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by occoder 4y ago
Never mind less slow, how about making it work first? I'm in a disprivileged location, and it seems pip can only download from pythonhosted.org at a rate of 10-20 kB/s. Worse still, pip downloads timeout and fail extremely qu
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by occoder 4y ago
Agree. The Right Shift key looks extra wide on this particular laptop, so that design would've left a decent width for the Right Shift key. Then again, instead of all the extra wide keys and one extra column of keys to the right of th
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by occoder 4y ago
And you don't even have to lose the coax cabling. If you tie two ethernet cables to the coax cable, pull them both through the duct, you can then pull the coax cable back in place.
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by occoder 4y ago
Kudos to you! Huge respect for the skills and efforts involved.
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by occoder 4y ago
That was a long time ago, and computers have come a long way. Maybe now is a good time to re-examine those assumptions and re-evaluate those priorities. At a time when Electron is the cross platform UI toolkit of choice, Tcl/Tk serio
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by occoder 4y ago
The discussion is about UI here, so the fact that Windows 95/98 was built on shaky foundations is besides the point. Other GUI systems may have had this or that feature over Windows 95/98, but none matched its cleanness, consist
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by occoder 4y ago
I agree that's a sad baseline. However they do have a decent upgrade option which IMHO is a no brainer: £100: 1080p IPS display (AUO B140HAN01.3 panel, anti-glare matte)
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by occoder 5y ago
WiFi cards for PC will probably always make crappy access points, not least because the antenna they come with can't compete with those on consumer WiFi routers. They could totally work if you only need to cover something like a small
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by occoder 5y ago
I followed these fine articles [1] [2] to build my own router running Linux on a mini PC. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/numbers-dont-lie-its... [2] https://arstechnica.com/gadget
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by occoder 5y ago
I hate these forced software updates with a passion! If you're sure the software update was what killed your watch, you should demand nothing less than a new replacement watch, at no additional cost to you.
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by occoder 5y ago
Judging by your comments, you seemed to have talked to the GNUstep maintainers, but they haven't been receptive to your ideas. May I propose a fork? How about SiDESTEP ® for the project name?
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by occoder 5y ago
> Given it's a NeXTStep day today :) You noticed that too? I wonder what karmic factors are in play here.
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by occoder 5y ago
> Ultra dark gray and ugly aesthetics > A GUI can follow 1995 principles without being an oppressive grey and ugly icons > Compare the quality and thought given to Windows 98 dialogs and windows compared to this GNU software in 202
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by occoder 5y ago
Doesn't GNUstep have a theming engine now? Do you think the current maintainers would accept a new theme if we were to make a more modern one?
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by occoder 5y ago
> NesedahRik[1], which is based on Etoile's theme > i'd try my best to fix that icon alignment at the top left corner I agree there's an alignment issue there, but it's more an issue with the alignment of the menu
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by occoder 5y ago
> Spill some water? Now another change has happened. That's exactly what happened to me while staying in a serviced apartment. It's hilarious, ridiculous, and sad all at the same time. As a software developer I died a little
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by occoder 5y ago
> Every year they change some colors and rounded edges We are going to... Material YOU!
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by occoder 5y ago
> I love Cloudflare Just a perspective from a user point of view, but I hate Cloudflare. All I remember about them is staring at their DDoS protection page for multiple seconds before a site's content loads. EDIT: I'd argue t
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by occoder 5y ago
Shhh... you're not supposed to say that, the emperor definitely has clothes on.
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What happened to BitTorrent’s Project Maelstrom web browser?(ctrl.blog)
3 points by occoder 5y ago|0 comments
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by occoder 5y ago
> The thing about the tech industry is there's a lot of cargo cult and leader/follower mentality. > Some of it is just resume driven development but a lot of it is just observing and following trends. Couldn't agree mor
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by occoder 5y ago
Thank you so much! Just like you, I don't want to interact with cookie warnings at all so they have been annoying me to no end. I even tried writing my own bookmarklet to hide them by setting "display: none" on these elements
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by occoder 5y ago
XML is the finest example of cargo cult engineering. "The Web was a huge success, there must be a reason. Oh I know, it must have been HTML. We need more of that, and bigger, extensible! Behold, XML!" I remember shaking my head in
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by occoder 5y ago
I tried it on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS which is also focal, but I'm getting this error on "apt update": Get:4 https://repo.waydro.id focal InRelease [1,343 B] Err:4 https://repo.waydro.id
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by occoder 5y ago
I don't even mind the cloud login. What killed Plex for me was the fact that it needs to re-encode the video on the fly if I turn on subtitles, and my poor computer couldn't keep up. I switched to Kodi and it's been working
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by occoder 5y ago
I hate to break it to you, but the numeric keys already double as arrow keys on that "perfect" keyboard. Besides, this is a laptop running Linux, what do you think is the more likely target audience? People entering numbers in
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by occoder 5y ago
I must admit that I've never used such a keyboard before, but it seems better to me than half-height arrow keys, or heaven forbid, half-height Up and Down arrows but full-height Left and Right arrows, what an abomination! What I don&
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by occoder 5y ago
> I too see Windows 2000 as Microsoft's peak for usability, at least for the GUI controls it supported. We seem to be in the minority though. You hear far more people praise XP or 7 as the best. Me three! Windows 2000 is the best n
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by occoder 5y ago
>> Having a terse little file where I can scan the interface of a module, rather than having to scroll through the implementation and see which declarations have `public` in front of them, is a great way to quickly refresh your mental
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by occoder 5y ago
Two pieces of software developed by two different groups of people. I don't believe there's any sharing of code between these projects. WindowMaker tried to recreate the NeXTSTEP UI and succeeded admirably. AfterStep might'v

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