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·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
If you want to be super minimal, I prefer acme.sh[1] instead. It even comes preconfigured for various DNS providers[2], and you can even create your own hook if there isn't already one[3].

[1] https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh

[2] https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/dnsapi

[3] https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/DNS-API-Dev-...
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
>Sadly, the one non-standard thing that they continue insisting on is Snap.

Snap was and largely is mainly for the server crowd, that they've shoved into the desktop. So in that regard I suppose it's at least consistent for them. That said, snap is still terrible, but Canonical always just does their own thing.
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
>The system runs a downsized version of Doom that requires less RAM.

You could even say it's a...light-weight DOOM.

I'll see myself out.

(In all seriousness though, super impressive work! It always amazes me what computing power actually resides in what we deem to be "simple" devices these days - in some ways it feels like computing power gone to waste.)
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
>What is not good, though, is if you, the maintainer, are burned out, or overworked, but stubbornly insist on being a bottleneck in the project under your inept stewardship nevertheless, and just whine and moan about your burnout to get internet points and worldwide pity.

The problem is when there are no other maintainers to the project, and you quite firmly believe the project itself has a future, just that nobody else is able to do so. Yes, you can quit, but if people truly do rely on your project (but nobody is actually willing to take the reigns) then it can become an issue of pride for some. To be clear, I'm not suggesting that people burn themselves out (I myself have gone down that road before), just that "Walk away" isn't always such an easy option for some people.
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
If nothing else, it's impressive that they've actually managed to migrate those Google Talk users over the years (myself included in that, albeit less than I used to). They probably did so extremely begrudgingly, but the path went something like:

Google Talk -> Hangouts -> Google Chat

People I added years ago are still reachable in Chat, which I guess is nice (in spite of everything else).
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
It's actually the WHATWG you need to watch[0], not the W3C. The latter has had basically no power for some time now and only endorses what the WHATWG propose[1].

[0] https://github.com/whatwg/sg

[1] https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
It was definitely used for at least Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, albeit tweaked. I don't doubt that they used it in other titles too.
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
FlorisBoard is open source and has an implementation for this (en-us only for now): https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard

It's okay, but definitely worse than proprietary alternatives right now. But at least it's under active development.
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
Swipe typing is a must for me at this point. Tapping on the individual keys is such a slow process on a touchscreen in comparison.

Obviously, a real keyboard is leagues better than both, but needs must.
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
The great thing about Firefox before the Photon addons apocalypse was that anyone could theme the browser in whatever way they wanted. Sure, it's still possible, but userChrome is a messy hack that Mozilla are trying to get rid of any moment now.

Soon, we'll be stuck dealing with whatever UI Mozilla feels like implementing for the current week. Thanks for your efforts for now at least.
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
The problem with Pale Moon is it's effectively a dead end from a development standpoint. Yes, it gets security fixes from upstream (for which are applicable) but it doesn't receive much in the way of meaningful web compatibility (the elephant in the room being WebComponents, which none of the team have the capability of implementing in the current codebase). It's based on Firefox 52 and refuses to re-base on later versions, partially due to lack of XUL-based extensions and partly due to the introduction of Rust (which does not exist on some platforms which Pale Moon supports - including Solaris/Illumos).
losingom
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
I'd highly recommend using Firefox-UI-Fix (aka Lepton):

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

It is a userchrome hack rather than an extension though, so I guess its time is limited.