n0tinventedhere

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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
>It is meant for persistent user configuration, possibly generated by the app - the type you might want to back up. You are not supposed to understand or be able to read every file in there, just be able to know the usage. I understand y
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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
I find it easier to exclude all .* from the rsync I do to synchronize documents/data etc, and exclusively manage the dotfiles through another program, homeshick, where instead of making exclusions, I make explicit inclusions. The confi
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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
> - ~/.config/foo -- only you write files here, so it's your detritus, not the program's :) That's not true. > ls ~/.config/cef_user_data/Dictionaries > en-US-9-0.bdic That's a dictionar
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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
I agree with you there. I don't remember which it was, but one of the runtimes managers (was it pyenv, rvm or nvm?) wrote to my .bashrc and .zshrc without asking for permission to do so, instead of just telling me the locations it want
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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
I live in France, and WhatsApp has a pretty big presence. Not a monopoly style one though, there's plenty of other apps used: Facebook Messenger, Skype, Snapchat, Discord.. I have friends who have family in other countries and some dif
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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
I didn't have websites outright breaking on FF like solardev, but I had other issues with it, like cloudflare getting me into an infinite loop of asking me if I'm human and not letting me browse the website. This happened even if
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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
I find it amazing how people forget that being a monopolistic power doesn't help if your product sucks: Google has, time and time again, failed to gain traction in the messaging app market on Android, the market being entirely occupied
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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
> so Firefox is faster than chrome Faster on sunspider. In practice, on real web pages, as someone who occasionally browses the web using a low end tablet PC (Surface Go 2 with linux. The CPU is downright anemic but good enough for treat
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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
I can tell you from doing testing on Edge back when it represented a potential third engine to support: that browser crashed a lot. It was very unreliable prior to switching to becoming another chromium fork. It is clear the dev team was ei
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by n0tinventedhere 3y ago
Gnome always had this problem of spreading thin instead of focusing. Lots of little tiny irrelevant apps just to have something to stamp a Gnome branding on. But even people who are really hardcore about using a Gnome desktop don't use