Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one
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I boost a lot of posts, but I have a few things to say every now and then.
I am largely fine with boosting posts from people I disagree with even on significant, dividing issues. I usually don't, however, if they actively advocate for these ideas... so it goes :/
#Christian #coding #HaikuOS #Linux #privacy #FOSS #Fediverse #SmashBros #SSBU #LegendOfZelda
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@rl_dane Yeah, whenever I have the opportunity to use my Mom's mac I'll use that feature. It even opens the menu for you to *show* you where the menuitem is. \*chef's kiss\* [no I don't have markdown on this Mastodon server]
On the topic of Unity, I think Unity had the feature too. You'd press Alt and then type (and hope the UI wouldn't bug out). I think it's pretty clever.
@rl_dane That's fair. I have a computer friend who thinks the same way.
I remember how Canonical's Unity (despite its flaws) had a feature (maybe it was just part of #compiz (oh compiz! I forgot! So much fun!)?) where the titlebar would turn into a menubar when you hovered over it (IIRC). Unity was so pretty. If only it wasn't so buggy. (It was so bad it was the reason I [temporarily] left Linux as a kid.)
(I wish parentheses worked in spoken language like they do in text lol)
@rl_dane Yeah! Like, what's wrong with menubars? Too much text? Menubars are just so fast.
Must be that some designers believe it takes up too much space. But it's space well-spent (especially, in my opinion, if it is a "global menubar" at the top of the screen like Mac OS. I love those. You can set it up in KDE, BTW!).
@searchliaison I enjoyed it while it lasted, thanks :)
@rl_dane [*Thinks about doing it...*]
I feel like it's a key example of modern UI design gnome wrong.
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Shameless plug… i have my digital discography 75% off in bandcamp today, includes lots of source files as well for those interested :slight_smile: https://laamaa.bandcamp.com
@laamaa Hey! Two days ago I bought a bunch of music off Bandcamp. I'm trying to slowly replace my streaming of music with music I actually own copies of. I'm not really a Spotify fan!
I've listened to some of your stuff before, like Controversy, so I took up your 75% offer and I'm gonna have fun listening to all these :D thank you!!
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My ideal package manager design for a programming language:
Packages are downloaded over a P2P system, like BitTorrent or IPFS
The package manager runs as a daemon and seeds all downloaded packages
There is also a centralized site, which is a directory that maps packages to hashes/torrents; also has documentation and search
The site has an open API that other sites can replicate
Project files reference packages by both name/version and hash; the hashes remain valid even if the site goes down
The site has human moderation and handles detecting malware, spam, etc. and removing it
Package names always have a username prefix
The site's staff can choose to bless a package as the preferred implementation of some feature, giving it a non-prefixed name
@adam I wish almost everything was designed in this sort of way.
@rl_dane " Third, again, this is bad nod toward "simple" atomic distros, the Flatpaks and all that, whereby system and applications are separate. Nope. Wrong implementation."
I *completely* disagree with that, but yeah this guy sounds like me sometimes too 😆
@rl_dane The arguments against Wayland were weird. A 105% scaling setting in KDE isn't Wayland's fault. Scrot is an X11 screenshot tool, it shouldn't work the same in Wayland since Wayland was designed with security at least as a backburner concern.
And the resource utilization is usually better under Wayland, right? Could be a KDE or driver issue.
https://social.librem.one/media/B5WjKoR2uWo3mnYGYN8
Why is #Discord using 2% CPU when it is just in the system tray and taking over a terabyte of virtual memory :/
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Don't buy flowers at a monastery.
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@jimsalter it does feel as though we've gone from say little, do much to say much, do little in rather short order. But I think that's because we've also moved to a system that rewards those with fancy words, and the ability to motivate and/or otherwise stimulate people.
@Ki3_Games That's great 😆
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When you find the N64 shiny thing
#indiegames #indiegame #indiedev #gaming #videogames #n64 #nintendo64 #oot #zelda #zeldalike #ocarinaoftime
@Ki3_Games But in 60FPS :]
Hello there!
I boost a lot of posts, but I have a few things to say every now and then.
I am largely fine with boosting posts from people I disagree with even on significant, dividing issues. I usually don't, however, if they actively advocate for these ideas... so it goes :/
#Christian #coding #HaikuOS #Linux #privacy #FOSS #Fediverse #SmashBros #SSBU #LegendOfZelda
#fedi22
Note: social.librem.one doesn't support DMs
Joined Jul 2022
