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by reddalo 2y ago
The Italian version of Excel uses a custom CSV style with ; as a column separator. This breaks many applications that accept CSVs. It's super annoying.
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by reddalo 2y ago
Yes and no. You used to find niche websites more easily, but I vividly remember the frustration with ExpertsExchange results (with answers that were all paywalled).
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by reddalo 2y ago
>the additional cohesion from using OS primitives I miss using win32 software. It was the best: simple, quick to render, clean and information-dense. Now everything uses large "modern Windows" widgets or, even worse, Electron.
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by reddalo 2y ago
No, I know stacks and they're not them. In my case, new icons (e.g. downloads, files that I save, etc.) appear on top of each other, as if the desktop lost track of their position. It's clearly a bug that hasn't been fixed in
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by reddalo 2y ago
Office 2016? To me, the "last" version is Office 2003. Everything that came after is horrible (the ribbon? I still can't stand it).
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by reddalo 2y ago
I think peak Explorer was like back in Windows 98. Snappy and easy to use. With Windows 7 it became a mess with the ribbon thing. On Windows 11 it got even worse, it's slow.
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by reddalo 2y ago
Oh, I envy you, I have the exact opposite problem. Sometimes new icons start stacking up one over the other on the top right corner. If you try moving one of the icons anywhere, it snaps back to the top right corner right away. I haven&#x27
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by reddalo 2y ago
It's sad that the Usenet archive by Google doesn't have old binaries at all, and neither do all those "modern" services which are primarly used for piracy. I wonder how much software has been lost forever.
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by reddalo 2y ago
But at this point, why not switch to Firefox?
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by reddalo 2y ago
I think Firefox on Android could be better, but even in its current state is better than Chrome. The next step is start paying for Kagi...
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by reddalo 2y ago
I honestly think that Explorer on Windows 11 is way worse than Finder. But I'd love a FilePilot [1] for macOS... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43091466
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by reddalo 2y ago
It's interesting but also annoying because localized versions of macOS don't have the same shortcuts, or at least I cannot make them work. The main problem is that some special characters such as / are in a different key and
523.
by reddalo 2y ago
I think he benefitted from the Vitamin D, since he died at 101.
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by reddalo 2y ago
Unfortunate naming, given that CodeWeavers is already a company making a Windows "emulator" for Linux and macOS. [1] [1] https://www.codeweavers.com/
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by reddalo 2y ago
It's "design" baby.
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by reddalo 2y ago
I agree. It's not even "change for the sake of changing". This is "worsening a product for the sake of my own promotion" (or for justifying my role).
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by reddalo 2y ago
Be sure to use Firefox and "uBlock Origin", not Adblock.
528.
by reddalo 2y ago
I'd say it even works better than many common configuration filetypes such as YAML or INI.
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by reddalo 2y ago
> lack of support for trailing commas in JSON This, 100%! And the lack of comments.
530.
by reddalo 2y ago
Spoiler: it's not allowed. But until they get huge fines, they will continue doing that.
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by reddalo 2y ago
Telegram allows third-party clients however
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by reddalo 2y ago
I don't know if it has a name, but Scott Galloway's "The Four" describes this phenomenon as the reason why people love their Apple phones and computers so much; they're overpriced products, so they must love them in
533.
by reddalo 2y ago
> Call your representatives This is a very US-style approach; nobody calls their "representatives" in Europe, unluckily.
534.
by reddalo 2y ago
It's even worse for us of the rest of the world, because the United States influence the whole world, and we can't do anything against this tragedy.
535.
by reddalo 2y ago
And it hasn't really changed since '07 (and I say this in a very positive way).
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by reddalo 2y ago
Well, they've recently change the default font to Aptos, so we're probably going to see these stories come up again soon.
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by reddalo 2y ago
I agree, the naming is unfortunate. DateTime would have been way better.
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by reddalo 2y ago
Speaking of self hosting, Codeberg [1] is great. It's open and it looks and behaves pretty much like GitHub (unlike GitLab). [1] https://codeberg.org/
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by reddalo 2y ago
I highly suggest Immich [1], it's an open-source and self-host alternative for Google Photos. It's still under very active development, but I think it's the best out there. [1] https://immich.app/
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by reddalo 2y ago
I still don't understand why operating systems can't properly work without a screen. I have a Linux "home server" and I haven't found a way to boot up a graphical session with everything working (there were bugs in

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