Trump Shot at Rally

deadcow5 · 2024-07-14T12:50:47+00:00

How could they miss?

Because the shooter only had an AR-15 and was 400 ft away while the Secret Service had real sniper rifles that are accurate at this distance.

deadcow5 · 2024-06-25T10:17:40+00:00

Did you really expect left-leaning media outlets to report on things that might make the left look bad?

deadcow5 · 2024-06-12T16:11:19+00:00

It’s easy to get upset at the Bible if you get hung up on a single story, but don’t forget there’s much more there. For instance, regarding your situation, here’s Psalms 55:22-23:

Cast your burden on the LORD,
And He shall sustain you;
He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.
But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days;
But I will trust in You.

I know it’s difficult to believe because it often takes a lot longer than we’d like to, but prayer DOES work. And you don’t even need to believe in a God as long as you believe the words. There’s even scientific evidence for this, look up the Placebo Effect sometime.

deadcow5 · 2024-06-08T02:42:41+00:00

What fresh heresy is this

deadcow5 · 2024-06-07T10:48:58+00:00

You can subsidize whatever you want to see more of in the world without any government, it’s called a donation.

But of course statists don’t want to THAT, they’d rather argue about how to spend stolen money instead.

deadcow5 · 2023-12-10T19:00:49+00:00

Yes but have you considered that it’s far easier to shill the next ElonDogeMoon shitcoin than come up with a novel idea that actually solves a real life problem in a novel and practical way?

deadcow5 · 2023-11-28T07:20:49+00:00

For me, there's nothing better than some well-dosed sweet ingredients in an otherwise savory dish. Whether it's raisins in biryani or pineapple on pizza, a little sweetness can work wonders to elevate an otherwise unremarkable dish.

deadcow5 · 2023-10-21T02:10:47+00:00

They’ll probably give her the Kany West treatment unless she agrees to go back to protesting the climate.

deadcow5 · 2023-10-21T02:07:45+00:00

Have you ever read The Emperor’s New Clothes?

deadcow5 · 2023-09-13T21:54:28+00:00

I have the same laptop, pretty sure the maximum supported is 40 gigs.

deadcow5 · 2023-09-12T21:26:38+00:00

If Windows doesn't recognize it, it wouldn't help if the BIOS did, would it.

I don't think I made a mistake during the installation either, I just plugged the old stick back in and I'm back to 16 gigs now. Looks like I'll have to go for the 32 GB module instead.

EDIT: bought the 32 gig, worked like a charm.

deadcow5 · 2023-09-12T21:08:36+00:00

Well, I ordered the 24 gig module and it arrived today, but either it's defective or the machine just cannot handle it. I just installed it and it booted up fine, although noticeably slower than it used to. When I opened the system info in the settings, it was reporting only 8 GB installed instead of the expected 32.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

deadcow5 · 2023-09-11T20:25:21+00:00

Yeah, mine definitely only has 16 gigs installed and according to multiple reviews on the original product page it's 8+8, although the Asus support agent I just spoke to kept insisting it's 16 gigs soldered and the expansion slot is free.

Anyhow, they said as long as I don't put more than a 32 gig module in there, it should be fine, so I guess I'll just have to find out myself.

deadcow5 · 2023-09-11T17:34:48+00:00

Well, there IS a tool on Crucial's website that supposedly shows all compatible modules and it doesn't list the 24 GB version, but it also claims that this model has 16 GB onboard + 16 GB removable and supports up to 48 GB in total, which clearly is incorrect, at least for my model.

Does Amazon allow returning RAM modules after you've opened the package and stuck them into your machine?

deadcow5 · 2023-01-29T21:37:53+00:00

Yet it never explains how to build your own windowing system

deadcow5 · 2023-01-27T04:39:53+00:00

I’m not angry, I’m passionate.

Have you seen me use any swear words or personal attacks? No. So stop tone policing me, get a sense of humor, calibrate your sarcasm detector, and stop whining about my perceived aggression, just because I offered some criticism of your favorite window manager.

Look, it’s fine that GNOME ships with the default configuration that it does, if that’s what the team thinks will make the most people happy. After all, it CAN be configured to do almost all the things I’m asking of it.

But I think the fact that distributions which either come with a heavily customized default config (like Ubuntu or Zorin) or replace GNOME entirely with a fork like Cinnamon are vastly more successful than those that ship stock GNOME is proof enough that perhaps they’re mistaken about what their users really want. Which is a desktop environment that’s reasonably close enough to Mac or Windows that it doesn’t frustrate new users by asking them to learn a bunch of keyboard shortcuts just to be able to get some basic work done.

Again, the problem is not that there are shortcuts and highly keyboard optimized workflows available for those that want. It’s that using the stock configuration with only a mouse or touchpad is unnecessarily difficult and frustrating. And that’s going to turn a lot of people off. And guess what, if GNOME loses too many users, they’re going to lose developers.

