So the party that’s ostensibly supposed to be pro business, sides with shitty anti-business conmen?
It’s hard to see how their guiding ideology isn’t just “be shitty and make things worse” now
One thing you consider is concurrency, it’s always good to have headroom if you can.
It’s kinda nice to not have the internet speeds of every device on your network grind to a halt just because you’re downloading something on your computer, for example. Particularly if you live with anyone else using the connection too
Flat design may be less distracting to you but that also means it’s less clear, because there are fewer obvious demarcation.
I despise flat design, it’s downright awful design, and done for looks rather than functionality.
to you
Flat design dominates for a reason—the less visually busy something is, the easier it is for users to wrap their heads around it. This gets proven again and again in user studies, the more busy and dense you make things, the more users miss stuff and get lost.
People’s opinions on the ribbon specifically are obviously all subjective, but I would say the less distracting design would be the one done less for looks, rather it’s a pretty utilitarian design if you pick it apart. This is an interface for productivity tools, and as such the interface should get out of your way until you need it—the ribbon just does that better IMO.
Microsoft also did this to obfuscate features, which is pretty apparent when you consider new users used to “discover” features via the menu system. I supported Office for MS in the early days, and this was a huge thing at the time. It was discussed heavily when training on new versions.
Why on earth would Microsoft want to obfuscate features? There’s no way that motivation would ever make sense.
IIRC one of the main reasons Microsoft introduced the ribbon was that grouping functionality contextually helped users discover features, because people kept requesting features that already existed, but they just couldn’t find. I remember there being a blog on the Microsoft developer site about the making of it that went into this.
Weirdly as someone who has used both styles heavily, I’d say the ribbon is more practical than the old toolbars. There’s more contextual grouping and more functional given the tabs and search, plus the modern flat design is less distracting, which is what I’d want from a productivity application. Also for me two rows of toolbars & a menu is about the same height as the ribbon anyway, and you can collapse the ribbon if you want to use the space
This is all assuming it’s a spinning disk and not an SSD, so ignore me if that’s the case:
Given SAS drives are usually used in data centre storage array applications and 3TB disks have been kinda small for that use case for a fair while, there’s a fairly high chance it was in heavy use for a good number of years. I’d bet it’s probably well on its way to being a paperweight regardless of your connectivity situation.
If you do get it hooked up, don’t store anything on it you wouldn’t be okay losing.
What timezone is the rapture in?
Trying to decide if I should stay up and get some photos
Hmmmm… Dessert pasta…
There’s definitely something to this
If the meat is pork, that could potentially be banging
It’s a good point
But the accusation isn’t flippant. That’s exactly what this is.
Okay no exclusivity
This bodes well for ff7r2
Archive link because I’m not paying to decline tracking cookies
Regarding the actual article: why on earth are we giving money at all? Let alone to a far-right government? Am I being dense because I don’t see what we’re actually getting for the money here.
Now now, AJ may not know everything, but he’ll learn
Equating Linux enthusiasts to offal is a bold move on this site
> we don’t want to break the terms we agreed to
> it’s a shame that even on a “free speech”…
Can’t even stay ideologically consistent in the same post
Well, given the road we’re hurtling down as a civilisation, there’s probably not a later where they really need to worry about that
Might as well enjoy the chill out time
This guy watches Acton Retro, doesn’t he
Plex is probably the easiest and most convenient, I think jellyfin is viable too, but I don’t use it.
If you’ve got the money, Roon or Audirvana are the gold standard of self hosted music
If you want something similar, but free, look into things like volumio or subsonic based solutions.
Holy shit I’ve not thought about this for a very long time