Jesus_666

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Jesus_666,

Yep. I run Garuda and the main pull is that it’s a more user-friendly Arch with a lot of stuff I want to use preinstalled. I don’t really care about how XTREME it is or whether I might potentially get 1 FPS more.

Jesus_666,

You could probably make the Wheel of Time series 20% shorter if you removed the fashion descriptions and all instances of people conveying moderate annoyance through body language.

Jesus_666,

All other points aside, “the show is too character-centric and a spin-off could never work” is what a bunch of trekkies said when TNG was announced. No Trek without Kirk, Spock, and McCoy had any hope of being a good show.

Then TNG came out and it was fine.

For that matter, Atlantis worked just fine for me, as well. Universe didn’t but that’s mainly because it had focus issues and a weird tone. There is potential for a good new Stargate.

The question is, of course, what they’d do with it. The new Trek era has been pretty hit-or-miss and it’s hard to say whether we’d get the Stargate equivalent of Picard or Strange New Worlds.

If it’s another badly lit attempt at making a show out of nothing but curse words and scowls I’d pass. But if it’s another fun, witty ensemble show that knows when to take itself seriously and when not to – yes, please.

Jesus_666,

It’s a pun on the Met Gala. Honestly, this might be the most sensible Heathcliff I’ve seen so far.

Jesus_666,

That image doesn’t look AI generated to me. GANs are typically terrible at keyboards.

Jesus_666,

The Windows key as part of a combination is great. It’s an extra modifier key.

The Windows key by itself is terrible because it immediately steals focus from the current application and can’t be disabled without something like AutoHotkey.

Jesus_666,

I think it’s extremely badly designed. A single keypress – especially if the key is in such an easily reachable position – shouldn’t steal focus. It doesn’t matter if I’m in a game or in Visual Studio, it’s disruptive.

This behavior would make sense as a media key somewhere near the F-keys. But as the default action on a modifier key it’s just bad design.

I can’t believe that launching the start menu is an action on par with opening an application menu or typing a capital letter.

Jesus_666,

I agree that it should be easily reachable. Just not through one single keypress. macOS’s Spotlight serves a similar purpose and is reachable via Cmd + Space (with the Cmd key being right next to the space bar). That’s just as easy to do as hitting one button but is extremely unlikely to happen by accident.

I personally use the start menu mainly for shutting down the computer as all commonly used programs are pinned to the task bar. A shortcut that opens it has no value to me as opposed to e.g. one that shows or hides a terminal window or one that mutes/unmutes me in Teams even when it’s in the background.

And I do consider it disruptive because having the start menu unexpectedly pop open and swallow several keypresses (and in the worst case launching some application I didn’t want to run) takes my attention away from what I was doing and forces it into something completely irrelevant. If this pulls me out of deep focus I can lose the equivalent of ten minutes of work due to one keypress.

The core of the problem is that this behavior is very annoying for people who don’t use the start menu all the time and there’s no way to change it. If it was just a default for a rebindable shortcut then it’d be a minor hassle once and nobody would complain. But the way it is it feels like Microsoft is trying to force-feed me the start menu, workflow be damned.

Jesus_666,

I think a good way to handle this – as well as the wildly unpopular accessibility functions the post is about – would be to have it configurable and simply ask about it during initial user setup (aka OOBE).

That way people who didn’t need it can turn it off and won’t stumble over it after accidentally pressing the Windows key or holding down Shift a bit too long. People who need it can have it enabled right from the get-go without having to trigger some dialog first. Everyone’s happy and having one extra step during initial setup isn’t that much of a hassle.

Bonus points if Windows had configurable global hotkeys and I could make the Windows key do whatever I want. But the OOBE thing would be a good solution already.

Jesus_666,

Also, Ubuntu is moving towards using snaps for everything so they’re pretty much the successor to PPAs.

Jesus_666,

Mostly yes but there’s one other option that simplifies the whole thing: Chromebooks. They’re actually pretty decent for someone who doesn’t need much beyond a browser, a mail client, and a basic office suite.

Sure, they’re tied to Google with all that entails but they can be a real option for someone like a senior who relies on relatives for tech support.

