For design inspiration, I'm trying to gather a list of desktop apps that are fun/enjoyable and don't have a corporate/enterprise feel to them.
Not games or streaming apps though. It feels like desktop app design hasn't kept pace with modern web app design but maybe my searches aren't using the right terms.
I realize this is subjective, but I'd still like more examples. 😁 Thx!
Currently deciding which #Linux distro to install besides #Windows on my laptop. I want to switch back to Linux for #programming (had to switch to Windows for work). I have used #Ubuntu and #LinuxMint in the past. Any suggestions?
A day late for #Fensterfreitag, so happy #Caturday instead. Margo and Otto are enjoying open window season. They seem not to care about the tree pollen wreaking havoc on my sinuses. Anything for the #Cats though.
Dear fediverse, what is an adequate freeware (even better, if #openSource) replacement for #Adobe#Photoshop for #Windows? Current needs: take a painting made by hand, make it a vector graphics image and do some other stuff with it. Sorry for being so vague, I'm totally blind, it's for my wife who is not on fediverse (yet). Thank you so much! #Help
In 1994, our puzzle game Clockwiser was released for Amiga (OCS and AGA), CD32 console, MS-DOS and Windows 3.1.
This is the 𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 tune by our composer Ramon Braumuller, created with our own Digital Mugician Amiga music editor, published by the British Thalamus in 1990.
Finally figured out getting #hunspell working for #ispell in #emacs on #windows (for whenever I can't be in wsl or a better OS) by hard-coding my values as advised by this stackoverflow answer https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/14952/how-do-i-set-up-hunspell-on-a-windows-pc#comment68406_22311 . I tried so many other ways of getting it working but I kept breaking on it not knowing my LANG (since not defined in windows) and my dictionary list wasn't loading with the regular instructions. Sometimes dumb and working is better than smart and in a rabbit hole.
We are working on the new version of Midori 11.3.3 which brings more speed, more security and much more fluidity at the time of navigation, as well as the correction of better problems. It will be available very soon.
Evt. nützt es ja schon, sich nicht nur rein auf Microsoft & Windows Software sich zu verlassen und der Internetzugang entsprechend minimalisiren ect.
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Diebstahl von IT-Daten, Spionage und Sabotage: Die Schäden, die Cyberkriminalität anrichtet, sind groß. Welche Rolle spielt der Faktor Mensch dabei – und wie sollten Unternehmen darauf reagieren?«
"Ihr kauft euch also tatsächlich ein Betriebsystem für mehrere hundert Euro im Jahr um dann von dem Betriebsystem mit Werbung zugeschissen zu werden, auch bis auf die Unterhose ausschnüffeln zu lassen und keinerlei Firmengeheimnisse mehr zu haben?"
"Naja wenn man es so ausdrückt. Aber #Windows kann auch viel."
No matter if you host your own copy of GitLab Software or use GitLab's servers directly, you should enable 2-step Verification - NOW (right now, do not wait). There is a current exploit that allows someone to hijack GitLab Accounts, who are not using 2-step verification.
Premiering now! Had a great conversation with Shannon Morse about my issues reviewing some mini PCs that came pre-loaded with malware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH2R3o-EbTA
She offers some GREAT tips and tricks for folks interested in keeping their home networks secure and their data safe!
Here's another #macOS rant (gosh I fucking hate this junk don't I): it loves creating problems out of non-issues (literally never had this problem on #Windows 10/11 or the many #Linux distros I've used and still are actively using) and append a number to it.
One being... external disk mounts. For whatever reason, what started out to be an external device that's formatted appropriately, as vanilla as can be using Disk Utility and mounts to, say, "SSD1TB", will randomly at times just started consistently mounting to a directory it creates by itself, "SSD1TB 1" - which fucks up all my symlinks to that drive until I manually fix the issue so it mounts to the right mount point again.
Another being, which is more confusing honestly how it's able to fuck it up, which is its own local hostname. I set the hostname as "aerith", which macOS compulsorily add a suffix to it, ".local". It's been on that hostname perfectly fine for a week ~2 weeks or so - then out of nowhere one day while being out, it says that that hostname's already used in the network and they then changed it to "aerith-2.local". Weird, I thought, but I thought maybe it's a one-time thing at that Mamak (eatery) I was at. Since then though, even at my home or anywhere else, changing it back to "aerith" is impossible and it'd always change it back to "aerith-2" - which TRIGGERS me.
#Apple, please just dump macOS already and use any of the Linux distros or Windows (jk hell no) or #ChromeOS (HELL NO). Y'all clearly have no idea what you're doing.
Another thing #macOS somehow butchers that I've not encountered on any other OS-es:
Setting up a static IP. Doing this itself is easy, not easier than #Linux but a lot easier than on #Windows. But for too many times now when I bring my #MacBook out and about to get work done, I'd just thought oh all of these (public) WiFi and even my personal hotspot from my #iPhone just straight up don't work. Then I remember, it was because of my static IP setting cos macOS somehow sets up network configurations such as having a static IP globally instead of per internet connection or WiFi SSID.
Why... would you enforce the static IP (I thought) I've configured for ONE connection, for ALL networks, obviously that wouldn't/shouldn't work? If private IP addresses in my home network follow a convention such as 123.321.0.X and I set a static IP of 123.321.0.11 for my Mac on a specific connection within my home network - when I use a different connection on a different network, OBVIOUSLY it wouldn't/shouldn't work since those other connections/networks highly likely uses a different IP address convention. Why can't macOS just default to DHCP, which it does, and apply these network configurations per connection rather than globally (bcos again, it just doesn't make sense)? Especially on the UI/UX side of things, it does seem like you're applying the configuration only to a particular connection you've selected - except it doesn't.
It's shit like this that makes me wonder who the fuck works at #Apple for this junk to be the case since forever and nobody's fixing it.
I'll add in a bonus though: macOS is also the only OS I've used that doesn't implement spell check (not correction) by default. For whatever reason, even as I'm typing this now, macOS straight up doesn't check or notify of any wrong spellings.
Googling how to enable it returns an official documentation by Apple with step by step instructions on how to have it enabled and yet the specific setting they mentioned should be in the System Settings' Keyboard menu just isn't there. Funny how that's a really common thing I encounter too - "it should be there, but it just isn't".