Adam @adam@librem.one
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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Reposting because I love this 
You can download the files at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b9yuhRzysl8JUFjybniQBLqRiKi0hXcV/view?usp=sharing
You'll need PCem v16 to run it (https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/)
Just place the cfg file into PCem's configs folder, and the disk image file into your hdd folder, and configure the machine to use the hdd image.
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You can download the files at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b9yuhRzysl8JUFjybniQBLqRiKi0hXcV/view?usp=sharing
You'll need PCem v16 to run it (https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/)
Just place the cfg file into PCem's configs folder, and the disk image file into your hdd folder, and configure the machine to use the hdd image.
SYNTH1.gif
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It used to be that "If you aren't paying for something, you are the product" but now you are the product regardless. https://puri.sm/posts/data-double-dipping-when-companies-mine-paying-customers/
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WriteFreely is a free open federated blogging platform. You can follow the project's brand new main account at:
➡️ @writefreely@writing.exchange
There's also the official blog at:
➡️ @writefreely@blog.writefreely.org
It's designed as an alternative to Medium, more info at the official website https://writefreely.org
WriteFreely is part of the Fediverse, so you can follow WF accounts from Mastodon.
#WriteFreely #Writing #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #Fediverse #ActivityPub #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #SelfHosting
Kind of surprised how well this worked. #pinebookpro
@PINE64
@ManjaroARM
#XboxGamePassUltimate
https://pocketnow.com/heres-how-to-play-full-xbox-games-on-linux-with-xcloud-video
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The #Signal messenger has become very problematic lately, and most of its problems come from it being centralised.
You may want to follow and support a decentralised messenger project instead, there are many of them on the Fediverse:
➡️ @snikket_im - New initiative giving XMPP servers & clients a newbie-friendly unified look and feel
➡️ @xmpp - The XMPP standards foundation
➡️ @matrix - Matrix is best known for its Element client
➡️ @delta - Messaging through email
➡️ @briar - P2P messaging
@Miniver Wow, that's awful!
That XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro pen display is really pretty good!
https://pocketnow.com/xp-pen-artist-24-pro-review #graphicdesign
@Jessica type Ctrl + until it fills your screen. :)
@stux How about "Meatspace" vs. "Cyberspace"?
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Oh, an interesting take :)
RT @Pocketnow@twitter.com
10 Ways Delta Chat is Better than WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram https://pocketnow.com/10-ways-delta-chat-is-better-than-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Pocketnow/status/1360579013287288838
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> Here are a few examples of things you can’t really do well in a web application:
* Create a fast drawing program
* Build a real-time spell checker with wavy red underlines
* Warn users that they are going to lose their work if they hit the close box of the browser
* Update a small part of the display …without a full roundtrip to the server
* Create a fast keyboard-driven interface that doesn’t require the mouse
* Let people continue working when they are not connected to the Internet
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@chrichri I usually use the SMS email gateways that practically every phone carrier has.
@agx @okennedy I don't think you need fancy animations or ambiguous graphics at all. Just be flat out completely honest with the user: "I'm loading Firefox right now." That will make it very obvious and obvious is best: https://medium.com/google-design/the-obvious-ui-is-often-the-best-ui-7a25597d79fd
@okennedy @agx Yes, I totally apologize for the disparaging tone!! The intention of being helpful was my goal as I would like to see Linux on smartphones succeed and I believe the best way to do that is with extremely user-friendly design, since I don't think Linux will be able to afford Apple level marketing.
@okennedy @agx Yes, that's one step up from "not responding" or frozen. Which is the best user experience of the following:
- Your spouse leaves without saying anything to you?
- Your spouse puts a orange circular icon on the door and then leaves?
- Your spouse says, "I'm going out to get milk" and then leaves?
- Your spouse says, "I'm going out to get milk and I'll be back in 20 minutes.", leaves, and comes back in 20 minutes?
@zbrown But, I as a user, know what's going on... and that's the important thing.
@zbrown I see informative loading screens when launching programs in Windows every day. Photoshop goes through the whole list of "initializing" or "loading" every piece that it needs before the program is available.
@zbrown Yeah, I don't know anything about the back-end side so that's a shame Phosh is so limited. But from the UX perspective... Which is the best user experience of the following:
- Your spouse leaves without saying anything to you?
- Your spouse puts a orange circular icon on the door and then leaves?
- Your spouse says, "I'm going out to get milk" and then leaves?
- Your spouse says, "I'm going out to get milk and I'll be back in 20 minutes.", leaves, and comes back in 20 minutes?
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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Joined Apr 2019
