somewhatbetter

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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
Dell sells (because i am pretty sure they don't manufacture them) really crappy input devices nowadays. I sent countless back directly to their Munich HQ.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
Yes, the other approach is sport.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
Are you mad because you are also a mediocre programer? You can change that through learning.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
You should stop buying non-standard compilant hardware then.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
Why would anybody work in offices? Enjoy covid, work from home.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
You can simply eat less but better quality food.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
And bugs.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
Thanks to god for covid i don't have to return to the office. It is a small price the humanity have to pay for that, so it is ok.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
You should buy a standard mouse, no driver needed. A mouse and its protocol is prety simple, but now we achieved the state where a USB connected mouse reports itself as 5 mouse and 3 keyboard and some other HID capable device, good luck usi
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
Then please define me what a "general purpose computer" means.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
No, obviously i am wrong here. nix users doesn't larp as mainframe administrator, no way. They just simply doing the same, but it is definetely different, because they doing it on a pc. Man, i am speechless. Are you one of those who ad
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
>You can use Omni OS or Solaris as a desktop and i bet it's vastly more Desktop capable the Haiku. Yep, it is a well known phenomenon some folks like to larp as mainframe administrator on their home pc but it wont make a server OS a
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
>The OpenBSD bug on Xenocara which allowed root needed more code, not less. X was considered and still is a "hack". >So this is the case with pledge(4) and unveil(4), you need (a little) more code in onder to sandbox setuff
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
You probably cannot add 1+1, that person meant the 90's style desktop means there is no unnecessary cruft in it, therefore it won't try to amaze the user with eyecandy, so operations will happen instantly. And less code means less
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
>enterprise grade server os We are talking about desktop operating systems here, so this is completely irrelevant. >zfs Not an OS.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
Why generalize? You need that.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
I was talking explicitly about BSD and nix.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
It is a religion.
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
Option 2 : BlueEyedOS / Cosmoe
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
> Very friendly (but also effective) installer. Probably the best I'd seen, at the time. Hell, maybe still the best. The Installer in BeOS/Haiku does't do anything special: it just copies everything from the source to the
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
The dive-through menu is one of the best feature in the OS. There is nothing wrong with it. https://www.haiku-os.org/files/slideshow/drilldown.png
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
>That's very interesting! It is not. We are talking about a tool. An OS never meant to be sexy or visible or distracting or eye candy. It should support and serve the user and only the user. It have no other task. >What work and
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
>I wonder why build a OS from scratch instead of a window manager over Linux During the last 30 years it was proven tt is impossible to create a seamless window manager / desktop environment on nixes. >what things can impact the
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by somewhatbetter 5y ago
Me, since years as my main and only OS.