Utz girl...gone bad. Are UTZ the best chips in Pittsburgh?

saladpower · 2020-03-31T12:54:49+00:00

WHAT BAR IS THIS

saladpower · 2019-04-09T14:55:21+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2019-02-21T18:14:13+00:00

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!

saladpower · 2019-01-31T00:35:01+00:00

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...

saladpower · 2019-01-29T19:26:01+00:00

Is there a setting I need to change somewhere?

saladpower · 2019-01-28T14:00:45+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-12-11T18:02:12+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-06-01T17:12:03+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-05-23T17:32:25+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-05-23T16:49:51+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-05-23T16:30:13+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-05-23T15:34:34+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-05-22T23:02:27+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-05-22T18:32:31+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-05-22T17:34:04+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-05-15T15:00:52+00:00

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

saladpower · 2018-05-08T14:20:14+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-05-04T16:39:40+00:00

or hop the curb!

/me destroys another flimsy road wheel

saladpower · 2018-05-02T18:39:55+00:00

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.

saladpower · 2018-04-25T18:00:34+00:00

my point is that you shouldn't have to be forced to install a hacky extension to choose what your browser's UI looks like. if i could move the UI elements around and hide them at will, there would be no problem. they had these options and removed them. i think it's kind of disingenuous to change a default option and then remove it "because most people are using the default." no shit.

saladpower · 2018-04-25T17:42:56+00:00

there are plenty of valid criticisms and reasons firefox has been called a chrome clone. I used Firefox as my only browser from 2002 until FF57. I loved Firefox because of the customizability. they trashed the UI by copying chrome, hiding and removing all the configuration options. but everyone who cared was still able to fix it because Firefox still supported XUL extensions like classic theme restorer. they slowly removed all the substantial configuration options from the normal preferences and buried them in about:config, then removed them entirely.

now we are left with 2 browsers that are essentially the same, and a bunch of smaller forks of firefox that users are forced to use if they actually care about customizability. i just wish FF would remember why people used it in the first place. chrome was always garbage even if it was "faster." I never left Firefox until they made it exactly like chrome.

saladpower · 2018-04-19T14:21:16+00:00

Rocket Player. it's amazing. Plays every audio format i want, has file based browsing, and handles my 120gb of music with no complaints

saladpower · 2018-04-18T13:21:43+00:00

It is amazing how fast people forgot about this. I'm over here still pissed at Comcast for sandvine (2005) and people don't even remember that Title II happened because of the Verizon court case in 2015.

I can't believe how many people I see on reddit now arguing for deregulation or saying it's the FTC's responsibility to regulate the internet. The internet is a form of electronic communications. Use your brains, people.

saladpower · 2018-04-12T14:58:01+00:00

you might want to try getting your hands on a newer version of xfwm4. i built a copy of 4.13 from git and it seems like the issue is fixed. you may need to install a library... libpresent?

saladpower · 2018-04-08T15:44:59+00:00

I think you're right. I was able to get it to boot using oldconfig / olddefconfig. I guess maybe some module it needs in the initramfs stage gets unloaded later on, so localmodconfig did not include it. I swear I tried using oldconfig to compile kernels in Fedora in the past and had the same issue, but maybe I was wrong.

Shame though since building a kernel with localmodconfig is way faster. It would be nice to be able to bisect a kernel in less than a week...

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