hussong

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Web enthusiast from Berlin, co-founder at Directed Edge

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Comment · 2 months ago

I really like qobuz for music, great apps for iOS, Android, and web.

Comment · 7 years ago

This. I was hanging on to Ubuntu 16.04 until a month ago just to keep Unity. After finally upgrading to 18.04, I spent a week on Gnome 3 and it was quite a frustrating experience.

Found Ubuntu Mate and am loving it! MATE Tweak gives you so many options to make the UI work like Unity, even better in some ways. The only thing I missed were application shortcuts, but now the fancy dock works just as well for me.

Comment · 7 years ago

France and Germany have had very different energy strategies for ages.

Germany still has significant domestic coal reserves.

France pretty much ran out of coal decades ago and therefore invested heavily in nuclear technology and access to uranium ore (mostly in Africa), they are #2 in uranium consumption worldwide.

Comment · 9 years ago

(Next moon landing I hope the mission lays down an enormous silver blanket that can be seen by amateur astronomers and ordinary people are encouraged to come out and look through a 'scope for themselves!)

OT, the old moon landing joke comes to mind:

  Astronaut: “Houston, we have a problem.”
  Houston: “What?”
  Astronaut: “The Russians painted the moon red!”
  Houston: “Well, do you guys have white paint with you?”
  Astronaut: “Yes. Why?”
  Houston: “Write Coca-Cola on it.”

Comment · 9 years ago

I had a lecturer in a class on infrastructure policy at (German) university who was an ICT exec and always said that the first rule of the business was "Wer gräbt, verliert." (you dig, you lose).

Comment · 10 years ago

Seeing the same here (German IP), maybe GeoIP blocking?

Comment · 10 years ago

I was surprised how light the T-Series models have become, hadn't looked at them in years and only remembered the heavy clunky units that made me go for the X-Series.

The current model T460s is also interesting, quite a bit more performance than its predecessor, albeit in a different price bracket.

I'm mostly going for the 450 because there's tons of decent refurb available and I'm frugal that way ;-)

Comment · 10 years ago

Thinkpads are generally a safe bet.

I've been using different models from the X-Series with Ubuntu since 08.04 and am currently looking at the T450s (14", but still an Ultrabook and light enough for me).

The X1 Carbon looks damn sweet as well.

Comment · 10 years ago

There's also the argument that 432 Hz is more in tune with our planet, see "Cosmic Octave" by Hans Cousto.

Comment · 10 years ago

Why swipe around when you could just press a button?

Comment · 10 years ago

I think this is an idea worth exploring and I wish I'd thought of that :-)

Comment · 10 years ago

Not all keyboards are the same. Think Laptops, international keyboard layouts etc.

Comment · 10 years ago

Not everyone is using a desktop keyboard, or a US keyboard layout.

FWIW, on my laptop, ALT+Left would be a full spread of the hand and I have to move my torso to get the hand in position.

Comment · 10 years ago

> If you're accidently clicking on things, maybe learn to use a mouse better.

Not everyone uses a mouse all the time.

Comment · 10 years ago

Call me supremely lazy, but I use the spacebar all the time (Thinkpad), since my thumb already rests on it and it's so big that I can't miss it. I even prefer it over scrolling.

Page-Down means I have to almost move my hand away from the keyboard (middle finger to the top right corner, can't hit it with other fingers because display) -- that feels like grabbing for the mouse...