I've used both DB Browser and SQLiteStudio, and I prefer the flow and interface of SQLiteStudio.
It's been a few years since I've used DB Browser, so I forget exactly what I didn't like about it. Maybe I should download it again and try it out one more time and see if I still feel the same way.
A little over a year ago I was struggling with python related to packaging and managing my own dependencies. I found a blog post called "Relieving your Python packaging pain"[0] that piqued my interest with its simplicity. A couple of days later, the author released another post called "Why not tell people to 'simply' use pyenv, poetry, pipx, or anaconda"[1], which included the how-to steps outlined in their first post, and generated a sizeable discussion[2] on HN. Being on a Mac, this really has made things so much easier for me. I'm not a professional developer by any means, but more like a hobbiest+ as I make things to help automate away some pain points within the small company I work for.
> It feels like almost all the issues with self-checkout technology come from the attempts to minimise shoplifting, which don't even seem that effective at doing that.
Agreed. And in some cases the issues almost feel like they're on purpose in order to drive people away from using the self checkouts.
For example, when I use self checkout at my local grocery store, I have to hit a button to tell it I want to use my own bag, and then put the bag in the bagging area so it can presumably weigh it, and a moment later it allows me to start scanning items and placing them inside.
That's fine, but the problem that I run into _every_ week is that the first bag works fine, but after that, when I hit the button to say I'm using another bag, once I place the bag in the bagging area, it flags me for putting unscanned items in the bagging area. It "lets it go" after a moment, but when I need to move on to bag #3, it complains again, stops, and forces me to wait while a store worker comes over and has to watch overhead video of me placing my empty bag in the bagging area for both bags 2 AND 3!
I have tried so many ways of being extra careful about how I'm placing the bag, but no matter what I do, it complains about every bag after the first one. I've tried leaving previous bags in the bagging area, I've tried removing them after each bag is filled, I've tried standing or moving differently, being quicker or slower about placing my bags, and no matter what, every other bag after it starts complaining, it stops and I have to wait for the store worker to verify and let me keep going. I've even tried just putting my bag on the floor and bagging items there, but then it complains after every 10 "unbagged" items since they're not hitting the scale in the bagging area, even if I hit the "don't bag this item" button after the scan.
While the whole thing is a major inconvenience, it's STILL better than waiting in a line for an actual cashier (and sometimes an additional bagger) who will feel the need to chat me up just because I'm standing in front of them, and inevitably not pack things into the bags the way that I want.
I treat the self-checkout as if it has the "10 items or less" sign for an express checkout some supermarkets used to have. If I need multiple bags, it's probably not faster to use the self checkout.
My bane back when I was a cashier and to this day thanks to self checkouts: weird shaped items that, while having a barcode, mean they'll never ever scan correctly. Powerade bottles were the worst for this, with the label going over a bunch of ridges in the bottle which made the label undulate like } and it was hopeless to try to scan the damn thing.
> while a store worker comes over and has to watch overhead video of me placing my empty bag in the bagging area for both bags 2 AND 3!
this is insane to me and if a manager was involved they should be fired. I dont think its reasonable to review video of a customer without probable cause they were stealing. In this case, the machines are so buggy (as you illustrated with your case) that a machine complaining is NOT probable cause. How to alienate your customers 101...
Works for most light bags, many people use heavy reusable bags which can sometimes throw off weight of some items too much and it's a lottery then. Similarly I don't use "add X items at once" because they don't multiply weight error by X so for many items it sometimes do not work.
I imagine its regional, but where I'm at those are long gone. Now you gotta bring your own bags or pay for each of the ultra flimsy 'reusable' store brand bags.
The first self-checkouts in Norway around 10 years ago implemented this weight thing to prevent shoplifting, but they dropped it pretty quick. Now there's just random spot checks (which can be frustrating enough when it happens). I encountered the weight again last year when vacationing in Denmark. So frustrating.
I'm not a particular fan of self-checkout for more than a handful of non-restricted bar-coded items. But, subject to that caveat I find that self-checkouts in general are far less fussy than they used to be about using your own bag etc.
