WSL is pretty decent
― mh, Monday, 11 March 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
Linux itself seems bad tho
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 11 March 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
I haven't used Linux on the desktop for at least the last 7 years of linux on the desktop but systemd and attendant revolutions in userland seem both inescapable and unpleasant
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 11 March 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
I'm with Lukas, I've grown up using Apple and can't imagine using any other OS regularly. I used Windows XP at high school and have a Chromebook now, but beyond the most basic functions, I'm completely lost and not interested in spending any more time than I have to working on a computer that isn't running an Apple OS.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link
is it safe to install Mojave yet or does it still suck?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 04:38 (five years ago) link
well what happened to me was that i installed mojave at the exact time my c drive started failing. So i've since reinstalled mojave on the new hard drive and, it seems okay in its current iteration? ended up buying a new word suite cuz i had been using 2009 and it no longer worked. outside of that, i can't complain too much. it's a little slower than i remember macs being but aren't we all.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link
I would like a cheap and light 12 or 13" portable with a decent keyboard and screen and battery, on which I can write latex and read and markup (often big, with graphics) PDFs. I don't care about the OS beyond those needs. I looked at chromebooks recently but apparently running latex is still so to speak "experimental".
My 2015 MBP is still running beautifully but I don't like lugging it around. iPad pro would be great if it could run latex natively and it was easy to index and search my thousands of pdfs on it : that's the size and weight and screen and battery I'd like, and even the "smart keyboard" is fine enough.
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
Fuck w10 telemetry. I’m now looking again at hackintoshing
― stet, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
Flappy , Mojave running fine for me
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
I used macs throughout my childhood and even wrote all my college papers on like, clarisworks. It kind of screwed me up when I had to start working in corporate offices that all used windows.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
MacBook Pro (13″ with Touch Bar) screen is set to 1440×900 pt by default while the screen resolution is 2560×1600 px (1280×800 pt) — this means it’s not at 2x Retina, though this is probably due to battery life concerns
screen is set to 1440×900 pt by default while the screen resolution is 2560×1600 px (1280×800 pt) — this means it’s not at 2x Retina, though this is probably due to battery life concerns
Oh shit I've had this thing for 18 months now and never even bothered to look at changing the screen resolution because I just assumed it was set to the largest value by default. I have so much more screen space now though I am old so it's kind of hard to read.
Also the amount of configuration I've done to override the stupid touchbar behavior and try to get it to behave more like the physical buttons I know and love is maddening.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
imo you don't want to use native resolution, but the default scaling is a little too big
the days of really wonky scaling where things don't look quite right are mostly over as long as you pick a resolution that's the right aspect ratio, though!
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
I'm now reminded of my insane coworker who has a 20" 4k monitor that he runs native and sits like two inches away from the screen
At work I just use the 13” laptop screen and run iTerm full screen with a large font size so I’m usually looking at one thing at a time, all the screen real estate I need
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
I'd say you really just need a command line machine running tmux (or whatever people use now) and a second computer for web searching but tbh the font scaling is probably better in iTerm
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
I would definitely have that setup with an iPad as my web browser if I were setting up from scratch but I’m not inclined to badger my boss into spending money to replace my perfectly fine computer
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
Really tho I’d probably still run X11 bc window managers are easier for me to deal with than tmux, I just wouldn’t install a browser.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
macos command-line only mode isn't really useful, for sure
i'm nostalgically thinking about the times i'd be tweaking my x windows config or just not care about running a gui for a while and just run command line-only linux consoles. if all you do is talk on irc and play quake, it was more than good enough
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
tbh i wasn't even using tmux, you could switch between linux consoles with what, alt+f1 through f8 by default?
Yah. Still can!
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
X11 is all Wayland now though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)
(it isn't, i don't think, not yet)
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
yeah, I think it's a bit optimistic to say that at this point
I haven't used linux on the desktop in a serious way for yeeeears though.
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
dang maybe I should just get a Pinebook
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
the last time i used linux for personal use wasabout 15 years ago and it was a debian distro.can't say i miss it.
i usually stick to macs, unless i'm dealing withservers, which luckily i don't do a whole lotof work on.
