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by starsinspace 8y ago
I love the graphics in the "Applications" category. Really brings back memories. This style of art went away, sadly, like many other good things in computing, it died with Commodore.
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by starsinspace 8y ago
Well, I'm using X on Xubuntu 18.04, and I'm still constantly annoyed about seeing tearing artefacts when playing video. This is something that should have been solved >15 years ago, but somehow, it still isn't.
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by starsinspace 8y ago
A novice user will not even find the config file, or the place to store it in. Because for reasons of antiquated tradition, Linux still uses this concept of dot-files and -directories, and redshift's config is somewhere in ".con
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by starsinspace 8y ago
It's weird how perception on these things has shifted. So many practices are "normal" today which used to be clearly labeled "spyware" only 15 years ago. They successfully rebranded spyware, now it's called &qu
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by starsinspace 9y ago
AmigaOS 1.x [0] is to me one of the most pleasant looking UIs ever. I'm sure my view is also influenced by nostalgia, but still, I love the color scheme, and then icons. It's a shame they replaced the colors with a grey-in-grey no
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by starsinspace 9y ago
What I was thinking of is using Kodi as the base for an open smart TV platform. It already has good integration of live broadcast TV (including EPG etc) and many add-ons for streaming services. Of course, to make consumers happy, there need
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Equally sad as the existence of the terrible Kodi piracy boxes is that the legitimate set top box/"smart TV" industry is completely ignoring it. I'm not aware of any TV manufacturer building Kodi into their product, inst
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by starsinspace 9y ago
> The same could be said of arstechnica Well, it's your choice, they offer "Ars Pro", a subscription which is, they say, not only free of ads, but also free of tracking: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Not OP, but back when Yosemite came out, there was a lot of buzz about privacy issues, such as: https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014
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by starsinspace 9y ago
> Perhaps these same people were not alive in the 90s to see how bad things were then. I was alive, and my memory is quite different: web search was way more useful back then. Yes, sure, the search engines were simpler. They were more ab
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by starsinspace 9y ago
After what they did to push Win10 itself on people using earlier Windows versions... does this surprise anyone? Solution is simple too: get rid of Win10.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
> I really have to agree with this: using your friends as personal assistants is not cool. From personal experience I can say: asking your friends to sign up with some questionable service, when you don't care about privacy but mayb
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Time will tell, but maybe microplastic. WHO just started a review on the topic: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/15/micropla...
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Similar thoughts on Apple products here. Looking at the iFixit guide for the current iMacs kills all my wishes for owning one (I considered it, but not after seeing the teardown...). And it's so unnecessary! They could have easily made
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Yup, in iOS 10 they ruined the Music app, in iOS 11 they ruined the Podcast app... I wonder which one's next...
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by starsinspace 9y ago
> The US has it because its government is coopted by big media like Disney, MPAA, and RIAA and the average American is too ignorant / doesn't care at all about the death and stifling of culture that 100+ year copyright terms br
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by starsinspace 9y ago
When talking about this, people often like to joke about the webdesign back then. But the personal websites had personality. Facebook profiles feel like government forms to me... "here, fill in this standardized array of fields with yo
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by starsinspace 9y ago
It is much of the internal hardware of an iPhone 6S (A9 processor, 12MP rear camera) in the case of an iPhone 5.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Yes, but please Apple, improvements only! Do not touch the headphone jack or the fingerprint reader!
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Note that I'm using the Clip+ with the Rockbox [0] replacement firmware, which adds features such as configurable skip lengths, etc. Without Rockbox, the thing isn't nearly as good :-) > And honestly, I'm not sure why you&
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by starsinspace 9y ago
In almost all music software these days, the knobs are actually linear faders in disguise. Displaying them as knobs simply have the advantage of taking up less screen space.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
The AppleTV 4 remote is, to me, the worst remote control I have ever used, with a big margin. I don't understand how this thing could ever get through usability/ergonomics testing at Apple.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
After Apple ruined the podcasts app in iOS 11, I switched back to my old way of listening to podcasts: download on the computer and listen on a Sansa Clip+ player (with Rockbox on it). Especially the first few days were pure delight. A play
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by starsinspace 9y ago
The fewer of these surveillance economy businesses we have here, the better. So as a EU citizen, I see these laws working in my favour.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
So, end users are now figuring out why it's bad to buy into such proprietary, closed systems. I can fully understand the outrage. Unfortunately I find that most people don't care if you warn them about such things beforehand. Any
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by starsinspace 9y ago
I don't think anyone cares if you use such a glasses camera in your private space, with people who know you and are fine with it. The problem is when it becomes normal and everyone has them on all the time, in public spaces too. Then n
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by starsinspace 9y ago
> maybe this will finally teach people to thing before they act. I think it'll rather lead to a homogenization of behavior. A dystopia I don't want to live in.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Have you considered how much accumulated lifetime is wasted by all those 3 seconds again and again?
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Typically, applications disable the save button when there are no changes that could be saved.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
For interactive applications, reponsiveness trumps raw throughput. It's what made operating systems like AmigaOS and BeOS so fast: they didn't actually crunch numbers faster, but they always stayed responsive and quickly reacted t

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