necovek

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by necovek 9mo ago
To separately answer the killer workflow: I'd love to reduce a number of devices, and another one might be an e-ink note taking screen to dock to (yes, I've got a reMarkable Paper Pro and Kindle Scribe). But other than docking to
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by necovek 9mo ago
But note that I am unlikely to get one today: with a drawer full of Linux phones (from Motorola A1200, Nokia N900 and N9, Palm Pre+, HP Pre 3, PinePhone, Meizu MX4 shipped with Ubuntu, and Nexus 4 running Ubuntu), I'd really be looking
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by necovek 9mo ago
I'd love it to be the other way around: Linux is native, and you can start an Android environment in the userland for the few Android apps I can't avoid :) I don't care about Windows, but it's useful if I want to deal wi
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by necovek 9mo ago
Yeah, Wayland might be simple, but the level of comfort I gained with inittab, systemV rc.d, xinit, .Xsession, Xconfig, inetd and everything else was mostly unmatched by anyone I've worked with (and honestly, serves me to this day). I&
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by necovek 9mo ago
As I said in another thread, I think the most valuable thing was that I was going for a system I am going to use as a daily driver (and then I did so throughout): VM gets you the safety that lets your focus wander, and you will, IMHO, miss
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by necovek 9mo ago
Obviously, it is full of options. But building something resembling probably the most common desktop/workstation distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora would be what I call "modern Linux stack".
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by necovek 9mo ago
Agreed! As an addendum, you have to do it for your actual working computer, otherwise, doing it on a VM or a machine you don't use, you won't be learning nearly as much as there is no pressure to make it truly work for you (this i
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by necovek 9mo ago
Having done it as a teenager as well when it showed up in 1999 myself, that's probably the sweet point when we are smart (and persistent) enough to figure problems out, but also have enough time to see it through! :D
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by necovek 9mo ago
This was probably the best thing I've done to learn the ins and outs of a running Linux system: I think it would be amazing to re-do it with a modern Linux stack (systemd + Wayland), but it can really remove all the "magic" f
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by necovek 9mo ago
That sounds like it would quickly become "skeleton crew" literally.
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by necovek 9mo ago
I think it is never: while we should be able to achieve more with less, smart people show up who can sell more stuff and everyone keeps their job?
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by necovek 9mo ago
It's amazing how some people seem to think that it is a competition in who is a bigger idiot.
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by necovek 10mo ago
> You can save thousands of people, but murdering someone still should mean a life sentence. Not if you murder someone to save a thousand people ;) (though you might still get one as you need to prove that there was no other way to save
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by necovek 10mo ago
Not really, governments have been encouraging family formation because it brings up new taxpayers since, well, forever. Which does not make single-living idea weird or dumb, ofc, but it makes it additionally expensive on top of the natural
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by necovek 10mo ago
Isn't this obvious? Yes, per-adult, multi-generation family homes are even more cost-effective than for couples (even accounting for smaller pensions compared to salaries), and both are more cost-effective compared to singles. Apart fr
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by necovek 10mo ago
Canonical releases an Ubuntu LTS release every two years: active is 24.04, next is coming in a few months as 26.04. LTS support runs for 5 years (there is extended support for 10 years available), so you can skip an LTS if you don't ne
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by necovek 10mo ago
Perhaps try a 5k/27" at 150%, or look for visual acuity correction :) FWIW, I could see jagged edges on 4k at 24" without subpixel rendering, 27" is worse. Yes, even 4k at 32" is passable with MacOS, but Linux looks
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by necovek 10mo ago
Agreed. I tried 24k 4k screen as soon as they came out (required two DP cables to run at 60Hz at the time), and turning subpixel rendering off, I could see jagged edges on fonts from normal sitting position (I am shortsighted, but at -3.25
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by necovek 10mo ago
It's not just that: bandwidth needed to drive things above 4k or 5k is already over the limits of HDMI 2.0 (and 2.1 without all the extensions). DisplayPort is a bit better with 1.4 already having enough bandwidth for 8k30Hz or 4k at 1
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by necovek 10mo ago
I believe menus were available "via API" since an a11y push in GNOME before 2.0 release (atk library and friends). What was impossible was to stop apps from showing the usual menu bar inside the window. Obviously, with something s
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by necovek 10mo ago
Since MacOS removed subpixel rendering a few years ago, regular resolution displays have terrible looking text in comparison to Windows or Linux. Gnome in Linux works great for a decade+ with a single high resolution screen, but there are c
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by necovek 10mo ago
As I said, you can either have better, cleaner architecture where the fact it's deployed to containers does not matter; or, you could decide not to deploy to containers if you are going to be breaking container boundaries in production
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by necovek 10mo ago
As someone who has gone through these phases already, we are endlessly optimizing around a non-problem: how about you instead focus on local development instead? Whatever the problem is with it (picking up system Python? drop /usr&#x2F
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by necovek 10mo ago
As mentioned in a sibling comment, weight might need to be accounted for too: thicker paper is more absorbant, but not linearly so. So really, how absorbant the paper is should be the gold standard, so let's ask manufacturers to put th
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by necovek 10mo ago
Certainly! But, if a 4-year old boy finds "there's more of them with bigger guns", and a general has a personal interest in hurting someone without you knowing that, you'd be unwise to not consider the words of the boy a
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by necovek 10mo ago
I did notice it, but had no trouble reading windowed on a large screen (43" 4K screen).
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by necovek 10mo ago
In my opinion, I can be a worst UX expert in the world, and I still reserve the right to criticize bad UX elsewhere: the fact that you are a bad "creator" does not mean that you are a stupid "user". Yes, it is a bit hypo
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by necovek 10mo ago
Ever since I first tried a modern Mac (around the time of M1 MacBook Pros with Max coming out: work mandated, or I wouldn't), I could easily see inconsistencies all around the system, and could never get to grips to why people cling to
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by necovek 10mo ago
Thanks for the details, really appreciated!
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by necovek 10mo ago
Their point was that Steam Deck is a gaming console with Linux on it.

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