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by markstos 6y ago
Odd to describe a survival instinct as "crazy". Humans continuing on a path towards climate catastrophe when we know better, that's crazy.
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by markstos 6y ago
THIS. I accidentally left a meeting multiple times because the Google Meet icon order is reversed between Android and Web. What were they thinking? Using either order consistently would be better than changing the order between apps!
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by markstos 6y ago
After using Ubuntu for over a decade, I switched to Arch Linux. If you exclude the duplicated architecture packages in the Ubuntu repos and include the community-maintained packages, Arch has more packages new packages seem to commonly avai
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by markstos 6y ago
If you aren't volunteering, don't be surprised that other people aren't either.
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by markstos 6y ago
For Lastpass, I use a Rofi-based frontend on Linux. A keybinding pops up a search box, I search for the entry I want and paste it into Qutebrowser. I like that it works outside the browser-- so I can unlock it once and works across all brow
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by markstos 6y ago
I added the patch for the `--desktop-file-name` flag. It's useful for profile management on Linux. I wrote up a comparison of a couple profile managers for Qutebrowser here: https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser&#x2
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by markstos 6y ago
This. It's one thing to be left or right leaning. It's another to continue to attack the democratic process after dozens of court cases have found an election to be fair and claims unsubstantiated. What was widespread was the all
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by markstos 6y ago
It doesn't have to be either/or. Google has funded "Summer of Code" and other education-related initiatives.
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by markstos 6y ago
Easy? Markdown was based on people already using " " for bulleted lists, /slashes/ for italics and bold* in plaintext email. People were writing valid Markdown before it was invented. It doesn't easier than that. N
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by markstos 6y ago
I recently audited how equitable some funds spend on new sidewalks had been in Bloomington, Indiana. In the process I found that one column in the project ranking spreadsheet had been sorted in the wrong order for the last five years. This
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by markstos 6y ago
A bit like calling it an "accident" when a speeding driver runs over a pedestrian. That's not an "oops", it's a preventable crash.
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by markstos 6y ago
I believe the software has to take advantage of the GPU. The `foot` terminal renders on the CPU instead of the GPU, but beats GPU-accelerated `alacritty` anyway due to other effiency hacks described on their Performance page: https:/
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by markstos 6y ago
alacritty offers that as well.
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by markstos 6y ago
`xterm` lacks Wayland support-- a more secure alternative to X11. For a fast terminal with Wayland support, check out `alacritty` or foot: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot `foot` (foo terminal) benchmarks faster than ala
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by markstos 6y ago
There's also a counterculture of projects that are lightweight alternatives: Sway as a lightweight window manager (among many lightweight WMs), musl vs libc, libressl vs openssl, gemini vs http, Alpine Linux vs Ubuntu, Alacritty as a b
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by markstos 6y ago
Qutebrowser has an "all tabs are windows" mode, along with the ability to hide all the "chrome", so the window manager can handle the tabs.
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by markstos 6y ago
I would say the "sauce" as in their willingness to support more hardware. Much of the "driver" support comes from Linux, and Linux already runs on the devices that Cloudready supports. It the re-use of old hardware that
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by markstos 6y ago
If the CloudReady and Chrome OS Linux distros really merge, both could benefit. CloudReady never included Android apps due to licensing issues. A merger could bring Android apps to more devices. Also, CloudReady added native support for ins
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by markstos 6y ago
I give Google some credit as a larger company to try experiments that fail. Big companies can be come slow-moving risk-adverse creatures that avoid failures by not taking risks.
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by markstos 6y ago
It's more like RedHat acquiring CentOS, but yes that's a legitimate concern. I've used CloudReady to turn old laptops that would otherwise be junked into Chromebooks, adding years to their life for family members that needed
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by markstos 6y ago
Share benchmarks of your setup then.
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by markstos 6y ago
Any product which contains an non-removable battery eventually "just dies" whether it costs $550 and is made by Apple or not. Decades-old Bose QC 15 headphones still work because the battery is replaceable. Pop in some new ear cus
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by markstos 6y ago
Adding a sentence to explain how ARM "saves the planet" would perhaps be more effective than a hash tag. I presume you are referring to lower typical power consumption for ARM servers.
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by markstos 6y ago
At least on AWS, it's slightly cheaper to deploy ARM servers. Look for this problem to also get solved on the server side by more ARM servers being put into production.
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by markstos 6y ago
Darcs has a great UX. Please to use and still powerful. It inspired some small parts of the Git UX like the `--patch` mode for `git commit`. The author of Darcs, David Roundy realized that Git was going to dominate so started a "best o
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by markstos 6y ago
The AI should be fixed or abandoned in the long term, but it seems a single hat could have made this game much more bearable to watch. Immediate fix now, better long term solution later.
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by markstos 6y ago
In this case it seems someone could have asked the referee to wear a hat for the reminder of the game, but no one did. This isn't just a "bad AI" problem, it's failure to plan for a "Plan B" in case automated b
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by markstos 6y ago
Nice progress, but it notes that `systemd` doesn't work, which means all the things that depend on `systemd` won't work either.
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by markstos 6y ago
No one got the guy a hat?
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by markstos 6y ago
I recently switched to Sway on Wayland. Sway has good dynamic output configuration. `wl-clipboard` and `wl-paste` are there for CLI clipboard access. There's a rofi fork that works on Wayland, and can also emulate `dmenu`. `clipman` is

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