linopolus's comments

Why should they? Metal works wonderfully on all their platforms. Besides, Metal also predates Vulkan..

Definitely Instapaper. I like the design better, pagination mode in the Pocket iOS app ist just plain buggy, and I already used Instapaper back before Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) even existed..

> If people see that LibreOffice Writer is as good as MS Word, then they would migrate to it.

as good as won't be enough for migration, as it's work to migrate, learn a new interface, bear all thats different.

Without a better UI, even better functionality may not be enough to convince people. UI is the first thing one sees..

And still it has a UI like in the nineties. Thousands of buttons, adding more and more, without thinking about it, making it harder and harder with every version for new users to learn using it.

Instead of adding more fonts by default, they should start thinking how they can improve their UI, make it clean, discoverable and easy to use.

Microsoft has done it, and while initially it was hard for everyone familiar with the old concept, I know nobody who prefers that now, after familiarizing themselves with ribbons.

The US were founded in 1787, Columbus reached America in 1492, so how do you expect to find companies there older than that?

Sorry to disappoint you:

1526 Beretta Italy Firearms

1578 Klett Germany Firearms

1674 Sabatti Italy Firearms

TLDR:

* use like a dozen Adblockers likely all using the same filter lists slowing the browser down

* use some Antivirus from Russia to grant access to your whole system

* use a third party vpn client for the one built into iOS

* use secure passwords

> Apple mandates that all alternative browsers use the system-bundled WebKit for user experience reasons

Not entirely true: Every browser developer is free to use whatever engine they like on iOS. Mozilla could use Gecko, Google could use Blink. They just don’t do it, because what’s not allowed is JITs (because security), thus 3rd-party JS-engines would always be slow.

So the reason everybody uses WebKit on iOS is not that they are forbidden own engines, but only JITs, so Apples is faster.

checklists != todo lists, might be the reason

Which is, to my best knowledge, a relatively pure todo app, not really suitable for checklists, or am I wrong?

Could you elaborate on how you manage this with org-mode? Do you have to manually reset the lists every evening?

I more than one time tried to incorporate checklists in my daytoday life, like for morning/evening routine, starting work for the day, etc. The problem I had is the medium:

* Paper: You check it today and have to rewrite for tomorrow, as the checkboxes are filled. Also, I tend to not look at my notebook at all, or lose it. Its never gonna be where I am.

* Apps: I tested a few, from regular todo apps to specialized "routine" apps, but they all have their quirks.

So if any of you use an app for that and are happy with it, please tell me so I can try to!

> Gorgeous Linux laptops

First thing I noticed on these pictures, was the ugly sticker left side underneath the keyboard. Sorry, but such trifles got nothing to do with gorgeous. Also, black camera frame, huge display bezel, and non-centered touchpads are, imho, a nogo if you wanna call it gorgeous.

static.. that reminds me of something.. oh yeah, laying html files in some directory on a server..

Whatever you call it, this has nothing in common with a "static website". It's a bunch of Javascript to fetch some text or similar data. Which may be static. But fetched by a web app. So it will display just empty on devices without JS..

Indeed a feature, not a bug. Apps like as an example barcode scanners need camera access without the iOS-provided camera UI for using their own and being able to detect barcodes. I don't see Apple being able to do much about it besides a) somehow detecting and rejecting such apps in their review or b) forcing some kind of hint when a camera is active, maybe like the colored status bar you get when having a call in the background or connections to the phones hotspot, but these are ugly.

> It's free and you won't loose a minute again :-)

Unless the sites password policy won’t accept it..

I use a password manager, and generate passwords using the xkcd aproach[0] (only more words), which so have like 50-70 characters total. Easy to type in if I happen to use a retarded app which doesn't let me paste or something like a game console, but secure enough for me. On retarded sites which restrict passwords to length or characters or need some characters, I need a minute or two to modify the generated one (and maybe can't login after registering, as the max length on register is longer than on login).

If this simple modification which I have to do one time costs me a minute, how many years of my life will it take to go through some algorithm, and this every single time I log in?

Besides any security considerations, its just too much of a hassle for me to use some password algorithm technique.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/936/

It may be harder to "recover your password", if you lost your second factor key, but the fact that it still is possible means Google employees (or a fraction of them) have a way into your account. I prefer services where this isn’t possible, even though that means the account is lost if I forget my password.

No affiliation with this, but I use Fileee for a few weeks now and thought it maybe to be interesting for you too.

In special cases, maybe. Basic validation (Email looks like email, number contains no text...) is done by the browser automatically if you use semantically correct <input> types: http://diveintohtml5.info/forms.html#validation