Linus is the best kind of jerk.
Ok but that sounds like exactly the kind of shit test God puts people through in religious parables.
Give them an unbelievable and entirely random thing that SAYS it's supernaturally evil (and it actually is, but it's also so out of left field--) and if they don't take the warning at face value and put it back down they will go to hell forever or something.
Heh. L'd. Funni. Because in the show there's a guy named --
You're the one lying. Gnome 46. That's when it was added.
"Location entry on click" and "Detailed timestamps for files" listed proudly as "features" as if they aren't default on every file manager that doesn't treat its users like babies too dumb to use their computers.
Thanks, I was going to post a very similar rant.
The "just works" argument IS a valid one and they would have a point -- IF Gnome's defaults were in any way sensible. They aren't. The entire workflow is a nightmare. (I made the apple comparison -- Well, uhh... MacOS is also a walled garden that doesn't let you change shit, but at least it's got very decent defaults)
Gnome's file manager didn't let you type in FOLDER ADDRESSES until a few months ago, ffs. And sure you could, even then, use an alternative file manager.
.... But at that point you are fucking with the premise of "just works", because you will need to use non-default stuff.
How the turntables
Nintendo called the 2d graphics chips on the NES and SNES the "PPU" (picture processing unit)
points at op
That's bait.
Gnome in general is undeniably made competently by competent and talented people. If it wasn't, it would break a lot more.
Those competent and talented people also managed to make extremely bad choices at every turn, and seem ideologically opposed to the idea of customization, resulting in an environment that is fundamentally painful to use unless you very specifically fit the box of what they expect users to be like.
It sort of feels like an Apple product, in that sense. Very well-made, but god forbid you don't want to do things exactly as they say you should
My knees and back are fine
My wrists and fingers are war veterans
Now I hate Gnome
But:
- Harrassing the creators is cringe, even if they make (undeniably-very-competently-made-but-by-virtue-of-dumb-choices-rendered-into) bad computer programmes
- Wayland is good actually, Gnome or otherwise.
Title. Plasma 6 just dropped on my arch-based distro, and it came with an option for a colorblindness correction filter:
Neat little tool that my Protanope ass was very excited about, and it works.
The thing is.
Some time ago Windows also introduced one of those, and in Windows, you can turn it on and off with a key-combination shortcut. I use that a lot on Windows, to keep the filter off and turn it on just when it is necessary (look, every person experiences colorblindness differently, and on my end, these filters while useful for certain kinds of work, are very ugly most other times)
Now, I already know I can set a key-combination shortcut to a terminal command on plasma. Easy peasy.
But for me to do that on plasma I'd need to have a way to switch the effect on and off from the terminal.
I know that I can do systemsettings kcm_kwin_effects to launch the configs app straight into the relevant tab. But now I'm wondering if I could make that even more automatic, maybe using the --args thing, which apparently is literally meant for sending commands directly to the configuration module. But then I wouldn't know what the command is.
alt text: "the state of the animation industry"
"you're pirating that show? don't you wanna support the creators?" "I AM the creator."
"haha the only way I can show future employers my work is to send a link to a bunch of pirated copies of it haha what a nightmare haha"
We have a term here in Brazil, for appointed "job" positions that seem to have no responsibilities and are basically a way for rich people to place their relatives and such in places close to power:
Aspone. Assessor de Porra Nenhuma. Translates to like "Advisor of Fucking Nothing"