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Just in case you want an even more vintage experience.
Just to clarify, it's not about "vintage experience". Xfce is deceptively simple - it gets out of your way and let you do whatever you wish. The original settings are sensible as they are, but you also can customize it as you wish. It is pretty un-opinionated.
What are you talking about? Author is talking about user experience, they way changes (as far as user is concerned) Do Not Happen (much), how they don't try to invent new UI paradigm (cough Gnome cough) and are Not Fucking It Up (cough KDE4 cough).
As a user I don't care about X11 / Wayland. I mean I do, from the security viewpoint, but not otherwise. Xfce could port itself to Wayland and (if done properly) I wouldn't even notice. It is nice to know that on any Linux machine I can install UI desktop environment which is usable, dependable and... complete.
I love Xfce and hope they never change. Kudos to everyone involved!
Sure. Or we could say that when someone is used to the way things work, one is reluctant to change and will find all kinds of "faults" to keep them from taking the plunge.
As I said, I have my own list of things with linux I would like to see different, it's just that they are different. And they are not big enough to keep me in MS-land. But to each their (our) own, I guess.
It's not that I don't have my own set of gripes about linux, but this wishlist is weird, at least to me:
- There is nothing wrong with sudo - or to be precise, it is good thing that administrative operations are explicit. And sudo is still less annoying than Windows "admin prompt" anyway.
- Why do you care? Use apt install, yum install or apk add, whatever your distro supports.
- It is not required, there are GUI managers, but again - why?
- Got me there. I don't use pen.
- Used touch on ThinkPad some years ago, it just worked, maybe depends on the laptop?
- Until 15 years ago this was true, but I haven't seen this happen since then. Debian here if it matters.
- I'm typing this on a 15 years old desktop (with NVME, admittedly) and it boots and feels faster than a new MacBook Pro I am testing. Linux accumulated much less, if any, performance losses. I agree that Windows and Mac both became bloated.
- I think doubleclick is the default way, at least in xfce? Or I might be missing what you mean. That said, I use keyboard shortcuts mostly as I try to avoid mouse for this.
With all that said, of course it will not look and feel the same as Windows. It is a different OS, with different priorities. I like it better than both Windows and MacOS, but maybe it's because I found the combination that fits me (Debian + XFCE). Maybe take a look at KDE and XFCE?
Just tried it... Couldn't figure out in 5 minutes how to add files to a playlist. Pass.
So how do you validate the data? You can apply all the changes to existing record and validate the result, but then you need to put everything in memory. Verifying the operations however sounds dangerous... Any pointers?
Also, if someone is using this in production: any gotchas?
This app is using "local storage" (storage that is local to your computer), not browser "window.localStorage".
Not sure what the point is here? My point is that OP is not afraid of new tech per-se, but instead doesn't like where it is now and finds it dangerous.
I'm sure in time the technology will evolve and there won't be a new car on the road that wouldn't support FSD - just like it did with "horseless carriages". It will take some more time though and not all companies will be equally advanced. From what I've heard (from other sources too) I wouldn't want to be driven by a Tesla FSD at the moment.
* horseless carriages won't avoid running into things whereas horses can see and instinctively won't run into a wall
Off topic, but interesting - if you think about it, we actually already had mostly-FSD in the 1890s. It just ate a whole lot of grass.
It seems that OP isn't so much fearful of new technology as they are fearful of dying (and killing others).
Good for you! As they say: face your fears, live your dreams.
...this may have come also from my interest in psychology, who knows...
Do you have a good recommendation where to start for someone who had zero interest during school years, but is now curious?
Actually you can override it, but they made the process so convoluted and privacy breaking that I would guess not many people use it. So yes, effectively they blocked it.
Why "security problem"? The wording is telling:
...for various reasons, including security concerns.
Security is just a red herring.
Who wins with this move? The cynic in me (who is usually annoyingly right) says Google. Mozilla loses even more trust from its users and Firefox now has a tool to disable ad blockers on websites of their biggest competitor^Wsponsor if they reach a suitable mutual agreement (read: G pays enough for it). Win-win for all the parties that have a say in this. Not users of course, but that's life.
...but there's no guarantee my hardware is compatible with Ubuntu LTS 22.04 because the vendor doesn't support that config...
