Posts by JibberX

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Octogenerian Desktop Management - Living la vida Web Browser

My folks are both on Win 10 laptops and are both being cyber terrorized to upgrade to Win 11.

I KNOW that an in place upgrade to Win 11 is gonna be like replacing the laptop with a 10 year older machine.

As a daily Fedora guy I'm considering going that way as it'll be faster to fresh install that than the cycle of pain of either an in place upgrade to Win 11 - why is random stuff not working - to a fresh install loop, plus the joy of finding whatever files they've put wherever.

The only remaining hump is that Fedora isn't super keep on unattended complete remote desktop access... Its either beause its super secure, simply poorly thought out or deliberately obtuse... Y'know... Linux! Yay!

The other thing is the folks basic reality is most of their activity is web browser based, so that is OS agnostic making the shift less painful either way.

Figma bucks market trends, plunges into IPO waters after Adobe's failed buyout

Just use Inkscape kids, it's basically there, once they added Pages (Multipages) it has all I need plus y'know the idea that I have some files and a program I can use indefinitely for free....

I do see the benefit of online collaboration but that's like a 1% of the time problem.

GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin

Re: I can feel the downvotes coming! Be gentle.

I've become a Gnome guy, or maybe its Fedora guy I don't really know.

I would be a Cosmic guy (PopOS! version, not the well meaning Fedora attempt) but I haven't quite cracked Printers, specifically WiFi printers - Gnome and/or Fedora makes that happen without thought.

I'm very much from the world of never really getting on with the Windows 95 Start menu paradigm - even though I suppose Gnome's app launcher is just that but simple.

My day-to-day reality is living in a web browser plus some light programming, hobbyist game development, classical file management, calendaring, proper email and note taking - its been 40 years of computing and that's basically it plus the occasional db sniffing and installing random things to make sure they do what I think they do outside of whatever is going on in cloudland.

One feature I'm still not sure doesn't exist in the macOSish touch pad gestureverse is why there isn't a simple alt-tab equivalent that simply swaps the last 2 applications - the fully jazzy super overview is just mind bogglingly overcooked if you happen to have 10 windows milling about.

Fedora 41 beta arrives, neck-and-neck with Ubuntu – but with a different focus

Yes, I'm the Fedora GNOME user, and yes I like them both. I await the lynching.

Nautilus (or "Files", some classic Linux naming muddling) is hot rocking for what I need.

The writer seems to maybe be confusing GNOME 47 stuff with Fedora 41 stuff, other than a few tweaks and twonks I thought Fedora's GNOME was pretty vanilla, I've even given GNOME OS a punt to be sure.

I may have some buyers remorse on btrfs but I like to keep things vanilla (Hence GNOME affability I 'spose)

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

Re: Actually the Good book says ,,,

I dusted off my login to upvote any reference of this kind.

More please.

Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot

The cloud is just someone else's computer.™

Intel settles to escape $4b patent suit with VLSI

VLSI isn't famous for being one of the founding members of ARM? Weird vibes...

Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet

The Internet...? Or the World Wide Web?

I know they talk about BGP shenanigens but still, its just affects people looking and animated GIFs in Netscape right?

Lenovo ThinkPad X390: A trusty workhorse that means business but it's not without a few flaws

Lenovo X250 Owner Report

Bought an X250 (new, back in the day) thinking of IBM levels of reinforced concrete, instead I got a flaccid plastic bag with some components inside.

Keys around the nipple were broken on arrival, so not great pre sales checking... WARRANTY

X250 returned using UPS who are systematically worst package company I've ever dealt with in my life over the years, no option to use another courier.

X250 arrived back, internal battery not plugged in.

Day to day use, the laptop screen was being eaten by the palm rest, the chafing on itself in a laptop bag leaves a nice groove on the screen... WARRANTY

The self eating continued after the replacement screen was fitted. I think it was designed for the glass touch screen not the plastic screen I opted for so...

Couldn't be bothered with warranty anymore, so I have a slight crap screen, and now it runs without too much incident.

Be nice to spend a grand on a machine that didn't eat itself.

Sadly Lenovo appear to be the last sturdy(ish) manufacturer after Sony and Tosh capitulated.

It was a toss up between an X250 and a Dell XPS13, I will never know which was the better option.

Pros and cons.

Punkt: A minimalist Android for the paranoid

Re: IP52

I bought the 8110 4G recently, screen scratched on the day of purchase. Must be all the diamonds (pocket grit, plastic screen) in my pocket?

Wish I'd seen the Cat before I impulse bought.

4G hotspot works abroad without buying extra tethering, so saving me a fiver a day already.

Removable battery on the 8110 might be good if I could find replacements, over the Cat, but that has 600 extra mahs.

Google kills AdWords!

Someone should tell Google Ads that they are a different company these days to Waymo... I guess they use the same designer...

Android devs prepare to hit pause on ads amid Google GDPR chaos

Wet fart

So as with other regs of this nature its complete unpolicability and likely nonenforcability will mean no one will know what to do, when to do it, and why.

Whilst its panic stations of the next fortnight, when's the first nonconformist going to be in the dock? 5 years?

Is the information commissioner really going to be able to enforce any of this?

I've read people likening this to kitchen hygene and so on, but its really just a confusion inducing mush.

Google are just riding it out until everyone realises GDPR has no teeth.