vladvasiliu

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by vladvasiliu 20d ago
I think the general issue they have is that pretty much nobody who cares chooses Windows actively. It's mostly gamers, which seem to be on the way out, corporations who don't care about this, and creatives who, for whatever reason
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by vladvasiliu 21d ago
> some dialogs literally blurry because they haven't adapted them to my 4k display Windows is amateur hour when it comes to 4K support. They have rewritten some applications recently and they are hilariously broken. Like the task
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by vladvasiliu 21d ago
I used to have galaxy S phones with some aftermarket keyboard whose name I forget. It was quite popular at the time, and was fairly happy with it. When I moved from a gs5 to an iPhone 7, I was amazed at how much better the typing experience
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by vladvasiliu 21d ago
Windows does this, too. So I really wonder how come two companies implemented the same borked behavior.
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by vladvasiliu 1mo ago
I do this too, but with ZFS. So, since the snapshots have the creation timestamp in their name, it's obvious which drive has the latest data. But I also tend to remember if I went to the office or to my parents' house last.
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by vladvasiliu 1mo ago
> The walls are thick They're often quite thin. See all the comments complaining about being able to hear their neighbor take a piss.
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by vladvasiliu 1mo ago
The issue with this approach is that long-time locals will see the market price of their homes rise with the newcomers'. So if you base the tax on that market value, the locals have it very rough.
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by vladvasiliu 1mo ago
> And, unless you're willing to forgo iPhones and petrol, you're dependent on imports anyway. I think many people who argue for "protectionism" and the like would find that an acceptable price to pay. See the other co
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by vladvasiliu 1mo ago
Don't know about Carrefour and Auchan in Germany, but there are plenty of Aldis and Lidls in France, at least in the Paris region.
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
They ask you to create one if you want to save your settings or something. You don't have to go through with it. But the software does suck big time. The other day it didn't start on my machine because reasons . Had to remove i
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
I never really cared for Gnome so I've never actually used it, but I can't say I'm surprised. But this has worked in KDE since version 3, like, 20 years ago? And also with pasystray running under i3, since before win11 was a
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
IME it works fine on Intel iGPUs, too. I even use multiple ratios with no issue (constant 125% on the laptop, 100% on an external screen and 200% on a different screen at work). Contrary to Windows, this also works well when hotplugging scr
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
I don't use windows too often, but I remember I was happy with an update a year or two ago which allows changing the volume by scrolling on the tray icon. Now, of course, it still doesn't work with a touchpad, but baby steps, righ
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
> Bonus, you get to call them unpatriotic Not sure that this is as big a bonus as you think. "Patriotism" is a bad word around these parts.
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
> It’s the food noise that’s the problem and it’s a mental issue. Yes, I've been through this, and I think it's the reason I got fat in the first place. I had a constant feeling of hunger, but which was "fake", as som
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
This. If I cook a meal with mostly veg and lean meat, I can't overeat. I'll feel full fairly quickly and, most importantly, not think about food 2 hours later. But even with this kind of food, if I figure "sure, lemme have a
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
I think what's important is to consider the difficulty of making these choices, and to set up your environment so that it's easier to make the right choice. I've lost weight and kept it off by making sure I don't have sw
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
While I agree with the sentiment that there are tradeoffs, and I, personally, have a bunch of Ikea furniture that I'm happy with since it does exactly what I need it to, I think "just don't take it apart" doesn't wo
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
I think the issue with your rebuttal is that companies think they have a very specific problem that needs solving, so they need bespoke software. Just read on the various HN posts where people complain about PMs moving things around for n
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
Don't know about "Europe", but in France they're looking into setting up something similar for no-shows. Not sure where the law's at, but it's being considered at least.
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
What I want is something that isn't distracting. Most natural sounds are fine. The main exceptions that come to mind are some birds that are extremely annoying, such as seagulls, and, for some reason, fast-flowing water.
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
He's been complaining about this pretty much since we started working, more than 10 years ago.
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
I prefer to work in silence. But by that I mean actual silence. However, I live in a city where there's construction going on I can hear through my window. If I have to work from the office, there'll be colleagues yapping arou
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
I have a habit of going for a daily walk of about one hour and intentionally avoid bringing headphones to just be with my thoughts. But I've noticed that if I have something on my mind, I just tend to ruminate and spin in circles. Not
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
I disagree. I remember when I was a kid and didn't have access to smartphones (didn't exist) or other sources of constant entertainment. My days were basically just kindergarten and dicking around with other kids. But I remember I
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
> They're always overly-complex descriptions of the mechanical changes and have no sense of motivation. This is funny to me. Coding isn't a main part of my job, but I know someone whose it is. And he says the exact same thing a
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
Right. But how would these places evolve if the regular inhabitants were leaving anyway and tourism didn't come in? In France, many small villages are dying. They're not cute enough or whatever to attract tourists, so as people le
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
This. I have a colleague living in Orleans. It's a city of a little more than 100k inhabits. She apparently has a hard enough time getting a doctor's appointment that she'd rather come to Paris. If you live further out in the
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
Were they actually "kept unharmed"? If many people are moving out, services start to wither, too. Which pushes even more people to move out. Sure, bringing in tons of tourists where there were initially none is going to change a p
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
Well, the issue is that it's difficult to know beforehand how good the soundproofing is. Even if you go to visit and it's quiet, is it because the neighbors are away or simply considerate? What happens when new ones move in? I use

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