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  • Remember kids

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  • I was talking in principle, more than in the specifics.

    And I am very willing to believe you with respect to Photoshop, as I have never used it (I have occasionally tried, and failed, to use GIMP). My graphical needs have always been better served by vector graphics e.g. Inkscape.

    I have used Windows extensively (and still have to from time to time), and it's usability is at least as bad that of a (sane) Linux distro (OK, not Gentoo). It's just it's usually bad in different ways. Windows is exactly the case where it's about getting used to the badness, rather than about it being superior.

    Accessibility, on the other hand? That's still better on Windows.

  • Remember kids

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  • Sometimes it's usability walls, but sometimes a user just so adjusted to the poor usability of the market leaders, and struggles to work with a more sane UI.

  • Remember kids

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  • Dude, honestly, cut the crap.

    I am exactly in the team that makes an open source entrant competing against a closed source incumbent. We're talking about data acquisition and inspection with certain kinds of scientific instruments.

    I personally like our software much better, also it's much easier to extend since it's written with pyqt and numpy.

    But our customers are busy people, with complicated and efficient workflows built with the competition.

    Every time they get stuck because the UI is unfamiliar or because a feature is missing (all niche use cases, but everyone has a mission-critical corner case so...) they are wasting time they don't have, to work around stuff that would have been easy if the stuck with the competition.

    Just replying to them "Skill Issue" is not going to cut it. If acted 20% as insufferable as you, I'm not sure we would have any customers.

  • KDE wins

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  • no native toolbar widgets

    I'm pretty sure he's talking about client-side decorations.

  • KDE wins

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  • I think he is posting from 1999, objecting to the use of the Qt libraries under the GPL-incompatible QPL licence.

    It's the best guess I have.

    And indeed, KDE 1.0 didn't look all that good.

  • Paramount+ Serves Up Bizarre AI Slop Thumbnail For Star Trek

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  • That's literally just a replicator for copies of Star Trek!

  • Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

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  • Imagine the management of Fiat not going around in a Panda...

  • Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

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  • But I mean why? Used in this way, AI systems are just another static analysis tool.

    Sure, a computationally inefficient one, but if you can get the signal/noise region high enough, anything that helps you find bugs seems fair game to me.

    One has to review their work, and take any fix offered by the slopmachine with a lot of care, of course.

    And Anthropic is a bad company, but we are talking about detecting security vulnerabilities in Firefox by wasting Anthropic money. That seems like win-win.

    The only downside (and I admit it's big) is that Anthropic gets some publicity out of this.

  • We should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touch

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  • They are talking about specific hardware features. Which would of course be great, but you can imagine how they are not exactly at the toppiest toppy top of Fairphone's priorities, when they are still struggling to be taken seriously by your mainstream Android buyer.

    Consider that every hardware features is extra hard for Fairphone, on account of their very specific commitments to materials sourcing, labor practices, and longer term support.

    They are a company with a lot of very complicated demands, for a still very low volume of sold devices. They need to pick their battles, and clearly being blessed by the church of Graphene can't be that high a priority.

  • Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service

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  • My Thinkpad from 2017 keep getting firmware updates through lvfs for like 7 or 8 years. I was pretty impressed actually.

  • Choices

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  • Are you... Me?

  • Do you rinse your plates and cutlery before putting them in the dishwasher?

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  • I am European, and cast iron is not used much here (outside of dutch ovens obviously), and neither is carbon steel. To be completely honest, on this side of the altantic we are all a little puzzled as to why y'all like cast iron so much.

    I have one non-stick pan for omelettes and fish, a seldom used dutch oven for stews, and I can do everything else with straight stainless steel so it all goes in the wash (except the valve of my pressure cooker).

    Even my forged Wüsthof knife goes in.

    I like my wood chopping board, but rarely use it because of the hassle of cleaning it. Machine-washed plastic boards don't stink, so that's what I use most days.

  • Do you rinse your plates and cutlery before putting them in the dishwasher?

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  • You can get smaller dishwashers. They make some very compact ones.

    And it's not a hard and fast rule but... If it's not machine washable, it usually remains on the shelf.

  • Deepl alternative

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  • Does OVH offer the same degree of demand elasticity? It's an honest question. I know that's something that many AWS users value a lot.

    On the other hand, paraphrasing, noone ever got fired for buying AWS.

  • Deepl alternative

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  • The switch of DeepL to AWS is puzzling for me as well, and if it's not done sufficiently carefully it can prove to be a fatal mistake.

    But if they don't lock themselves in, it can allow them to dramatically expand geographically, and to ensure availability in the presence of sudden spikes in usage, without having to massively invest in their own infrastructure.

  • Deepl alternative

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  • It's probably best if we do not look too much into where those are hosted.

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  • I've said it before, and I'll say it again, we should agree on a definition, o maybe better a categorization, of what it means to "be European". At the end of the day we're talking about a service where the employees, the know-how, the headquarters are solidly European. But you don't like their hosting provider.

    I guess you could use Mistral and live with the risk of hallucinations... but hey, I think they are hosted by cloudflare.

    Or you could look for some fully local, open source translator, if you can find it. I have one for Android, that uses the Firefox translation models (a.k.a. project Bergamot, which was an EU funded research project).

    Even LibreTranslate is written by an Italian, but he lives in Florida now.

    Maybe Yandex Translate?

  • 7 Years Dungeon!

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  • But now with 100000% higher carbon footprint!

  • GIMP rebranding as WLBR?

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  • Wilbur, IIRC is the name of the mascot.