Re:ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation
by crispinb on Saturday August 04, 2018 @07:53AM
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There is a general rule that the more time people spend futzing with some particular aspect of their shit, the more they fetishise it. It's a kind of cognitive sunk-costs fallacy. I've used i3, and it's great. I wish something like it were available on Windows or macOS. But it's just a trivial convenience; hardly something to develop an emotional attachment to. Let's face it, humans are odd creatures and will attach to almost anything.
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Re:ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation
by lloeki on Saturday August 04, 2018 @08:35AM
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IKEA effect! An example of which is those prepared doughs where you have to add eggs... the egg could (and has been at some point) be included but marketing discovered that requiring the add-your-own-egg step made people love the end product more because they somehow made it themselves.
Re:ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation
by perl4ever on Monday August 06, 2018 @03:06AM
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I've heard of that before, but it always made me wonder - are we just supposed to accept unquestioningly that powdered eggs are indistinguishable from fresh? Sure, there's no question you can make something edible with dehydrated eggs, but that isn't proof there's absolutely no difference.
In general, the existence of a bias is insufficient proof that you should reverse your conclusion.
Re:ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation
by crispinb on Saturday August 04, 2018 @04:50PM
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Nice - I hadn't come across that. Spot on.
Re:ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation
by thinkmassive on Saturday August 04, 2018 @11:27AM
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i3 allows the user to maximize screen real estate, and also to minimize time spent adjusting window borders and navigating with a mouse. It’s a huge time saver for anyone who learns a few simple controls. It’s like tmux on steroids.
Sure it’s a convenience, but so is basically everything we do to alter a computer after unboxing it.
Re:ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation
by crispinb on Saturday August 04, 2018 @04:55PM
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I've never spent any appreciable time 'navigating with a mouse' and 'adjusting window borders' on other OSs. Sounds like those thundering imprecations that we all must use vim or emacs because IDEs require mouse use (which they don't).
I agreed it's nice - but essential enough to merit the time sink of running linux? Not for me.