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Out of curiosity Apple M1 Chips being ARM-based (I own a m1-powered laptop) I... honestly haven't really noticed any slow down while using ffmpeg but granted I don't do encoding/transcoding a whole lot and my usage of editors like Affinity Designer/Photos is pretty basic.

But on that note I feel like a budget laptop for the masses with ARM-chips would be quite the spot for many people include my father. he doesn't need any application just being able to use a browser. ( I guess, a more open, less shady Chromebook-like equivalent).

Well, I guess I just say this because my experience with the m1 chip has been way over the top to the point I haven't really noticed any slow down with docker/vscode/etc etc.

I feel like if KDE really wanted to build hardware specifically for KDE then they would and SHOULD bring in Qt Developers (The QT Company) onboard for the best optimizations of the desktop environment....

I may or may not be super knowledgeable on the subject have the KDE Slimbook team considered going full with ARM chips instead of the x86_64 processors?

I keep reading how ARM is more "efficient" and lower power consumption altogether. I also noticed that some Windows-laptop devices are shipping with ARM as well. (Windows on ARM not being new if you have been following Microsoft closely)

I'm not really surprised at all this is still an ongoing issue. And by far I think people that work on the so called Human Interface Guidelines need to get off whatever ideology/belief they fed themselves for the desktop environment to finally, you know, grow for actual humans rather than their egos. At times it feels more like a cred, like when elementary OS was released I read so many comments on how Apple nailed the UI.

From the site: >If you use GNOME and this is a revelation to you, it’s because you’re used to mediocrity. If you think your experience all this time was normal, you’re completely mistaken—and it’s not least because you’re using a specific desktop environment that’s available only on Free operating systems that account for only a fraction of a percent of desktop computer usage anyways.

I like the author just sarcastically points it out, because I remember reading years ago the same on both GNOME and elementary OS subreddits "it's because people are used to mediocrity". Or, you know, maybe people find it super helpful to being able to see the images without extra steps so they can choose whatever they want.

And then it all just spirals down into:

"Have you tried X/Y/Z?" no? Sucks for you buddy I guess you are stuck with mediocre people making design decisions. But as crud as I put it, I might not be wrong.

That said, I have completely given up on all the nonsense someone would have to follow to file a enhancement report and discuss it just to be stuck on discussion for 10 years. There's just no time and energy for that, and at the end people would just ditch the desktop environment because it's just too much of a hassle to use.

I didn't know getting coffee was a suspicious behavior :)

I'd lean that they are probably control freaks. But there's probably more to it than that and ultimately it seems it boils down to "I'm paying you to work thus it's my right to track your every movement"

Years ago I had a boss but set up security cameras. Normally, this is completely okay because you gotta secure the building you just never know who's gonna come in and rob the place or maybe track an incident (rape, violence, etc).

This boss of mine however went home or worked from home from time to time or sometimes he would go on a vacation and he would just connect to the video stream of the security cameras.

One day I was the only one in the building as I still had to finish my shift. He gaves me a call, he didn't say he was monitoring me of course but he seemed to know what I was doing and proceeded to ask the following question: is everything okay? how's the workload etc etc. Common questions, nothing out of the ordinary.

So it seemed he just called because I wasn't receiving a lot of support calls and sometimes I would just go get coffee he probably saw me standing a lot, maybe thought I was neglecting my job.

I can be incredibly outspoken at times. A lot of the things in the call just screamed "I'm monitoring you". When the call ended I was furious. There's nothing more damaging than not trusting your employees. It breaks trust and relationships. I've never in my professional life felt so insulted that I need someone to monitor me.

If you are this type of manager/supervisor: Kindly put, shame on you. I say kindly put because the words I want to say can't be conveyed here without getting moderated. Cease and rethink your strategy, we are professionals not kids or teenagers and doing this to teenagers remember you are growing professionals, nothing like giving them the ground to grow but if they find stuff like this you are destroying everything.

To workers that are aware I can only hope you find other jobs. It's stressful enough, no need to tolerate this behavior.

Thanks, I've never checked out Babel. I will truly suggest that to my lead, seems something we can take advantage of.

I believe so. I don't make a big issue out of it... but anything carrying the word const I expect it to be fully read-only with no "buts" in between throughout the whole execution of the program. I guess if they used "readonly" as C# it would make more sense?

That's amazing. I was just scratching my head about const when I read the article, "so what's the purpose if I can change the value... but I guess I can't re-assign the variable with a new value .... that's it?"

I still found the article incredibly informative, sadly as someone still stuck working on legacy apps it falls into "...in some near future I'll take advantage of JavaScript new stuff"

> Building a new React app with create-react-app requires 4304 directories and 28678 files.

Finally, of course I don't consider myself the only person thinking about it but someone finally pointed the elephant in the room because it's been bugging me for a very long time, especially with anything related to NodeJS it feels like to actually get somewhere you need to pull hundreds if not thousands of tiny libraries dependencies. Once 1, 2, 50 of those tiny libraries becomes unmaintained and fall into a high risk vulnerability and there's no replacement that's it , you have to start taking care of it yourself. It could happen in any language, yes, but I feel it's more prone to happen in NodeJS given the nature of .... pulling hundreds of modules, even with Java/Maven you don't really pull that many libraries into your application unless it has some really wide scope in it.

I don't have any beef with NodeJS itself but the whole subject of having so much boilerplate code needed to get yourself started is a bit insane. I get that hardware has become more powerful and storage is cheap but... at which point is it no longer okay and becomes a burden to distribute said apps?

Yes. I'm fine with Namecheap taking the domain down. Handing information like that just because they ask for it? That's a huge no. Let them proceed through the legal channels to get that information.

> We don’t want people to be deceived by these web addresses, so we’ve taken legal action.

I wonder if they reported the issue first unless it's all for show. I've reported phishing domains before and Namecheap is usually quick on taking them down if the domain belongs to that registrar. I think the last report within 24 hours they plugged it out. So makes me wonder what Facebook is on about with this.

Edit: ok, I missed the "despite their obligation to provide information about these infringing domain names, they declined to cooperate." seems Facebook wanted to go on a witch hunt.

It's.... a bit hard to define my current workspace. I do software development but a lot of that development is on legacy applications using some obscure API, perhaps a super old version of a known open source project that nobody uses anymore, or simply dealing with an application written two decades ago in C and I have to know specific things.... and I'd have to say searching on Google is just handy when it comes to this.

It's not easy to describe I guess. For my normal "John Doe" usage I have no problems using DDG. But when it comes to work where I need to narrow it down the best I can I guess Google will always come to the rescue (but not always, haha.... nothing like dealing with undocumented libraries).

I wish it was just language-specific behaviors at least I know there's always plenty to search on but... it's a little bit of everything.

Sadly.... this was my conclusion as well. I'd rather have an iPhone(which I do, an iPhone X) than actually get a Android device.

This is the case of going with the lesser evil.... and there's no way in my mind that Apple would be the greater evil than Google when it comes to tracking users and learning all their habits while using Android.

Apple is not perfect and I hate it for being so anti-consumer when it comes to repairing... and I'd love they would fully commit to a privacy-minded iOS if they have the guts to do it.