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Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

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Post by o-__-o » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 6:32 PM UTC

gsich wrote: post #186

o-__-o wrote: post #102

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Away after botnets (and later dogecoin) figured out its a free decentralized comms platform and caused every major enterprise to block all IRC ports out of fear of being owned. At least this was my experience in the early 2000s, which is why I gave up on IRC circa 2006-ish. The death kneel was the lack of a google/apple cloud-backed IRC app, so any mobile use of IRC was pretty much a death wish for your battery (this…

>The death kneel was the lack of a google/apple cloud-backed IRC app, so any mobile use of IRC was pretty much a death wish for your battery (this may have changed but meh damage has already been done). Not really. Google/Apple also have a connection (or more) open to their servers, but IRC would kill the battery? It's the usage, not that the connection is open.

Yes, really.. because IRC sends traffic all of the time over the connection (PING? PONG!) so your client is always reacting rather than using a cloud-based service to keep the connection alive and only relay specific messages to your device.

IRC is devastating to your battery and back in the 2006-2008 times no one created such a service and thus no one could IRC on the go without a hot phone a dead battery after 2 hours.. pretty limiting to a communication platform if I would say so myself

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

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Post by o-__-o » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 6:33 PM UTC

Izkata wrote: post #143

o-__-o wrote: post #98

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a few people figured out how to change their workflow to deal with the change. turns out the same problem that exists between non-technical users and technical users exist between power-elite users and the non-PE users. when you try to show a non-technical user a different way to do things, they get really frustrated and give up easily because their entire mental model needs to change (they were used to clicking on a…

> or the pronunciation of "c-out" vs "sow-t" Wait, "cout" from C++? "Clout" is a real English word, I always figured it was pronounced the same minus the "l", which is neither of the versions you have there.

I didn't do a good job, "see-out" vs "sowt" (the t is not hard)

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

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Post by Izkata » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 12:30 AM UTC

o-__-o wrote: post #222

Izkata wrote: post #143

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> or the pronunciation of "c-out" vs "sow-t" Wait, "cout" from C++? "Clout" is a real English word, I always figured it was pronounced the same minus the "l", which is neither of the versions you have there.

I didn't do a good job, "see-out" vs "sowt" (the t is not hard)

Still, I'm thinking of "kowt"

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

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Post by mook » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 9:34 PM UTC

noisem4ker wrote: post #213

mook wrote: post #206

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Firefox on Android ( / Preview) is generally terrible with input handling anyway. I still haven't figured out a way to paste into a textbox without removing existing text — long press is required to show the menu, but also selects the last word, and unselecting removes the menu.

>long press is required to show the menu It's not. Tap on the caret and the menu will show up without selecting anything.

Thank you! This does seem to work intermittently (at least, it didn't work when this text box was empty, but started working once I typed in some text). I guess I'll have to file that in my head as "works inconsistently", but at least it… sometimes works?

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

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Post by twblalock » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 1:58 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #74

jumbopapa wrote: post #72

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Not quite the same.

How so?

The point of the Model T was to be mass produced and to be affordable for the average working class American household. No Tesla model meets those criteria.