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
yet you seem to be using a text editor with hard-wrapping instead of actual word wrapping to draft posts
word wrap is fine, most unix text editors have it
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
At work I just use the 13” laptop screen and run iTerm full screen with a large font size so I’m usually looking at one thing at a time, all the screen real estate I need― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me too but with a vertical tmux split.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
HVTN-704% tput cols97
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
that's my whole screen. looking at things side by side is for chumps!
lol do you run lynx too
― j., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
mh, the thing is some browsers i use are in a smallsandbox window, and i'm usually on a work laptop.
we trade laptops and use multiple screens here,mostly for work. some nerds use it to watchtwitch streams.
i can't be bothered to setup every single machinei am at before i start using it.
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
yeah but what browser inserts linebreaks like that no matter how big the window is? Are you unable to scroll to the right? Idgi
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
like upload a screenshot of what your browser window looks like
― j., Tuesday, March 12, 2019 4:47 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sadly not as a matter of course, I'm not strong enough, and also I need to uh do web development, for my sins
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link
silby, no, i mean i have to resize everything,including the browser, to fit everythingi need on the monitors. so instead of justtyping to fill the entire text area, i pushenter out of habit.
it makes things look neater when i write!:-)
it's just probably a weird habit, butdoes it really bother people?
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
well it's like you're just askingto get punked at least a little
― j., Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link
forgive himthey were delicious
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:52 (five years ago) link
I thinkit’s jarringto readtextlikethat yes
― mh, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link
not inoneofthosebooks ofpoetrylikewhatrobertcreeleywrites,though
though
johnjacobjingleheimer&cis nobobcreeley
― j., Wednesday, 13 March 2019 05:27 (five years ago) link
E E Cummings morelike
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link
what if a much ofa wrap ofaword
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
New iMacs with 9th gen processors out today. Are Vega graphics worth the extra £450 though? And surprise! the SSD prices are utter filth.
― stet, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
Probably not A friend of mine dropped her iMac and now the whole computer is inoperable - a major downside of all-in-ones
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
Counter-argument is that if you empty a beer over your keyboard, you don’t fry the whole computer.
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
My late 2007 iMac has finally died. Probably 80% of my computer use is on a MacBook Pro but I do like to have a Mac desktop around for photo editing, managing music, and streaming video via Plex. I usually don't like buying computers used but I'd like to keep the replacement well under $1000 so I've been looking at my options. 2014 Mac Minis are around $300/4GB, slower processor and $400/8GB, faster processor. Thinking of pairing one of those with a <$200 new 27 inch monitor. How bad are sub $200 monitors, considering I've been OK with a 2007 iMac screen for the last 12 years? Will a 2014 Mini run a Photoshop alternative (e.g. Affinity Photo) and process raw images reasonably well?
B&H has the new 21.5 inch 4K iMac on sale for $1100 right now but if I could get by OK for the next couple of years for half that price... I dunno.
― early rejecter, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
Why not just by a good monitor for the MacBook Pro, and an external disk if storage is an issue?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:07 (five years ago) link
Forgot to mention that the MacBook is a work computer that I don't have admin privileges for so can't install my own software.
― early rejecter, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
And between me, the wife, and kids, we need more than one computer in the house anyway.
― early rejecter, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
I think Ed's line of question probably leads to the right answer - just get some removable storage and a nice external monitor.
How bad are sub $200 monitors, considering I've been OK with a 2007 iMac screen for the last 12 years?
extremely bad. There is not a corollary of Moore's Law that applies to monitors.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
we ran into your problem a few years back and did what you're thinking of. so we're now on our second Mac mini (the first went down hard, right on schedule after its AppleCare ran out) with a crappy monitor and we use it for device backups, uploading photos to dropbox, and managing the music library. That is literally all it does. While you could conceivably stay under $1000 for a similar package, I would advise caution (see above re: lifespan of our 2014 Mac mini).
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
2007 iMac screen likely better than most <200 monitors in the market. Spend a little more and get a dell ultra sharp.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link