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  • No idea how good whatever “Bluefin” is, but if their front page makes my computer lag much worse than actual videogames, it’s really not a good first impression.

    Also, it seems to come with Gnome which is a bit further away in terms of user experience from Windows than the other choices like Plasma and Enlightenment, so I am not sure if whoever sits in them cubicles will get used to the lack of tray icons for example. Well, assuming they know what a tray icon is, but even if they don’t, they are gonna get a bigger “something’s off/missing” feeling than otherwise. And I am assuming nobody is using Windows 8 specifically, so it will take some time for people to get used to the excuse of a start menu Gnome has. Have to always be pessimistic about user’s intelligence and will to adapt.


  • What are you actually broadcasting while doing so? That you are using KDE Connect?

    That + device name which is probably pretty unique. Chinese routers scrape all of that. IIRC mDNS is actually disabled on Linux for now because it was conflicting with Avahi which broke some more stuff.

    do not use KDE Connect on other networks

    Last time I used it, I don’t recall a toggle for that in either the Linux or the Android clients.

    Edit: what alternative device discovery solution could be used by KDE Connect to make it more private on untrusted ntetworks?

    Exactly as it is right now but on a whitelist.

    Offtopic but I am really annoyed by how many custom ROMs (especially LineageOS) disable MAC randomization at build time and make zero mention of it on the wiki/forum/whatever page. That’s just as important.



  • EDIT: never fucking mind I didn’t read the fucking post title, I only read the community and body text There are MORE ADS LIKE THIS? crazy ass shit

    here’s the original body text of my comment:

    No, people assumed it is Coca Cola because it says Coca Cola all over it. Here’s the report.

    Fluency is driven by the % of people recognising the brand by the end of ad.

    Here’s my proposed ad script:

    Look at this LoveIs® chewing gum. I am chewing this LoveIs® chewing gum. Gotta love this LoveIs® chewing gum. I LOVE LoveIs® CHEWING GUM.

    What do you think the ad’s about after the whole thing?




  • Intel graphics support, or the absence of it

    That’s like one of the best platforms.

    Decent touchscreen support

    Pretty much everything on Wayland LGTM. If something doesn’t look quite right (like, hover tooltips), it’s probably the fault of the widget toolkit and will also be broken on Windows.

    Windows Ink

    As in stylus/pen/drawing tablet? kwin has awesome support, other compositors have some basics.

    WSL which I use with NixOS

    ??? you want a container? distrobox can do that, or something like this

    Adobe apps

    true… slightly outdated repacks work fine in Wine tho

    PowerPoint Libre Impress (…) it’s not even close

    Wine.