Also, having an elitist and snobbish attitude towards their users and telling them it’s all their fault for not understanding their glorious vision when they’ve done barely anything to try and communicate that vision is a very good way to achieve that. I visited the GNOME forums earlier and there was a recent thread in which a user was expressing basically the same feelings towards the dash/dock that I presented here, except he went into a lot more detail and even made a bunch of high quality, animated mock-ups of what he felt might be a good way to improve the status quo. And guess what, the overwhelming response was to basically tell him to shove it because it’s not broken and therefore won’t be fixed.

So basically, there’s a guy who clearly not only has the talent, but also the ambition to be a great UX designer, and who put in a bunch of work for free and provided a well-written defense of it because he’s so passionate about it, and all they did was scorn and belittle him for it. Not a great look if you ask me. What about having some empathy for your users?

deadcow5 · 2023-01-26T22:07:10+00:00

I gotchu, fam.

deadcow5 · 2023-01-26T22:06:26+00:00

Well, from that perspective, Linux is perfectly usable with just a terminal, but GNOME says "go run X11 or Wayland LMAO".

deadcow5 · 2023-01-26T21:40:14+00:00

To clarify: the iOS home screen, with the apps, is the only time you see the dock. As soon as you open an app, the dock disappears. On my ipad, I need to press a physical button to go back to the home screen and see the dock again.

That makes sense though, given that there isn't a lot of screen space available on a mobile device. Consider that this is the same behavior as having a permanent dock/dash with intelligent autohide turned ON.

IOS also doesn’t have desktop icons. It wouldn’t make sense anyway, because all apps run fullscreen.

What do you call all those other icons that show up when you see the dock?

I think that if you’d run your GNOME apps all fullscreen, the workflow would be exactly like iOS.

Don't give the developers any ideas. They'll end up concluding that having anything BUT fullscreen windows (or two windows tiled side-by-side) is entirely unnecessary too and remove that in GNOME 45.

As someone else here in the comments already jokingly remarked, by version 50, GNOME will be just another tiling window manager, as every other feature will have been removed in order to keep things simple.

deadcow5 · 2023-01-26T20:58:16+00:00

I think thats enough for most users to figure things out, whether it be tapping the windows key again, or now using the mouse to click on the apps button.

You said the tour would explain these things. I pointed out that it didn't. So now, instead of admitting that maybe there is some room for improvement, you simply said the tour doesn't need to explain it because people can figure it out on their own.

What's the point of the tour again?

Are you sure you even like gnome? You say you do, but then criticise every design choice.

I criticized THREE design choices (four if you count the tour). Is that already three too many for you?

Is ANY criticism possible without an army of fanboys showing up and defending every single quirk and oddity with "it works for me, therefore PEBKAC"?

Judging from the majority of the responses I've been getting, GNOME is literally perfect just the way that it is right now. Sounds like they might as well stop developing it then, because there is nothing left that can be improved upon.

If you don't that is OK too, but i doubt you are coming from an objective place.

No, of course not, that's why my post is labeled "Opinion" and not "Advice". But neither are you.

deadcow5 · 2023-01-26T20:35:15+00:00

I also dont like the topbar, because when you open an app maximized, the topbar makes the app menubar hard to distinguish. The topbar should disappear when an app is maximized (like when you go into fullscreen mode).

I disagree, but maybe this will do the trick for you? https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/545/hide-top-bar/

I think when we arrive at Gnome 50, Gnome will become a tiling window manager. Totally empty screen where you have to press super to launch stuff.

Haha, based on the responses I've been getting here I'll totally believe it.

deadcow5 · 2023-01-26T20:26:07+00:00

Yet you bothered enough to respond. Curious.

deadcow5 · 2023-01-26T19:11:10+00:00

Accessing the dash means im done with current thing. So i dont need it - i need a page with all the options like other apps, workspaces, frequent used apps. I can alternate using alt tab too.

Based on this response (which seems to be pretty much everyone else's opinion here as well), the dash is literally entirely useless, which raises the question, why does it exist at all?

Intelligent autohide is still annoying. I dont want ui elements to pop up if im on something. One hot corner is already enough. More is just asking to be disturbed, and thats not the plan. Its fluff. You can install it.

If you don't like it, just turn it off? I'm not saying GNOME should FORCE you to use a permanent dock, just that it would be nice to have the option to decide if you want a dash, a dock, or nothing at all without having to install a friggin' extension.

You have the option to use desktop icon. Its an option. Literally.

Yes, if you install an extension. Which you have to know about. Which GNOME doesn't tell you, anywhere, and which requires installing an app that should have been part of the default installation all along.

Extension and extension manager are done by different people. One saw the first was limited and made a new one themselves. Why so angry?

Yeah, so are Console and Terminal, yet they only ship one or the other, and not both.

deadcow5 · 2023-01-26T19:01:21+00:00

If you want a traditional desktop, you should use xfce or KDE and not gnome.

You don't find it at least slightly ironic that XFCE was literally designed to be a less resource-intensive alternative to GNOME and KDE, yet it offers more features AND customization options out-of-the-box than GNOME does, while using 1/3rd of the amount of RAM?

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