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KDE has the newer QML-based Kirigami and older Qt Widgets frameworks that are not consistent. Widgets apps absolutely look like actual desktop apps (menus, toolbars, dialogs), Kiri…

1. The UK and EU are rather large markets that they don’t want to miss out on. 2. There are software engineers in the UK and EU. 3. This specific implementation by Apple is not act…

Because some of us actually enjoy programming. For some people those side projects aren't about the destination, but the journey of learning how something works by making it with y…

It’s funny because the first AI scraper I remember blocking was from OpenAI’s, as it got stuck in a loop somehow and was impacting the performance of a wiki I run. All to violate e…

Go play the original Quake (not QuakeWorld) online and you will soon realise why games realised that concept was flawed as soon as it was implemented. It works fine for LAN but as …

Mercurial has no distinction between a bare repo and a non-bare repo: any repo can have a working copy or not. You can check out a working copy with `hg update somerevision`, or ge…

Perhaps they could ask Copilot to help them get IPv6 working.

It's the lack of subpixel anti-aliasing (aka ClearType). For some reason it's being erased from a lot of modern software. It's why Windows >= 8 UWP apps and GNOME look so blurry.

> It just works without any faffing around as Windows, MacOS, etc has done since the mid 1990's. Unless you like your applications to save your window positions. I like Firefox to …

The topics[0] feature in the evolution extension is probably even closer to Git branches, since they are completely mutable and needn't be a permanent part of your repo. Bookmarks …

Modern Mercurial with evolution is extremely pleasant, and the more I use it the more I abhor git whenever I have to go back to it. That plus Heptapod (fork of GitLab with Mercuria…

You jest, but… https://mercurial-scm.org/help/topics/rust#rhg

I decided to just stay with Firefox and disable any rubbish that Mozilla adds as it comes. I tried Librewolf, but the unstable RPM repository was very annoying, because zypper disa…

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