m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@dushman I am a former Mac user myself. I gave up on Apple because the software quality went downhill in the first place, to the point where I could not use it anymore without the urge to smash the computer every ten minutes 🤬 The hardware followed soon afterwards.
It was a great deal of disappointment like 10-15 years ago. And there were not a lot of good options at the time. Now there are and I don't see it as a problem anymore 🤷

@idiot @allison @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @coyote @dushman Do Apple's customers really need upgradability and repairability in 2022? In 99% the laptop will die in 5 years anyway and get replaced with the new one, so why bother?
There is System 76, Purism, Pine64 and the Spanish whats-its-name laptop maker… Hell, even HP sells models like Dev One
There are literally dozens of options, but people still want to buy hardware from companies with bad reputation, expect it to be open and whine about it? I don't get it!

@allison Wasn't Ubuntu always pretty bad on PowerPC? Even 15.xx — the last version that supports PPC is nothing to write home about. After that they've dropped the platform completely. YellowDog was pretty good at the time, but it was AFAIR rpm-based.

@inhosin Идея подарка для коллег-аутсорсеров 😏

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org There sure are a lot of cats in Australia too. Several years ago there were talks of some drastic measures to limit their population so they do not endanger other species.

@mo Кот просто пытается донести до нас, что ООП беспринципно. Оппотурнистично даже!

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @drcounelis@mstdn.starnix.network @nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network That is just a widespread misconception that you have to lean right to be an asshole. In fact you can be an asshole regardless of where you belong in the political spectrum 🤭

@G1galovaniac @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @2T2@mstdn.starnix.network Is this a plot of the upcoming sequel to Doom or what?

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @nicemicro It also has this very nice Chromium-based QtWebEngine😂
Obviously it's the shortest route to get the job done, but IMO it's still meh.
Also C++ itself is a major reason for me personally to dislike Qt since TrollTech days. I mean, yes, GTK is a clusterfsck, but Qt is a mess in its own right. I'd still take anything GTK2/GTK3 based over Qt. Some software, like Sailfish OS looks nice, but the fact that it's Qt-based makes it less attractive to me. Well, maybe it's just me.

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org To be honest, wayland is not that bad. Definitely not pulseaudio/systemd level bad. You can have almost the same set of "suckless" tools with sway, alacritty, wofi. I've only started using wayland this year, but it works just fine for everyday tasks on one of my laptops. But yeah, dropping support for X11 in GTK5 sounds far-fetched, I've seen an article on TheReg yesterday and just dismissed the thought as some sort of lunacy 🤪

@jonossaseuraava @iska@mstdn.starnix.network You can replace just the OS keys with something like this: https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/os-cherry-mx-keycap-set.html
It's only $8. I'm not sure if these caps will work with backlight, but I think the ABS ones should.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network There is this thing: https://chimera-linux.org/
From the maintainer of PowerPC port of Void.
I'm pretty sure there are other distros like this.

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I totally get you! Some time ago I've had a 50 Mbps plan but was only using 10 Mbps — more than enough for me as most of the content I consume online is text and images. ADSL is okay for almost everything, but when you want to upload something it's like a jump back in time to the dial-up era. When I had ADSL, I always wished it was asynchronous the other way around — more bandwidth for upload at the expense of download.

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org You can either do that or… start promoting text-only streaming! Over gemini!
It's like me not having a computer at home that is newer than 2013 is not being a lazy ass who refuses to get at job to buy some decent equipment anymore. Now I'm fighting e-waste!
I could even go for permacomputing, but I'm not sure that having to spend a little less than a week to build Firefox qualifies for that 😅

@chjara This one looks like an obvious choice for a manly man. Right?

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I haven't seen a single person using Emacs other than online for 15 years or so. They either went extinct… or ascended? 🤔

@sj_zero It only took 20 megabytes of disk space and you could actually do something with it, e.g. xmosaic. There was also a floppy image of QNX circulating around that time which fit a single floppy and still had a GUI, a TCP/IP stack and browser. This was impressive!
And now a compressed source code of Firefox alone can fill the CD almost entirely 🤪

@djsumdog Yup, completely useless from the practical perspective, but an interesting read from historic one. I've recently found a book on "AJAX" from back when it was the buzzword. Of course it's obsolete, but still an interesting read and provides some insight on how we got to the state we are in today with the Web.
Some tech books do age well though, like Knuth's books and most Tanenbaum's, the K&R C book and Pike's Practical Programming — these never get old.

@djsumdog A very fine specimen!
And this one was the start of it all for me. Never had the original box though, I think it might have been an add-on CD to some book or magazine. It's really ancient, I think it still had kernel 1.x and even some stuff in a.out binary format. Like Abuse the game. A lot of GUI stuff was using Tcl/Tk.

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Is there a way to rebuild my cats (built with -Os) to make them levitate and take the heat better?