wander_homer

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by wander_homer 3y ago
Can you provide a concrete example, like a piece of text with the current cursor position, the outcome you want to achieve and the sequence of shortcuts you're using to achieve that with your favorite text editor? > Navigating by wo
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by wander_homer 3y ago
The company seems to be in deep financial troubles. They've also been violating their refund policy and FTC rules as there are dozens of reports of customers who cancelled their orders months or years ago due to those absurd and freque
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by wander_homer 3y ago
I remember showing Zelda BotW to my nephew. We played it a few hours and even though he had fun with it, he had no interest in playing or buying it for himself. Then one of his favorite streamers picked it up on their channel and now he&#x2
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by wander_homer 4y ago
> Yes, I get that it's convenient for maintainers. But it kinda sucks for users (at least for me), which is why I avoid using software packaged that way. My browser, mail client, rss reader, music player, video player, image viewer,
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by wander_homer 4y ago
> If you release Debian and Redhat packages, you cover 80% of the user base. That means you need three builds to cover Ubuntu and its derivatives (20.04, 22.04, 22.10). Two to cover Debian (10 and 11). Three to cover RHEL (7,8,9) and als
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by wander_homer 4y ago
Can you name one distribution which isn't severely understaffed?
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by wander_homer 4y ago
Maybe I'm just in my small bubble and/or the situation in Germany is quite different, but when I look at the farms in the area I grew up in, including my father's farm, then most of them are absolutely loyal to whatever brand
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by wander_homer 4y ago
> Specifically syncing services do not need to hang in notification area, when it is needed to monitor or reconfigure them, it is trivial to launch the controlling app (see syncthing). I want them there, so that's more than enough r
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by wander_homer 4y ago
> In other words, if you want something in background, make it systemd user service, so the user can use standardized tools to enable/disable/start/stop it. That would be sufficient if the "standardized tools" pr
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by wander_homer 4y ago
What are you talking about? The reason why electric stoves don't bring the grid down is because it is designed with this load in mind. Adding electric heating to the grid is an additional load, because people won't stop cooking wh
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by wander_homer 4y ago
By producing more energy, having less cars, better insulated houses, ... It's been calculated and described a thousand times by now by various institutes how this can be done. But obviously this can't be done in a few months, afte
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by wander_homer 4y ago
> people can switch to their cheap electric heaters to at least keep their living rooms warm The grid isn't build for such a load.
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by wander_homer 4y ago
> And whose fault is that? The previous government's. Scientists have been criticizing them for years now that they failed to provide the necessary infrastructure and statutory framework for the "Energiewende" to work.
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by wander_homer 4y ago
Of course they are. Your new generation terminals still use decade old protocols, using the same escape sequences to control the cursor position, colors etc. The "lines" and other UI elements you see in those next generation termi
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Show HN: FSearch 0.2 released (A graphical file search application)(github.com)
1 points by wander_homer 4y ago|0 comments
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by wander_homer 4y ago
acalendar, my favorite, does that as well.
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by wander_homer 4y ago
Thx! Is there a specific reason for the lack of that feature or was this just not implemented yet?
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by wander_homer 4y ago
> 2) greps have POSIX locale support. ripgrep intentionally just has broad Unicode support and ignores POSIX locales completely. Does this mean that there's no support for language specific case mappings (e.g. iİ and ıI in Turkic)?
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by wander_homer 4y ago
I still don't see the issue. So the application then asks the personal domain for a favicon, how is that an issue? Especially when you consider that this feature is off by default and has a red warning label next to it, that this comes
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by wander_homer 4y ago
Purism's shipping claims and estimates have been way way off even before there were any supply chain issues. At one point they even lied to be shipping devices, with pictures from the devices "in the wild", when it later turn
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by wander_homer 4y ago
> The united states is a continental nation with infinite resources. Without imports the US doesn't even have enough resources to sustain its own lifestyle. The only infinite resource they seem to have is ignorance.
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by wander_homer 5y ago
I said I'm not using npm. With my calculator flatpak I only have to trust one person and to a much lesser degree, because they declared that the calculator can't access my personal files to begin with. The same app in my distribut
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by wander_homer 5y ago
No, and how is that even relevant?
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by wander_homer 5y ago
Why do you assume the flatpak comes from a no name dev? My calculator flatpak comes from the same people who wrote it, and I obviously trust them, otherwise I wouldn't be using their application. So why should I trust them less than my
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by wander_homer 5y ago
In my particular case: I don't want to wait months or even years for updates to arrive in my distribution. With the Flatpak version I get updates usually on the same day they are published, since the Flatpak is also maintained by the c
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by wander_homer 5y ago
Sure, let's compare some theories which are currently being investigated by scientists, which could explain the decline in fertility in the last decades in millions if not billions of people, with the folk tales when some men couldn&#x
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by wander_homer 5y ago
I can easily reproduce the stuttering cursor on GNOME Wayland on all of my systems by doing this: * move the mouse cursor evenly in a straight motion * while moving press `Super+a` to open the application list During the animation, i.e. whe
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by wander_homer 5y ago
Author of FSearch here, is there anything in particular you're missing? But yes, there's a huge gap and it's probably never going away. There are many reasons for that. For one, Everything has been in development for quite so
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> Cross-platform isn't that hard, windowing is like the only thing that comes to mind where there are some differences in behavior. And let's not forget the accessibility systems, clipboard handling, filesystem (e.g. a GUI tool
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by wander_homer 5y ago
Why is raising a child with vegan foods inhumane? And you do realize that in order for you to get a serving of meat, we first had to feed animals many times more calories from plant based products? The majority of our soy is used to fed ani

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