Ephera

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Ephera,

No, blonde girl was dropping hints that emo girl is her crush. Emo girl didn’t get the hint until a year later.

Ephera,

Eh, my needs aren’t too elaborate on my phone. I only really care about lag while scrolling, which isn’t a problem in Firefox.

Not needing to have another app installed, especially on my mum’s phone, is what I’m mostly excited by.

Ephera,

Yeah, really happy about this. $WORKPLACE uses Ubuntu and the Snap is just mildly broken in multiple ways. The .tar.bz2 works, but we would have had to script the download + creation of the .desktop file. We successfully procrastinated doing the latter long enough, that Mozilla fixed it.

Ephera,

Bayonet?

Ephera,

The TL;DR I was looking for: The beavers help to ‘fight fires’ in the sense that they prevent forests from drying out. Their dams will occasionally cause floodings or streams to diverge, which helps to distribute the water.

Ephera,

I am very confused. Is that a comic he had made about himself? I wouldn’t be entirely surprised…

Ephera,

I read up on it at some point and it was essentially a matter of their UI framework just being custom-implemented. Any advanced UI concept would need so much overwhelming support from the community, that a core dev then sits down for a few months to dish out the necessary UI components, that this is just not really happening. The core devs aren’t exactly bored most of the time anyways.

Having said that, they did recently renovate the settings menu using the UI components they already had, and that turned out really cool.

Also, I do feel like some smaller improvements could be made without big code changes, but yeah, those then end up in too many discussions.

The font has been discussed many times. To give you a taste:
Many want a font with fantasy style, but Minetest can also depict a futuristic setting. Others want a blocky font, but those usually aren’t very legible (i.e. accessible) and often only support a narrow range of languages.
I think, just a font, which looks less serious and less thin, already improves it massively, but you can’t even get folks to agree on that, because well, if the font is tweaked, you might need to adjust lots of UI components and mods and such to work with the different font dimensions. So, if a font change is made, people want to get it perfect from the start.

The button gradients are another case, where most people agree that something else would look better and it could be easily changed, but discussions just never end.
The community is just so big and so public, that there’s always someone new joining into the discussion, so that no consensus can occur…

Ephera,

Is “business class” just a simile here? Because normally, the hardware sold to businesses is of a better quality (albeit also expensive).

Ephera,

Ah right, yeah, those are crap. I really don’t get why companies are willing to cheap out specifically with keyboards.
Like, it’s the tool your workers use all day. Even if they just type 5% faster on a proper keyboard, that pays for itself in no time.

Ephera, (edited )

The triple parentheses are a racist dogwhistle to point out Jewish folks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

And I guess, because the person on the right is a racist, when they’re talking about themselves (a Jew), they use those triple parentheses…

Ephera,

Wow, there is far too many layers to this terrible joke…

Ephera,

With how horny some folks are for their gun, I’m not sure, everyone feels the same about the handjobs…

Ephera,

Make America Xenophobic

Ephera,

A store near me sells tortellini labeled as “semi-fresh”.

What they mean, is that the tortellini are dried. Or at least, I hope so.

Ephera,

Yeah, I looked at that image for far too long, not realizing what bothered me so much. Those pallets don’t get moved without heavy machinery…

Ephera,

Personally, I don’t get why devs would elect to package for Snap, in favor of Flatpak or AppImage. I guess, if your toolchain offers Snap packaging out of the box, then might as well. But aside from that, do you not just reach fewer users…?

Ephera,

Ah, I hadn’t realized Canonical was so awful as to disable the format everyone else agreed on, but seems you’re right: www.omgubuntu.co.uk/…/ubuntu-flavors-no-flatpak

Ephera,

If you’re on Ubuntu, you can just ask your question in the normal Linux community or in a search engine. You don’t need to go to a special Ubuntu community.

That’s at least, how it makes sense to me. In general, I’ve seen many niche distros have very active communities, because everyone just ruts together and helps each other out.

…which is to say, I don’t think there are accurate marketshare statistics, because no telemetry, but my impression is also that Ubuntu is still popular out in the wild.

Ephera,

Well, yeah, you can enable it. But if it’s not active in their GUI software store by default, then many users will not find / look for it. It’s rather important for a package format that you don’t have to separately install it.

Ephera,

Because many apps will (or would prefer to) only be bundled as Flatpak. I agree that the deduplication is not a trivial problem to solve, even if they might have already solved it for DEBs (I don’t know).

But your entire comment could just as well be a rant why Canonical shouldn’t have introduced Snaps in the first place. It might be good for their bank account, if they can somehow monetize part of the cake, but splitting the cake even further, after it’s already split into DEB, RPM, AppImage, Flatpak, Docker, APK etc., that’s maximum user confusion.

Ephera,

I don’t know why you’re trying to interpret all kinds of things into my comment. I did not say any of that. This isn’t some competition to show who’s technically more correct.

Ephera,

True or false or null.

Mathematicians didn’t know it yet, but numbers can now be even, odd or neither.

Ephera,

Yeah, I think, that’s only really JSON which is so pedantic about it…

Ephera,

Yeah, I’m chalking that up to Python’s untypedness. I was going to write “integers”, but technically that function takes a “num”, whatever that is.

For all we know, it could be a string, asking ChatGPT to hack the government. Is that even? Probably no. Or None. Or T-Rex. Without reading the entire function, we don’t know that it’s not returning T-Rex.

Thankfully, it doesn’t matter. Just stick the result into an if-else, then False and None will land you in the else-branch. And both True and our Truthiness-Rex will land you in the if-branch. Just as Guido intended.

…this rant brought to you by trauma.

Ephera,

Well, we don’t tend to do well with a “Why not both?” situation. We tend to select for the bare minimum, egoistic solution. Not having the egoistic solution available could genuinely help us, i.e. force us, to be less stupid about this…

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