To say that Quicksilver completely changed the way I use computers is no exaggeration, but the crazy thing is: I'm not even a Mac user. It's easy for people to forget what an influential app this was back in the mid-2000s, and it spawned a small handful of clones over on the Linux side: Gnome Do, Kupfer, Synapse. (None on Windows, to my knowledge.) I'm really thankful to Quicksilver because this is such a sensible and powerful way to do so many things on a desktop, and Ctrl+Space has become my deep-seated muscle memory for "I need to do something..."
everett
joined 4 years ago
Quicksilver's purpose is to quickly help you find the one app or file you need, and then... do basically anything with it in just a few keystrokes, not only launching it. Check out the scrolling screenshot section here for a few examples.
The quote at the bottom of that page...
“Quicksilver is like carrying a light-saber and throwing robots across the room with your mind”
...is only exaggerating a little.
For one thing, both Unstable and Stable are quicker to get security fixes than Testing.
This should address the official recommendation that users don't update from Bullseye to Bookworm, but instead do a fresh install. But no, just a low-effort how-to.
People aren't wearing enough hats.
It would be great if they provided more details. Are the issues specific to desktop usage? And to work around it, is it enough to start with a fresh home directory?
Thank you for clarifying! I think I read too much into it.
No one ever had doubts how type B or mini B or micro B go in.
How lucky you were to never have a device that had one of these upside-down.
What if your topic was… all of them?
When you can't use a tripod there are some better-than-nothing alternatives you can try for getting some steadiness, like bracing your elbows against your abdomen, or pulling the camera forward against the neckstrap.
This unlocked a memory for me. In college my roommate and I took a late-night walk to a nearby diner, only a five minute walk from our dorm if jaywalking across one of the main streets in this town. Walking to the nearest crosswalk would more than double the trip, so patiently waiting for a break in traffic to safely cross was the norm.
On one weekend in particular, one of the other big colleges was having an event of some kind (homecoming or parents weekend, or some crap like that) that packed this town to the gills and turned the main street into a sea of cars as far as the eye could see in both directions. But don't picture everything at a stand-still... the nearby traffic light must have been shut off (or turned to a blinking yellow) because the sea of cars was moving at a slow but steady pace with no break whatsoever.
Walking the extra few minutes west to the crosswalk, and then a few more back east to the restaurant, would have been the best bet, but our experience told us it would be wasteful because there must be a break in the traffic coming soon. There just had to be. As the minutes rolled by more we were joined by more dorm neighbors and other hopeful crossers, and we all stood there incredulous at just how perfectly bad this situation was.
Just estimating here... we absolutely waited more than 20 minutes, possibly 30. And it's been so long I can't remember the circumstances that finally let us cross. Also, yeah, this is a great example of the sunk-cost fallacy.
I'd rate this one PG (pretty gouda).