Jesus_666,

Unbothered by typos. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

Jesus_666, (edited )

I’d love to but on my gaming rig Wine/Proton will absolutely refuse to install the Visual C++ runtime, making me unable to play most games. On another, virtually identical, Linux installation it works without issue; in fact, I have fewer weird issues like a game randomly not connecting to EOS.

I consider it karmic justice for buying Nvidia; that’s the major difference between the two systems.

(Update: The latest Wine version seems to have fixed this. I’m certainly not complaining.)

Jesus_666,

How about autoscrolling shmups where you don’t die after every hit and get to upgrade your ship between missions?

The oldschool entry in this niche would be Tyrian – released in 1995, made freeware in 2004, then ported to modern OSes.

2004 was also when Jets’N’Guns came out. It looks more modern, has a quirky sense of humor and a badass metal soundtrack. It also has a sequel.

Both games can be found on your (PC) digital marketplace of choice.

Jesus_666,

Notable for being a class of substances that freaks out Erowid, a website that otherwise thinks that just about every drug can be used safely if you know what you’re doing. If it freaks them out it freaks me out.

Jesus_666,

Fair enough, I was thinking of those inhalants.

Jesus_666,

When AMD introduced the first Epyc, they marketed it with the slogan: “Nobody ever got fired for buying Intel. Until now.”

And they lived up to the boast. The Zen architecture was just that good and they’ve been improving on it ever since. Meanwhile the technology everyone assumed Intel had stored up their sleeve turned out to be underwhelming. It’s almost as bad as IA-64 vs. AMD64 and at least Intel managed to recover from that one fairly quickly.

They really need to come to with another Core if they want to stay relevant.

Jesus_666, (edited )

I use interactive rebases to clean up the history of messy branches so they can be reviewed commit by commit, with each commit representing one logical unit or type of change.

Mind you, getting those wrong is a quick way to making commits disappear into nothingness. Still useful if you’re careful. (Or you can just create a second temporary branch you can fall back onto of you need up your first once.)

Jesus_666,

And also ells, rods, cubits, paces, furlongs, oxgangs, lots, batmans… all with subtly different regional definitions (with regions sometimes as small as one village).

People used loosely defined measurements based on things like their own body parts or how much land they guessed their ox could plow on an average day. Things like mathematical convenience or precision were not all that important; being able to measure (or estimate) without tools was.

Jesus_666,

Or, if the team does allow refactoring as part of an unrelated PR, have clean commits that allow me to review what you did in logical steps.

If that’s not how you worked on the change than you either rewrite the history to make it look like you did or you’ll have to start over.

Jesus_666,

To be fair, he also had an eye for good product design. Not the skills to implement it but the ability to see whether a design is good.

Of course he expressed this skill by yelling at his engineers and designers. A lot. Because he was an asshole.

Jesus_666,

Note that as per the paper DDR5 is a lot harder to attack than DDR4 so newer systems should be less vulnerable (but not entirely immune).

Jesus_666,

I have to disagree on one point – that iOS home screens somehow look more orderly because they’re full of icons arranged in a strict top-left-to-bottom-right fashion. It doesn’t look any less cluttered than an overly full Windows desktop.

I found desktops that limit themselves to core functionality and maybe a nice wallpaper to be better looking and more usable since the days of Windows 95 and that hasn’t changed since.

That “strict grid of icons” look certainly is uniform across iDevices and that’s what appeals to Apple but I never found it to be particularly attractive.

Jesus_666,

Not even very surprising. The dark and/or broody scenes tend to be a lot less serious than they look. To give an example I saw: At last year’s Wave Gotik Treffen (a huge goth event) there were plenty of posters for broody bands – and in between them there was one for the German Hevisaurus spinoff advertising their new song about bubblegum.

And then someone went around and put googly eyes on all the posters. That’s also pretty on-brand for the scene.

Jesus_666,

I watched it with friends and one of us fell asleep during the first few minutes. We all ended up envying her because we fall solidly in the “nothing about this movie works for us” camp. It’s rather telling that we started making Look Around You jokes after the basement scene.

But yeah, it’s interesting about how polarizing this movie is not for its content or message but for how it’s made. For some people it really seems to hit a nerve, for others it’s an extremely badly shot movie about a ghost with severe ADHD alternating between gluing things to walls and tormenting chatbot approximations of human children.

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