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GNOME Plans to Add a New, Unconventional Window Management
  • This might be what I was looking for all along in a window manager. For the longest time, I've been dissatisfied with the drawbacks of both floating and tiling WMs, but hopefully this can deliver the best of both worlds.

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    Why do people brush their teeth first thing in the morning?
  • Cuz my mouth and throat feel disgusting in the morning. Eating or drinking right after brushing doesn't bother me either.

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    Ice Universe: Guessing from the 79mm width and some other information, the S24 Ultra is likely to be a flat screen.
  • Good. I can't think of the curved screen as anything other than a nuisance.

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    Special counsel obtained search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account
  • Actually, it's just "The X-Files" now.

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    What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE?
  • And the GNOME project doesn't just use C/C++ right? It uses Javascript for developing all sorts of components and Python for scripting/misc utilties. That's what I meant by more memory-efficient.

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    Inheritance
  • You know, I've always read that COBOL projects still get maintained to this day because the costs of rewriting these projects just are too high. I wonder if there's a cutoff point where maintaining them starts costing more than the rewrite. I just don't see how organizations can justify maintaining these projects without these kind of changes forever.

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    What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE?
  • I'm incredibly interested in COSMIC DE! For multiple different reasons, actually.

    1. Rust - I'm very interested to see how performant/memory-efficient this DE will be compared with other DEs. Also, I wonder how the Iced toolkit will evolve and be adopted in other projects.
    2. Benefits over GNOME - I'm looking forward to seeing how much out-of-box customizability and features come with COSMIC over GNOME (which I'm currently using).
    3. Maintainability going forward - Since the DE basically started from scratch and is using a much better language for robust software, I wonder how much easier and faster it would be to maintain the desktop environment. This potential improved maintainability could be huge in overtaking other DEs sometime soon.
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    It’s not just Apollo: other Reddit apps are shutting down, too (from The Verge)
  • Does anyone know if Infinity for Reddit is shutting down too?

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    I like this significantly better than Mastodon
  • Yeah in general, I like forums better than the format Twitter is in. I like topic-based discussions more than discussions spawned from short, potentially out-of-context messages.

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