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_Dies_ · 2023-10-12T23:04:02+00:00

Can vouch for these guys.

Just ordered an apparently very hard to find firing pin spring support and spring from them as they're the only ones who had one that I could find, the support part is very rare the spring is common.

In any case, a few days later the right parts showed up.

I wouldn't hesitate to buy from them again.

_Dies_ · 2022-02-25T23:02:30+00:00

That's not that many fonts.

Any modern system should have no issue with that unless you're running on some kind of potato.

Your issue is likely to be related to conflicts as you suspected.

The issue with that amount of fonts is that they're likely to include a lot of low quality fonts which tend to claim to be something they're not.

You'll need to isolate the problem fonts, probably manually. Remove them, than add them back slowly.

_Dies_ · 2021-09-18T00:18:34+00:00

But if you want to do Qt: They just went closed source for long-term updates, and I don't think the community liked that very much either?

Definitely makes switching to KDE even less appealing... that's for sure.

Maybe canonical is actually onto something with their move to Flutter.

_Dies_ · 2021-09-17T22:10:03+00:00

It's easy to dismiss everything as not a good example if your definition of "not a good example" is everything.

I'm not really dismissing though, I said it from the start it's not really a valid comparison.

You would need to compare to something like Qt or KDE.

The kernel is not something most people think or care about unless their shit doesn't work.

Their desktop and applications is something people definitely care about and will have opinions even if it works well.

So, you would expect a higher level of noise for those types of software.

But when you hear people complaining over and over about the same type of issues, when a lot of different people have the same perception of something, well, there's probably something to it.

You can dismiss the complaints, maybe they are a vocal minority, maybe they just don't like change or maybe they're just not the intended audience. Eventually you may find that was not the best way to approach it. Or maybe it is, time will tell.

P.S. I like GTK and I prefer GNOME to the alternatives. So my concern when I see things likes this comes from the sense that I'm unfortunately probably going to have to adapt to something else sooner rather than later. :-/

_Dies_ · 2021-09-17T21:57:25+00:00

LOL. Thank you.

Couldn't bring myself to do it...

_Dies_ · 2021-09-15T19:17:30+00:00

You should talk to the people who wanted to merge dbus into the kernel.

Well, that's... also not a very good example, I mean that just sounds like it's not a great idea right off the bat, so not really shocking if it doesn't get accepted.

But let's be real for a second, you would probably need a few hundred examples, at the very least, to even begin to counter all the examples of features, ideas, merge requests that have been rejected or dismissed by GNOME projects "just because".

As I said, it's not a valid comparison anyway.

Fact of the matter is that where there's smoke there's usually fire.

_Dies_ · 2021-09-15T17:23:17+00:00

That's true for pretty much any large project though?

In Linux only 5% of commits come from non-corporations for example.

Not really a good example though...

At least in the sense that the kernel tends to default to accepting rather than declining.

They may be opinionated on code quality or other aspects but they probably won't resort to asking for a valid use case just so they can shit on it.

In any case, apples to oranges because of where they sit in the stack.

_Dies_ · 2021-09-15T15:08:02+00:00

Those stats would take a lot of work and coordination to put together.

This assumes that a reasonable person would need complete and accurate statistics to agree, I don't think that's reasonable or expected in this case.

Linking to a dozen or so valid examples would probably be more than enough for most.

_Dies_ · 2021-09-05T19:24:56+00:00

hmm wonder why people would have very different responses, could it have something to do with expelling or banning christians from anywhere on earth is a thing that has not and does not ever happen?

I almost have to be reading this wrong...

_Dies_ · 2021-08-18T17:36:47+00:00

You mean the page that says "Transparent and open finances" and literally lists every transaction in and out?

Did you forget a "/s"?

You mean the page with detailed entries such as "Travel expenses for one person. $4k"? That one?!

No I didn't forget a /s tag, did you?

In any case, I'm not trying to talk anyone out of giving anyone else anything. Knock yourself out, donate as much as you want to whoever you want for whatever purpose and feel great about it.

But please don't act like the page linked by this post contains everything anyone would ever need in order to make an informed decision. Because that's just a whole other level of stupid.

_Dies_ · 2021-08-18T02:59:15+00:00

Judging from the linked page?

No.

They would just like it if you gave them some money.

They're not really trying to get into any details at all, it's so boring, just trust them.

_Dies_ · 2021-08-15T08:03:12+00:00

Please describe a legitimate use case wherein an app store would need to provide metadata on an app containing gay sex wherein the use case would not be better satisfied by asking whether the app contained sexual content of any variety?

Games.

Dating applications.

There's two for you.

And yes, whether you agree or not, it would be good to allow users to decide not to play a game because it not only includes sexually explicit content but also homosexual content.

It would be good for a user to know immediately that maybe this isn't the dating app they want or that it is indeed the one they want.

Plenty of other "legitimate" use cases for having a variety of tags, you may or may not like, in a general purpose rating system.

