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Yeah, I remember GoboLinux from when OSNews was still a happening place.
Everyone always says "consult your doctor", it's safe advice, but the consensus from doctors I've spoken to, books I've read, and the fact sheets that come with medication make it very clear that you can totally take a day off. This is nothing like medication for bipolarity, epilepsy, or HIV where you can't miss a dose without terrible consequences.

On the other hand, you may forget to take your medication, that can really be a problem. The rule of thumb is, if you forgot if you took it, it's because you forgot to take it.
Right, I agree that differences of opinions between implementations is probably not productive. I was responding to the notion that this situation is somehow directly attributable to Wayland's design, which is bogus.

The current situation is just how it coincidentally turned out - there's just not always a clear direction on the free desktop (and that's even what many people like about it). If wlroots or something similar had existed earlier, then this probably would have turned out differently but c'est la vie.
> but they unfortunately apply a one-size-fits-all approach for most of their products and don't give a shit about ergonomics.

Their H1 chipset line includes a fair number of products for different uses, ears and preferences.

AirPods Mark II, AirPods Pro w/ 3 separate tip sizes, AirPods Max, Powerbeats Pro which IIRC had 4 or 5 tip sizes in the box (would have to dig it out to check), the Beats Solo Pro and the 2020 Powerbeats.

Not all of these are good fits on me, and I’ve owned or tried most of them. Pretty sure the remainder of the Beats line sold today that I haven’t listed is still on the W1 which is still a decent enough chip, although I’ve found the H1 to have superior wireless performance in crowded downtown San Francisco where the W1 would have trouble maintaining a connection to my phone.

For all the headphones they sell, I think there are still some gaps in Apple’s lineup to fill and room for other products in the market. I don’t know what their plans are, but if they intend to remain contenders they probably are working on designs that you might like more, unlike say, the mouse, where they made Ive’s platonic ideal of a mouse and seemed to have called it a day, there is no range or differentiation: you can have a Magic Trackpad or you can have a Magic Mouse. I mean that’s fine, I’m happy with my Logitech mouse.
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...?
What is a "power user?" Sounds like the same nonsense we hear from proprietary software vendors all the time, "That feature is for enterprise users."

Gnome more or less optimizes for minimal configurability, the theory being that most users want the UI to be as clean as possible. They do not particularly care if someone would like to be able to change some annoying behavior, because they thought that behavior made sense and they feel the cost of adding a button to disable it, or even burying a configuration bit in gconf, is far too high. Of course, they do not have the resources needed to run actual user studies the way Apple, Google, and Microsoft do, so their idea of what users want is mostly based on their own ideas about what users want (since they usually dismiss feature requests from their actual users, because those are "power users").
For reference: it's at $120 now and still dropping, down from a peak of $469. Needless to say it's not getting to $10k.
The ‘thumping‘ sound on the Pro model is a reason for a warranty replacement. Apple has acknowledged the mass occurring defect and ships a replacement after contacting the support (you have to send the faulty item back).
Not really. He answered a question about learning about CPU design, and he said that RISC-V is a good thing to look at. Yes, he said "state of the art" but it was in the context of learning about CPU design, so I think the meaning here is not as strong.
A lot has changed. For better or worse, a lot of headphones are chosen for how they look, not how they work. How many fashion items do you use for your lifetime and pass them down to your kids? People do that with expensive watches but I'm having a hard time thinking of other fashion items that are durable across generations.
> I don't care for comparing this year to the past 400 years on issues like poverty, etc

Since 1995, crime, child mortality, global poverty and death by warfare are all dramatically down.
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And nothing about business needs and wants, working with stakeholders and all the rest? I’ve seen both newly minted and seasoned “architects” fail again and again because they think in terms of technology not business.
This is true, but I'm looking more at structural features from an etic perspective.
I would greatly appreciate a service that fills this need, but your approach has a bad smell. The second you mention using AI for generation, I'm no longer interested. I'd rather pay 10 times whatever you had in mind and get human help. Make whatever internal tools you want to streamline the process, but don't take the humans out of the loop when it comes to something as important as validating a business idea.
this is neat, what did you use to build it?
A real inspiration, and in a time where prattling celebrities demand praise and are revered for the most trivial things he always seemed so sweetly modest and humbled by all the attention.

The Greatest Generation showing their mettle again?

Obit:

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We did something like this 20 years ago at a company I worked for. It's effectively pointless, and there are better, more modern methods. Here's why.

First of all, the filesystem isn't a database, it's a hierarchical index of files. It has a couple fancy features specific to managing files. Trying to force it to do more than that will result in pain, and eventually building something else around it. But the filesystem isn't even the biggest limiting factor.

Managing both the build-time and run-time dependencies of software is more complex than a filesystem can handle. To execute an application in an operating system, there must be one "environment", which is a combination of a kernel, an OS's environment and resources, and a set of applications and dependencies. The dependencies are set at build time and run time, and can't be interchanged at will without causing instability (if it works at all). You can juggle symlinks around all you want, but it doesn't result in any useful functionality other than looking at a bunch of differently versioned files that are not - cannot - be in use.