I have given up on using my big Patagonia bag at lidl, because it never works. Last time it required the cashier to override the warnings once after each item was placed in the bag.
I have one of these sitting on my shelf! I still get it down and flip through it every so often.
I used BeOS around 2002 and 2003, and it was so cool. One of my favorite things was when I figured out how to use file system metadata to essentially turn files and folders into a database. Having emails essentially be plain text files, but with all the OS searchable metadata of subject, from, time sent, etc. that could be viewable in a Tracker window was awesome. And at the time, it was one of the few systems I could get to work with my dual processor system.
Unfortunately at that time I was struggling with things that I needed to use via Windows that I couldn't do in BeOS. Even though I didn't use it a ton, I love it and I always wished it had taken off better. Every so often I load up Haiku for that hit of nostalgia, but it feels like a lot of modern software is missing from it. Even just being able to run a modern Firefox on it would be enough to keep it on my home computer for most things.
More useful than my uses. I just sat in awe it could play audio from two sources at a time, with independent volumes and all, which was unheard of at the time.
I think that's how BeMail worked. Contact files were "empty", but had the contact info in the extended attributes, and how Text Edit(?) had Rich Text in the extended attributes.
I haven't had the same experience with Yabai. I've been using it happily and without issue since April, and I don't think I've had to restart it once.
Before Yabai I was using Amethyst, but like your experience with Yabai, I felt like it would suddenly stop working and needed to be restarted. Maybe your experience would be flipped.
It's usable if you can live with some small annoying inconveniences last I tried. I can't remember if there were more inconveniences but what bugged me the most was that the touchpad was too sensitive compared to MacOS, it seemed to register accidental touches on the edges more and accidental taps were easier. I tried figuring out if this is fixable with libinput or hwdb but eventually gave up. Also the shortcuts with Command key are way more convenient than the ctrl ones but this probably is configurable somehow. Some Java programs had scaling issues but that can be configured to work properly. Battery life was a bit worse I think, this is with the GPU drivers and no video playback, just regular browsing. Oh and external monitor support isn't there, I do use this sometimes on MacOS.
The installation process sets it up to you. You'd have to do more work to not have dual-boot (unless there was a setting in the installer that I forgot).
I'm not parent, but from my quick foray into (Fedora) Asahi on a Macbook Air M2, I at least noticed USB-C connection to my monitor and USB router behind it not working at all. There's something Mac-specific going on there, because from my x86-based linux laptop, this usually works fine.
same here! using yabai on my MacOS machines for about a year now, after being similarly disappointed with amethyst. Works pretty damn good for me, its a god send for me. It is part of the myriad of tweaks that make MacOS so damn good and unique to me.
In the post link, there's a section called "See it in action" with a video, and in there he shows an example of installing gedit into a container and running it.
I've been using Amethyst for a few years now. It's not exactly a separate WM in terms of changing the window decorations, but it's more of a kind of an automation layer that works through the Accessibility access layer of MacOS. I've been relatively happy with it. The only bad thing is that because the Command key is used for so much in MacOS, it tends to need to be chorded with multiple modifier keys to ensure that there aren't keyboard shortcut clashes.
I did some looking around, and it sounds like it fails to work correctly with namespace packages. Something about the way you have to add them to the path leads to them being later in the path, so there could be times where they don't get found because something earlier in the path gets used instead.
This may be a stupid question, but does anyone know if you could charge through one of the Thunderbolt ports instead of having to use the magsafe connector? My work uses Macs for all employees, and they've been generous enough to supply me with 2 docking stations (one for office, one for home) that both charge through a Thunderbolt port. I'm due for a MBP upgrade and they were specifically waiting on the M2 Pro/Max versions before doing mine, and I'm trying to figure out if I can stick with my old docks or if I'll need to request new ones.
Thanks. I know that was the case with the M1 MBPs, but wasn't sure if that would carry over to the M2 versions, and I didn't see anything about charging via the USB-C ports in the press relese.
It's been a few years since I've used DB Browser, so I forget exactly what I didn't like about it. Maybe I should download it again and try it out one more time and see if I still feel the same way.