sombragris

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by sombragris 8mo ago
Call human existence "wasteful" is the epitome of hubris and incredibly dehumanizing. Shows what's on the mind of many Silicon Valley exec types.
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by sombragris 8mo ago
Agreed. LibreOffice's sane WIMP interface is a feature, not a bug, when the alternative is to use those horrid ribbon-like interfaces.
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by sombragris 8mo ago
> Meta confirmed that users attempting to access messaging services via Messenger.com on desktop computers after the shutdown date will be automatically redirected to Facebook.com/messages to continue their conversations So this is
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by sombragris 8mo ago
According to TFA, the company is identified as a SA; this could be an identifier for a société anonyme (SA) (in French) or sociedad anónima (SA) (in Spanish), which is the equivalent of a share corporation. The acronym is also valid for
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by sombragris 8mo ago
I had to put a window above the page on top of that blinking cursor in the header so I could read the text. It was extremely annoying, to put it mildly. Then I saw the footer, with other blinking cursor and a scrolling line thrown in for go
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by sombragris 8mo ago
I clearly remember his covers and being inspired and stimulated by them. RIP Mr. Tinney, thanks for your great art.
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by sombragris 8mo ago
There's a "footnote video" with slightly more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CowQzSVKr8c
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by sombragris 8mo ago
There's also Algol 68 Genie (a68g), a GPLv3 Algol 68 compiler and interpreter: https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.algol-68-genie.html
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by sombragris 8mo ago
My current phone is a (Xiaomi) POCO M4 Pro. It has both an IR port and a 3.5mm jack. It's a great device, although it doesn't support 5G. Sometimes, when the remote is too far, I control my TV with it.
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by sombragris 10mo ago
Thanks! Merry Christmas for OP and all of you, too. Have a holiday season full of blessings!
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by sombragris 10mo ago
Very OT, and this betrays my age, but... When I saw "Perfect Software" in the title, I thought it referred to Perfect Software, the developer who produced the Perfect Writer word processor, Perfect Calc spreadsheet, and Perfect Fi
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by sombragris 10mo ago
I'm not implying at all that every game company should develop their own in-house engine. But maybe, just maybe, they could request Epic or Unity to optimize their engines better for the lower end.
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by sombragris 10mo ago
I fail to see how my comment could be construed as being pro-monopoly. There are a huge number of onboard GPUs being left out of even minimum requirements for most recent games. I'm just saying that maybe this situation could led game
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by sombragris 10mo ago
> The amount of care and talent is unmatched in my professional career, and they are often working from incomplete (and changing) specifications towards a fixed deadline across multiple hardware targets. I fully agree and I really admire
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by sombragris 10mo ago
I submit most people had better luck than you and stayed silent. The fringe cases are the most vocal ones in their complaints. Of course, this is not implying that your experience is not true or less valid.
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by sombragris 10mo ago
> I do know it's rare to open an existing .docx in LibreOffice and have it look right; who knows what it looks like in Word after I've edited and saved it. This is not true except as hyperbole. Most docx open and let themselve
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by sombragris 10mo ago
I doubt that this would ever happen. But... If it does, I think it would be a good thing. The reason is that it would finally motivate game developers to be more realistic in their minimum hardware requirements, enabling games to be playabl
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by sombragris 10mo ago
> Universal (country-wide) professional adoption, which implicitly requires equivalent display of features that are not often used by the general public. That was my hunch, too. Okay, but which features, that only are in Word but not on
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by sombragris 10mo ago
> While you may get the Look, you will never get the Feel. Perhaps for many of us this is exactly as intended. The look of W95 or something else, the feel (and power) of Unix.
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by sombragris 10mo ago
Of course you thought that was a Motif ripoff. The screenshot you reference is from an alpha pre-release version. KDE1 had neither the widget style nor the window decorations of that screenshot.
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by sombragris 10mo ago
Your post comes off as a little patronizing, and still does not answer the question about the "why".
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by sombragris 10mo ago
> To me, the big aesthetic of early Qt/KDE1 is "Obvious Motif ripoff". Aside from the Win95/Warp style titlebars, if you don't have the big thick bevels and the distinct scroll bars, it's not quite right. Th
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by sombragris 10mo ago
> I'm sure ODT works well for many personal use cases, but can guarantee it will never see adoption in the legal industry. Microsoft Word is the only viable option for lawyers. I'm a lawyer, though I'm practicing in a whol
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by sombragris 10mo ago
I concur in your liking of Breeze. It's an amazing teme, really. My only objection is that the default light color scheme is too light. Fortunately there are good color schemes such as Steel or StormClouds that solve that problem, a li
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by sombragris 10mo ago
IIRC fvwm95 was not meant as a next-gen fvwm, but as a customization of the existing fvwm desktop.
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by sombragris 10mo ago
fvwm is still one of the default graphical environments in Slackware (even in -current), and fvwm95 came packaged for some time, too. Now fvwm95 is no longer part of the basic Slackware distribution but there's a SlackBuild for it: ht
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by sombragris 10mo ago
This resonates with me. LLM output in Spanish also has the tendency to "write like me", as in the linked article. On that regard, I have an anecdote not from me, but from a student of mine. One of the hats I wear is that of a semi
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by sombragris 10mo ago
I used it sometimes when I needed a live Linux, and I liked it, because it used to be based in Slackware, and it had KDE as its desktop. Now they added Debian as another base, and that's great. Sadly, they dropped KDE. There's als
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by sombragris 10mo ago
I support the change, though the rationale used for it seems to me to be nonsense. Times New Roman might not be the world's most beautiful font, but at least is a little bit less atrocious than Calibri (which is awful). So, whatever th
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by sombragris 10mo ago
> Excel is the best spreadsheet software in my experience when you have to move beyond the basics. This might be true. But most Excel users just use the basics and would be well served to switching to a Free Software alternative such as

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