So it's your vendor who doesn't care about backwards compatibility - Linux does. Whatever hardware you have, once it was supported, it will stay this way until it is really ancient, and even then you will have special builds that will support it. That's the beauty of open source (or even source available) licenses. No corporate interests that would render your solution obsolete. [0]
[0] assuming your hardware doesn't need some binary blobs (khm nvidia khm) to work
It's not "pretty standard", but we're working towards it and it looks like a pretty great solution. Our problem is that CI job runners sleep most of the day (low number of commits), but then you have spikes where the jobs are waiting on each other and times get really long. Autoscaling sounds great - you can have lots of runners when you need them and only a single one (or maybe even none? not sure yet) otherwise.
I'm reminded of Isaac Asimov, who has built a whole range of stories on the 3 principles of robotics, with many situations arising where reality didn't match how the creators thought the robot should behave in a given situation.
It looks we are making a huge progress in that direction, with very similar problems arising.
Uncharitable or not, but it is true.
Even with some improvements, git UI sucks to this day. Linus didn't care much about the chrome and had a special aversion against anything that smelled of SVN, including the names of the commands that actually made sense. And the worst thing is that Subversion wasn't even half bad - it was just bad for Linux kernel development. Most companies could easily use it today (and some still do).
Additionally, Mercurial with its consistent UI is/was (imnsho) far superior to Git. Git won mostly because GitHub was lightyears ahead of everything else (and in many ways still is), not because git is any way better than hg.
Mercurial wasn't (at least for the projects I used it for).
If you are on Linux, just run xeyes. Classic. :)
That sounds doable, but... why opensource? Does this mean that people / companies are not prepared to pay for the product or service?
Or it's a filter. No need to send anything if you are unsure.
Sorry, but this is bullshit. If I employ relevant techniques to protect my domain and the protection works, and I am not sending spam (which I am not), then Google (no idea what MS does) should not care about the IP I am sending my e-mail through. I have proved that the e-mail is tied to my domain and they know that my domain is not spamming - what more do they want?
Even better - Google could help small mail server admins by actually providing the information that landed their e-mail in the spam folder. If the protection is tied to the domain, no spammer will be helped by this knowledge.
And I understand that maybe a new domain might be suspicious at first, but after a few years of unchanged ownership (backed by whois data) there is simply no reason to put any mail messages from these domain to spam. Whatever the IP is.
Stop making up excuses for them. They are negligent at best, malicious at worst. Can't wait till they get hit by a lawsuit over this.
No, would that help? I am however using SPF and one of DKIM / DMARC (I forget which). But anyway, I can live with a mail missing here and there. It is just annoying and isn't right.
I hope so! I am tired of explaining people that it's actually Google's fault they didn't receive my mail. I'll be happy when they pay dearly for the disservice they do to e-mail.
Fair enough.
Sure, but that is usually by the request of the owner, if I'm not mistaken?
Better cover most of the cases than none.
Gmail is a market leader only because it is good enough (and at the start it was even better than competition) and because it was free - and still is for some cases. Can't comment on Google Apps, never used them.
Otherwise, I'm not sure I would put Google in the mix with Oracle / MS and others. They are firmly non-enterprise, in that it is notoriously difficult to get any support from them, even if you are paying (there are exceptions, yadda yadda...). With Oracle, their products may suck (and they do), but the company knows to answer the phone for their customers, otherwise they won't be able to sell that beefy contract in a few months' time.
Or maybe, just maybe, really big corporations that make software solutions are often really big because their solutions are, if not feature-wise the absolute best, by far the most stable and reliable?
Oracle? Lol.
I agree with you - and you are still missing the point. The enterprises are buying a service. They don't care that it is running on AHWRGGG instead of TLMWBBB (which is soooo much better). What they care about is that it runs, and when it doesn't, that someone fixes it. This is it. Could you run everything on PostgreSQL instead of Oracle? Yes, take a look at EnterpriseDB. I guess Oracle just sells better? (guessing here, no idea)
The money is of course important, but these providers are smart. They take only what they can and not more. Which is still big money. And while Oracle & co. would never make it into any company I can make a decision for, I don't think that keeps them awake at night - there are enough (big!) fish in the ocean.
StackOverflow was one such service (or still is? not sure...).
Unfortunately, yes. But it still works and rocks.
uBlock Origin has kind-of-similar (but not quite) functionality where you can block by domains, but it is not as granular (it is called "Advanced" something IIRC).