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> Avoiding Facebook and Google is trivial Avoiding Google is definitely not trivial. I know here in Norway, lots of public schools are giving teachers and pupils Chromebooks, and i…

Thanks for the tip! I currently don't have many tabs open, but was surprised to see every one of my work Office365 tabs (mail, calendar, etc.) at 100+ MB each...

We have very different experiences in that case. Once I go past ~100 open tabs on Firefox, on a 16GB RAM Linux laptop, my whole system freezes. I experienced these issues as late a…

> Your own situation wouldn't be different if you had alternatives to Apple's store. I respectfully disagree with this statement. I think an analogous situation would be the launch…

Terms of service are written to be understandable by lawyers, not average end-users. At this point, understanding every terms of service, privacy policy, etc. presented by every pi…

> The big problem is that almost all of the shell's are stuck in the previous century, except PowerShell. Another exception is Nushell, which seems to be partly inspired by PowerSh…

It doesn't have to be though, there's just a high correlation between hard-to-automate apps and non-command-line apps. You can e.g. make a GUI app where every button or keybinding …

Yes. GNOME has its bundled screenshot tool, and Zoom supports screen recording on GNOME/Wayland. Sway has grim + slurp for screenshots, and wf-recorder or wlrobs for screen recordi…

Not all scientific code is amenable to unit testing. From my own experience from a PhD in condensed matter physics, the main issue was that how important equations and quantities “…

In some simulations, each rerun produces different results as you’re simulating random events (like lightning formation) or using a non-deterministic algorithm (like Monte Carlo sa…

Fair enough :). For the record, Pandoc MarkDown supports all of these via its extended MarkDown syntax. For the first you can write [desc](src){.test} to get a class=test attribute…

> Remember this: Markdown is all about HTML. Markdown has serious limitations and is very poorly designed in places, but it works well enough despite being so bad specifically beca…

It may be a reference to Wayland having better security than X, since any X apps can key log, screen capture, etc. each other while this is limited in Wayland.

I agree in general that too many things pop up because people want change without good reason. But Wayland is a highly needed replacement, not just in my opinion, but according to …

I remember finding this video enlightening, a talk on the subject by someone who has worked on both X and Wayland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

> I run xmonad as well, which doesn't work with wayland. There is Waymonad, but not sure how mature it is: https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

You could raise the same question about many historic ligatures, like abbreviating "et" to "&" in Latin?

At least on Linux, Tk apps still tend to look like remnants from before Windows 95. (Which personally is the main reason I avoid Tk apps whenever possible, including Tkinter apps.)…

I've known about `moreutils` for years, but the only two I ended up actively using myself are `vidir` and `vipe`. Outside of `moreutils`, one of the utilities I always install on a…

My impression was that running 10 Electron apps would be like having 10 separate installations of Chromium running at the same time (with no shared memory). But running 10 WebView …

I'm no fan of coal, but to be fair "integrated gasification combined cycle" plants [1] are way cleaner than conventional coal plants without violating laws of thermodynamics. You c…

> You can properly dispose or recycle anything non-radioactive with enough energy, heat and oxygen. With "enough energy" you could recycle anything. In theory you could for instanc…

> Instead you should ask if your users [...] would be sufficiently put off to look for alternatives. This is probably sound business advice, but it's also a bit sad to shift the go…

When I used Emacs, Eshell was perhaps my favorite feature. I loved how modern it felt in many ways; why shouldn’t you be able to just `cd` into a remote location (TRAMP+SSH under t…