Readit Newssbuk commented on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia derflounder.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/zdw
Hmm those archaic and vestigial options are probably still a pillar in many usecases :)
I'm still using the multi volume support in tar for example. Which was something that stems from the time when tar was used for tape archives (hence the name tar) on actual tapes. Without that I'd be really screwed because I use a box full of harddrives as backup "tapes" (which works surprisingly well I must say, I needed a small restore only a week or two ago and it really saved my bacon). But I bet 99.9% of tar users have no idea it can even do that.
Rsync is another one of those swiss army knives that people use for a lot more stuff than you might expect. Especially the remote capabilities are amazing.
The problem is that when you clone something but don't provide full compatibility, you're putting your users through much headscratching and frustration. It would be better to not name it after the original then so it's clear it's something different.
sbuk commented on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia derflounder.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/zdw
Everything you've said is an opinion except for one thing: you're telling the user they're wrong. Classic Apple behavior.
What makes my opinion you any less valid than your opinions? Classic arrogant troll behaviour. I merely pointed out that you are exaggerating. Like I said, you want everything to work like it does with your favourite platform, and if it doesn’t then it’s clearly broken or shit or user hostile. Power user? Don’t make me laugh.
sbuk commented on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia derflounder.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/zdw
Neat. But to be clear: my complaint was the rude and dismissive attitude, not the substance.
When you've been saying the same thing for the last 40 years, and seeing the same responses, more often than not made by people who don't understand where this all comes from, and which do not really counter what you're saying, you'd be rude and dismissive - especially whith the dogma that surronds the "UNIX philosophy", which, in case you aren't aware, wasn't actually put forward by anyone heavily involved with UNIX development. Some empathy with the protagonist whould help.
But I get your point...
What? They did not say it was Capitalism and greed? I am shocked!
They are just trying to lock people in to their format and make them dependent on the company instead of an open source and universal format.
How? Support for RAW formats is reasonably complete. I can hop between different editors without much, if any, hassle at all. Since getting my first DSLR in the early 00's, I have used (in no order) Photos, Bibble, Lightroom, Aperture, Capture One, Photoshop, Pixelmator, Photomator, Darkroom, On1, Raw Power, Nitro Photo, Luminar, Darktable and RawTherapee, all without fuss. Where is the lock in?
sbuk commented on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia derflounder.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/zdw
No tool is perfect. The unix philosophy is a philosophy, not a dogma. It serves well in some use cases. And in the other use case, you’re perfectly fine to put the whole domain in a single program. The hammer has been there for millennia, but once we invented screw, we had to invent the screwdriver.
"The unix philosophy is a philosophy, not a dogma"
Shame that it is dogmatically followed by a very loud but vocal minority.
sbuk commented on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia derflounder.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/zdw
Strange, I've always thought about GPLv3 as of an upgrade (i.e. better license) to GPLv2
It seems to me that it has actually been harmful to F/LOSS in the longer term. Where before, there were companies that were contributing to and using F/LOSS, GPLv3 put a stop to that virtually overnight. Now we see comments like "$MEGACORP should stop leaching" or "$MEGACORP should sponsor/ contribute more" - which of course they did, with time and people before the GPLv3 was released.
sbuk commented on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia derflounder.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/zdw
> The GUI / UX is horrible.
Coming from someone who would "prefer to be in Gnome or KDE", this is a hard criticism to take seriously. KDE is obviously designed by committee and is therefore UI elements are all over the place, and Gnome is just horrible.
> Finder is annoying as hell. The icons / layouts do not snap to resizing, proper navigation requires arcane keyboard shortcuts, it's difficult to open new instances in the expected way, tabs suck, navigation sucks. Finder is made for non-power users.
Those "arcane keyboard shortcuts" have been around for 40 years. Or is it the Emacs keybinding that you don't like? Opening a new instance of a Finder window is a Cmd N away. New tab? Cmd T - I do not understand what is hard about that. Oh, and tabs are a feature of the system, and native apps (some non-native too) automatically implement them. It seems to me that someone hasn't RTFM'ed. Some "power user" you seem to be...
The rest is rant that macOS isn't $MyFavouriteDistro and that is the only way computers should work.
> I do not want to "define" terms with the shitty built in dictionary tool, yet that option eats up context window space in every tool.
Oh no! A whole line in a context menu! The horror.
sbuk commented on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia derflounder.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/zdw
This guy has been ranting and raving here longer than I can remember or thought to make an account so I assume he is HN royalty and that's why it's tolerated. That said it doesn't really bother me if I understand the circumstances.
“This guy” is Don Hopkins who, amongst a long list of achievements in the field of computer science specializing in human computer interaction and computer graphics, is one of the authors of the UNIX haters handbook - specifically the extremely prescient chapter 7 "The X-Windows Disaster", published when Linux was in its infancy. You don't have to like what he is saying, but he has decades of experience and research behind what he says. Know where your field came from. The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward - sadly something a vocal minority of the community refuses to do.
Other than the obvious (IDEs), wish there were more tools like Fusion360's ai auto-constraints. Saves so much time on something that is mostly tedious and uncreative. I could see similar integrations for Blender (honestly the most interesting part of what op posted is changing the materials... could save a lot of time spent connecting noodles).