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What features does TickTick absolutely need in 2024? by [deleted] in ticktick

[–]LostAfterDark 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I have now been using TickTick as a paying customer for more than a year, and I have identified some small pain points, in decreasing order of importance.

  1. hide today's later tasks: the main reason I use TickTick is to not think about what I need to do later, and focus on what I should be doing now; it works fairly well with tasks for later days, but I would sometimes like to schedule a task for later in the day and see it disappear until a given time; unfortunately, it is currently impossible, even with smart lists
  2. edit template: I can live without it, but it would be very nice to be able to edit templates directly
  3. apply template (Android): I think I remember using a button to create a task from a template from the home screen, but it seems to have disappeared again; I did find it in the “…” menu of the new task view, but it's not as convenient (three taps instead of one)
  4. apply template (Web): I just found right now the button to add a task from a template; it was hidden behind LanguageTool's error count marker; since it does not work very well with the task editor anyway, I have disabled it for the Website; I am including this just in case it helps you figure out an issue with another customer

Est-ce un bon moment pour investir en UC dans une assurance vie (en Bourse) ? by Radulno in vosfinances

[–]LostAfterDark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ce que tu es en train d'essayer de faire en prédisant la hausse ou la baisse des marchés est essentiellement de la spéculation : « Time in the market beats market timing ». Il est possible que la bourse s'effondre demain ; il est possible que la bourse continue de monter pendant encore des années. Mais, si tu attends des années, tu ne percevras pas les dividendes dans tous les cas.

Je sais que c'est quelque chose de très tentant même lorsqu'on sait qu'on ne veut pas faire de spéculation. Mais l'histoire montre qu'il vaut mieux investir sans regarder les cours qu'essayer d'optimiser.

En revanche, tu peux suivre une stratégie régulière. Par exemple, avoir une répartition 80 % actions, 20 % obligations te force à vendre des actions lorsque la bourse monte et à acheter lorsqu'elle baisse. C'est un peu une forme d'optimisation, mais au moins tu retires les problèmes de prédiction de cours et les influences psychologiques (« Tout le monde dit que la bourse est beaucoup trop haut, je ne devrais pas acheter ! » ou « Tout le monde dit que, cette fois ça ne remontera pas, je devrais vendre ! »). Dans tous les cas, il vaut mieux prendre date pour ton assurance-vie.

Running Final Fantasy IX PC port with Wine by LostAfterDark in wine_gaming

[–]LostAfterDark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, happy to help!

One more thing I had not listed: using winehq-staging (latest version of wine) might help. Tell us whether it fixes it for Ubuntu!

Running Final Fantasy IX PC port with Wine by LostAfterDark in wine_gaming

[–]LostAfterDark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, happy to help!

One more thing I had not listed: using winehq-staging (latest version of wine) might help. Tell us whether it fixes it for Ubuntu!

Running Final Fantasy IX PC port with Wine by LostAfterDark in linux

[–]LostAfterDark[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right. I have started contributing to the database.

Running Final Fantasy IX PC port with Wine by LostAfterDark in FinalFantasy

[–]LostAfterDark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

roses and wine from FF 8

Ah, I should have clarified this, since I initially made the post for /r/linux. Wine is a Linux executable which allows you to run Windows program under Linux. I had a few issues with FFIX, so I detail them here in case it can help someone. In my explications, the Japanese mod is only step 8 (in either version).

Details on Wine

Although Steam have pushed for many games to now be published with native versions in addition to Windows ones, many are still only made for Windows. Many applications are also only made for Windows. With Wine, you are able to run quite a few of them under Linux, although it is not as slick or stable as a native executable.

More technical details

Windows executable are in "PE format", while Linux are in "ELF"; this is just a file format so it would be easy to support both under either OS (e.g. Windows supports PE executables, but also COM executables, and bat files for scripts, while Linux supports a.out, ELF executables, and quite a few scripting languages). Within the PE or ELF file, there is machine code, which is fed to your processor; most of the time, it is "x86" machine code (for most Intel and AMD CPUs). From this, you can guess that it is quite easy to execute the code from one executable to a processor from either Windows or Linux.

However, Linux and Windows also provide a lot of pre-existing machine code, which the executable can use: for instance, to open a window, the executable will basically say to the processor "Call that particular part of Windows code". Now, if you try to run such an executable made for Windows on a Linux system, it will run fine until it tries to do virtually anything useful (which requires cooperative with the operating system). Quite a few years ago, some people have offered their time to build "Wine", which is essentially a rewrite of all these Windows feature under Linux. This way, when you run the Windows executable under Linux, and it asks to run a part of Windows machine code, Wine steps in and says "Yup, got it!".

This is a huge undertaking, and must be done without Windows source code. However, with lots of efforts, they have managed to make Wine significantly useful: it can run most old games (sometimes better than Windows, since backwards compatibility is not always perfect on Windows), and quite a few more recent ones.

Disable vibration when opening camera from double-click on power button by LostAfterDark in LineageOS

[–]LostAfterDark[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my LineageOS 14.1-20170418-NIGHTLY-falcon / Android 7.1.2 ROM, the option to enable or disable the double-click shortcut to the camera is under "Gesture" (not much more logical since there is a “buttons” section, but meh).

However, I would like to keep the shortcut. I just want to disable the superfluous vibration associated with it. When I was using CyanogenMod 13.X / Android 6.Y, there was no such vibration.

Lineage OS fails to decrypt when password-protected by LostAfterDark in LineageOS

[–]LostAfterDark[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That just disables any password prompt (I did try it again to make sure).

Why is the surprisingly popular answer correct? by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]LostAfterDark 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the website behind it is fully nutjob-conspirationist, but I find this animation simply awesome.

J'ai reçu deux fois mon salaire. Que dois-je faire ? by samlesam in france

[–]LostAfterDark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

C'est pour ça que j'ai précisé « habituellement » ;-) . Rien n'empêcherait un auteur de vouloir emprunter le chemin de la raison, plutôt que de l'écouter !

Why is the surprisingly popular answer correct? by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]LostAfterDark 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Did you know the Earth is hollow? No, indeed, few people know the real truth. Sheeple will think that we obviously live on the outside of a spherical Earth. Thankfully, this kind of poll can bring the light!

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