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Re:Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @05:16AM (#45273564)
If modern means slow, laggy and made with js then sure
Lmao, it's not because bluesky is the better platform, it's because people that do "science research" are afraid of being called out and won't just get confirmation from everyone when they're in X. They're afraid of being challenged and see people that don't agree with them.
Re:Israel committing genocide in Gaza, scholars group says on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @12:33AM (#45099173)
Ah yes, Al Jazeera the bastion of reliable press.
> they have absolutely nothing to do in DC & no one wants them there.

This just shows that you've never been to DC and you're just a lib trying to cover up crime (I'd say it's natural for you people)

Re:Grok Code Fast 1 on Saturday August 30, 2025 @04:31AM (#45072970)
Lmfao. The degree to which you all resist understanding is unbelievable. Did you say the same thing when liberals did the salute?
Re:Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:29AM (#44885579)
They already are...
I really like Ocaml, but the error handling is very bad, some libraries use Option/Result, some use exceptions, the inconsistency makes it a little hard to work with. I much prefer Rust in this regard.
Re:No AI Content on Sunday July 27, 2025 @08:59AM (#44701023)
I feel like we're going though an evolution of the web, and no matter what we do, it's going to happen. The web is going to change (for better or worse) or die, and there's nothing we can do about it. The web killed printed media to a large degree and AI will do the same, Resistance is futile!
But those "alternatives app stores" can never do the things Play Store can, like automatic installing/updating apps without user needing to click "Install" for each one. (which gets quite annoying)

Google could've made it possible but did not, that's monopoly.

I don't like Brave Browser at all with its integrated crypto ads, but I've been using Brave Search for a couple of days and it seems nice, much better than DDG:

https://search.brave.com

That problem is solved now, it's going to be added to emacs. See:

https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/282

Re:Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @04:23AM (#29482672)
It still doesn't have half of Kate's (Plasma's default editor) functionalities. The only addition seems to be the dark mode, which is very opinionated and unchangeable
I don't know about Ubuntu but on Opensuse, Nvidia Optimus (Nvidia + integrated intel) works fine after installing the official Nvidia drivers and setting suse-prime to the desired mode.