I’ll find a Sun article for this :p.

Yes, it made Ubuntu standout with its own home brewn DE.

They were heavily panned for that back then. My image of Ubuntu of that time is heavily associated with their Unity desktop which they latter dropped(only for it to spring up again).

I think Hyper was another Electron based terminal. And talking of terminal and Linux, there exists an electron based file manager for Linux as well. I wonder who exactly their target audience for that is though.

Isn’t maintaining LFS a pain for the long run?

I thought - - no-preserve root also needed to be added as an argument for self destruct to completely work.

Some internet banking sites give access after only asking for login password. They will only ask for transaction password and OTP (that will only come on phone) later on. Asking for two passwords isn’t necessarily more secure since many people will just reuse their original one again. And OTP instead of offering something like hardware security key is insane.

This is the only true answer here. Answers like Bandcamp (which hardly has a repository big enough) or switching to Tidal aren’t practical. OP paid for his music, and deserves access to it.

I have Amazon Prime as part of Prime Unlimited but holy Christ, have I never gotten their web app to stream in Linux. As long as greediness on part of these lousy corporations live on, piracy would remain the only true option.

IIRC, one can integrate Tidal with music players like Strawberry on nix too, I think.

C++ was my second programming language after BASIC, if that still qualifies as a programming language these days.

Unexpected factorial

Before Uber, it was independent taxis only that worked. Sure it was less seamless, but it was a system. Even today, many countries have very low Uber penetration and taxis still run solely in the old fashioned way.

If Uber’s rates are so low, why haven’t most drivers quit the app already? I am assuming Uber isn’t the sole way to get around in Kenya and hasn’t a monopoly in any way. Most developing countries have an informal network of drivers who criss cross the city and basically form an essential pillar of transport there.

There is the unwanted Glance software on Android, usually preloaded on budget models that displays random wallpapers (read:ads) on Lock screen but nothing equivalent on Apple.

Microsoft should permanently recall the Recall feature.

That site has a wealth of stuff on emacs. Today I got to know the origin of emacs Ctrl and Meta keybindings and whatever occult means it takes to redo a thing in emacs.

Worse, if you go to their articles via their newsletter, it redirects to aws.me domain in the middle which uBlock Origin blocks. You need to manually allow that subdomain to let it run. Plus, they now and then nudge you to create a free account to read more articles.

Oh, did I mention there is a Premium tier of their site as well? Ironical that as the site’s editorial quality is coming down, the shittiness is increasing. I think originally one guy used to run it and write articles there. It was relatively frugal (compared to the churn of articles that they process today) and higher quality.

Which distro are you on? Plasma has reached it’s 6.0 version I think now. I used it back in the day and KDE apps are really more powerful than their GNOME counterparts.

Talking about consistency, technically Windows still has UI elements from 3.1 era at Atleast couple of obscure places.

It seems the question now isn’t whether an appliance will get smart features, it’s a question of when.