herrvogel

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[–] herrvogel 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

On Arch, KDE is the epitome optimization and polish.

Cannot relate. At all.

Last friday I re-installed Arch with KDE this time instead of GNOME for a change, and in these two and a half days I've already encountered more bugs and crashes than I did the entire time I was on GNOME. Kinda regretting the decision already. All that with stock applets and widgets and shit that come bundled with the DE. I don't want to imagine what things would be like if I started to mess around with third party stuff.

[–] herrvogel 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's unusual in that it requires a bit of extra work to really appreciate how absurdly rich and deep that one is. It's honestly fascinating. And it looks like it was made 30 years ago, which is an absolutely monumental achievement considering it was made over 50 years ago.

Though I can of course completely understand it when people don't want to have to read books and listen to Ted talks about a movie to figure it out.

[–] herrvogel 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh no systemd made you deaf won't someone PLEASE stop systemd's reign of terror oh the humanity

[–] herrvogel 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

But it's so unbearably slow.

Me when my computer that has a typical uptime of 37 days boots up in 7 seconds with systemd instead of 5.5 seconds with runit: 😡😡😡😡

[–] herrvogel 1 points 7 months ago

First gen in-screen scanners were absolute trash. Borderline unusable. But the tech has improved quite a lot since the first ones. The one in my galaxy tab s9's screen is fast and accurate.

[–] herrvogel 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"they have sane defaults" is the most insane thing I heard about Macs. Their stupid fucking defaults is what I hate the most about macs. Example: enter key. Its default behavior is to RENAME a file while you have to hit a two key combo to open a file. That will never make sense to me. Might sound like a minor thing, but the whole system is so full of such small annoying things. At first I thought it was annoying because I was not used to that stuff, but I've been using a Mac for quite a while now and I still find the OS mostly annoying.

[–] herrvogel 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What that means is Linux is spyware. So are pretty much every Foss project out there.

[–] herrvogel 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's an error message matrix (the messaging application) throws when something goes wrong that makes it unable to decrypt messages.

[–] herrvogel 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes that's why kids' tablets exist. They're less powerful devices loaded with a special version of android that's been MDM'd up the ass to give parents strict control over how their children use the thing. It helps you regulate screen time to a safe level instead of depriving your child of it entirely.

[–] herrvogel 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The usual answer to that is "active directory". It's not uncommon to have one windows server alongside other Linux servers because of AD.

[–] herrvogel 6 points 7 months ago

My old laptop's vga port had no screw holes. After years of plugging cables in and out of that port it eventually became loose and unable to hold onto a cable well enough to provide decent contact. In short, vga cables very rarely fell off but they most certainly did became loose and lost signal quality.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 7 months ago

Legible text has long been solved. Plenty of diffusion models out there that can generate perfectly normal looking legible text. The words might be complete gibberish, but at least they're legible gibberish.

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