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·16 दिन पहले·discuss
state-run corporation are bad but corporate-run state is good?
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·26 दिन पहले·discuss
Sure, but Adobe was never going to solve them.
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
All content is "adult content" unless specifically marked otherwise.
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
There is no coffee shop anywhere in the world where I would leave my laptop unattended.

Even if things are unlikely to go wrong the level of avoidable risk is simply too high.

A $3000 piece of my personal or worse employer's property and I'm just supposed to "trust"? Not worth it.
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
Okay, so you're a chump with a slave mentality who can be broken by a spanking but you think other men are weak. Got it.

All these corporal punishment societies and families have the people they don't talk about who were hardened or driven insane by beatings.
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
Who writes the laws?
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
That's not actually tiling, is it? To me that reads like fullscreen with workspaces.

If one uses a manual tiling window manager like i3 or sway and a large monitor one can divide the screen into separate work areas that each host multiple applications based on their role in one's workflow and use less workspaces.

Scrolling makes a similar but different workflow practical on small screens where flexibility matters.
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
Pixel perfect means it looks EXACTLY like the design comp.

It goes completely out of the window if the browser window isn't the exact size of the mockup.

You might charitably say that pixel perfect means that the implementation intersects with the design comp at some specific dimensions but where are the extra rules coming from, then?

It's an archaic term that conflates the artifact produced by an incomplete design process (an artist's rendering of what the web page might look like) with the actual inputs of the development process (values and constraints).
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
It seems like people will do anything to avoid running Linux locally, even when depending on Linux software.
likeclockwork
·6 माह पहले·discuss
How about you stop using drugs, how about that?

Really if you want to bomb the people responsible for the overdoses it's probably the overdosers parents who abused them.

What happened to individual responsibility?
likeclockwork
·7 माह पहले·discuss
Mobile is completely hamstrung, all of the effort went into creating as much vendor lock-in as possible rather than into creating a useful pocket computer. There's all this cool tech on and adjacent to mobile that you can't actually use in any meaningful way because every aspect of it is someone's money patch and they don't want to work together.
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·8 माह पहले·discuss
Same.

This is The Way.

Bonus: No game files junking up my home directory.
likeclockwork
·8 माह पहले·discuss
It doesn't negotiate with terrorists.
likeclockwork
·8 माह पहले·discuss
"holy FOSS war"?

Why not have a commissar sit behind every gamer to make sure they're not cheating?

That's a startling degree of access to give to these people for access to cosmetic micro-transactions.

But, I guess if all your friends are snorting coke in an alley, FOMO will have you right there with them.
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·8 माह पहले·discuss
It's one of those things that people who haven't experienced simply wouldn't know to ask for. Wii had motion aiming but it was more of a gimmick, it wasn't until playing FPS games on the first Steam Controller that I, personally, realized how much more playable and comfortable gyro aiming made these games-- coming from mouse+keyboard, I found fine-aiming challenges on thumbsticks to be very uncomfortable.

Gyro aiming completely solves both fine aiming and tracking aim on a gamepad when paired with some kind of touch sensitive control for enabling the gyro (natural recentering).

In console FPSes they just automatically track the enemy if they're near your crosshair and call it a day-- giving everyone an aimbot instead of solving the UX issue.
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·8 माह पहले·discuss
I'm not letting a game company have root on my PC. How does that kind of exposure for something as frivolous as gaming even make sense?
likeclockwork
·8 माह पहले·discuss
The Xbox controller doesn't even have a gyro. Xbox controller design is completely stagnant.
likeclockwork
·8 माह पहले·discuss
There are fewer people in Finland than there are in Dallas, Texas.

"National level" sounds like a big deal but in real terms it's the same effect as your city wide rules for larger cities.
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·9 माह पहले·discuss
You're courting death.
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·9 माह पहले·discuss
Move the browser to the side? I can never understand why anyone would want to manually shuffle windows around as a disorganized stack.

From my perspective the desktop metaphor UX was obsolete the moment it was conceived of. All anyone has to do is look at the physical desks of a thousand random people and it should be immediately obvious how little value there is in recreating that chaos.