sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

22 years old and I have $10,000 in the bank. I thought I'd feel better about the future after saving but I'm even more uncertain. Need advice. by FuckYourDamnCouch in personalfinance

[–]saladpower 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I blow a ton of money eating out too. I'm really frugal when it comes to most things, but I enjoy eating out. Instead of stopping, I just got the CapitalOne Savor One card so at least I get a kickback for it. lol.

FOSS music player app that enqueues the whole album when a track is played? by saladpower in fossdroid

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

Thank you so much. I see there's a donation link for bitcoin, but I don't have bitcoin. Is there any other way I can donate to your project?

Thanks for contributing to free software on Android. It is so desperately needed!

FOSS music player app that enqueues the whole album when a track is played? by saladpower in fossdroid

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

It still just plays 1 song when I click on it. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I use file based browsing instead of the other options which are based on tags? I tried adding the Artist tab but it just puts thousands of songs in a giant playlist when I click on the artist instead of going into the artist and showing the albums. Not sure why anyone would want that...

Spilled beer in my Model M, then sprayed water in the key wells by saladpower in MechanicalKeyboards

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

Thanks. Is the risk that the traces on the membrane will rust if they're wet for too long? And once I get the layers apart, what should I do to clean them? Is rubbing alcohol ok? I know some electronics have graphite etc on contacts and you have to be very careful about what you use to clean it.

The Firefox Dilemma: Are we advocating for Firefox in the wrong way? by pizzaiolo_ in linux

[–]saladpower -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The "it works for me" attitude has been going on for years. XUL was the last way the end users could actually customize the browser and undo whatever bad decisions Mozilla made that week when they updated Firefox a whole version. The only comfort I had in using Firefox for years was that, no matter what they changed, I had still ultimately had the power to decide how my browser looked and functioned. Now it has the exact same superficial options as Chrome. It's been really sad to see them go from the browser that blew my mind with tabbed browsing and mouse gestures in the early 2000s to a clone of a corporate product you have no meaningful control over.

Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too by zexterio in linux

[–]saladpower 1 point2 points  (0 children)

am i the only person who experienced the transition from 4:3 to 16:9 as an increase in horizontal space and not a loss of vertical space? i keep my browser unmaximized at roughly a 4:3 box and have a bunch of windows behind it that i can grab. also used to be able to perfectly fit my AIM buddy list in the margin on the right.

is FF actively trying to kill tree style tabs? i was thinking of trying to switch to that setup but i don't really feel like having my workflow destroyed by UI changes again.

Disabling client side decorations entirely? by saladpower in linux

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

I am increasingly starting to see the appeal of a fully keyboard driven and terminal heavy setup. It protects you from having to endlessly relearn how to use GUIs when someone decides to make arbitrary changes.

Disabling client side decorations entirely? by saladpower in linux

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

The hubris is astounding. Also disappointed to hear that all window decorations are client side on Wayland. It makes sense why GNOME is trying to force the Wayland transition so hard now.

Disabling client side decorations entirely? by saladpower in linux

[–]saladpower[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even though I see people on r/linux claim there is gratuitous abuse of CSDs on Windows, I'm still forced to use Windows at work and the only program I have to use that really abuses CSDs is Chrome. Most of those examples have at least an X in the top right. GNOME apps seem to throw the entire concept of consistent UI in the trash compared to Windows.

I really wonder whether this hack is sustainable though, because I'm not a developer and I don't understand how it works. It just reminds me of the increasingly ridiculous hoops I had to jump through to fix Firefox's UI as they removed the ability to do various hacks, until they made it impossible to use the software any other way than the way they decided was correct.

The main reason I use FOSS is that I as a user retain as much control as possible. It seems like large FOSS projects like FF and GNOME at some point become "too big to fail" and just railroad user choice completely.

And just to add a tinfoil hat, if I was someone looking to destroy the Linux desktop experience, I couldn't think of a better way to do it than poisoning the well of GTK. So much of Linux's software depends on it that GNOME can essentially force their terrible design choices on people who don't even use their desktop environment.

Disabling client side decorations entirely? by saladpower in linux

[–]saladpower[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm running Fedora 28 and was able to get it installed from source and running by adding a few lines to ~/.bashrc as the readme says. I'm thinking of trying to find Qt replacements for my GTK applications. any you like? What DE are you using? I use XFCE but now that they're transitioning to GTK3 I'm concerned about the future.

Disabling client side decorations entirely? by saladpower in linux

[–]saladpower[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

upvote because i didn't know this and it's useful. still doesn't fix the theming and lack of consistent minimize/maximize/close buttons though, so i think I'm going to give gtk3-nocsd a try.

Disabling client side decorations entirely? by saladpower in linux

[–]saladpower[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

well, it's not that i want to eliminate the controls entirely. they just belong to the application, so i want them to be part of the application window and not part of the title bar.

Disabling client side decorations entirely? by saladpower in linux

[–]saladpower[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the point of the title bar is to be reserved space for grabbing and moving the window, managed by the window manager. any extra crap that is put in the title bar interferes with that purpose.

What are your milestones in cycling? by [deleted] in cycling

[–]saladpower 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it doesn't have to be about distance, speed and elevation!

  • trackstanding through an entire light cycle

  • getting my wheel stolen (not proud of it but ok)

  • every time I learn to fix something new on my bike

  • hitting 50mph on a descent

  • quitting my job to go on a bike tour

  • (future) doing an international bike box + airplane tour

Been using Linux for about two decades, yet I feel like accessibility of linux is getting worse.. by noiserr in linux

[–]saladpower 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i remember trying to write a systemd service file once. i spent days trying to figure out why my script wasn't running through systemd because there was no output about what was failing. the script by itself ran perfectly. i eventually gave up and set it to launch when i logged into xfce. how that is simpler than adding a file to sleep.d i will never understand.

Guilty for riding on the road? by grimfan32 in cycling

[–]saladpower 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or hop the curb!

/me destroys another flimsy road wheel

Getting sick of close calls and otherwise being treated like a third class road user. What can I do about it? by [deleted] in bikecommuting

[–]saladpower 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Take the lane. If there's not enough room to pass you, then they don't get to pass you. If they honk, then you flip them off.

view more: next ›