dusthillperson

dusthillperson, 19 hours ago

@timonus @schwa I want Linux running on my ipad, how do you feel about that?

dusthillperson, 5 days ago

@thomholwerda @frumble
I quickly understood that they hate us right back in early 2011 when they pulled the carpet out from under all the users of Gnome 2,

and then I fully understood exactly how much they hate us over the course of the following couple years where I had to completely rewrite from scratch my custom GTK theme many times, hours of my time wasted in the most painful possible way, because they were constantly breaking themes.

I always knew something like Libadwaita was coming.

dusthillperson, 5 days ago

@dusthillperson also not to mention the snarky jerk comments from gnome devs on gitlab pages that pop up all over internet searches about GTK usability issues or mal-features

dusthillperson, 5 days ago

@frumble @thomholwerda
I agree so much with skeevy420's and cakeisamadeupdrug's comments on usability. That especially hits home for me.

Maintaining my own custom GTK theme for years, even enduring the gnome people's best attempts to make me give up by breaking the CSS over and over and over every point release, isn't something I did for fun.

I did it because I have ASD and severe sensory issues. Having my choice of colours is a NEED for me

dusthillperson, 5 days ago

@matzipan
Ahh, then I'll forward my feedback.
#linux #accessibility
@sonny

Hi, I have sensory issues and having a dark mode with user interface controls tinted dark red makes much much more comfortable for me to use my computer.

Currently, I have had to maintain my own GTK theme to make this possible, hours of very painful work over the years just to have a tolerable user experience for me.

I think having the ability to change the UI colours is an essential accessibility feature.

dusthillperson, 12 days ago

@Nifflas

Yeah! I'm pretty sure the game OSTs I've loved the most and listened to the most, were all ones where the musician had creative control over their work, games like Panzer Dragoon Saga etc

dusthillperson, 26 days ago

@vga256
Yeah! E-Mu had lots of talented sound designers and a really good library of sounds to draw from, afaik many/most of the sounds on the Sound Engine came from their Proteus professional synth.

As you've been reading up about also, E-Mu worked with Creative and was eventually acquired by them, so their sounds and technology were incorporated into the various later models of Sound Blaster card, which is really cool! I also really love the AWE32/64, and also the later SB Live and Audigy

dusthillperson, 3 months ago

@vga256 I vividly remember winning a copy of clarisworks for windows 95 at a school raffle circa 1999. I wonder if that disc is still around somewhere in the house...

dusthillperson, 3 months ago

@cassidy

Also, if you can understand how jokey comments like that could make someone bitter, rude, and spiteful, I hope you'll also extend that understanding to linux desktop users who run into issues with features etc they use being suddenly ripped out from underneath them, and then they go to google to search for info, and then they find gnome gitlab pages where gnome devs respond to their concerns with with what appears to be disdain and sarcasm

dusthillperson, 6 months ago

@ryantownsend @TheRealNooshu
This is such an important story. It illustrates perfectly why efficient computer software and media programming is so important.

I regularly despair at how insane things are, that in today's world we have systems with gigabytes of memory and gigahertz of processor power, that struggle to run Discord for example

dusthillperson, 6 months ago

@dekkzz76 This makes me think of the movie 'Idiocracy', I'm reminded of the scene where huge amounts of people suddenly become unemployed overnight because "the computer did that layoff thing"