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by dylan-m 1y ago
Pedantry time: Fitts' Law is a law in the same sense as Newton's Law. Fitts' Law is an established model for understanding how humans interact with objects. If you're jumping on a trampoline, you aren't breaking t
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by dylan-m 1y ago
I feel like Disney+ really cemented the decline here. I enjoyed watching Reservation Dogs, which I think I had pirated originally because it was one of those smaller shows with awkward distribution rights. I genuinely wanted to just go an
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by dylan-m 1y ago
Omg I keep finding myself back here. It was bugging me especially that I couldn’t remember, but I found it! This is the thing: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-s-24-10-dev-cy...
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by dylan-m 1y ago
If it’s important to you that an application doesn’t need to cooperate, then that’s something Snap has an answer for. I don’t remember the name of it or if it got past the proposal stage, but it’s like “if an app opens a file, intercept the
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by dylan-m 1y ago
> When it asks me to open a file, or a directory, it should invoke a system dialog that cannot be faked, and when I pick a file/directory for it, that directory or file should be bind-mounted into its mount namespace without giving
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by dylan-m 1y ago
My favourite thing about Django is the versioned documentation. Land on a page - any page - and you can trivially read the docs on that subject all the way back to 1.8. That's ten years old. And it works, because Django knows how to pa
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by dylan-m 2y ago
I'm okay with modal dialogs working that way as long as people get the message: dialogs are supposed to be ephemeral . If closing the dialog loses important state, or you need information from something under the dialog in order to us
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by dylan-m 2y ago
Another thing to look at is bubblewrap ( https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap ), which is what implements the sandboxing in Flatpak. It's handy if you want to run a command from your host in a particular sandbox
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by dylan-m 2y ago
This is why it's often safer to "jaywalk". If you're in the middle of a block, you only have to look two ways. Even if you screw up, a driver going at a reasonable speed is more likely to see you anyway because you'
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by dylan-m 2y ago
America is too big for planes, too. If your transportation solution is flying, now everyone has to get around via endless highways or big, complicated regional airports, and you can only have so many of those. There's a reason why rura
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by dylan-m 2y ago
> This was really neat, traditionally you have to access those by right-clicking some whitespace in the list/grid view, but in the list view there is only a narrow band of empty space to right-click, usually you accidentally click a
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by dylan-m 2y ago
> It would be better to have these common tasks in a separate menu item in the icon bar where they are always available, in addition to the context menu when right clicking on empty space in a window. In GNOME Files they are! It’s the fo
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by dylan-m 2y ago
One of my favourite unreported MacOS issues comes from how, at some point, they changed the appearance of the window close button to be a particular shade of red with a tiny little X in the center. And if you happen to be using a particular
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by dylan-m 2y ago
This is one of my favourite things about Fedora Silverblue and rpm-ostree. If I run `rpm-ostree status`, I get a list of all the packages I’ve installed or removed compared to the base image. Makes it really easy to keep track of what’s di
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by dylan-m 2y ago
I adored this in Return to Monkey Island, as well. Elaine and Guybrush just have a … functional relationship. They love and support each other and they get along well. It's an important part of them as characters, but it's just th
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by dylan-m 2y ago
You all are crazy. It desperately needs work, but Siri is the only mainstream assistant thing that meets users where they are instead of forcing them into whatever ecosystem it's attached to. Sure, Google Assistant's contextual
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by dylan-m 3y ago
To be fair, OLPC was accidentally instrumental in making people buy cheap small laptops. The Eee PC netbook emerged very soon after the OLPC, and it was definitely responding to peoples' interest in the OLPC - particularly from the &
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by dylan-m 3y ago
I find this project really confusing, as well. I'm sure sure this project is doing some good work, but I'd love if they take the time to catch us up a little bit, or maybe tweak their name to better reflect what it is they're
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by dylan-m 3y ago
So, the thing that made Mastodon click for me was when I reminded myself social media doesn't matter. That's really the whole point of this stuff to me. Twitter's long failure began when people were convinced they should ma
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by dylan-m 3y ago
Quality is a pretty good guess, there. I know nothing about porn, but I've watched a few VR-first films. In my mind, the only good attempt at the genre has been a ten minute real-time rendered thing that invites the viewer to come sit
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by dylan-m 3y ago
Considering the quality of YouTube's Apple TV app[1], this should come as no surprise, and frankly it's probably for the best. This type of thing is better off starting small with applications that actually work well, instead of b
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by dylan-m 3y ago
> things which were working are suddenly broken … > Wayland is 15 years old. So, it's not very sudden, then, is it? So much of what people see as wrong in Wayland is about slow-moving applications and driver vendors refusing to a
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by dylan-m 4y ago
The most frustrating part of this is when you run into some library that is all in on hooks and insists you use hooks, but your project has been using class-based components so far. I was having a great time making a game prototype with r
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by dylan-m 4y ago
The new owner has a lot to say about Twitter being a "public square". Not just a public square, but the public square. In the real world, a public square works (in general) because it is owned and operated by the public , not b
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by dylan-m 4y ago
Living outside a city doesn't mean you get to roar through it in your SUV and park a step away from your destination. A city has a lot of important services, but it is also a place where people live, and those people get to make choice
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by dylan-m 4y ago
I use it! Granted, I mostly do GNOME stuff so it’s an easy choice, but it’s an incredible IDE. Fast, doesn’t get in the way with modal dialogs or give me a million equally ugly options for how I can organize my workspace (43 lets you rear
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by dylan-m 4y ago
Indeed, this talk OpenAI does is basically security through obscurity, and it's holding us back. Look at how often people make noise with screenshots of tweets or emails that never happened. You don't need photorealism or fancy ma
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by dylan-m 4y ago
I've been really disappointed with Reservation Dogs' arrangement. Brilliant little bite-size show, but their network means they only stream on Hulu or Disney+ (not sure if it's even on Disney+ in the US?) and they don't
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by dylan-m 4y ago
I’ve been trying this out as an alternative to python-for-android, for an Android app which can’t quite escape its Python dependency. I really like its scope, compared to P4A: it plugs in to the build system we already have, and it’s just t
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Chaquopy (Python SDK for Android) is now open-source(chaquo.com)
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