tfw people would rather redefine what noon means than readjust their business hours

what’s up with vertical tabs? it seems very foreign to me having always used horizontal ones. is there any particular benefit beyond it just feeling better for some people?

I’ve always hated horizontal tabs. It’s one of the reasons why I started using Firefox way back in like 2006 because there’s a popular extension that gave you vertical tabs. Horizontal tabs suck once you have 10+ tabs open and I have 70+ tabs lol

I just installed it with Flatpak on my Fedora Macbook. I need to play around with it, but my 5-minute impression is so far pretty good. I don’t really get the point of the sidebar since I use the web search plugin for KRunner on my main desktop. I guess it’s good for people who don’t have KRunner since they could add a bunch of commonly used websites like Wikipedia and Google Translate.

Edit:
Split tab is very interesting. Not good for the laptop because the screen size is too small but it can have good use for my desktop.

I still have to use tree style tabs to be able to organize my tabs in a tree structure, but I’m (mostly) able to hide the default tabs unlike Firefox where the horizontal tabs sitting awkwardly on the top alongside the tree style tabs.

I feel like Linux may be going the way of UNIX. Not in some pessimistic “it’s joever” way, but in the way that it eventually will be superseded by an improved project with better leadership, better technologies, and better principles.

I remember having this shower thought, “it’s weird to imagine people still using Linux in 2050.” Of the three main OS, Linux is the oldest one. Windows NT is slightly newer than Linux and macOS is only around 2 decades old. Even the various BSDs are slightly newer than Linux.

Mossad is getting really desperate.

It’s Waydroid. Since your current setup doesn’t have Wayland, you could always try setting up a VM with a distro that has Wayland or even Waydroid already installed like VanillaOS.

Windows updates have always sucked. It sucked in XP, it sucked in Vista, it sucked in 7, it sucked in 8, it sucked in 10, and it sucks in 11. Slow, forced restarts, fucking up your shit and bricking your device.

Nah, MacOS > Windows for me:

1. Homebrew > Chocolatey. Yeah, Homebrew doesn’t hold a candle to apt/pacman/dnf, but with Homebrew you can install popular programs used in Linux like btop. With Homebrew, you can turn your terminal into something that mostly resembles a Linux terminal. Meanwhile, you’re stuck with installing Windows programs like Notepad++ with Chocolatey.

2. MacOS comes with zsh by default, which is useful because zsh is used by other Unix-likes like Linux and BSD. As of Windows 11, the default shell is Powershell. Unless you really like Powershell, having zsh instead of Powershell is a plus if only because it’s also used in other OS.

3. Spotlight > Windows search. Windows search is trash tier. It’s slow and gives you useless shit instead of what you want. And unless they really botched spotlight post-Catalina, spotlight is honestly better than most Linux DE searches. Not as good as the golden standard for searches: KRunner.

For everything else, they both suck and require third-party tools to make them suck less. Windows is only better than MacOS if you’re a g*mer.

Too bad em-dollar sign couldn’t steal KDE Plasma’s ability to create side panels.

From the few Mac enthusiasts I keep in touch with, MacOS peaked with Catalina apparently. It’s like their version of Windows 7.

mfw Linux file managers had tabs more than a decade before file explorer.

I have a Debian desktop and a Fedora Macbook:

1. Waydroid is finicky on my desktop PC. I can get it work for my needs, but it’s way too finicky for me to set it up on someone’s computer.

2. kdenlive is also super finicky on my desktop PC. It constantly has weird bugs and is very inconsistent, including inconsistency in its bugs for better or worse. Like for a while, it wasn’t able to play back audio. I’m using the Flatpak version.

3. The laptop wifi has this weird issue where if the laptop goes to sleep and I log in, the wifi sometimes has issues connecting to the default gateway. My jank solution is to simply ping the default gateway after logging in and resetting the wifi connection if the ping times are bad.

Kraut cope

This is just the classic case of the real malware being the antimalware all this time.

I’ve read the lemmy.world responses, and they’re all predictably trash. The real answer is there’s no good way to tell if someone’s a kid because they’re plenty of mature 12 year olds and plenty of dipshit adults with poor writing skills (ie boomers). To rephrase the question, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually not a kid?

1. They talk about mid- to low-tier shows that your average zoomer wouldn’t know about. So someone talking about The Simpsons or Batman: The Animated Series doesn’t mean much, but someone talking about Biker Mice from Mars or Extreme Dinosaurs means they’re some millennial.

2. They namedrop social media sites that no longer exist. Remember Xanga and Vine?

3. They complain about body problems. Knees that feel funny before it rains. Bad back. Nose hair that never stops growing. And so on.

4. They demonstrate an understanding on how old and obsolete technology works (typewriters, payphones, VCR, floppy disks, Limewire, DOS, modems, Blackberries). Like, average zoomers don’t know how to use those map guides that are in the form of a book.

5. They remember how the pre-modern web was like or life before the web was like. Someone who’s <18 years old was born after 2006, when the modern web was still being build.

6. They remember ancient memes and fads that are obscure enough that it isn’t some zoomer looking up random memes on knowyourmeme.

7. They’re horribly out of touch with what kids enjoy. Notice this is different from passing judgment on what kids enjoy because they’re plenty of things I thought was stupid when I was a kid. But when you say shit like “only 13 year olds like Tiktok” or “only kids like Minecraft” yeah you’re just out of touch.

Here’s the original link in lemmy.ml if you want to see lemmy.world loser ledditors coping: https://lemmy.ml/post/17384440

Whoops, I meant TSMC. Thanks for the correction.

Damn, I guess you like authoritarianism but only when it’s authoritarianism that your side is doing.

I see a lot more crank shit with Yandex while DDG is almost entirely Western MSM.

The high point of Taiwanese separatism was in 2019 when Tsai Ing-wen, despite being unpopular and almost getting primaried by the current Taiwanese president, was able to ride on the fears of the Hong Kong protests to win the presidency in 2020. After that, separatists have eaten nothing but L’s since then.

1. They got BTFO in the 2022 local elections, topping it off with Chiang Kai-shek’s bastard great-grandson getting elected as mayor of Taipei. This also means he has presidential ambitions, so a funny outcome would be Taiwan having a third president from the Chiang family.

2. They ate shit in the 2024 legislative elections and don’t have a majority in the Yuan.

3. They got their president elected with a crappy plurality made worse by all the 16-17 year old TPP supporters who can’t vote because they’re too young, meaning his popularity is even weaker than it looks.

4. Taiwanese zoomers, basically the people who are of conscript age, are voting for TPP instead, which ruins the DPP’s plan of replacing the KMT through age demographic changes. Just because the KMT is going to be the party of irrelevant boomers doesn’t mean your party will get the zoomers.

5. The ROC military has openly displays signs of disloyalty including a retired general saying they should simply coup the DPP and various officers repeatedly getting bribed by the PRC to lay down their arms. It turns out accusing the KMT, of which the ROC military is politically, culturally, and historically aligned with, of selling out to the PRC in order to win votes for your presidential election has far-reaching consequences.

6. The combination of the Taiwanese economy stagnating and the dumpster fire with TSMC attempting to build a factory in Arizona is forcing Taiwanese business to push harder towards the status quo, where they can get favorable trade deals with the PRC.