The applications themselves can be programmed to interact with multiple versions of dependencies, but if they are not already built to do so, you cannot force them to. This underlying limitation is what forces an application environment to depend on a static tree of files. It doesn't matter how many versions of a dependency you have installed, you can only use one at a time, as each application allows you to. That's why you can only install one version of a package, and why we don't have trees of versioned file hierarchies for the dependencies. They'd be pointless. You can only use the files you can use.

All popular Linux distributions today know this. They have worked along with the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard over the past 26 years, and understand these issues well. Distros may implement it differently, but mostly they conform to it, because they know nothing else really makes a difference. At the end of the day, the current standard (when properly used) is as simple and effective as we can get.

Some software developers (cough Systemd cough) basically don't give a shit about the standard, and generally make the users' and distros' lives harder. This is the one place where the distros could make a difference, by forcing a structure that makes more sense. But enforcement is haphazard, so some apps can force really stupid file structures on distros, and people wonder why the filesystem is so confusing.

So you may ask, what's a better solution? The answer is containers (or really, chroot environments, but that's what a container is). I have a longer post which goes into more detail about why package management literally cannot solve any other problem than it already does, and why containers are the only "advancement" without radically redefining application development: https://gist.github.com/peterwwillis/e96854532f471c739983c0b...
OH NOES! I am losing imaginary internet points!! I can lose a few more here as well.

Your username is ironic.
I never experienced any data loss, I don't know.
Nice read! An honest article without all the BS from the usual Telegram is bad articles.
>I bought the Harry Potter books because of the world she built, not because of her writing ability.

Risible. What made that world if not the writing? The Harry Potter Wikipedia contains all the substantial plots, characters, worlds they inhabit. Same world. Pay for that, would you? Read that for pleasure, would you?
> "...Human beings aren’t pieces of technology, no matter how sophisticated. But by talking about ourselves as such, we acquiesce to the corporations and governments that decide to treat us this way. When the seers of predictive processing hail prediction as the brain’s defining achievement, they risk giving groundless credibility to the systems that automate that act – assigning the patina of intelligence to artificial predictors, no matter how crude or harmful or self-fulfilling their forecasts."

This seems to summarize the main thesis.

Modeling/simulating human effects by applying various technological approximations may be useful within the intended scope. However, expanding that scope and projecting the models onto the whole phenomenon of human brain is false, if not dangerous. The only purpose this sort of unwarranted projection serves is to justify the applied methods and the resulting treatment of humans.

And why all these attempts to 'crack' the brain? The author posits that the main goal is control.

But why one would need such a control? To subjugate, to make the world a better place, to live forever, or just make a quick buck and squirrel it away...? What do predictions tell about the ultimate intent?
At my house I used to have about 5 new red wasp nest under the soffit every year... Very easy to get rid of with that wasp spray that goes 15-20ft if you catch it early.
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Unfortunately, when it comes to analytics and conversion pixels, deferring everything isn't really a serious option because it literally means missing data. Essentially all your metrics would be skewed and your remarketing audiences would be missing potential users. But also from performance it isn't great - I came across this website yesterday that did more or less this, and the problem was that because everything was loaded just after the page was ready, things would get super slow the first few seconds you're trying to interact with it.
The UK records any "dies with" as "dies of" when it comes to COVID-19. This is one of the problems with the data.
> Advanced users, which need end-to-end encryption and are willing to trade a bit of usability for improved security guarantees, are able to do so by using secret chats

Except when they want to chat with more than one person at once. Telegram does not have any support for encrypted group conversations.

Otherwise a good read. Telegram is not a bad app, but it does not suit my threat model. I'm willing to forgo cloud backups and some usability to have default encryption for all my conversations, which I think is something Signal provides. None of these apps are perfect, it comes down to what combination of trade-offs works best for you.
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Considering that I was not able to report toxic behaviour that I encountered in wikipedia recently (there was no information anywhere that I could find on how to do so, especially when said toxicity was coming from an admin) on wikipedia I believe that this is just theatre to make themselves look good.
Since you seem to have been inappropriately influenced by Robin DiAngelo’s White Guilt scam, I suggest you also get the perspective of a far more qualified black man and check out “White Guilt” by Shelby Steele.
I agree that's not good but redhat seems to be one of the few organization that pays developers to improve parts of the linux ecosystem. So when redhat endorse a project it probably means it tries to address some pain points of the status quo.

That's how I see systemd and wayland. For systemd the consensus seems to be that's it's better than the previous init systems as most distributions have adopted it. It seems we're going in that direction with wayland but we'll see how it goes.
A question to those that hire contractors from foreign countries - how are you not scared that they will steal the source code and just disappear?
Opinionated Arch flavor? Looks kinda cool since it lines up very closely with the decisions I make when I install Arch.
My pleasure! It can feel brutal at first to learn Linux, especially with so much choice out there (aka fragmentation?), but honestly it's the best thing I ever did for myself both personal and career-wise. Can't recommend at least basic Linux proficiency enough if you are in a technology sector especially.
> Especially uninstalling stuff installed that way is a horrible pain.

