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It degrades, releasing fibers and dust into the air as you walk on it. It hides dirt and other debris. It stains and is harder to clean (I mentioned the vacuum, but there is also carpet cleaners), particularly when it comes to drying if you don't have any way to deal with the moisture.
If none of that gets to you perhaps you are better at upkeeping it (or you have a better vacuum), so imagine having shag carpet instead. On the other hand, perhaps this is why businesses/institutions have that ultra-thin carpet that's basically just fabric. But either way it's more work and money to upkeep than hard flooring.
With my old carpet, it didn't feel clean to me even after vacuuming. Though maybe some of that was that I knew it wasn't.
And again, I'd say if I wanted a carpet it'd be better to use throw-rugs. But walking on a hard surface doesn't really bother me (also: socks, slippers).
If it served no purpose then it wouldn't be done. Companies don't throw resources around for no reason
I'm guessing the point is that it's diminishing returns and maybe a solution looking for a problem. Like how companies often spend a bunch of money/resources on special effects just for the spectacle of it. Just because they spent all that money doesn't mean it is worthy of doing so in the first place.
Their point on sales is similar, it's not that they're selling something but that they're selling something that people don't need. Like fast fashion, it's manipulation and the only purpose is money. You can look good without following a trend, and looking good (or status) should not be the only point of purchasing something anyway.
Wouldn't have been difficult to sleuth using my profile here, but Nim-lang. Specifically because it's basically an all-in-one, being easy and fast+capable+flexible. Maybe not enough to go by (and I didn't finish/release it), but some code that I actually wrote (+what it's loading)
For further context on the statement by the creator, it was complaining about the "grammar" of singular they. Aside from that being an obvious culture-war BS dogwhistle, the person who quit knew them closely so I don't think it was an overreaction or misunderstanding.
Love to see it. Not shocked, though.
For an opposite example, the creator of a niche programming language that is the only one I'm interested in (it's really great, and I haven't seen anything that comes close to fitting the same place) said something at-very-least stupid which was the final straw that caused a core developer (nearly co-creator? created the package manager+installer, wrote a book) to quit. And it already had a low bus-factor.
I like sweeping. Much cheaper (not that I don't have access to vacuums, they just are not top-of-the-line), easier, and quieter than vacuuming. I can sweep at 2am and it won't wake anybody up. I can sweep while listening to quiet music.
Ripped out most of the old carpet in my room to reveal the old wood floor, feels so much cleaner. Whole-floor carpet (as in it's glued down, not a throw-rug that you can move/shake out) kinda seems like a scam.
For 1080p screens at least, 170% zoom seems to be perfect fit for most content (for websites where 100% zoom is likely designed for lower resolutions) meaning sidebar ads are not even on-screen (IIRC, maybe you'd need to scroll to not see the left one but not sure how to test this).
Though I guess more sites likely don't need as much zoom to fill content, for instance Kbin is full-width at 150%. Itch doesn't have whitespace even at 100% (on the right side, the left side has it due to the left sidebar that is stuck at the top of the page).
Misc. forenote: not sure if true on all systems but on mine, if you right-click on the scroll bar it acts similar to the old scrollbar arrows (in my file manager it's slower, but moving the mouse speeds it up)
My eyesight is not the best (and my screen isn't that big), but I still don't mind it (for example Firefox). I like that it doesn't seem to change content width (even expanded, it's still in the margins with my higher zoom level). Though I could see using a brighter scroll bar, particularly as it gets smaller (also, a darker scrollbar background to increase contrast). Color might help for readability too.
Back when I used Chrome I didn't like the white scrollbar background and light-gray bar that was horrible contrast yet too bright (and in the corner of my eye it didn't register properly due to that). At one point I used an extension to fix that with a thinner-but-high-contrast bar.
