Yeah but Plasma is buggy and doesn't have a comparable ecosystem of apps like GNOME does.
I would argue GNOME doesn't have a comparable ecosystem of apps to KDE...
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mfro commented on Star Trek, The Culture, and the meaning of life togelius.blogspot.com/202... · Posted by u/togelius
While kind of tangential, I’d like to say the Culture novels do, in fact, largely follow stories of humans with complete agency over their destinies, and often human choices almost entirely shape the story. Minds do take a large role, in some novels more than others(Excession of course being almost entirely dependent on the decisions of Minds).
With that said, I don’t think it’s realistic to assume we would ever choose a Federation style society without widespread use of AI. The value proposition of AGI is too high. I don’t know if Roddenberry genuinely didn’t expect AGI to be realistic or if he chose to omit it as a stylistic choice(leaning towards the latter because of Data).
mfro commented on Weathering Software Winter (2022) 100r.co/site/weathering_s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
It is still unclear to me what the author wants to build. The story is cool to the level hippies-on-a-boat can be, but I'm unsure of its message, apart from software requiring internet can be tricky while at seas.
s/want/have built: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
Who the hell thought this was a good idea? This is so out of touch with the Firefox userbase I almost want to believe they’re intentionally killing it off.
I see it has a Windows installer. I might have to try that on my old Win7 Pro system.
I will likely move on to Win10 now that it is ending support later this year so I might try there too. Windows support is best consumed in small chunks so once they deep-six Win10 it will be ready for consumption since the only "updates" it is likely to get are those strictly related to protecting it from malware.
Years ago there was a software firewall called SyGate that allowed a user to block everything and then set allow rules as they needed so that the only applications that could get out were those explicitly allowed by the user. The internet was young and there were fewer bad actors so it was way ahead of its time on the consumer side. You could install the free version or pay for a premium version. It was bought out in the late 90's I think by Norton or one of those other big units (Symantec?) who used all the good parts in their own "improved" firewalls, for a lot of money though.
I like this idea of blocking everything except the things you know you need.
For application level firewalling like you describe I use:
mfro commented on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model github.com/KittenML/Kitte... · Posted by u/divamgupta
Does anybody find it funny that sci-fi movies have to heavily distort "robot voices" to make them sound "convincingly robotic"? A robotic, explicitly non-natural voice would be perfectly acceptable, and even desirable, in many situations. I don't expect a smart toaster to talk like a BBC host; it'd be enough is the speech if easy to recognize.
In the Culture novels, Iain Banks imagines that we would become uncomfortable with the uncanny realism of transmitted voices / holograms, and intentionally include some level of distortion to indicate you're speaking to an image
This basically exists in "Speed Queen". They've expanded offerings to try to capture the market that wants aesthetics and screens, but you can still get their old reliable:
https://speedqueen.com/products/top-load-washers/tr3003wn/
Also worth noting, as someone who worked with appliances in the past, I have heard nothing but praise for speed queen products. Sentiment is that they are extremely reliable, if expensive.
mfro commented on .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution infoworld.com/article/402... · Posted by u/breve
I know they use a lot of background processes to get the performance, the point is it works pretty well.
As to the second, I'm unaware of a gui editor with a built in interactive terminal prior to VS Code.
Atom, sublime, visual studio, eclipse, probably every single jetbrains editor…..