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@ ian @feddit.uk

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  • I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.

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  • sure. those are reasons it's missing some stuff. But I was referring to other important things also missing from Windows. Which is what Linux seems to follow. Linux has a great opportunity to break away, and come up with something really good. But sadly, there will be reasons not to, I suspect.

  • I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.

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  • AutoCAD might be widely used at the lower end, where many just create a sketch and extrude it. But that is no good for car or aircraft design, where you need high end smooth shape commands, and high productivity workflows.

  • I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.

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  • Great. But AutoCAD and Solidworks are not high end CAD. Acceptable for some I guess. But we need serious CAD.

  • I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.

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  • We have to use Windows at work for our high end CAD. There's no FOSS alternative.

    I use Linux at home. Which is basically a, less crap, copy of Windows. But is still missing important stuff.

  • Texas Prisons Suffer From Dangerous Understaffing - Understaffed and overcrowded, Texas prisons are experiencing worsening conditions that leave both staff and the incarcerated at risk.

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  • Lease out the prisoners for manual labour. Include shackles in the leasing price. This would save prison costs, make money, and we can all say Trump brought back slavery.

  • France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes

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  • They should get out more.

  • Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • I knew they should have built a real smoke and engine noise generator into the cyber truck. So that all those who insist on polluting, don't have to be left out.

  • Thank you Microsoft, for the final push

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  • Why not both? It's simple to install both and decide for yourself. I use both for different tasks.

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  • I'm also not a text first person. There are a lot of us about. I have found GUI applications to do most commands I need. Most IT users don't know them, as they've never searched for them. I pin the apps as Favourites in the launcher, to help remember my processes. The apps typically keep the last used values, making them quite productive.

  • Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere

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  • Oh great! The planet has already got a carbon dioxide atmosphere. So we can't go there and burn stuff to mess it up like web did to the last one.

  • How to distrohop!?

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  • Get a spare computer. Then you will feel more inclined to mess with it. And your main computer is always ready to look up issues and set up boot USB sticks. You will definitely try out lots more distros without hesitation.

    And there are some cool mini PCs to buy quite cheap.

  • NO ONE TOLD ME THE DESKTOP SCROLLS??!! 😭

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  • Yes. I use that option. But as I rarely see the desktop, hiding any files or folders makes little difference to using Plasma.

  • NO ONE TOLD ME THE DESKTOP SCROLLS??!! 😭

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  • My desktop is hidden by all the open apps all the time. Sure you can get there via the file manager, but it's just another folder. And sure you can deliberately minimise all the apps. But the content is, by default hidden, and not in your face, to be stumbled upon like an inbox. Desktops can only contain closed files, and are a flaw in the UX logic.

  • How valid is the claim that people coming or going to blue sky/mastodon/X/Truth Social will cause echo chambers to increase? is it bad?

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  • Many churches have a bible that the church want's you to believe without question. Which is known as faith. It is better to question everything.

  • Oh, come on!

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  • English is slightly ambiguous here. As tighten has 2 meanings. Turning a screw clockwise is to tighten it, as opposed to loosen it anticlockwise. But it's quite loose. Finally, to make it tight and secure, you tighten it with one last turn.

  • Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners, yells racist slurs

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  • Me in shop: I want to buy a robot vacuum cleaner. Do you have one of those sweary ones?

  • Why is UI design backsliding?

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  • In this case I wouldn't associate the poor usability with the designers, I think its down to big business not caring. Plus it costs more to make a UI good, and flexible for different user situations. They'll also hire the cheapest designers. It's all about saving money and more profit. Their main aim. And in the case of monopolies, people can't go elsewhere. The problems all come down from the top.

  • Why is UI design backsliding?

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  • For some, with only a small screen, wasted space means extra navigation to find hidden commands. A usability fail just so the app looks pretty. Also a symptom of "one UI fits all" just to save businesses money.

  • Is there a Windows 10 inspired launch menu?

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  • In KDE Plasma, if you right click on the launch menu button, there is an option Show Alternatives. Here, you can immediately select and use one of the installed alternative start menus. On top of that, you can install further launcher menus, which will then appear in the Show Alternatives list. I installed Simple Menu (from Eike Hein) that has categories, favourites and search. And let's you move the icons around. But its that easy to try out different launchers. I hope you find a good one.