Then again, I also made my own ultra-compact window theme for XFCE (well, XFWM). Frameless and the titlebar is 12px tall but the window buttons are only 8px tall... some of the buttons are slightly wider to compensate (minimize and maximize are widest at 20px), though I would ideally like to allow them to be wider with a wider window (with the current setup, a long-titled window will be made shorter if the buttons take up too much space on a small window).
There is some utility for this as well, as I can have a small music player on-screen or even rolled up and it doesn't block much on the screen. Though I admit it's diminishing returns, specifically without making my own WM which I am unlikely to do.
I'm somebody who hasn't tried VR due to like 4 different problems that relate to money (VR itself, GPU, floor space, games) plus I'm pretty sure I'd have motion sickness as well due to health issues. Out-of-body VR is an escapist fantasy of mine but I'd still steer clear of anything involving techbros.
I'd sooner make a deal to give my brain to some rando who somehow has a cryonic freezer in their basement.
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It's worth a thought, and that's it.
I would say that ads like YT's are the kind that pushed adblockers into being popular. Well, that and redundant/audio/popups ads that are annoying. Sometimes I turn off the adblocker and generally it's an immediate mistake.
I know it wouldn't be a large portion of content (though having control over the final look could widen the appeal), but I think Google could've gotten vector content supported in HTML5 spec (in collaboration with software, and maybe some kind of automated conversion to hybrid video) and thus supported on YT. It can be significantly less data for high-fidelity visuals, and unlike rendered video it's the same data for 720p as it'd be for someone with a 16K monitor or whatever in 20+ years from now.
Actually reducing costs in this manner would probably be too generous to competitors, just as Flash being killed off was good for YT. AV1 does help, but is still likely a big resource cost to store/serve at 4K+ (or just in general) not to mention re-encoding hardware and knowledge needed.
Kinda just like how WEBGL tech didn't actually include a container format (the reason why so much Flash content was easily archived by normal people) as it does not benefit content hosts to allow downloads (even if it'd lower cost of repeat viewings particularly by users who don't actually provide the host with revenue).
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I'm more of a lurker than a programmer but it's what I use (want something lightweight yet GUI but haven't tried much), I like it but annoyingly the build plugin seems to forget its data randomly, has happened twice to me so far.
What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
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Yes, I do believe it is a (default) plugin. It allows compiling code via custom commands, I don't know about "just" a text editor as I'm pretty sure Kate handles a bunch of other code stuff like indentations and code folding etc.
If you don't use Kate as a code editor (assuming you use one at all), is there something else lightweight that you'd recommend?
What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
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For Kate, any idea why build targets are disappearing for me randomly after a while? This has happened twice for me, oddly nothing else seems to be lost. (on Linux, also it may have been fixed since I last updated but I can't find any info, though I think I did update it after the first time I had this happen)
Adjusted price is a common talking point here, but it ignores the other side of inflation... that wages have stagnated and rising prices obviously means that people have less spending money.
Consider also that there is a lot of choice with the back catalog on PC as well as free games (that people can make in their spare time at no cost thanks to FOSS tools and free information). Pre-broadband, gaming was more of a take-it-or-leave situation.
So yeah, I think most people already see increasing prices as being motivated by greed. And some people likely see the $60 price as already greedy when games are often filler and spectacle (with poor QA testing on top of that, because they know people will pre-order it anyway, and then buy the later DLC or cosmetics).
I don't get it, was it changed?
I just want to point out a funny thing with the name confusion, on Kbin due to the caching issue the thumbnail is currently Ubuntu (although it's a screenshot of hardware information while not using X).
Tried it, unfortunately the (tedious) things that made me disinterested in MC were carried over (not wowed by other options, either).
You might as well listen to the music, you're livin' in a death machine.
TBH, I would just go for air-popped (more options for flavor anyway, and butter+salt is easy to get right).
I did look up reviews of microwave popcorn, and things seem pretty mixed (probably due to different preferences with oil and salt).
Yes, that's why I said it was at-least stupid. It isn't even an uncommon thing in modern usage. We can accept it without it being a political thing, and it matters even less in an online community.