Tranus

joined 1 year ago
[–] Tranus@programming.dev -1 points 6 months ago

Y2K specifically makes no sense though. Any reasonable way of storing a year would use a binary integer of some length (especially when you want to use as little memory as possible). The same goes for manipulations; they are faster, more memory efficient, and easier to implement in binary. With an 8-bit signed integer counting from 1900, the concerning overflows would occur in 2028, not 2000. A base 10 representation would require at least 8 bits to store a two digit number anyway. There is no advantage to a base 10 representation, and there never has been. For Y2K to have been anything more significant than a text formatting issue, a whole lot of programmers would have had to go out of their way to be really, really bad at their jobs. Also, usage of dates beyond 2000 would have increased gradually for decades leading up to it, so the idea it would be any sort of sudden catastrophe is absurd.

[–] Tranus@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

It's not made from milk though, right? It wouldn't be vegan if it has any animal products. And if it isn't made from milk, it's just not cheese, even if the microorganisms are the same.

[–] Tranus@programming.dev 21 points 11 months ago

I love that they keep saying stuff like "introducing Ubuntu to the Christian community", as if they couldn't already use it.

[–] Tranus@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When you hit the windows key (aka meta-key or super-key) it brings up the app launcher. You get a dock at the bottom with pinned or running apps (like a taskbar), and all of your open windows are presented in a sort of mini-version that lets you switch between them or move them between workspaces. There is a search bar that you can immediately type into to open any app with a .desktop file. There is also a button to bring up the app grid which shows your apps kind of like a mobile device's home screen.

[–] Tranus@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not having a dock is one of my favorite things about gnome. I actually use an extension to hide the top bar too. There's just something so satisfying about having 100% usable space on screen. I get all the info back in the win-key overlay, so I don't really need that stuff on screen at all times.

[–] Tranus@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

" dumb it down"? Isn't the mobile app (s) displaying the same posts as the website(s)?

[–] Tranus@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it's all fine and dandy until you try to buy some spinach, fumble around on the touchscreen for a while until you figure out how to add something manually, then can't find spinach anywhere and finally ask for help, feeling like a total idiot who can't use a touchscreen interface that a boomer soccer mom could figure out, but then you figure out it was listed under "leafy green spinach" so now you're mad at both at yourself and whoever decided that was a good idea.

[–] Tranus@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

What? Nautilus (ubuntu default file browser) finds drives wherever they are mounted and lists as their own location, as if it was windows. That includes the default mount point. Even if it wasn't detected, it can still get to the mount point by browsing through the file system normally.

Installing software can be done via a software manager (included in ubuntu and most other distros). Software not in the manager is usually distributed as a portable binary (also common on windows) or an app image (even easier to use than an installer). Once installed, that software is the same as on windows.

Besides basic file manipulation, installing/running software, and web browsing, what else does the average user even do? All of it can be done on linux, with or without CLI.

[–] Tranus@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

No, they would spend way too much money on custom USB drives. There would be 20 different kinds, with the super premium gold edition* only being available as a preorder bonus that costs $20 extra.

*does not contain real gold