_benj · HackerTrans

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Idk for UX but I’ve found Claude helpful at creating ideas and mockups for gui apps I need. Don’t ask it to generate any images or vectors, it’s horrible at that, but you ask it to make a mock for an app so and so that does such and such and has three columns with a blah blah blah and it has made some impressive results in html/css for me

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Totally unrelated but “chat jippity” made my day!

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Thanks for the explanation!

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Would there be a difference in contributing to OpenJDK vs to, say, Temurin or Zulu Java? How separated are those Java JDKs really from OpenJDK?

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vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Since employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to, this post and emacs users in general, must be of such lesser value I guess? /s

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vor 10 Monatendiscuss

A few years ago I switched to KDE and the experience has been so absolutedly seamless and good, and the upgrade to Plasma 6 took some time to propagate down to distros it was well worth the wait!

It seems to be that a project like KDE might be in a very good position to make a very competitive distro simply because they are starting from the point of the user experience, the UI if you will. Think M$ windows, it IS GUI, and fully focused on how the user would use it (I'm thinking the days of XP and Win 7).

A KDE distro might be less encumbered with "X11 vs Wayland" or "flatpak vs <insert package manager name here>" discussions and can fully focus on the user experience that KDE/Plasma desktop brings!

I'm looking forward to take this for a spin!

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vor 11 Monatendiscuss

It seems that it was only about time… it just feels like the pace of enshittification with big tech being able to get away with anything is crazy!

I’m hoping that projects like Precursor can take off because we’ve buried ourselves in such mountain of complexity that seems like only a billion/trillion dollar big tech company can make an OS.

But then again, some body called BS on browsers and we might have a good option soon in Ladybug!

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

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vor 11 Monatendiscuss

I particularly agree with you.

Sublime is not open source and it has a very devout paying client base.

To me the dirty thing is to make something “open source” because developers absolutely love that, to then take an arguably “not open source” path of $42 mil in VC funding.

There’s something dissonant there.

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vor 11 Monatendiscuss

I’m curious how this will turn out. Reminds me of the node.js fork IO.js and how that shifted the way node was being developed.

If there’s a group of people painfully aware of telemetry and AI being pushed everywhere is devs…

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vor 12 Monatendiscuss

Maybe hot take…

I can see the point of sameness in homeschooling, but compared to traditional education? I’m not sure how much flexibility one would have to teach oneself calculus by 11 or the equivalent of an undergrad in math by 14!

That flexibility must be found in something non-traditional!

I’m no prodigy at all whatsoever but school was mostly dull and filled with teenager drama! Nobody knew what Linux was, cared about music production or anything interesting! The talk was which boy/girl whatever

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vor 12 Monatendiscuss

> If your life has been as unfair to you as it has been to some of us, and forced you to work on SPAs as the result…

Hehe

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

no surprises there, but it still makes me a little sad...

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

:) oops… should had put the disclaimer that it’s a personal opinion.

I just hear some people saying “I don’t like vegetables” and often my question is “how have you had them?”

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I don’t smoke but have been involved in some programs to (hopefully) help people quit smoking. One of the things that seem to work was replacing the habit.

Just being bored doing nothing on the time that you used to be smoking will drive you mad and use a huge amount of will power.

Doing something that you enjoy on that time, even better if it’s something that uses your hands (as opposed to Netflix) could not only help you get rid of the habit you doing, but also add something that quality to your life. To my mind comes woodworking, gardening, sports, RC Cars, model airplanes building… just something that you enjoy. Good luck!!

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

This is definitely not the right comment but as a vegetarian… steam vegetables are disgusting! Grill/bake is so much more delicious.

And, after committing the sin of telling you that I’m a vegetarian in my first sentence, I hope it can be useful for someone :)

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