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thomholwerda, 17 days ago to GNOME

To illustrate just how utterly boneheaded #GNOME UI design has become, I present you with Geary.

1. This is the minimum size of the window. If I make it any narrower, the email portion will disappear and the email list will expand to cover the entire area.
2. But! You say, you can use the column dividers, to resize the individual columns, right? Nope, the GNOME/Geary people think you should not be able to resize the columns manually like you could before. No explanation, just fuck you.
3. So. Much. Whitespace. The amount of whitespace wasted in Geary is absolutely batshit insane. This window could present the same amount of information while taking up half the screenspace and still be 100% clear and usable.
4. Related to 3, no options to change density or other options to reduce this whitespace hellscape.

This one fucking email client takes up nearly my entire 2x 4K display. I can't believe we let these people define the 'default' Linux desktop and let them get away with it.

ehmatthes, 20 days ago to random

For my #PyConUS talk last week, I ended up rendering images of my code snippets for the slides.

I wrote up my process for generating those snippets, with the ability to regenerate all of them with different formatting options at any time:

https://www.mostlypython.com/generating-code-snippets/?ref=mostly-python-newsletter

danyeaw, 24 days ago to windows

Any thoughts on running arm64 on Windows?

I'm looking to replace my family's laptop used mostly for web browsing, word processing, and making sure my cross platform apps work. I have a Framework Laptop 16 AMD Ryzen in pre-order which is supposed to ship next month.

Would a Surface Pro 9 or a Thinkpad X13s be a good choice for this use case?

#Windows #Snapdragon #arm64 #Surface #Thinkpad #framework