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  • I HATE electron

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  • ITT: some people are mad the web became the application platform of choice, in part due to handy dandy cross platform app tools like Electron and accessible languages like JavaScript.

    There is no perfect answer. Qt isn't using the platform's native capabilities to the fullest extent either. Qt requires a "wrapper" too--all those libraries your app depends on, to name a few (unless you got a commercial license and are compiling statically, you rich devil).

    Let's celebrate the onslaught of apps that work with Linux instead of trying to scare off developers any more than Linux already did. Make love not war. <3

    In my experience, Electron and other "web wrapper" apps run just fine and I have enough CPU and RAM to run a dozen of them alongside my 50 browser tabs. Slack, Discord, VSCode, Teams, IRCCloud, it all works fine. Hardware is cheap compared to my time.

  • The 26-year-old Quake 2 just got the remaster of my dreams, plus a big expansion

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  • I'm sad it doesn't work with Quake 2 RTX, I still find that to be prettier.

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  • I have an iPhone through T-mobile and I don't have to pay extra for my hotspot. Kinda hilarious, though, I only get 20 gigglebytes of high speed hotspot, which my 5g can blow through in as little as 3 minutes 45 seconds as of the latest speed test (712mbps). After that, it caps it at 600kbps. They have no problem with me using hundreds of gigglebytes directly on the phone, for some reason, I don't see why they have to limit hotspot.

  • It's not just Adobe. Now Logitech wants me to go to a random website in order to add peripherals to my computer, and I'm met with this when I go to the page they tell me to

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  • It's kind of hilarious they didn't just build this into the options app. But WebUSB gets a bad rap for no good reason.

    WebUSB's only sin is that it's being spearheaded by Google. It's a useful technology that means theoretically you only need to write to one platform - the web. Let the browser deal with the different USB APIs for each OS (please god google save me from libusb). It's safer because of the browser's sandboxing, the permission dialog, the much greater likelihood they're using good standard TLS instead of rolling their own encryption, the list goes on.

    Personally, I'd rather visit a web page one time to set it up and then forget about it, than to have to install Yet Another Thing™ that ends up running in the background, always checking for updates, reporting analytics back to the mothership, and constantly sucking up just a little bit of my CPU time even when I don't have any Logitech devices connected. (Sound like any other Logitech software you know of?)

    I had a Pixel phone that I wanted to reflash back to the standard factory image. Did I have to download a special program, reboot the phone into bootloader mode, and perform an ancient ritual sacrifice like I do with a Samsung phone? No, I just had to visit the right web page and click "yes, allow this page to fuck up my phone". No lingering software left over on my PC, at least once the browser cache goes away.

    Same with many Arduino and ESP32 projects, by way of WebSerial. If the page you're reading doesn't have to send you off to some other program and can just, right there in the web page, flash your device with the software it's telling you about, that's a good thing.

    The web is becoming the application platform of choice. No App Store guardians to reject you from it. No 30% cut to the man. The list of reasons to have to install a program to your native OS is shrinking. Even 3d games can be done entirely in the web now. Rejecting WebUSB/WebSerial just means developers have to keep writing stuff for every OS (if you're lucky).

  • Did something today I had been putting off for 6 months

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  • Teach me your ways

  • What is an extremely dangerous thing that we use daily?

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  • Dihydrogen monoxide. That stuff'll kill you.

  • Only Composite Kids Will Get It

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  • Why did you choose your username?

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  • I get mad sometimes

  • How does everyone feel about Samsung phones?

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  • I have a Galaxy A13 as a test phone for work. Not great, but great for the price. The UI is fine. Cheap Android phones have gotten a lot better recently.

    I have a Galaxy Tab S8 for myself. I like the 120hz screen and the design, it feels solid and pretty. Good speakers. I also have a Galaxy Tab A7 Lite that I got for free from T-mobile. I like the size

    Got a couple of Galaxy Tab S5e at work for testing purposes as well. Currently both of them have been hacked up to install Android Automotive and one of them is in my car serving as my infotainment system. Pretty sweet.

    I wish Samsung would allow unlockable bootloaders on their US phones/tablets with cellular radios in them. I want to hack up my A7 Lite to install Android Automotive so I don't have to hotspot to the S5e anymore.

  • Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

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  • All good points. I fully agree, and I deserve it for living on the edge of technology like this. (The cavemen probably burned a few eyebrows off before figuring out not to touch the fire)

    Worth noting, I didn't mean to use snap, it was that "apt install chromium-browser" transparently installed it as a snap and I wasn't paying attention at the time.

    In general I don't really care one way or another between apt, snap, or just plain downloading the source and doing a good old fashioned build from source like the old days. I just didn't know to expect this certain installation method to lock out a certain browser feature I needed at the time. Now I know, so I won't use snap for that (or maybe ever, I'm debating whether I just uninstall it). I wonder what fell out of my brain to make room for that, though. :D

    I am pretty sure the no display sleep thing is down to whether I had a VirtualBox machine as the active window when I left it, so my "fix" is just to make sure I click some other window before I leave the desk. I have had fine experiences running VMs in Windows, nothing to report. I even do crazy stuff like pass through USB devices to the guest machine and all (that seems to work regardless of what host OS I run it on).

    I do run into things on Windows and Mac sometimes, to be completely fair. Just fewer and further between. Maybe that's just because there's fewer things I can do on them, though. (Can't build embedded Linux or Android images on them)

  • Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

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  • It's worth a whole post of its own. Shame I had to drown it out with the other crap.

  • Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

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  • I wasn't trying to use snap, but the apt package did a sneaky and installed the snap for me, as I found out when I hit the about and realized my Chromium was a snap package. They decided to move it to a transition package a few years back and I missed the memo.

    Fair point that 20.04 is ancient. However, I have tried 22.04 and some stuff I tried to build with Yocto Project could no longer build, so I left my main machine at 20.04. Or was it the AOSP build that failed? I forget by now. Urgh. So much crap I'll have to test when switching. :(

  • Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

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  • To keep this post short and sweet, I laser focused on the one issue that most recently grinded my gears. I can get rid of snap, but then, what's going to happen next? That's all I'm saying, really. There's no perfect story, even my Mac drives me bonkers at times (yes thank you I know I removed the drive without ejecting). But yeah, should really try something different than Ubuntu at some point, or start fixing some of the stuff that bugs me instead of banging my head on the wall about it. I used to fix stuff. Even contributed some code to a few open source projects over the years. I'm just always trying to deal with something else at the time I run into these things and don't have the patience to engineer my way out of it in the heat of the moment. I'm a whiny baby and I'd rather it just be fixed for me.

  • Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

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  • I whine about something something Ubuntu. I should probably switch to something else. But I decided to spend my time typing words instead.

  • Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

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  • I've been itching to jump onto KDE Plasma. I work with Qt/QML a lot, which means I'd be right at home to tinker around with things. Actually recently developed an embedded Linux demo unit which used a small part of KDE Framework 6. Good stuff.

  • Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

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  • I hear Mint is pretty good

  • Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

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  • I've been meaning to switch to something else for this and other reasons, it's just that everything I google on the bing is written for an Ubuntu system ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's hard to wade against the current

  • Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

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  • Me too

  • What are YOU self-hosting?

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  • This is my little setup at work

    Kubernetes cluster (created by kubespray)