There’s a bonus panel on the artist’s website.

https://lastplacecomics.com/mind-machine-bonus/

Seems like Apple’s convoluted guidelines around external payment systems is working out for them.

E: added link to said guidelines.

Beside mentions of Jetbrains license model, I would like to mention the license model of a note taking app called Agenda[1].

It has a subscription wherein the customer retains the software and all of its functionality even after the subscription expires. One may resume the subscription down the line if they see a new feature worth having.

The creators of the app liken it to a magazine subscription wherein the customer retains the magazines even after the subscription lapses.

From my own experience of using it, I purchased the license for a year back in 2021 and let it lapse as I did not find the any of the new features to be worthwhile. I still keep an eye on their updates as it is my daily driver.

[1] https://agenda.community/t/get-all-features/21

For me, desktop UI peaked at Windows 98.

Installing the 95/98 GTK theme by B00merang is one of the first things I do after a fresh installation of Linux Mint.

I do try other themes once in a blue moon. But I soon realise it is a downgrade and revert back. The last theme I tried was the Arc theme back in mid-late 2010s.

::: spoiler Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android … … without customers realising their watches offers nothing more than the competition, and the primary reason their watches were successful was the lack of such competition within their walled garden. :::

I do not agree with @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today’s take. LLMs as these are used today, at the very least, reduces the number of steps required to consume any previously documented information. So these are solving at least one problem, especially with today’s Internet where one has to navigate a cruft of irrelevant paragraphs and annoying pop ups to reach the actual nugget of information.

Having said that, since you have shared an anecdote, I would like to share a counter(?) anecdote.

Ever since our workplace allowed the use of LLM-based chatbots, I have never seen those actually help debug any undocumented error or non-traditional environments/configurations. It has always hallucinated incorrectly while I used it to debug such errors.

In fact, I am now so sceptical about the responses, that I just avoid these chatbots entirely, and debug errors using the “old school” way involving traditional search engines.

Similarly, while using it to learn new programming languages or technologies, I always got incorrect responses to indirect questions. I learn that it has incorrectly hallucinated only after verifying the response through implementation. This makes the entire purpose futile.

I do try out the latest launches and improvements as I know the responses will eventually become better. Most recently, I tried out GPT-4o when it got announced. But I still don’t find them useful for the mentioned purposes.

Interesting.

Before Shokz was AfterShokz. :-)

The comma is deliberately omitted and it’s placement is left to the reader.

The versatility of deck is just too good. If you don’t mind, do share a picture of your setup. I would love to see the steam deck in action at work.

There are a lot of knee jerk reactions in the comments. I hope few of those commenters have read the article or, at the least, your comment.

Thanks for highlighting Pulsar.

I always found Atom clunky, but it was instrumental in changing how editors were made, perceived, and used.

It did not deserve the death/abandonment it got.

The URL is in the picture.

https://shop.morningwitch.com

For those in the unknown, this comment is in reference to an article on The Daily WTF, which ThePrimeagen “reacted” to.

:::spoiler rant

As I have frequently found myself not knowing a quip/quote/reference from popular (or worse, obscure) media, I am doing my bit to add context to this rather plain comment disguised as an in-joke.

For people who derive pleasure from posting such references, please annotate your reference with some context for others to take part in/appreciate the media you liked enough to remember and make a reference of.

:::

“TSFKAT”.

Fewer letters than “Twitter”, expresses more than “X”.

I have seen worse names (“X Æ A-12”) get more eyeballs.

I kid you not! My steam deck got delivered today, after I was on the fence about it for a few months. :’-)

FOMO aside, really excited about setting it up and taking it for a spin! :-)

Saw this post on “All”. Last I checked (sometime in 2019), self-hosting was a fairly involved process.

Has the process simplified enough for a complete beginner like me to begin self-hosting services on, say, a raspberry pi?

If yes, can you please point me to a good resource/wiki?

How are you approaching de-googling? I am unable to think of a graceful solution to migrate my emails and photos while preserving their metadata.

Adobe … spam … Windows

That sounds about right.

Unless I misunderstood “cloud service functionality”, an Obsidian vault can be placed almost anywhere on the file system. For instance, a remote/WebDAV drive or even the Dropbox/iCloud Drive/Google Drive directory.

Migrating is as easy as moving the vault directory from one location to another, and pointing Obsidian to it.

As always, on iOS, there are some caveats as it lacks a traditional file system. So, the Obsidian app cannot access the vault directory on, say your Dropbox. But there are workarounds for it, like hosting the vault on a remote Git repository - which is what I ended up doing. Of course, this is a non-issue on Android.

