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OSX capturing and buffering the password input on the login overlay is definitely nice, compared to windows 10 dropping inputs until it is ‘ready’ for the last 2 characters of my password.
Really? It works for someone like this? Damn you Apple, not for me :(. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17786400
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The Amiga didn't have multiple address space so that's cheating.. I've never used an Amiga but BeOS was really much more responsive than either Linux or Windows but that was before SSD and multiple cores were available so maybe now the difference would be much less noticeable.. There is Haiku (in alpha or beta) but AFAIK it hasn't any native modern web browser..
Depends on what you mean by "modern", I guess? https://www.haiku-os.org/files/get-haiku/webkit.png
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Depends on what you mean by "modern", I guess? https://www.haiku-os.org/files/get-haiku/webkit.png
WebKit is modern yes but it isn't really "BeOS native"
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WebKit is modern yes but it isn't really "BeOS native"
It uses native APIs for drawing, text layout, media playback, and HTTP. I don't know how much more native you want...
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I ended up going to Thunderbird for my main email addresses (work & personal), with Rainmail for quasi-disposable addresses on my various domains. Works much better than Gmail did towards the end of my years using Gmail.
I have to use Thunderbird for work and I wish it was 1% as good as Gmail. The search sucks, it's slow to receive mail, it crashes quite often. Either your Gmail is profoundly broken or you have a magic Thunderbird. In case the latter is true: do you have any tips to optimise Thunderbird?
Every other paragraph the ad box tries to run a full screen video with unmuted audio by default. I got headache some half way thru article and then gave up reading. From authors work, it doesnt seem this particular blogger needs my two cents from ads he runs to live a decent life. Its sad how the state of internet looks like these days ;(
If you hate ads, and you hate the state of the internet, run adblock. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... Seriously. Adblock is the way you have to fight back, to change the economics of the internet. Install it, use it indiscriminately, and make sure you tell others to use it. My company makes a decent chunk of money from ads btw. Not because we can't make money another, better and cleane…
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This isn't meant to be an especially religious comment, but I regularly switch back and forth between OSX and Windows 10 and wanted to make mention of the differences. I also use Ubuntu fairly regularly but only over ssh so I'll discount it from this comparison. Both OSX and Windows 10 do suffer from UI lag but, in my experience, it is far worse on Windows 10 to the point where I have come to absolutely detest Window…
One thing can't wrap my head around: if I receive a big (10Mb) email through a slow connection, Outlook completely freezes until the email has finished downloading. I'm talking, not even rendering correctly, and showing white rectangles instead of drawing components. How on earth can this not be a tested use case? Is there no separate thread to connect to the Internet?
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The move from CRT to LCD adds a few milliseconds depending on the screen. We're so used do it by now, that typing on old hardware is almost jarring. It feels almost TOO responsive.
Latency is not everything. Moving from CRT to LCD probably saved my eyesight from degrading 10 years too soon.
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The move from CRT to LCD adds a few milliseconds depending on the screen. We're so used do it by now, that typing on old hardware is almost jarring. It feels almost TOO responsive.
i've got a 144hz lcd display. it's amazing. i feel almost like in the good old days.