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Looking at you ctrl+r in web outlook...I want to reload the page not reply to the email!

Yeah I don’t like the glass effect and I realised it’s because it creates movement and drags your attention to things that should be background items. On the phone, video controls and app folders are particularly egregious.

Yep, which is really handy. I was specifically talking about copy and paste shortcuts being the same even in the terminal though.

“Except the Terminal”…

Of course in the Mac you have the same shortcut in every app because you use cmd+c/v

It really bugged me that by default you use ctrl+shift+c/v on Linux but only in the terminal.

Found a lovely feature in kitty term that does the right thing for ctrl+c depending on if you have text selection or not. Works great for me.

I'm assuming since the Steam Deck push it's all changed. Either way, I don't tend to play AAA, but I've been able to play all the games I've wanted to without issue in Steam.

I seem to remember one of the points was the way GNOMEs plugin system was implemented plugins have no isolation so one bad plugin can cause all sorts of problems.

They were also limited in things they wanted to do with the default window tiling ui.

Sorry bit vague it was ages ago I listened to the talk - probably this one: https://youtu.be/ioswlaxdhSA?si=DlVQ-jDu5G3A3Iru

Been a while since I used a MacBook but can't you do Shift+Opt (or just Opt?) Brightness+/- for an incremental change still? Works with volume too.

RE 1. Just to be precise (as I thought this until recently):

* liveness check will cause pod restarts.

* Readiness check causes the pod to be removed from the round-robin of new traffic requests so it has time to recover/finish processing what it's working on.

I see a lot of people go for Monday or Friday when going down to 4 days a week. There's definitely some advantages to that, however as an alternative suggestion I prefer Wednesdays off.

I find even in the best jobs, there's a general level of stress that builds up at work over consecutive days. There's a great feeling being a bit stressed on Tuesday and thinking "ah it's ok I've got tomorrow off". It's like that "Friday Feeling" twice a week.

Super Mario 3D World is more like Sackboy so you’ll probably enjoy that, 3D world is more typical Mario levels, then Browsers Fury is more free form/open world platforming - both have you in control of full characters though.

RE Sackboy - keep an eye out Sony seem to have relented and are releasing their games on PC now so it’ll probably appear at some point.

Yeah I know what you mean there’s surprisingly few games that hit the sweet spot. The latest sackboy is probably the best one I’ve played in that you both get to play a full character (ie no boring cappy), it drops extra lives like a sieve if someone isn’t doing very well, so the adult can usually get you both through a tough level and there’s plentiful checkpoints. It does get hard towards the end game but there’s a lot of content before then.

I originally thought super mario would be good but the older ones are surprisingly hard for younger players. Although that reminds me Super Mario 3D World / Bowsers Fury is pretty good for co-op too if you’ve not tried it yet.

I’ll also mention its worth playing any game with a builder, my son loves building his own tracks in track mania turbo for instance.

FYI some games my son has enjoyed that had reasonable difficulty and/or co-op so we can play together:

* Super Mario Odyssey

* Sackboy: A Big Adventure

* Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

* Paw Patrol Games (gameplay maybe a bit too simple though)

* Overcooked 1 & 2

* Untitled Goose Game

* Ultimate Chicken Horse

* Astro's Playroom

I understand the frustration, especially if your first impression of Apple is a MacBook Pro is in the 2016-2019 era - you've probably seen the worst MacBooks available and not the best of Apple.

There were some good things, the displays were excellent, the touchpad is still the best in class, and the size/weight were excellent.

But usb-c only was step too far, the Touch Bar wasn't the right move for a Pro audience (i), there wasn't enough room for cooling the intel chips and the keyboard situation was farcical - it's the primary interface to a Mac (can you imagine the outcry if iPhones had touch displays randomly not working, doing extra touches etc?!).

I think Apple gets a lot of leeway because the 2008-2015 MacBook Pros were probably the best laptops you could buy.

Having owned a 2009 MacBook Pro which in my opinion was the best laptop I'd ever owned and never made me question the amount of money I spent on it. The 2016 MacBook Pro was the exact opposite (mainly due to the keyboard being so bad).

I'm glad Apple have come to their senses and course corrected. I do wonder though for people that have only seen the 2016-2019 era if they will bother to try Apple again...

(i) I understand it probably would've made it too expensive to produce but I think the Touch Bar would've gone down well on a MacBook Air where I would imagine there's a lot more hunt-and-peck typists that'd appreciate and notice what's being displayed on the Touch Bar. As a touch typist I never looked down to see the Touch Bar so it was a mostly wasted on me.

Was just playing around locally and found one of the undescribed Irb improvements is a drop-down with autocompletion suggestions nice!

Yeah, should be invocation, there's a nice example on the feature request (https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14579):

  def login(username: ENV["USER"], password:)
    p(username:, password:)
  end

  login(password: "xxx") #=> {:username=>"shugo", :password=>"xxx"}

FYI I’ve used this on the Mac it works pretty well: https://ianyh.com/amethyst/

Out of curiosity how come you never did one for Elixir as part of cooperpress? Half expected/hoped you’d start one at some point.

Thanks for the detailed reply, really appreciate it. I'm gonna have a play with my setup and experiment along those lines.

Those that love using i3/tiling managers - what does your workflow look like?

I used Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst an auto-tiler on the mac for quite some time but finally gave it up recently. I loved the auto-sizing but there were little niggles on the Mac e.g. some windows really needed to be floating and layout oddities when certain windows expected more width.

