I suppose that makes sense, it would be nice if it wasn’t the default though since it makes it harder to interact with the post via comments or voting.

Maybe if it could default to viewing from your instance, but have an option under a context menu to open the post in its own instance? There are flaws in this approach though, and there are lots of other ways.

This is one quirk of Summit that I’ve never gotten used to, is there any reason it needs to stay or be default behavior? On Sync (rip) I think it would just show posts from other instances from my own insance even if following links directly to a post on its instance.

There’s a lot of UX annoyances that come from switching instances while viewing posts (can’t cast votes or comment, have to wait to switch instances), so it would be really nice if there were some way to make this an optional behavior or remove it entirely.

Sometimes having a couple different ways to do the same thing is good, most people like options. A big long bar for granular adjustments is pretty nice

Hell yeah, Keen is a classic, I gotta emulate it sometime to relive the memories

Some of y’all don’t understand the type of shit this guy’s on

I’m not very familiar with Kodi, why do you recommend against it?

I totally agree, it’s not changing the amount of backwards maneuvers you have to do, so what’s the point? It’s only slowing you and everyone else down on your way in, which is generally when people do not want to be slowed down. If the concern really is about backing into people, then maybe they can learn to be cautious, use/install rear cameras, and get a grip lmao.

Also, ditto on the smaller car thing, I wish hatchback sedans with a hitch were more common than SUVs, they’re just better for everyday use/fuel mileage/maneuverability.

Oh man I’ve kept my 2015 Macbook Air around purely because it handles light Ableton sessions better than my old Windows desktop did, and more reliably than Ableton under WINE. Ableton is a dream on Macs, I’d love to switch to Reaper though; would you say it’s worth switching?

Oh that is beautiful, cool to see that manufacturers are interested in leaning into more relaxed designs based on the OGs. I’ve never been much into RGB-heavy peripherals and cases, so I’m excited to see more of these easy-on-the-eyes options.

I’m pretty sure you should be fine. Seeing as you mentioned you’re running Zorin in another comment, there’s a page from their support site that tells how to update. From my reading of it, it shouldn’t risk messing up your dual-boot situation unless you’re doing a fresh install (in which case, even that should be fine assuming you make sure to overwrite the correct partitions). You’re miles more likely to experience issues dual-booting after a Windows update than any Linux updates.

Side-note, while I understand that people are trying to help by saying you can run some other Linux distro for free, that’s neither helpful nor answers the question. I paid for a copy of elementaryOS once because I wanted to support the project, and their very fair pay-what-you-want scheme allowed me to use what was my first Linux distro for free.

I get that some people might be turned off by Zorin keeping some cosmetic features “locked” behind a pawyall, but they really aren’t – you can make all those changes manually with other apps/editing config files manually, it just isn’t as easy or seamless. But that’s the point of their business model, they save non-essential features for the paid version as an extra incentive to support their work on a solid distro, knowing that some people might either value the convenience enough, or simply want to support the development monetarily.

Nice title :)

They’ve got a lot of good material, glad to see them in this thread

She absolutely deserves her flowers though, people who can switch from beautiful cleans to hatefully-heavy screams are crazy talented.

Their new album is pretty damn great too, glad they stuck the landing on the sophomore LP.

I don’t read or speak a lick of French, but hell yeah, Susan Kare is awesome

Okay, I think I understand your point better. While I still think his perspective on demanding users is pretty reasonable, I agree (and didn’t make clear enough) that Martin’s reaction here comes off less-measured than it should’ve. He definitely isn’t all victim, he’s stoked some flames and not done his part to de-escalate on many occasions, that’s for sure.

This whole saga really is a shame, the guy clearly is talented, and there certainly are issues with how the Rust4Linux integration has been handled. I really hope things can improve systemically here.

Out of curiosity, what were some of the projects you managed? Much respect for your open source work, shit’s not easy.

his perspective of the user base is also oddly skewed. He was surprised users wanted better battery life? … Surprised users wanted external display support?

I think this misconstrues his point: he was talking about a subset of users (“entitled users”), not calling all the users entitled.

To me, it seemed less that he was surprised users wanted certain features, more that he was burned out by the feature requests that spent time expressing personal grievances, making demands, or getting mad about the project’s pace. I understand that might come off as him being overly-sensitive, but I absolutely see why a constant cascade of FRs written like demands instead of no-BS questions would wear down on someone, especially while they’re simultaneously trying to deal with upstreaming.

he needs a long break away from something that’s become both too personal and toxic

I totally agree here though, I just hope that this whole fiasco isn’t written off as the result of some vague burn-out. There really does need to be some change in kernel maintainer authority structure and the culture. That can only really happen if someone respected (e.g. Linus) makes some moves to encourage more cooperation/openness from certain C maintainers, and helps put in place better guidelines for how Rust contributions should be handled. It’s simply too disorganized right now, and that makes it too easy for individuals with power to let their egos get in the way of good progress.

The TOTEM was my first experience with ergomechs and I’ve been loving it, such a compact little board but doesn’t sacrifice too many keys for functionality.

I’ve also quite liked the increased pinky stagger and splay, but that stuff comes down to personal preference/resting hand shape. The tiny Seeed Xiao controllers are nice too, almost wish I had a spare one to tinker with but I set up my board with a dongle instead of true Bluetooth to save some battery and make it more portable, so the extra microcontroller got put to use. I think I’ve gotten over 2 months of regular use on a single charge with the dongle setup, so I’d say it was worth it.

This looks super promising, I can’t wait for this to be in a daily-driveable state

I had the same reaction when he suddenly dropped the “ulterior motives line” and my hopes became true.

Been watching his stuff for a while, and it was great to see a pretty successful artist find a way to make their pipeline work, and also talk about it.

Haha the edit about split keyboards, you know my every damn move. But really, I think you’re onto something there about finding a way to make your home row into a number row via some kind of layering. How exactly that’s done depends on what keyboard you’re using: if it’s an external keyboard then maybe you could use a QMK board and make custom layers for that. If it’s the keyboard built into your laptop, I’ve seen people mention KMonad working well for them, maybe that’s worth looking into.