technobabbler

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by technobabbler 4y ago
I don't think it's fair to suggest that my use cases and priorities are less important than yours. Maybe LibreOffice and GIMP are enough for you. They are not for me, especially in professional contexts where 90% similarity isn&#x
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Even if you completely run out of power, the screen should stay on the last image it was showing. You might just see the same picture for days/weeks/several heat deaths until you decide to charge it again.
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by technobabbler 4y ago
How much did the hardware cost? Is e-ink still super expensive?
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Sorry, meant to say "show me ads". But yes, it's still an acceptable tradeoff to me. I mean, our own government harvests even more data and does jack shit with it. At least Google provides a world-class office suite. Was forc
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Shopify?
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Google was definitely better than the algorithmic crawlers. But Yahoo often still had gems for a while, a few years maybe, before they gave up. It's too bad.
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by technobabbler 4y ago
You probably don't run the same hardware or software, then. DRM doesn't quite work on Linux (so no 4k). MS Office, a business need, requires WINE or similar. No Adobe. There's Proton now for games, but only a tiny sliver of t
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by technobabbler 4y ago
The thing about Chrome is that it's a known evil. Google monitors me and sells me ads. OK, not exactly benevolent, but I can live with it. I'd prefer they just charge me $100/yr or whatever instead of ads, but at the end of t
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Meh, long before I was a dev, I was a user... and it's true I didn't care about telemetry, but a HUGE difference is that Google's services were USEFUL. Syncing passwords, extensions, bookmarks etc. were automatic, easy, unint
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Yes. There was a period of several years when Google's results were better than Yahoo, but once the human search engines bankrupt, the algorithmic SEO just kept getting worse and worse =/ Too bad...
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by technobabbler 4y ago
I'd gladly pay for a good search engine, but I'm probably in the minority.
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by technobabbler 4y ago
I know. I remember and loved it then.
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by technobabbler 4y ago
You know, if that were the only roadblock, I wish someone would take the top 10,000 Google queries and just manually curate them. Hire different interest groups -- outdoors, travel, cuisine, etc. -- and manually find the best hits buried de
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by technobabbler 4y ago
The only UX/UI request I have for Firefox: Stop changing it. Don't add any more useless tweaks or adware or bundled services. Its UX "history" made it plummet from the top browser at one point to a forgotten has-been. Th
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by technobabbler 4y ago
IMHO, as a user first and dev second, "things entirely controlled by 3rd parties" aren't a bug, they're a feature. That means someone else gets to jump through the hoops to make it work, not me. The vast majority of usef
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Eh, I only said that because I didn't grow up in the US, and had to learn American ways to live and work here. America's a huge part of the world economy and international business, so you're probably going to run into one at
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Not the OP, just offering some thoughts. > There are two possible cases here. (snip) I was under the impression that it was common (in places that use the 12 hour system) to instead write 12:00 noon/midnight specifically to avoid th
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by technobabbler 4y ago
That's really fascinating. When do businesses typically open and close? Are there set times?
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Believe it or not, some Americans will be confused by that. Our modern educational systems don't really prepare them for international communications. It just depends on your audience & context...
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by technobabbler 4y ago
I like this. The guerilla war for universal understanding!
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by technobabbler 4y ago
I don't think this is a scheduling thing but a cultural thing. 11:59pm would be 23.59 in other places. The mere use of "11" would suggest morning.
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by technobabbler 4y ago
If you can convince my government and my CEO, I'm game!
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by technobabbler 4y ago
In the United States we do not say "half nine". We'd say "half PAST nine" sometimes but honestly "nine thirty" is a lot more common.
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by technobabbler 4y ago
This help domestically, but not across cultures that don't use 12 hour time.
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by technobabbler 4y ago
That doesn't help people who don't know what am/pm are. 11:59pm would be 23.59 in some places (like Finland). It's possible to mix up dates and times from each other too (is 12.30 Dec 30 or half past noon?)
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by technobabbler 4y ago
You have to learn other cultures' norms if you want to live or work with them. It goes both ways. Europe and America do not only time differently, but phone numbers (1-800-123-1234 in the USA, 06 86 57 90 14 in France), dates (Jan 1 19
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Yeah, I understand there is that controversy (should newcomers with different bodies be able to displace old timers)... and presumably there isn't as much controversy about trans men who can't perform as well as cis men? But what
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Mozilla is a Google funded project whose main driving force is keeping up with Chrome, isn't it? It's not like they determine browser standards... Google and Apple set those and everyone else follows or dies. Edit: Even in the IE
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Great points.
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by technobabbler 4y ago
Instead of a trial you could offer a sandboxed demo account with limited functionality and network access only to a demo LAN and not the outside world. Just enough to show your orchestration and control panel features in a realistic way.

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