My three operating system hills:

• Windows peaked with 2000 (design-wise) and XP (functionality-wise)
• macOS’ separation of the application vs window concepts — i.e. an app has exactly one menu bar and dock icon, and is expected to be able to stay open without any windows (without needing nonsense like tray icons) — is much better than anything else and it sucks nobody is copying it
• Flatpak and everything related is atrocious architecture-wise in every single way and it’s a massive condemnation of Linux (desktop)’s compatibility state that it actually solves a real problem

My #1 advice is to keep domain and mail/whatever else hosting separate. You can transfer your domain to another registrar, and then get an email hosting service that allows you to use your own domain.

That way you can move your email to another provider without also having to move your domain and vice versa.

My domain registrar is INWX, and I host my mail server on my own VPS so I can’t speak to the quality of any mail service but Hostinger allows you use an external domain.

That DNSSEC status does not have anything to do with being able to transfer your domain AFAIK, that is instead generally something different called Transfer Lock.

To transfer your mails, what I did in the past was just connect the two mailboxes via IMAP to a local client and copy everything from the old mailbox to the new one (or to a local one first, whatever). As long as both sides support IMAP, you don’t have to have any special support from either provider. But it’s probably nice to have.

You can connect non-Gmail mailboxes to the Gmail app but there are better alternatives. Thunderbird as you said, for Android there’s K9-Mail. Personally I use KDE’s KMail and Apple’s Mail app on my computers/phone. YMMV.

Oh interesting, I didn’t know about this at all. It seems a bit related to the whole “children aren’t solely raised by their parents, but the entire community” idea.

From a quick look at the wikipedia page, guanxi sounds like a very different model of interpersonal relationships than what we have here. It seems like there’s also a lot more overlap between “business” and personal/private relationships.

What this makes me wonder is how does this whole thing affect familial abuse, which is primarily about control, this seems like it would make it a lot harder to get away from abusive family members.

I wonder what the parental requirement means effectively if your parents do not live in China lol

They’re getting there, I think. Chengdu is already looking pretty good when it comes to that.

Sans has a variable variant and the other two do not, I think.

Decoder skill issue. If ImageMagick or whatever other open-source software can read it, everyone else has no excuse.

(That said, if I could pick, I’d pick JPEG XL)

IBM Plex Sans/Serif/Mono everywhere!

But look at the typical apple user. Do you think they’re going to be happy without the apple experience?

The Apple experience = locked down devices? If people (and Apple) stopped fearmongering about “security” or whatever, yeah they would, or at worst they wouldn’t care. I’d certainly welcome being able to publish apps on my terms, and being able to install what I want.

Some things are for you, other things are NOT for you. Letting both exist is an option.

That’s exactly the point. You don’t have to use the parts of a theoretical more open ecosystem if you don’t want to, you can keep using exclusively the official Apple stuff. But it creates more choice for the user if it exists.

Apple is incompetent at writing software for anything but their own devices. iCloud Web is also a disaster for example, and the old iTunes for Windows is infamous for being a buggy mess. Though I have to say they did a good job with the new web Apple Maps.

• Dwarf Fortress
• Rimworld
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• The Witcher 3
• The Binding of Isaac

Thank you!

Ah! That makes sense, yeah.

Huge thanks to the French for over 900% of required signatures which is much higher than any other country, they’re pretty much always in the “recent signatories” list! <3

This is not a distro-specific thing, but a desktop-specific one. It was probably written for Gnome primarily.

Not sure how other software that reads this setting handles it, but imo doing it correctly it should only look at it if the current desktop is Gnome. Plasma has a setting like this too, which probably works similarly.

This is an European Citizens’ Initiative which only needs 60,000 50,000 30,000 0 more signatures with a deadline of TOMORROW!

It’s reached the 1 million, but you can still sign if you haven’t! There are bound to be some invalid ones.

Sign it here if you’re in the EU: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Sure. It paints a very vivid picture, I love it.

Never read anything by Dickens before except for A Christmas Carol (and that was for school) but this is now on my reading list :^)

Carl Poppa

Holy shit, memories unlocked. Uploaded 10 years ago…

I’ll need to listen to all the others again.

INFRA

I love watching Vargskelethor’s Temu Trash streams where he browses the site looking at funny awful products. (clip from one of them that I cut together) That’s the closest I’ve gone near it.