MiddleEndian

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by MiddleEndian 9d ago
Just hook up a PC to it?
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by MiddleEndian 14d ago
I've run into bizarre situations where smartphones were required. Went to Royale in Boston, and it's bad enough I have to use an app to pay for tickets, but at least I knew that ahead of time and accepted it. But then they wanted
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by MiddleEndian 20d ago
Chat bots are pretty terrible, usually.
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by MiddleEndian 27d ago
I also refuse to use two-handed phone, which is why right now (after finally accepting there will never be a new version of the Palm Phone) I use the Motorola Razr flip phone and just keep it flipped close 99% of the time. Pretty much all A
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by MiddleEndian 1mo ago
>when the French regulator mandated the telcos to implement a complete block of spoofed phone numbers (it's not an actual hard block, but unauthenticated calls will be market as "private number" which are ignored by most p
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
Yes, this is what I meant. Also to respond generally to other posts. I am aware of the the separation between NT and 9x. That was Microsoft's problem and not the customers' problem. They could not force people onto ME and had to a
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
This article is a bit rambly so I'll just focus on some things from the beginning: >If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time; that’s a hard tool to build trust in. This concept
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
Both of them are bad
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
>You do want the application to steal focus when necessary No I don't. We recently switched to Zoom at work. Meeting notifications steal my focus (Windows 11 device) and it's fucking terrible. Nothing should ever steal focus.
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
Having owned a good number of Macs and one hackintosh in the past, that would be very bizarre assumption to overlook. App icons bouncing while something loaded was never a rare thing. IMO, nothing should ever steal my keyboard focus. As soo
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
I use KDE on Bazzite. It has a couple killer UI features over Windows. It can label bluetooth devices (so I can have blue dualsense controller, pink dualsense controller, white dualsense controller, etc.). No clue why this doesn't work
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
I will say I have two DualUp monitors and they are my favorite monitors I ever had so I'm sad I can no longer recommend them. 2560x2880 is perfect for programming, researching, writing documents, graphics work, and so on. The INNOCN kn
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
My LG DualUp monitors (with no internet access) recently triggered some LG Adware Bullshit to install on my Windows laptop. So I'd say stop using LG anything (or Windows anything since they're voluntarily in on the scam too lol).
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
Most of the time, I want neither. No I don't want the ticketmaster app (or DICE). I may need to visit a website to buy a ticket, but after that just email me a QR code or something. Even worse, I found myself at Royale in Boston and th
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
I lack the skills, time, and nerve to try it with my own phone lol (and wouldn't want a keyboard). As much as I miss the Palm Phone, this is an acceptable compromise.
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
On the topic of the thread, I am left-handed. When I tried to resize the keyboard while it was closed, it constantly glitched out. Could not figure out what was going on until I rotated it 180° and tried it with my right hand. Resizing work
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by MiddleEndian 2mo ago
I agree that phones are too big. I refuse to switch to two-handed phone use. I used the Palm Phone PVG 100 with a 3.3" screen as long as I could, but software got too slow and battery-hungry, and my now-wife was annoyed when my phone w
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by MiddleEndian 3mo ago
As someone who recently switched from Rackspace to Hetzner for my dedicated VPS (albeit before the recent price jump), I am still quite happy with my decision. Apparently they are not raising their prices for existing customers, but even so
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by MiddleEndian 3mo ago
Sounds like a concern for app devs but something that shouldn't be a concern for users (because they should be able to turn it off)
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by MiddleEndian 3mo ago
Yeah the mainstream alternatives to x86 are all super locked down
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
I use KDE at home after leaving OS X when it became clear Apple became more interested in mobile OSes than desktop OSes, and using various combos of Linux and Windows for a bit. Gotta agree. Powerful, customizatable, and predictable at the
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
>On the flip side, many websites ask if I want to allow notifications One of the first things I disable on any new Firefox setup. I want zero notifications from websites (or in general, one of the objective improvements of Windows 10 ove
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
I use Android. Lyft put marketing notifications in the default notification channel on my device. If the Play Store were useful, they'd have banned Lyft until they fixed it. (haven't gotten one in a bit so maybe they did (or maybe
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
>Now, I suppose we could argue that Google could be more ham-fisted about forcing apps to use them, but that's murky. I disagree. What the is the point of forcing everyone to use the Google Play Store (or whatever app store on iOS)
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
I guess I already know roughly how much space they're taking up since I just check how much space I'm using in my dropbox directory on one of my computers. From my perspective, Dropbox basically has no User Interface, but a fantas
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
>On the other hand, I can't think of a single new feature they've introduced since 2011 that matters. Honestly that's what I love about it. I work on something on my desktop. Then when I go to my laptop, everything is ther
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
There's a setting to fix this. But it's criminal that this is the default
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
I dunno, what does Jordan's Furniture do about the fact that the recliner I'm sitting on is feature complete and has been since 2005 and seems to be sturdy enough to last me for the next twenty years? Try to sell me something bett
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
Mainstream behavior doesn't necessarily mean what people want. Many try and fail to stop Windows updates, for instance. I would guess that the majority of the users of the TicketMaster app would rather not use it.
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by MiddleEndian 4mo ago
I'm with you. I also hate automatic updates. Times when I want my software to behave differently from the day before without me requesting it: Zero. It puts the incentives on the wrong spot too. They are no longer incentivized to make

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