Obsidian has a help page that goes in detail about what I just said.

As for the Git repository workaround, I referred to this article to arrive at my current workflow.

As an aside, I would like to touch upon my experience with using the inbuilt sync on apps like Agenda and Joplin - both offering syncing using iCloud and Dropbox while the latter offering a whole lot more. It is a flaky experience at best, wherein a significant number of notes never really sync between the devices. This forces me to use my phone to view a particular note while my computer for another. This is where the plain text file foundation for apps like Obsidian and Logseq wins me over.

Indeed, it is very reasonable.

It strikes a balance between subscriptions and perpetual licences.

I am alternating between Mlem[0] and wefwef[1] as I want to fill the void that Apollo has left.

I use Mlem for the fluidity (though it still has a lot of stuttering, but really good for a pre-release) and interactions (e.g., swipe to previous screen, vibrations).

I use wefwef for its support for messages and closer UI parity to Apollo.

Having said that, I am open to using a better/alternative UX and will start experimenting when these apps have their releases on the App Store.

[0] https://github.com/mormaer/Mlem

[1] https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef

I'm already about to ditch Voyager for putting emoji's on my app interface.

Is this about the new account highlightenator thingy that shows a 👶 next to new accounts?

If so, it is actually a good QoL feature, and it can be disabled under Settings -> General.

Posy - a channel about anything (along with some really fantastic music!)

Though I agree with your overall point, I can’t see why rounded corners (or the lack of it) might be a noticeable issue.

Hey, at least they did not forget to wake you up.

Pardon me if I sounded dismissive. 1Blocker is good, and so is AdGuard.

I remember those being one of the first ones to do the job well, back when Apple launched content blockers. Wipr came much later, and I only recently switched to it (around late 2022).

That is a nice theme. I am unsure of its use of pink, but will try it out later today. Colour theory is weird.

Thanks!

Thanks for the list. While there are some that I read about previously, a few of the other patterns are something that I only experienced.

It is nice to know that these have been identified and labelled by others in the industry. :D

On Safari for iOS and macOS, I prefer Wipr instead of 1Blocker.

It’s lighter, easier to use, cheaper, scores more on d3ward’s ad-block test (but that may fluctuate).

E: added specific browser.

I read a post that mentioned the community migrated to Lemmy.

https://lemmy.wiuf.net/post/529

Contributing here with another sample point.

I did not find the mentioned link on either search engines’ first page of results.

DuckDuckGo:

StartPage:

I am not sure why a black bar appears when taking a full page screenshot of StartPage on Safari for iOS, but both screenshots are unedited and uploaded as-is.

You are in a community that focuses specifically on that website. ;-)

I too was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled upon the app a few years back. The licence model was a major factor in choosing the app over the rest.

Yes. The !bangs in DDG are for convenience and not for privacy. The convenience of not opening the intended website, and typing/pasting the query to perform the search.

Hades.

Having just finished Hollow Knight (in fact, I mentioned starting it in one of the previous discussion threads ), I find Hades to be a bit too repetitive. But I don’t want to make the same mistakes I did with Hollow Knight and give up early.

I will give this game a few more days before forming a conclusive opinion.

Speaking of Hollow Knight, I am glad I didn’t give up yet again. The game really opens up after the first few boss fights, and it was really fun exploring the lore, levelling up, and going through some of the bosses.

Good bot.

Hollow Knight.

I started playing it at the start of this week, and have been completely hooked into it.

What I find pleasantly surprising is that I gave the game a few chances over the years, but it just didn’t click. Perhaps as I was playing on a PS, and I find it very odd to play platformers and similar games on it.

The repository linked in the post mentions that it is ncspot.

some governments […] have been trying linux as a way to cut expenses

I have been hearing such news for close to two decades but not without news where many such organisations switch back to using proprietary software due to a mixture of reasons ranging from usability to politics.

Thanks for the steps!

I remember steps 4 & 5 were the ones that made me drop the idea. It involved a lot of configuration.

I will take a look once again, hopefully these have become simple enough.

• Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, 7 spanning a decade and a half.
• Ubuntu 10.04 going up to the release where Unity became the default DE (11.04, I think). Came back to 10.04, as it was an LTS release.
• Linux Mint Maya because of Cinnamon, and it was terrible.
• Fedora 16 to 25 or 26.
• Linux Mint 19

Been with Linux Mint ever since. It just works. LM19 was also around the time when I stepped into Apple’s walled garden with iOS and macOS.