OpenSUSE Leap 16 has Wayland-only Xfce 4.20, using LabWC as the WM/compositor. It works but keyboard-driven window management is broken: LabWC doesn't understand the standard (i.e. Windows) keystrokes.
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by lproven 10mo ago
> In Gnome, can I move the UI elements to locations I want them in? No. > Or are we still in a situation where it's opinionated and you have to seek plugins to get an experience that you actually want? Yes, 100%. COSMIC feels lik
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by lproven 10mo ago
> Hancock talks about ... a load of made-up absolutely drivel. Just in case anyone out there was in any doubt whatsoever. I've read a little of his stuff, but more to the point seen him speak live, and that was enough to quickly tel
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by lproven 10mo ago
He and Lukas Tyrchtyr did a talk (in English) about accessibility at Devconf.cz a couple of years ago. I mentioned it and linked to it here: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/new_gnome_director/ It&
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by lproven 10mo ago
FWIW I submitted this last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288095
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by lproven 10mo ago
> dual monitor setups that aren't the same. Absolutely categorically false: I daily-drove such a config on openSUSE for 4 years, 9-5 Mon-Fri. One portrait, one landscape: fine. 2 portrait flanking one landscape: fine. Laptop + 2 ext
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by lproven 10mo ago
Yep, pretty much. Windows/386 could do that in 1987, but not many people bought it. Power users had DESQview/386 or something similar. If IBM had listened to Microsoft, OS/2 1.0 could have done that in 1987 too... and then I
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by lproven 10mo ago
I own an Amiga but I was never an Amiga user back in the day. I can just about navigate Intuition though. I would love an AmigaOS desktop environment to run under AmiWM to make a Linux box feel like a Miggy. I'm puzzled it's cleve
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by lproven 10mo ago
That review: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/09/desktop_classic_syste...
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by lproven 10mo ago
This is a very interesting distro. I'm working on a review. I feel it merits a bit more attention.
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by lproven 10mo ago
> The span from my thumb to my pinky in a “measuring position” is 20 cm 26 cm for me. I can stretch to 27 cm quite easily, though. > The length of my “thumbs up” hand is 16 cm. 18 cm. > The width of my fist is 10 cm Same. > The
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by lproven 10mo ago
I am glad I came back and reread this -- I misunderstood it as thumb to middle finger at first, and thought it incredibly tiny. Index to middle finger is 15cm for me, without stretching uncomfortably, and thumb to little finger ("pinky
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by lproven 10mo ago
Oh my. I am not sure I'm the man. Executive summary: 286 protected mode gave you 16 MB of memory space, but it still had mandatory segments. Usable but it needed hard work and careful thought. IIRC, that is why the 286 version of MCW C
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by lproven 10mo ago
* stationery :-) Unless you have mobile paper shops. Could be handy, but seems a bit niche.
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by lproven 10mo ago
> I am not familiar with how to quote back here. What @crconrad said. Well, that's how I do it, anyway. I'm fairly used to doing it since quoting is broken in the majority of webmail apps and web fora anyway. Even Gmail removed
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by lproven 10mo ago
(Copying my own comment from Lobsters, because I wondered why this didn't show up on here.) It's interesting to me that this story hasn't had a lot of reaction. It is the reason that Linux exists. It's the reason BSD cam
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by lproven 10mo ago
Dupe -- more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426614
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by lproven 10mo ago
There were at least 2 separate and independent TV series, but I highly recommend going to the original: the 2 later novels from Douglas Adams, after he wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by lproven 10mo ago
I agree. I wrote an article saying so about 9 months ago. As a little Yule gift, one of the creators wrote me a hatemail at Xmas telling me he still remembered and it still burned and what a bad person I was. Well, he got his own back. I wa
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by lproven 10mo ago
> https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity is just that, except it's a whole OS that's Win2k styled. It's a Unix underneath, though. A strange modernised Unix written in C++ but it's definitely Uni
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by lproven 10mo ago
Same here. I have a physical copy of Word 97, although TBH I use the classic licence key 11111-111111111 to "activate" it because it's easier. It runs fine under WINE, and you can install the 3 service packs for it too. As re
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by lproven 10mo ago
I do not know where you are in the world but in the homeland of the English language, Britain and most of its direct (former!) colonies, "petrol" is the stuff cars and motorbikes run on and "diesel" is the stuff agricult
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by lproven 10mo ago
Elementary OS does look superficially Apple-like, but on closer inspection, there's no menu bar, which is a core element of the macOS UI. So actually it's more like iPadOS on the desktop: apps generally only have hamburger menus,
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by lproven 10mo ago
> I am absolutely blown away to have the author of AppImage (Probono) partnering with me :-) > which eventually brought me to making FuryBSD for a short time. Ahaaaa. I did not realise that. Perhaps you should mention that in a FAQ or

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