If you leave the page idle long enough you'll even see a screensaver.
Why our website looks like an operating system
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Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
To throw gasoline on the fire: this how I’ve always felt about tmux. Why use an incomplete in terminal windowing system when I can just have multiple terminal windows open managed by the superior OS window system. (That said I know tmux is sometimes the only option and then it makes sense to me)
tmux (and screen) are incredible assets for remote sessions, both for continuity across dropped shells and multi-shell activities when the connection process is tedious (multiple jumphosts, proxies, etc.)
The continuity benefit is much less than it used to be, now that we have systemd with `enable-linger` so we can make proper daemons.
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#43It doesn't look like an "operating system." It looks like a graphical shell. I guess those terms have become a bit interchangeable, and I'm being pedantic.
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#44The slight x overflow on the content container on mobile is maddening.
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#45It looks awesome but I clicked several bits and pieces and still have no idea what they do or what their product is.
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#46It looks awesome but I clicked several bits and pieces and still have no idea what they do or what their product is.
But at least you clicked
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#47> Legally-required cookie banner > PostHog.com doesn't use third-party cookies, only a single in-house cookie You're legally required to let me opt out of that cookie. Unless it's essential to the site functionality, in which case you don't need the banner at all.
Considering they have a login system, I'm going to guess that the cookie includes your login (probably in JWT form), which automatically makes it essential to site functionality. Which means the banner is there just because if it was absent, someone would say "Hey, where's the cookie banner?"
In other words, it's not actually legally required in their case, but it's practically required, because it lets everyone know that the absence of the banner is not a violation of the law.
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#48Man if you did open-in-new-window instead of open-in-new-tab, you would get all of this "for free".
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#49> Legally-required cookie banner > PostHog.com doesn't use third-party cookies, only a single in-house cookie You're legally required to let me opt out of that cookie. Unless it's essential to the site functionality, in which case you don't need the banner at all.
Considering they have a login system, I'm going to guess that the cookie includes your login (probably in JWT form), which automatically makes it essential to site functionality. Which means the banner is there just because if it was absent, someone would say "Hey, where's the cookie banner?" In other words, it's not actually legally required in their case, but it's practically required, because it lets everyone know…
It is not in any way required, and adding it just contributes to annoyance.
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#50this is one one of the most unique web design i have come across