I tended to find I was mostly just using spaces to keep apps I was interested full screen and using the occasional split. I was just cmd/alt-tab'ing between apps most of the time. When I did have content in multiple windows it was then a faff to try and get the two windows I wanted in the same space. I didn't feel like I was making the most of it.

I've since gone back to SizeUp https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ and manually move windows to where I want them.

I feel like I wasn't and perhaps I'm still not using it as effectively as I could though hence the question.

For the record I'd love this too, I just don't see it happening anytime soon.

I've been thinking about this recently I'm not not sure the (vocal) Linux community would accept what it might take.

* Developers want to work on projects that interest them and provide a benefit to others.

* However, developers also want to make a good living so they need an audience willing to pay money and make it worth the time it takes to polish something to a decent finish.

* Some developers would prefer to keep their code closed-source.

(Again the vocal) Linux community all to often comes across as everything should be not only be free open-source also free to buy - it's almost a dirty word if you charge for software.

Additionally on the Apple-side of things:

* There's a culture of what constitutes a good app, it drives a certain perfectionism to the final polish that you rarely see in linux desktop apps. Personally I've not seen a huge amount of apps on linux that cater for different user audiences. As technical aware users we vastly over-estimate the amount of technical knowledge and patience an average user has to figure something out.

* Apple is now offering an audience from a multitude of devices. You can build your app for a watch, phone, tablet or desktop. e.g. if someone buys your app on the iPhone they are more likely to be interested in your apps for other devices so there's more opportunity to cross-sell.

Ubuntu is probably the closest I see to being able to set some proper direction here. But I've yet to see them double-down and really set their mind to it, they seem to set a direction hold for while then back-down and go another direction. From the outside, it seems like anytime they've really tried to do something different or _the horror_ make some money it seems to just rile up the vocal linux community.

I do feel like things have gone downhill. I bought a mid-2009 13” MacBook Pro which easily lasted 9 years (with an ssd upgrade and more ram added at some point) and was honestly the best laptop I’ve owned.

I was hooked and hyped to get the new 2016 MacBook Pro. Talk about polar opposite experience:

* The keyboard is terrible (replaced 3 times already),

* Touchbar is meh (if you touchtype when do ever look at it - this feels like a thing that’d be more useful for entry level machines where you are likely to find hunt-and-peck typists) and it now flickers in the corner occasionally.

* The fan is noisy

* I can no longer upgrade the ram or internal storage

* I’ve gone almost completely usb-c but the lack of usb-a and hdmi is still annoying on occasions - especially on a pro machine

On the good side

* the speakers are amazing

* the “retina” display is crisp and bright

* it’s amazingly small and light

What’s really killing Macs right now is the software-side “it just works” seems like a thing of the past e.g.

* I used to chuckle at people on windows when waking from sleep but Macs (possibly because of FileVault) feel just as slow now

* As mentioned in the post general Bluetooth flakiness (tbf it does seem like the latest patch release or two of Catalina seems to have got on top of this now)

* Using spaces (inc animation) for full-screen and making that what happens for the maximise button - just weird and clunky

* General system responsiveness - it just feels sluggish

I really can’t believe the turn around - they’ve managed to turn a customer-for-life to now I’m seriously considering getting a Linux-based laptop instead.

Yeah funnily enough I found something similar when my normal Mac keyboard died and I had to use a old dell one. Despite 10 years of Mac usage my subconscious felt the Dell keyboard, remembered my windows usage and started using ctrl instead of cmd automatically!

How did you find switching to Atreus& colemak? I was thinking of doing something similar and going to Corne/Colemak...

They have their place, I think we’ve been trained to expect to have to save/confirm changes. In non-critical places it can be delightful.

However, I really couldn’t believe that cloudflare had no confirmation with the DNS ui - I’m really glad they’ve changed this.

Thank god, I never understood the EU directives that didn’t consider that by making sure things were implemented at a browser level it would cause an order of magnitude less work for web developers/site owners and ensure a consistent experience for end users.

Interesting - I wonder if this also fits with the binary research going on: http://binaryresearchinstitute.com/bri/

I used to have a lot of trouble with this. It didn't help having the terminology 'visualisation' which makes it feel like you're not doing it right if you don't 'see' something.

It's something you can work on by using your other senses for instance rather than trying to see something, concentrate on what it feels like, or the sounds or the smells. e.g. To picture a beach feel the sand in your toes, the breeze on your face, the noise of the waves or the smell of the salt air.

If you can concentrate with that in your mind instead I find a picture will then quite often form. Especially true if you take the time to quieten your mind first (e.g yoga, breathing techniques, meditation etc).

This article doesn't seem to have any info on the syntax changes yet - here's a run through: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/wiki/New-Language-Features-...

btw did you do a fresh install? I'd always just upgraded and had no problems; until Yosemite. It's a bit more time consuming but Yosemite has worked great for me since I did a fresh install.

I don't think Dropbox has ever tried to compete on price though, have they?

For me, there are two things that make Dropbox a better option than MS/Amazon/Google:

1) It's their core business. You know it's not going to be dropped next week because the side project wasn't popular enough or it's not making enough money.

2) The on iPhone/Mac apps that I use quite often offer a sync option with Dropbox not many sync with other providers.

Fantastic, recently I've been really wondering why this kind of thing wasn't looked at more - it seemed to me it'd be a lot more consistent than using wind turbines or solar energy.

The idea looks excellent - obviously not 100% on the environmental impact (and I wonder if we really can get a good idea until some years after it's finished) but surely it's much better than coal & nuclear options?