lattenwald

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[–] lattenwald 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Wireguard protocol works with my home internet provider, doesn't work on LTE. Shadowsocks just works everywhere.

They do have black boxes but there are protocols they can't handle yet. It's just usual sword vs shield arms race.

[–] lattenwald 24 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I live in Russia and with all this "VPN is restricted" fuss I've yet to meet someone without VPN on their phone. Most people use free VPN services, some are paying for it, me and my friends use VPN we set up on VPS.

[–] lattenwald 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They need a new enemy every now and then. If the current enemy happens to be exterminated, they'll need one sooner, but they'll need a new one anyways.

[–] lattenwald 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thankfully I don't have people I need on WhatsApp, but it took some convincing.

Nowadays I only have dentist and barbershop on WhatsApp, all my folks are on Telegram, including all work communications.

WhatsApp was always lacking features; WhatsApp web can't replace a full featured desktop client which is a must have for me; and its mobile client is inconvenient in every possible way.

[–] lattenwald 3 points 1 year ago

You might enjoy reading Robert Sheckley's "A Ticket to Tranai". They have some good ideas about holding politicians in check there on Tranai.

[–] lattenwald 15 points 1 year ago

That's an album cover right there.

[–] lattenwald 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was using Gentoo for some years, and I have to say I do not regret switching to Arch.

That said, power to those chosen or damned to wield Gentoo in the eternal war of kernels. They are the fabric of reality, interstellar light and darkness, they are the reason we, common folks, can live peacefully with precompiled packages, not knowing the pains of building everything from sources.

[–] lattenwald 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pixel 7 Pixel 7, built-in camera app, motion mode long exposure. Taken on the forest psytrance festival "Слияние" on July 13th, techno stage with a smoke machine, backlit by couple of LED thingies and one laser thingie.

[–] lattenwald 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This episode made me watch all of Black Mirror, and let me tell you it didn't stand up to this one. Watch White Christmas episode and you're good. Maybe add San Junipero, this one is really good too and it's more optimistic.

[–] lattenwald 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So Sync's UI is good for you, you have used applications that make you kinda got used to Sync. It's called anecdotal evidence I think, when you make conclusions based in single test case. I'm happy for you. I like Sync UI best of all too, I tried multiple Reddit clients and Sync was most convenient for me.

[–] lattenwald 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Never seen an intuitive UI. Been on Linux since 2004, was working on company-provided Macbook and struggled with UI, was very happy to abandon it. I have Windows as a gaming OS, dual boot configuration with my Arch Linux, and let me tell you I game on Windows like twice a month, absurdity of this OS makes me not want to game.

For me the most intuitive UI is the one I built on Linux, with I3wm and a lot of custom scripts. This surely will not be intuitive for you.

Universally intuitive UI is a myth.

edit: UI designers, using right tools, definitely can and do make better UI, UI better suited for target audience, better working right out of the box. Keyword is "target audience". One can't say Windows UI is more intuitive, it's UI a lot of people got used to. "Intuitive" has very different meaning AFAIK.

[–] lattenwald 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, but I'm using Sync exactly because I'm using Linux lol. Much more convenient and polished, and there's no such thing as intuitive UI, there's only UI you got used to.

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