Synthead

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[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If there is a dependency problem in the upstream packages, then there is a bug in Ubuntu. This doesn't happen often, and isn't a good reason to go to Flatpak by itself. A bug should be filed upstream and it'll likely get fixed quickly.

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What did you download?

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is meta as hell. I love it.

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If this is expected and everything is peachy, then why does Instacart say to not give the receipt to the customer? You don't see this as something to hide?

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Some printers detect when cartridges have been refilled by the user and are programmed to stop working then.

This is absurd. I would like to hear how this benefits the consumer without attempting to talk about "quality" or something. This would be like my car not starting cause I didn't use Shell gas.

What's more upsetting is that printers are client side all the way. There is nothing about them that needs to reach out to the Internet to print pages. The printer itself handles the "letting you print." So the thing sitting on your desk, that you own, is choosing this for you.

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree. That would be absurd.

However, I don't like not having the option of using HTTP if I want to use it. It's okay if the webserver redirects me, but I don't like if my browser does it when I didn't tell it to. I might want this when doing development, port tunneling, VPN stuff, etc. In most cases, it won't matter, but when it does, it will be a pain in the ass.

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I disagree. While in practice, this is often the same website, it is a different protocol and a different port. It just happens to use the same DNS address. You're explicitly giving your browser a FQDN, and it is ignoring it and doing something else.

I hope this feature can be disabled. Google has been ignoring the W3C and has shipped proprietary, insecure features in their chromium engine for a while now, so it wouldn't surprise me if they made it permanent 🤷

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Remember that time when USPS leadership ordered the removal and dismantling of mail sorting machines in an attempt to make mail-in votes late?

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

If I need more space or more speed. Otherwise, it's a waste.

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real. It's so much better to think about using the screen space you already have. People can do what they want, but I am happy with one screen, a tiling window manager, and workspaces. I can have a dozen or more things going on, and have it packed on a workspace. Fullscreen a window of I need to, then pop it back.

It's incredibly efficient. I see stuff like this, and I imagine what it's like to have text several feet away, screens covered by other screens, lots of neck fatigue, all the monitor borders... like it's truly bad. It feels like someone watched a lot of TV and "felt" that this was the best way to do it without trying it.

Butt I digress. It's not my setup. If they're efficient with it, more power to them.

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