Posts by Baudwalk 174 posts • joined 3 Dec 2009
Forget about those crappy gaming <insert anything vaguely computing related>.
For a proper office chair (also good for extended gaming sessions, if you have that sort of time to spare), get a HÅG Creed 6002.
Pricey but built to last, and at least you don't look like you're using your teenage kid's chair in Zoom^WTeams meetings.
My older model is well over 20 years old and still as comfy as ever.
Your back will thank you.
..."A Pyramid, properly viewed as a device for manipulating time, doesn't so much keep a razor blade sharp as remind it of a time in its life when it wasn't blunt, and to make a suggestion that this would be a nice time to revisit, for just long enough to do Pharaoh's legs."
...tedious.
But it's stories like these that make me love even these deficiencies of the C++ ecosystem.
It does mean reinventing the wheel more often than developers who exclusively code in Rust, Python, Go, Java, C#, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, OCaml, Haskell, ... *sigh* (wipes tear away) *sniffle*
But at least the risc of catching, and distributing, something nasty is lessened.
init option in sixth birthday release
I ran Slackware Current for some years.
It was the most stable OS, I've ever used.
But as it didn't come with a huge set of packaged applications, it did take more time to manage and keep current than most distros. Not helped by me compiling everything non-core from original sources.
The thing really was rock-solid, though.
When that PC needed replacing, general life had gotten in the way, so I went the way of the lazy and installed Debian.
... classified as "little" memory in a phone, these days?
Chr*st al-effin-mighty!
SW devs need to step back and... well, I would have said optimise, but if a phone needs 6GB of RAM to not be sluggish, it's beyond optimisation to fix, it's more like time to “unlearn what you have learned".
...but getting the exact incantations right for including some of the popular dependencies is pure hell.
Kotlin and even Java itself these days are actually pretty nice languages (Clojure is better, IMHO), but Gradle is a big no. Just No!
Even the C++ ecosystem's way of tracking down, downloading and building by hand each library feels less onerous.
...
Sir Humphrey: "This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967..."
Jim Hacker: Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?
Sir Humphrey: No, a marvelous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files
...IF you want cloud storage.
1TB OneDrive for you and 1TB each for 5 other family members.
I like DropBox' interface a lot more, but this price is damn hard to beat. And that's before adding in the Office pack for everyone, should they want it.
And with rclone, the Linux <-> OneDrive experience has been very nice for me too.
...I don't have an iPad, but when my son's Android tablet broke last year, some research revealed that the 2018 iPad was the best bang-for-the-€ gaming tablet around.
Apple's phones and, to a lesser extent, their OSX boxes are overpriced. Not so the non-pro iPad.
Surprisingly, to me anyway, I was able to actually open!!! the thing and fix it (so we still don't have an iPad), but not until I'd already done the research.
>>>Many years ago a woman named Gwen Jacobs fought all the way to the Supreme Court for the right to walk topless on Canadian streets during warm summer days.
She won, enshrining the principle that male and female nipples should be treated equally.<<<<
Truly, not all heroes wear capes.
...if IBM youngins are "more innovative and receptive to technology than baby boomers", it might have something to do with the IBM of yore, that your older minions persevered through, having had somewhat of a reputation for not exactly encouraging thinking outside the box, blue or otherwise.
You know, back when young-and-hip Microsoft (how times have changed) were having your lunch.
... as you would Netflix and Spotify: You’re only renting the stuff.
When buying apps on Google Play, I do so in the full knowledge they may (and some do) stop working at any time.
But the prices have to match.
That’s also why I only buy heavily discounted games for my son’s Xbox. Luckily, like me, he’s not into the latest multi-player FPS, so that’s never been an issue.
Similarly, PC games I only buy from GOG.com. They don’t have the latest AAA titles, but I can find what *I* want to play. And I don’t have time to fit in on-line multi-player anyway, so DRM-free single player (or LAN/off-line multi-player) titles fit my needs perfectly.
Funnily enough, when games are removed for sale from GOG, they’re still left in the libraries of those who bought them when GOG did have them for sale.
...quite frankly a bit ugly.
But, at the same time much more easily navigated than the current everything-must-be-flat-and-indistinguishable design language.
The "commits, branches, ..." bit needs to be tabs too, though.
Personally, my idea of peak pretty AND functional desktop GUI design was one of the KDE 3.x themes (can't remember the name).
>>>yet has very little actual functionality.<<<
Little functionality, you say?
But with Atom, your syntax highlighting theme can easily make parts of your source (e.g. TODO comments) gently fade between different background colours.
And all that essential functionality for only an installed size of 715MB!
So be it.
If they willfully break the GPL, better to sue if need be, and scare them and their likes off in future, IMHO.
Otherwise, what's the point of the GPL?
Commercial vendors expect money for their product.
Contributors to GPL projects have a right to expect reciprocity in the form of source code.
That's the deal.
TANSTAAFL.
Except BSD, perhaps, but they didn't choose that for whatever reason.
...of the Excel Abusers!
Surprising move, really, that they've found themselves to be able to make do with Google's much sparser feature set compared to MS Office.
But if the missing features are no big deal for them, and on-line sync and collaboration is important, I can understand it.
MS Office is MUCH more powerful, but every time on-line access is involved, it's slow as mollasses.
Google, OTOH, does the snappy web experience well.
Completely ignoring the issues with going cloudy, of course.
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