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Meowrty Feldman.

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The universe works out the logic of this statement, weighs the pros and cons of complying, ultimately decides to just shut things down.

It's in F-Droid too.

Dark humor.

Happy to hear if there are glaring problems with this approach, but if you can assume files named with version numbers, you can use a script to always launch the newest...

    
#!/bin/bash
cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x $(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -rV | head -n 1)
./$(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -rV | head -n 1)

  

Or you could change the script to sort by file modified date and launch the newest.

edit: Discovered an issue with version numbering like .10 and learned about the sort -V switch that fixes it!

This is true, but it's worse to have two problems.

There are two ways to do a to-do list in Joplin: within the text of a single note or at the next level up, where an entire folder can be populated with full-fledged notes you can individually check off. The flexibility is really nice.

Nice try, Joe Pesci disguised as a cop at the beginning of classic holiday film Home Alone (1990).

That's kind of like saying The Beatles are a contemporary band because they released a single this year.

https://www.factcheck.org/2023/08/scicheck-factchecking-robert-f-kennedy-jr/

The meme, which wasn't well-written, is suggesting that the cost savings of switching to Linux isn't significant to most people. It's saying

Most people

• don't care enough
• have enough money

rather than

Most people don't

• care enough
• have enough money

at least why are people not backing up locally then wiping in advance of any servicing?

Have you met people?

Not for every kind of book, I'd say but digital... 8.5 times out of 10. E-ink screens are amazing and just as good as paper, but having your books also available on your phone, and thus always in your pocket, is transformative. So, digital on a platform that syncs between devices.

Or for laptops with no Ethernet, USB-tether a phone.

The Android version of FBReader has been closed-source for a number of years now.

Assuming your phone is Android and your Kindle books aren't DRMed, KOReader.

Tex Shinobi. It's trackpoint or nothin'!

I appreciate your thoughtful and insightful reply, and you're definitely better-versed in Elementary OS than I've ever been! To be clear, my comments weren't coming from a place of dislike but frustration, because there had been a time when I found myself drawn to the project and hoped it could be something I could actually use.

Even as my ideas about functionality and minimalism completely flipped (these days I really prefer the KDE approach) I held onto the hope that Elementary could still become the best that the Linux world had to offer newcomers arriving with no preconceived ideas about what software should be able to do. (If such people actually exist, but that's another discussion.)

But my various pokings around the surface of Elementary OS over the years always reveal bugs, iffy UX, etc. To use your terms, it always seemed coherent to me, but far from polished. I don't see the upside to having such a limited feature set when it doesn't lead to basic stability, good documentation and so on. (By the way, I learned via Wikipedia yesterday that one of Elementary OS's core principles is "minimal documentation".)

P.S. I'm glad you brought up Miller columns. I didn't know the term, but they're actually a perfect example of what I'll call the "Mac but sucky" quality of Elementary OS. Try this exercise: if you're browsing an empty folder, switch to columns view. You get three empty panes, possibly leaving a typical user unsure of what this unfamiliar mode even meant to be. (I think this was the experience I alluded to yesterday, where I thought to press F1 for help and took me to a StackOverflow tag.) For an example of what the file manager should do when switching to columns in an empty folder... I mean, all the devs needed to do is try the same thing on a Mac. And just copy that. It's clear they're familiar with the looks, but not the "works."

My comment wasn't about PCs specifically, but consumer devices as a whole. Soldered RAM is an easy one, but soldered SSD, USB-C-only laptops, lack of 3.5mm, internal batteries, use of glue in manufacturing, etc. In many of these cases you can probably find another manufacturer who did it first on a specific model, but what Dell or HTC or whoever did simply doesn't influence the market the way Apple's decisions do.