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I actually used raw GDI+ for the GUI of an app recently. My personal requirement was that the executable had to be completely stand-alone and only a few KB in size. GDI+ helped fit…

I could only imagine what kind of imprinting something like TikTok can do to a developing mind, especially if that person lacks any kind of healthy role models in their real lives.…

The Unreal Engine 4 code, when it first went open-ish source. I was blown away by how huge it was, but yet, how clean and modular everything was.

>I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is One reason I'm stuck with Kindles is because Amazon makes it sane to look up words when reading Japanese books and articles. When yo…

The first time I used it, it was family members wanting to connect with me, and the old "everyone uses it!" argument (the same one applied to MySpace back in the day). So I made an…

I went from disliking Edge, to liking it, and then slowly disliking it again as they added bloat to it. What turned me off from it was when I lost a year's worth of (unimportant) b…

Same here. Like alcohol, drugs and smoking, endless streaming media is just something I don't touch. I know there's an insane amount of good content to watch out there, but I'm con…

Can't echo this enough. I've been railroaded into using Facebook 2 or 3 times by friends, family and even my SO, and my experience each and every time was a soulless one like yours…

I'm aware of the Latest branch, but its shorter release cycle would be even less-suited for production usage (for people who are into Very Serious Business™). I was talking about Q…

>pkg pkg-ng is indeed a godsend, and I think I just got PTSD thinking about what Ports management was like before it. Currently getting flashbacks to the salad of utilities I used …

Yeah, I love FreeBSD's base system's release model. It feels like a complete system, and each release is supported for a long time. Same with systems like Ports, and in particular,…

See the following. There's a 'latest' branch and a 'quarterly' branch. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/QuarterlyBranch https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/ https://svnweb.freeb…

Question: If you use the FreeBSD Ports collection for the services you run, how do you deal with Ports' quarterly releases? One reason I haven't used FreeBSD much is because of the…

That's due to Photoshop embedding a variant of the PSD format within the TIFF file, inside its own private TIFF tag. I'd argue that's even worse than just using PSD by itself. If y…

Every JPEG 2000 encoder I've seen encapsulates the JP2K data in an MOV/MP4-like format (or if one likes using many syllables, technically the ISO Base Media File Format). Even when…

This pretty much nails it. I also do appreciate MP3's simplicity, in the sense that it's just a series of concatenated frames. It makes it really easy to just fling them over the n…

I would agree on BMP being slightly insane, since there's a number of things you have to magically know about it: 1) If using 8 bits per pixel or less, there's always a color palet…

To my knowledge, I see most JPEG images encode their height in an "APP1" EXIF segment, and in their SOF1 segment (which is basically just a basic-info segment for the core JPEG bit…

One form of true insanity is probably JPEG-encoded TIFF files. Apparently it's so bad that for the next version of the TIFF specification they are taking that insane approach out c…

I would actually beg to disagree, as someone who was bored a few weekends ago and decided to go through a few reasonably-complex PSD files (eg, ones with different layer types, bez…

I think this may have been true in the past, but KDE 5 is nowhere near as bloated as KDE once was. (And they've also made huge strides in consistency and a sane UI experience.) I'v…

CJK input magically working easily and reliably in Gnome is the pretty much the only reason I use it over KDE. And setting it up doesn't require following a wiki, using the command…

To add to this, it's already possible to give this a try via building Brunsli from source: https://github.com/google/brunsli I personally use the cbrunsli/dbrunsli cmdline programs…

In addendum to this, I'd like to mention that things that are designed for a specific purpose are good for that specific purpose. And in general, things that are made to work well …