That was indeed one of the motivations for GoboLinux after tinkering with hand-compiled software a lot. Uninstalling is a mere "rm -rf /Programs/ProgramName" :)
Of course not. But it is fun to believe.
At some point, in human affairs, judgement requires nuance.
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> > - you need to be able to open files without user interactions (no file picker), in order to open playlist, MXF or MKV files;

> That's what xdg portals are for: display a native file picker, pass the file descriptor. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/desktop-integration.html?...

This doesn't fulfil the "without user interaction" bit, though, does it? The problem with those "let the user pick a file and the program just gets an opaque file handle"-style solutions is that they break down for any kind of file format that implicitly or explicitly consists of more than one single, atomic file that can stand for itself and doesn't require accessing data stored in other files.

E.g. playlists (letting the user pick the playlist through the OS-blessed file dialogue isn't enough, as you also need to access all media files referenced by that playlist), any kind of multi-part files (multi-part MKVs, multi-part RAR archives, whatever...), subtitles (the current expectation is that if you open a video, the video player is able to automatically find matching subtitle files stored in the same directory), locally stored HTML documents (your browser might need to load additional CSS/JS/images/... and you might also want to follow any links without having to go through a file picker each time...)
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I just read a post on HN that was cranky and combative for 4 paragraphs, but the last paragraph was sensible and golden.

I want to upvote only the last paragraph. Why can't I do that?

It seems too noisy for me to reply just to say, "+1 on the last paragraph."

Edit: speling :)
> sites/apps

I don't think apps are as relevant to current discussion. For apps (not public websites), there are different requirements depending on the target audience.

I wouldn't be mad at a B2B web app being desktop only, no mobile CSS.

But I agree that web apps should still be compliant with safari + FF + Chrome.
> In recent years, we introduced Runner (https://gobolinux.org/runner.html)

Clever. Seems like it's essentially a way to "pause" the rolling distro at a known-good point, and then use that environment to build whatever high-level stuff it is with your set of frozen dependencies— this would definitely do the thing, and would have been very helpful for the ROS on Homebrew effort.

OTOH, how different is this from Debian Sid as the rolling release that is occasionally broken when a new low level dep comes in, with the supported releases of Debian, Ubuntu, and others as the shared pause-points? I think ultimately I find it easier putting the work of finding a set of interoperable versions of things onto my distro maintainer (and in exchange knowing that if I want the cutting edge I'll have to do my own backport or go to PPAs), rather than taking on that work myself and hoping for the best or risking getting stuck with a bunch of super-old stuff and no clear migration path forward.
Person with gender dysphoria here. I've still heard the phrase in Canada by nurses & staff. Also heard it several years ago when living in USA by doctors & staff. Unsure why you think I was referring to internet forums? I thought those were deprecated since 2009.
I wish I had the problem of having multiple monitors connected to one computer or (any of) them having too high resolution wrt. physical size! That said, thanks for reminding that all processes listening (potentially) to all events on X11. Switched now to Ubuntu's flavor of Wayland, let's see how that goes.

(Last time I tried Wayland, it was because an update changed the default to it, without me noticing. Something important to me was then broken, and I had to switch back to Xorg, manually. That left a bad taste in mouth.)
That’s a great counter point, thank you.
Ironically, your last statement is kinda completely inverted.

A bunch of financially illiterate newbies who don't know half the terminology and don't understand the underlying math have gotten tricked into thinking that "it's all rigged" or "it's all a scam" and that they're going to get rich quick by participating in the scam. Completely oblivious to the fact that the only scam happening is to them.

Trump-supporters think the election was a scam and barged into the capitol. WSBers think the stock market is a scam and bought GME. Same thing, different day.
I'm going to take a contrarian point - what is so bad about vanity projects? I'm not going to touch on the connection between nationalism and these vanity projects, but the fact that teams can be sponsored to work on their own OSs or their own CPUs is valuable in itself. Having more people be able to learn about complex systems that would otherwise require working at one of the specialized places for those - the Linux Kernel Team, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, etc, seems like a good thing. It is a way for a new set of people to get practical experience without the constraints of being inside an existing organization.
you'd think the founding engineer of the company would be considered the expert in software project management

He doesn’t really see you as a co-founder is why. To him you are just Lego too. You should reevaluate your relationship with him and with the company.
For [0], libinput from what I've seen is supposed to take the place of linux-wacom. However I have only been playing with wacom fairly recently (I got one as a Christmas present) and haven't explored linux-wacom to see what is missing. I know with respect to libinput I have had difficulties getting the extra buttons on my tablet to work and some things have been a bit rough, but I don't know if that is due to me not understanding something or what.

TL;DR Theoretically libinput is a linux-wacom replacement.
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Getting 500: Internal Server Error.

Mild irony on a .io domain.
I wonder when will people learn to always set up at least microcaching, because you can never know when the ~slashdot effect~ hug of hackernews will hit you.
Show stopper for Ubuntu was screen capture. So screen capture works today, and if they switched, if would be difficult only for the first few weeks, when Ubuntu is buggy anyway.

But they didn't and the long-term consequences of delaying it will be felt across all linux distributions for years to come. So much for appeasing RH and it's fanbase.
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Yet more evidence is a clearing and collateral issue, not a massive conspiracy...