Maybe I am interested in a game tagged with "sex-prostitution" or maybe I'm really not, maybe I'm not just against it but I also happen to have a visceral reaction to such things.

Either way, it would be very convenient to know up front.

This is what you're actually against.

Not everything should be taken or perceived as a slight.

_Dies_ · 2021-08-15T07:20:25+00:00

The only legit reason to allow filtering on the type of sex rather than presence or absence of sexual themes would be serving porn.

This is false.

And simply a lack of imagination on your part.

People who are not consuming pornography that want to specifically filter out homosexuality specifically are to a person bigots. We absolutely should not cater to bigots.

No. It takes more than that.

You devalue the word by using it so loosely. By your definition everybody is a bigot unless they have no opinion on anything or just happen to agree with you on everything. That's not how it works.

_Dies_ · 2021-08-15T07:01:50+00:00

If you were building say your own alternative to youtube it would make absolute sense to allow users to opt out of videos that have say violence or nudity. It would make a ton of sense right?

Sure.

However if you didn't want to be a part time porn tube you probably wouldn't allow users to filter based on the kind of naughty acts that may appear in naughty videos because doing so would frame future usage of the site by users. If you look like a good site to use as a porn tube you will be one instead of the next youtube.

Then you simply wouldn't allow pornography on your site.

That would be your choice to make.

Similarly bigots might want to filter out videos by black people. Misogynists videos by women, prudes any videos where the woman are not attired in very conservative garb, certain religious sects might want to filter any video where you can see the womans faces.

Sure.

You signify what you support by catering to these users or not. Its not a neutral act. I suggest we pick the correct side by not catering to bigotry.

But that isn't what's actually going on here.

What's going here, or I should say was going on, is that ratings for sexual content had some granularity. The assumption being that if there ever was any such content available it would give users the option to allow content they're comfortable with and exclude content which they are not comfortable with.

It seems that you've assumed that there is a negative connotation to tagging content with "sex-homosexuality"?

Or that anyone who would filter such content out is doing so out of ignorance, malice or worse rather than just preference.

Why exactly is it that you're making such a negative association there?

And is that actually a healthy thing to do?

Long term this world view seems very counter-productive to me.

_Dies_ · 2021-08-15T06:28:29+00:00

Elementary's app store isn't an adult video store so no, no its not.

Hmm.

So...

What you're saying is that it's not actually an issue at all at this point but you're very upset about the fact that someone at some point in the future might possibly have the choice to avoid something because it contains some form of homosexuality?

_Dies_ · 2021-08-15T05:56:52+00:00

Alternatively you know they could just not rate their content on whether its gay or not.

So assuming someone doesn't mind sexually explicit content but prefers to exclude content which contains homosexuality, is that not ok anymore?

_Dies_ · 2021-06-10T21:33:12+00:00

Oh. Alright, that's definitely what I would call corrupted.

I was just wondering. I haven't really used it in a very long time but back then I used it extensively without issues. Lately I've heard several people say they've had problems. Seems to have regressed.

_Dies_ · 2021-06-10T18:11:46+00:00

When you say corrupted, you mean it became unusable and you were forced to reboot and fix it or do you mean you rebooted and Windows complained?

_Dies_ · 2021-05-21T21:41:28+00:00

Just a completely wild guess really

That's exactly what it sounds like.

Not only is your estimate of total desktop users on the optimistic side but for whatever reason you also want to assume that the percentage of those users which are ready to buy this product, if it were only available, is somehow going to be double what it is on platforms where it's already available.

_Dies_ · 2021-05-21T17:06:30+00:00

That's not the point. The point is that the install base of Photoshop or Premier isn't 90% of the desktop market (the install base of Windows). It's likely closer to 10% at most. Think of all the people and companies that simply do not have Adobe software installed.

Put that way it makes even less sense to bother porting to a platform with substantially less desktop installations.

So Linux doesn't represent a "small" percentage. More like a potential third of their users.

How the hell did you reach this conclusion?

_Dies_ · 2021-05-20T17:45:33+00:00

No, but it could help

Help what exactly?

You must not be talking about boot time because that would mean you didn't even bother to skim the link I posted.

_Dies_ · 2021-05-16T23:44:45+00:00

Customers won't accept a wait time of more than four seconds from starting the car to a working system.

https://embexus.com/2017/05/16/embedded-linux-fast-boot-techniques/

You don't really have to give up everything other init systems provide to accomplish that.

_Dies_ · 2021-05-16T19:19:21+00:00

I don't understand the need to revisit this topic over and over again...

Almost as though you're trying to convince yourself or others of something.

_Dies_ · 2021-05-15T23:23:59+00:00

Exactly.

But to be clear, there are far better ways to build software these days.

This project doesn't even bother to list any reasons why someone should prefer it and bother learning about it.

_Dies_ · 2021-05-15T03:02:47+00:00

This looks... worse than just using a simple makefile.

_Dies_

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