xycu

joined 1 year ago
[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Heliboard for normal communication (glide typing) and Hackers Keyboard for shell/remote desktop/programming type usage. Generally i find the keys too small and typing on a touch screen is slow and annoying, so i use a real computer to type whenever i can.

My typing accuracy is much better with gboard, but I don't use it because google...

I have never used voice to text nor voice controlled assistant etc. as I have no interest in doing that. My phone is muted 99.9% of the time, I prefer to operate in silence...

[–] xycu@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Gentoo. Literally the entire system is a build environment. Imagine a single environment that's capable of compiling thousands of different packages and managing dependencies etc.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

When IBM killed OS/2

[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looking-glass.io is what most use for that

[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

कमल is the word kamala written in Sanskrit.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

My "main" OS timeline was:

  • Apple II/C64
  • MS-DOS
  • OS/2
  • Linux

Technically I used windows 3.1 at times in DOS and OS/2 for some specific piece of software, but it was never what I primarily used and I don't consider Windows 3.1 a proper operating system, it's just a desktop environment.

Not sure exactly when, but I know by 2000 I was fully on board the Linux train.

Started using Linux in the days of floppy boot and root diskettes. Lived through the days of hand-crafted SLIP scripts for dial up internet. The days of needing to pay for working sound drivers. Manually calculating modelines in Xfree86.

I have primarily used Windows at work, probably been 99% windows and 1% Unix/Linux. I have had windows laptops and virtual machines for certain specific use cases but it has never been my main.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo has binary packages now, so install can be quite fast.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

Gentoo for the last 20+ years. Slackware before that.

Ran something or other off dual floppy drives at some point in the ancient times... A boot diskette and a root diskette.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

I have a Samsung 4K HDR 120hz TV and can't really tell any difference between it and my ancient non-smart Phillips LCD TV that it replaced.

I have an Xbox series x with 4k hdr enabled and everything still just looks "normal" to me.

120hz is slightly noticeable compared to 60 in games that support it, but not a huge deal. 99%+ of what i do on my TV isn't 4K, HDR, or 120hz, so it's not extremely valuable. From "couch distance" anything above 720p is unnoticeable anyway.

I also have a windows 11 laptop with 4k HDR screen and disabled HDR in settings because the colors were all horrible looking with it on. Honestly I run it in 1080 instead of 4k because it uses less battery, performs better, and many programs don't work correctly at 4K, and i can't tell the difference anyway. Tiny pixels are still tiny.

I realize this whole comment may come off as old man "get off my lawn" fist-shaking. I'm not trying to downplay other people's experiences who seem to be genuinely impressed by these features, and maybe I'm just "holding it wrong", but for me, personally, I regret spending extra for the whole 4K HDR thing.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Ironically, Microsoft has retired the "Microsoft Office" name.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

The acronym GOAT has been around since well before those zoomers were born, probably before most of their parents were born, so don't feel too embarrassed!

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