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by wooger 11y ago
Apple fans often justify the prices with this argument, but in reality, there is no reason to buy a machine directly comparable in all aspects, just the ones I care about. And that can be had for a fraction of the cost. It's unlikely t
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by wooger 11y ago
Google open source stuff, true, but their development practices leave much to be desired, and in some cases seem designed to limit the usefulness of the source. Chromium source is a nightmare to build, and requires random, specific versions
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by wooger 11y ago
Yes, this gesture is actually amazingly better than pinch-to-zoom, my only annoyance with it at present is that Android Firefox doesn't implement it - the only app on the entire platform that doesnt have it. No idea why they think it&#
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by wooger 11y ago
Sites with static header bars like this one need to die. Vertical space is a horrible thing to steal, given that most of the world are using 16:9 monitors. Even worse when they're applied in on mobiles / responsive-design.
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by wooger 12y ago
I find it laughable that they discuss the design or function of anything, whilst having the heaviest, slowest, most tracking laden shitheap of a site. It does not even scroll smoothly on any version of Android - an unbelievable acheivement.
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by wooger 12y ago
If you tried pentadactyl / vimperator extensions for Firefox I'd be surprised if you found anything you couldn't program that you can acheve in uzbl.
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by wooger 12y ago
This would be a good story if apple had ever made a mouse that was even passably good.
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by wooger 12y ago
They have existed on Linux for just as long, it's just you Mac folks haven't heard of them as there's more choice, and all the major desktops have this functionality built in, at least as far as app launching goes - just pres
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by wooger 12y ago
Nightly -> Stable every ~12 weeks or so, so should feel just as fast. I noticed this difference too, but I believe that's as I use it with a fresh profile each time.
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by wooger 12y ago
This is patently untrue, as I subscribe to the exact same filter rulesets in uBlock, and it makes a dramatic, incredible difference to the browser's performance.
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by wooger 12y ago
Yep, this is worlds faster for me than mousing over and clicking on tabs. Is vimperator still actively developed and compatible with the latest Firefox? I switched over to the fork, Pentadactyl some years ago.
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by wooger 12y ago
You're kidding right? Vimperator and the much better fork Pentadactyl have been around for years on Firefox, and implement everything Vimium does and more, in a much more reliable way. Every single control interface is available, and s
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by wooger 12y ago
uBlock is now available on Firefox too, and makes an even more dramatic difference in performance. I really don't know what you're talking about - Chrome is a dog after ~10 tabs are opened, uses crazy memory and becomes unusable f
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by wooger 12y ago
It doesn't have a driver for the last two releases of intel CPUs integrated graphics. Both linux and OpenBSD have fully open source drivers for this. It's unfathomable that this ultra common hardware is unsupported, until you cons
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by wooger 12y ago
Does noone but me look at Elementary and see it as an obvious aping of OS X, circa Snow Leopard?
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by wooger 12y ago
XMonad is nice, but the haskell stuff makes it a chore. There is a great tiling WM called SpectrWM https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/spectrwm that is a re-implementation of Xmonad in C, with a sane text config file
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by wooger 12y ago
Please note: These problems don't crop up in non-rolling distros nearly as much. The transitions are held off, managed and only rolled out for new major versions of a distro. There are benefits to running Arch, but 'just works wit
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by wooger 12y ago
KDE mainly has a a lack of decision making by the devs, & a lack of taste: the default theming, icons & panels are all fugly, and it takes a world of configuration work to make it look reasonable. The appearance options are so compl
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by wooger 12y ago
Not just that, but useable, well thought out configuration, a few custom packages, whatever kernel is required to make a bunch more hardware work OOTB and some taste applied, something that's sorely lacking in many linux distros.
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by wooger 12y ago
Apart from things like: * WiFi on my x230 in Wheezy doesn't work ootb, it does in Crunchbang. * Install debian and openbox and you get a barely configured desktop without a panel, with no power management, no network applet, no decent
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by wooger 12y ago
You don't need a special, weird distro to run openbox, just use Ubuntu or Debian or Fedora unless you're a masochist. In the case of Lubuntu, LXDE use the openbox window manager anyway, so even without touching apt-get you can log
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by wooger 12y ago
Didn't GNOME almost go bust last year and hold an emergency donation drive, due entirely to granting too many paid internships (or similar) to people who aren't established GNOME developers, or even programmers?
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by wooger 12y ago
Gnome shell has support for HiDPI scaling buried in the Gnome Tweak Tool settings. Sadly, you can mess yourself up if you go exploring in there, see a slider, wonder what it does and give it a go. On a non-HiDPI display anyway!
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by wooger 12y ago
Thanks for this, looks like like a better, more encompassing version of the evil-mode + customisations that I've hacked together thus far for emacs. Amongst many other changes I've remapped the spacebar (while in normal mode) to s
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by wooger 12y ago
Safari is on version 7, why would you care about v5?
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by wooger 12y ago
Yep, Chrome / Chromium are now the #1 reason to bump my ram to 16GB. While using a laptop for coding / VMs etc. I still find my browser eating more ram most of the time - it simply doesn't handle paging out gracefully, and is
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by wooger 12y ago
No, he can do that regardless if it's BSD code, as long as he keeps the copyright notice intact. I can take any BSD code, close source it, develop it further inside my company, then sell it as a proprietary, closed source app. Or re-li
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by wooger 12y ago
I don't use your browser, but I'll check it out. Also I hope the dev of iCab reads HN and can get some benefit from your code - he's not added support for new FF sync yet.
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by wooger 12y ago
A question: Do you have your apt sources pointed at 'testing' or at 'jessie'. If the former, you may find stability takes a big hit after jessie becomes stable and all the new packages from unstable get pushed down. If t
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by wooger 12y ago
I can't dispute Qt becoming more popular for apps, and even DEs, but I still find that Qt apps AND all the Qt DEs on linux and BSD are horrifically ugly by default. That is harming adoption of Qt more than anything. It's likely ju

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