eksb

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[–] eksb@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The PB&Js your mom made and cut into quarters diagonally and brought out to you and your friends playing in the backyard when you were six. The ones with the toothpicks in them, indicating they have crunchy PB. Best after sitting for ten minutes so the jelly starts to leak into the bread a little bit. With a glass of milk.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago

First, does your monitor have an audio output? Some do, and it will output the audio from the HDMI/DisplayPort input.

If not, you could get an HDMI audio extractor (like this one) to split the audio out of the HDMI signal. Then you can get any streaming device that has an HDMI out.

If your speakers are not powered and you are not married to your amplifier, you could buy an A/V receiver.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can turn off search-in-url-bar.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 77 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Boeing QA department

[–] eksb@programming.dev 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wealthy people are mad that the government is not spending money on protecting their luxuries from the consequences of their own actions.

[–] eksb@programming.dev -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love the analogy of Hummers overrunning Priuses, because while Hummers are more dangerous that Priuses, they both kill pedestrians, burn gasoline, and dump microplastics everywhere.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That would be wildly unreasonable even for a senior role.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You do not want to stop getting security updates.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 15 points 8 months ago (20 children)
[–] eksb@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

I have not used Windows to do any real work in 20 years, so I have no idea how good or bad it is nowadays. Last time I used it I used LiteStep.

I have used various window managers on Linux, Solaris, and BSD over the years, and different ones push you into different workflows, and moving between them can involve an adjustment period. But none of them were as anti-keyboard as MacOS is. And you always had the option of switching.

Regarding rotation, it would get confused and resize windows as if they were in the other rotation, menus would open in the wrong places, and if the menubar had so much content that it would not fit (mostly on displays in portrait mode), the results would be inconsistent and sometimes unusable.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 40 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I left a job over MacOS.

The management was bad. The product was bad. I would have left eventually anyway.

But the constant frustration of using a window manager that does not let you make keyboard shortcuts for most basic window operations, like cycling through windows on the current virtual desktop was too much. And MacOS really does not like you to have multiple monitors in different orientations. There were a whole bunch of other stupid things. I always felt like my computer was fighting me, not working for me.

But on the plus side, it did not have an Ethernet jack, it was really thin so the fans were tiny and made a huge racket, the keyboard sucked to type on, and keys would stop working if a piece of dust with any dimension larger the Plank length got under them.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

BMW: 40 in town, 90 on the expressway, 80 on the twisty roads, 70 on the on ramps.

Nissan: 60 in town, 100 on the expressway, 40 on the twisty roads, 12 on the on ramps.

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