Linux is great, and does a lot of stuff right… however…
I just don’t get the people around there sometimes. They’re okay with spending 1000+ hours jumping between 30 different Linux distros and customizing their DE, dealing with Wine / virtualization crap. BUT they aren’t able to Windows 10 Enterprise and read the manual to get a clean usable system in 1/1000 of the time and effort.
How ironic.
The ads in win10 pushed me to the limit
Never seen them. But Microsoft does document how to disable everything you would like to.
I don’t just don’t get why do the same people who bitch a lot about Windows (not you) are unable to install Windows 10 Enterprise and read the manual BUT they are able to jump between 30 different Linux distros and spend 100x more time customizing their DE and dealing with Wine / virtualization crap. Ironic.
“After years of pushing their proprietary and closed solutions to privacy minded people Proton decided that it was in their best interest to further bury said users into their service as a form of vendor lock-in. To achieve this they made yet anoter non-standard groupware feature - a document editor.
I know, I know, but trust me that a lot of people believe that they don’t issue security patches fast.
If you want a git “server” quick and low maintenance then gitolite is most likely the best choice. https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html
It simply acts as a server that you can clone with any git client and the coolest part is that you use git commits to create repositories and manage users as well. Very very or no maintenance at all. I’ve been using it personally for years but also saw it being used at some large companies because it simply gets the job done and doesn’t bother anyone.
So I want to get back into self hosting, but every time I have stopped is because I have lack of documentation to fix things that break. So I pose a question, how do you all go about keeping your setup documented? What programs do you use?
Joplin or Obsidian? Or… plain markdown files with your favorite text editor.
“oh but Debian only has old stuff” , yeah sure. :P
Yeah that one is very good.
Maybe the NextCloud guys will follow… oh wait that would just be yet another perpetually half-finished NC thing.
That’s what the paper was about, the law also applies the in reverse, adding the space protects the user because it makes it harder to click on the hitbox.
But something that’s different would rationally be called not copying, whereas you categorize it as poor copying. Interesting.
I would categorize it as poor copying because the copy doesn’t conform to the design / UX patterns that were present on the “original” work.
My point is: if you want to copy / be inspired by others at least do it right.
+1 for this. This is kinda the same issue with encoding, just UTF-8 everything and move on.
Here’s the problem, RCS isn’t a truly open thing and Google kind of maintains a lot of the software that even carriers use for it. It essentially opens the door for the tech companies to take over yet another big chunk of the carrier services and tap into more user’s data at the network level.
In June 2019, Google announced that it would begin to deploy RCS on an opt-in basis via the Messages app, with service compliant with the Universal Profile and hosted by Google rather than the user’s carrier, if the carrier does not provide RCS
In October 2019, the four major U.S. carriers announced an agreement to form the Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI) to jointly implement RCS using a newly developed app. This service was to be compatible with the Universal Profile.[33] However, this carrier-made app never came to fruition. By 2021, both T-Mobile and AT&T signed deals with Google to adopt Google’s Messages app.[34][35][36] In 2023, T-Mobile and AT&T agreed to use Google Jibe to implement RCS services, and in 2024 Verizon agreed to use Google Jibe.
Apple stated it will not support Google’s end-to-end encryption extension over RCS, but would work with GSMA to create an RCS encryption standard.
it is trivial to disable all animations
Yeah you can go into settings and toggle of a switch, however they don’t disable everything. ~
Whenever you go into Settings > Accessibility > Enable Animations and disable it one would expect that ALL animations would be disabled while in fact they aren’t. It should behave like Xfce that is, click on something and get the instant result, no delay, no very small animation / fade like GNOME still does.
Bottom line: that option in GNOME is misleading and doesn’t do what it advertises.
To be honest I felt a bit lost on MacOs Catalina and felt like everything was difficult compared to Gnome.
Just because you aren’t used to the macOS workflow it doesn’t mean it is bad - that’s the same argument you GNOME fan boys do with Windows users ;)
But I guess Gnome is taking a lot of inspiration from the MacOs aesthetic, and it’s okay with me because it looks great.
Yes, it’s okay, and that was never an issue in this discussion. The issue is that they didn’t took enough inspiration on basic UX patterns.
This is an application of Fitts’s law. I saw some paper referencing it to back that kind of margins on destructive actions but I don’t remember the title.
Your point being…?
They might have done their stats and figured out that only 0.0000001% of their users would benefit from it and there weren’t much profit there to make.