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“Better” is entirely subjective, complexity can provide improved power for advanced users but make it more difficult for new / average users by compartmenting the “happy path” regular actions into multiple composable disconnected features.

For example, LibreOffice doesn’t have the “Format as Table” feature from Excel, which in a single action combines adding sorting arrows along with a color scheme on a selected range of grouped cells. The range of grouped cells and the background colors in the Excel version auto-expand as new columns or rows are added. Sure, I could press 3-4 different hotkeys and manually update all of this in a sequence for LibreOffice Calc each time I modify the group of cells, but ideally the software would have some single unified action to not make me need to do that without resorting to creating custom possibly flaky macros.

I’ve thought about doing this, what kind of device do you use for input?

I have a Logitech K400 Plus portable keyboard and it works great for general use, but I end up using my Apple TV on the couch instead since I prefer using a TV remote / gamepad to navigate.

It’s unfortunate the HDMI forum is dragging their feet on this, but it’s kind of the nature of their business model so I’m not holding my breath waiting for things to resolve.

To use Linux at 4k at a high refresh rate with a TV or other screen that only has HDMI ports, they sell high-performance DisplayPort to HDMI adapter cords for like $30 on Amazon. My Bazzite machine works just fine on a 4K tv at 120hz, and even enables HDR now which it didn’t before with the regular HDMI cord.

If the HDMI forum thing doesn’t work out, I totally could see Valve offering a DP to HDMI cable just so folks don’t need to do extra searching to get the best performance out of their new hardware.

I can’t wait for QUERY to become an official RFC.

It's felt quite awkward to tiptoe around the existing spec when building features that retrieve data; we've had to either use POST to keep sensitive filter criteria out of http logs or just create a usually massive URL-encoded query string.

Or if on the iOS side of the fence, I’ve found the Octal app is fantastic

This is a very confusing move if true, for a few reasons:

- A folded iPad wouldn’t necessarily be easily pocket-able for most people. - I regularly see iPads being used for gaming and media consumption, neither of which really benefits from a folding screen that gets smaller than its regular size. - The ergonomics of touch controls with apps in a side-by-side multi-tasking view is already difficult enough on existing folding phones, and would likely be very uncomfortable on an even larger device.

I switched to Linux around the time the TPM stuff started since my hardware was “no longer supported” on Windows 11, and honestly more people should try Linux. I feel like aside from multiplayer online gaming (where anticheat is basically a self-inflicted rootkit) there’s not much missing here. Most Steam games are playable thanks to Valve, I legitimately almost never need to touch the terminal since apps are containerized now and distros ship a software store application to manage them, and the major desktop environments (GNOME, KDE) all have a stable and modern-looking UI.

This looks awesome, can’t wait for it to include speaker notes and/or videos so it’s easier to use for self-study!

Maybe 5-10 years ago, but today’s Linux desktop has evolved to be much more user friendly and stable. Applications have a standard containerized format (Flatpak), the most popular distributions ship a software store to update your apps and system with one click, and the stability of things has improved to a point where (in my experience) things almost never break unless you’re running the absolute bleeding-edge latest-gen hardware. I would highly recommend giving it a shot if you haven’t at least tried it as a daily driver before. (To get started, just look up a tutorial for how to dual-boot with Windows or play around with it in a Virtual Machine)

That’s one reason why I love the devlog videos from Randy. Not only does he not hide it when things get hard, he truly takes you on the journey to see his most painful-est of moments in a way that really allows you to either learn from it or just simply laugh at the absolutely absurd circumstances that he threw himself into.

Those restrictions seem intended to prevent people from creating a bunch of bot accounts that exploit the free tier. (Which is a common problem among free tiers for CI services and free online games)

I’m curious, what are some better alternative authentication methods to combat that problem than requiring a phone number?

C# with ASP.NET Core has been pretty great in my experience; it has both reasonable language syntax without that many footguns and reliable performance

Why doesn’t Twitter require and enforce that display names of Twitter Blue users unique?

In the event a legitimate party is name-jacked, they could just triage those incidents like they have done pre-acquisition.