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Pedantry time: Fitts' Law is a law in the same sense as Newton's Law. Fitts' Law is an established model for understanding how humans interact with objects. If you're jumping on a …

I feel like Disney+ really cemented the decline here. I enjoyed watching Reservation Dogs, which I think I had pirated originally because it was one of those smaller shows with awk…

Omg I keep finding myself back here. It was bugging me especially that I couldn’t remember, but I found it! This is the thing: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-s-24-10…

If it’s important to you that an application doesn’t need to cooperate, then that’s something Snap has an answer for. I don’t remember the name of it or if it got past the proposal…

> When it asks me to open a file, or a directory, it should invoke a system dialog that cannot be faked, and when I pick a file/directory for it, that directory or file should be b…

My favourite thing about Django is the versioned documentation. Land on a page - any page - and you can trivially read the docs on that subject all the way back to 1.8. That's ten …

I'm okay with modal dialogs working that way as long as people get the message: dialogs are supposed to be ephemeral . If closing the dialog loses important state, or you need info…

Another thing to look at is bubblewrap ( https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap ), which is what implements the sandboxing in Flatpak. It's handy if you want to run a command fro…

This is why it's often safer to "jaywalk". If you're in the middle of a block, you only have to look two ways. Even if you screw up, a driver going at a reasonable speed is more li…

America is too big for planes, too. If your transportation solution is flying, now everyone has to get around via endless highways or big, complicated regional airports, and you ca…

> This was really neat, traditionally you have to access those by right-clicking some whitespace in the list/grid view, but in the list view there is only a narrow band of empty sp…

> It would be better to have these common tasks in a separate menu item in the icon bar where they are always available, in addition to the context menu when right clicking on empt…

One of my favourite unreported MacOS issues comes from how, at some point, they changed the appearance of the window close button to be a particular shade of red with a tiny little…

This is one of my favourite things about Fedora Silverblue and rpm-ostree. If I run `rpm-ostree status`, I get a list of all the packages I’ve installed or removed compared to the …

I adored this in Return to Monkey Island, as well. Elaine and Guybrush just have a … functional relationship. They love and support each other and they get along well. It's an impo…

You all are crazy. It desperately needs work, but Siri is the only mainstream assistant thing that meets users where they are instead of forcing them into whatever ecosystem it's a…

To be fair, OLPC was accidentally instrumental in making people buy cheap small laptops. The Eee PC netbook emerged very soon after the OLPC, and it was definitely responding to pe…

I find this project really confusing, as well. I'm sure sure this project is doing some good work, but I'd love if they take the time to catch us up a little bit, or maybe tweak th…

So, the thing that made Mastodon click for me was when I reminded myself social media doesn't matter. That's really the whole point of this stuff to me. Twitter's long failure bega…

Quality is a pretty good guess, there. I know nothing about porn, but I've watched a few VR-first films. In my mind, the only good attempt at the genre has been a ten minute real-t…

Considering the quality of YouTube's Apple TV app[1], this should come as no surprise, and frankly it's probably for the best. This type of thing is better off starting small with …

> things which were working are suddenly broken … > Wayland is 15 years old. So, it's not very sudden, then, is it? So much of what people see as wrong in Wayland is about slow-mov…

The most frustrating part of this is when you run into some library that is all in on hooks and insists you use hooks, but your project has been using class-based components so far…

The new owner has a lot to say about Twitter being a "public square". Not just a public square, but the public square. In the real world, a public square works (in general) because…

Living outside a city doesn't mean you get to roar through it in your SUV and park a step away from your destination. A city has a lot of important services, but it is also a place…