

Calibre is open-source: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
So if it had telemetry, we would have heard about it.
Calibre is open-source: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
So if it had telemetry, we would have heard about it.
That’s what I’m looking into, too. I’m finding info about a Branch Delay, a WinterBreak, and a LanguageBreak. I don’t know which one to try.
Thanks for the heads-up. I’m downloading all of mine and finally making a Calibre library.
This isn’t dunking on anyone or harming anyone. It’s not punching down. It’s making fun of Cinnabon (and of marketing), not plane crashes. I think your comment is a bit over-the-top.
At least on desktop, it would be like fighting over an entire cookie. Still low, but not as low as this.
On Android? They think that Firefox is a significant competitor on Android?
This is like fighting another kid over a single chocolate chip while some guy is sitting on the other side of the room chowing down on an entire cookie cake. Ridiculous.
In fairness, Brave does have a built-in ad blocker that (at least years ago) did an acceptable job and is a part of the binary, so is not impacted by Chromium’s Manifest V3 rug pull.
If you decide that’s the way you want to go, though, you’re (1) trusting their promise to never remove it or degrade its effectiveness, (2) reducing your choice about how you experience ads, and (3) contributing to Google’s browser hegemony. So I definitely don’t recommend it.
But technically it does have adblock.
Right, this. Though he’s not reversing time for everyone, he’s just going back in time personally to fix the problem (so, reversing time for himself).
Save game twice, but then don’t actually exit game just in case it didn’t actually save
Overall, in my experience, any improvement will require the same amount of time; whether from bad to acceptable or acceptable to good.
I’m not saying it’s a matter of desire. It’s a matter of time. A full-time developer has to feed their family, so they have to put most of their time into the stuff that makes them money. That means that their passion project is just naturally going to get less time as a function of the number of hours left in the day and the amount of energy for coding that the developer in question has.
Further, ux design is a less “atomic” process; small amounts of time working on ux is going to have less impact than small amounts of time in coding. A programmer could conceivably fix a bug or make a minor improvement or feature request in ten minutes, and a Wikipedia editor could spend ten minutes improving the grammar and punctuation of an entire article; but the ux process requires mockups, iteration, asset creation, and coding for every change—and even if that can be done in ten minutes, the rest of the ui will look completely different, meaning that the overall ux will be worse than before, despite that one thing looking better.
What can we do to change it? Companies that rely on FOSS should donate to projects so that the people who work on them can afford to do so at least part-time, or empower their own employees to contribute to FOSS on company time. Those are really the only two options, barring some sort of UBI or public grant for open source software.
Well, that’s intentional though. The stuff that’s buried is the stuff that doesn’t make them money.
Bad ux in open source is because nobody has any money.
Honestly, just building an RCS app with easy grouping, quick captions, streak tracking, and delete requests would be the way to go with this. Then you have an immediate network effect of every iPhone and Android user in the world, and you don’t have to get your friends to switch if they don’t want to.
“ugh I know exactly why this is happening” is such a frustrating feeling. Especially when it’s stuff that should’ve been found in testing, or that you know probably was found in testing, but they deprioritized the fix.
Honestly this is the big thing I’ve found handy about using Mint. If there’s something wrong and I can’t find it a Mint answer, nine times out of ten I can fix it by searching for the Ubuntu solution. There’s so much Ubuntu troubleshooting going on.
All I see here is people tricking the government into putting in a nice little micropark.
Goals, for sure. The guy just does whatever he wants at this point. I think he’s doing photography now?
This is such a dangerous stereotype. Yes honkwiching used to use trombones, but now most musicians use specially-designed, food-safe disposable honkers. Trombone players aren’t savages.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I’ve been in that position a few times, actually; though usually it’s after I put it on a todo list. I was planning to switch to Linux, then Microsoft made Windows intolerable to use. I was wanting to buy a new laptop, then Tr*mp started a trade war. I had “back up my Amazon ebooks” on a todo for several months, and then this news comes out.
It’s like all of these companies and groups have decided to push me into doing stuff I wanted to do anyway.