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that website is horrible, you can't reject the advertising cookies


not sure about for pull requests, but for protocols it could be interesting.

I asked it to generate a comic for https negotiation over tcp https://imgur.com/a/0p0Pzum I think with a bit more prodding it might be interesting for documenting protocols


you should complain a lot when the offering is not great, odd design decisions, bad price point, etc.... All of that is information to make better offerings. Instead of this thing, I think there are far better offerings from things like https://system76.com/laptops


the choices made on the keyboard layout seem weird to me, though I do like the left hand numpad. But the big esc? the Fn key up top right seems like it makes key chords with it kind of hard. No ins key? no prt scr? is that 3 ctrl keys? or is that a caps lock? arrow keys etc seem a bit far away from main keyboard...


Including the keyboard seems a strange choice, especially when it's an oddity such as this one. Surely it'd be cheaper to add an extra USB port and have the buyer supply their own? I mouse left-handed, so a left hand numpad makes it an instant no from me - but even if you don't care what I think (which you shouldn't), there's so many other oddities in the layout as well! Where's PrtSc? Why is the Esc key so gigantic? Why is F7 not in its normal place? And, wait a moment - what is £ doing on 4? Why is € on 5?

This company is apparently based in London, but I wonder how many UK residents were involved in the design of the keyboard at least.

(I don't want to sound too mean though. It's no sin to attempt to experiment with a potential new market segment.)


From what I can tell, it's a US International layout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards...), with some keys replaced with the mac equivalents


I had a similar experience when I wanted to draw a circle on my Atari 800XL. There's no prebuilt drawing function for circles, so I had to learn about sine and cosine with the help of my dad. I then figured out from there how to do 3d graphics. It was a great learning experience (for me at least!).


I really like windows 11, works great. I have it way more customized to my liking than most "normal" users would, but there's really no negative impact on me. I also have a Mac and use Linux (bounced between arch, ubuntu, and now just use PopOS). Overall I generally prefer windows, it generally runs everything. Things like windows powertoys make the user experience pretty nice, doing similar on linux requires a lot more work. Wezterm standardizes the terminal across all platforms. But the OS really doesn't matter too much, it only accounts for maybe <10% of my experience. But everything just seems a bit easier on windows but I could live just fine in any of the OS's if I had to.


I generally like Windows too, which is a lot of why I'm so incredibly frustrated by the direction Microsoft is taking.

There are still glaring bugs, omissions, and regressions in Windows 11 that just are not getting attention because Microsoft is 100% focused on AI instead of improving their product.

I have a MacBook Pro now. I get by. Window management drives me absolutely insane, but this is the best laptop hardware, performance, and battery life I've ever had. Windows is now shoved into a VM that I pop open only when I explicitly need it for a few work things (primarily Excel and PowerBI Desktop).

I'd go back to Windows again the moment Microsoft starts respecting their users again, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.


I had to help someone elderly set up Windows 11 recently and it was monstrous. The error messages were useless and when we finally got it going, the UI was horribly sluggish. There was a time Windows was a solid default choice for the average consumer, but Windows 7 was 15 years ago.


Back in the 80s we had logo, that was super popular and a common way a lot of people (kids) learned programming, the birth of turtle graphics! That repl way of programming and getting visual results was really good. I think the biggest problem was that none of those languages were the languages for making games.


you can configure that...


Please show me where. It only works for tabs that have a running process.


oh, you might be doing it via the UI, I turn off all the UI elements and hotkey everything, if you use hotkeys you can add a thing like :- action = wezterm.action.CloseCurrentTab { confirm = true },


I have zero problem with WezTerm on Windows.


Depends on the antivirus you use. Try it with Virustotal and you'll see that it is not only the usual one or two false positives and this number already decreased because I reported it to all vendors. Unfortunately not all of them are responsive.


took a while to pipe my multi-terabyte db to /dev/null but now that I have I'm saving a ton of money on storage.


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