staindk

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by staindk 5y ago
Aha, the most "innocent" of dark patterns.
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by staindk 5y ago
These are good points. Personally I already have a MS account so the migration wouldn't affect me much, but I'm actually going to hold off and see what happens on the 10th of March. Perhaps MS will back off or something.
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by staindk 5y ago
VOP - Voxel Oriented Programming?
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by staindk 5y ago
Yeah it seems that you would be able to store the 'save' text as URL parameters - though obviously at some length it'll be too long of a URL (and different browsers have different 'max URL lengths' AFAIK).
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by staindk 5y ago
FWIW I don't think you should buy a laptop from them just to support them. Just adding to e-waste down the line, and I'm sure they are selling enough units. In the future when you do actually need/want a new laptop of course
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by staindk 5y ago
In my experience, Dota unranked games are basically taken just as seriously as ranked games. But most games either don't have proper unranked matchmaking or it goes as you say - people take it more casually.
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by staindk 5y ago
"Please pay 0.1 eth for an NFT of your chat transcript"
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by staindk 5y ago
I've been out of the X vs Wayland discussion for ages, but have been on Gnome / Wayland on my work laptop for the last 2 years and wouldn't say that this use case is perfect or even great (though... it gets the job done). Gue
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by staindk 5y ago
Cool - reminded me of this guy's project [1]. I had to mission about to find the channel again because I forgot the name, but his videos are (were? hmm it's been a while) really cool. [1] https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by staindk 5y ago
I think out in the real world they are insecure because it's easy to shoulder-surf and get a peek at the pattern being input. Overall they are probably similar to pin codes... some people just have 0000 as their pins, or draw an L for
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by staindk 5y ago
I've been keeping a 'work diary' in VS Code - tried a couple of simple notes plugins but I ended up just pinning my diary.md file in my main window... always easy to get back to it. I think the only other QoL I have for it is
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by staindk 5y ago
My neck hurts just reading this
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by staindk 5y ago
I'm always glad when an app with confusing buttons has 'tooltips' implemented that pop up when you long-press a button. I think long-pressing for more info on touch screens feels quite intuitive, similar to how hovering feels
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by staindk 5y ago
Get downloaded and hosted all around the internet for free download? I like what GOG is doing but I'm sure there is a lot of piracy of their stuff.
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by staindk 5y ago
I think my keyboard [1 - pic][2 - site] is almost perfect. It is not full-sized but I don't have to compromise on features etc., as with a simple Num Lock toggle I can move between having a numpad and having access to arrow keys and th