ulterno

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[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 4 months ago

I fundamental thing that makes FOSS better is not the product that exists, but that, when you see a problem, you have the option to think, "let's see how to fix it".

Now I have used MS Excel for most of my life, up until University end, and only recently started using LibreOffice Calc instead.

And despite me telling all my colleagues how much better the new versions of LibreOffice fresh are, I know very well that there are still some glaring problems in these programs even in general use.

However, I had experienced some problems in MS Office too and back then all I could do was feel powerless for a few seconds and then either find some workarounds or ignore the problem, depending upon what it was.

In case of LibreOffice, I can make a note of the problem and plan to report a bug and maybe even help fix it, which leaves me on a +ive note at the end of the day.


Digression: Problems with LibreOffice:

  • Calc: Using click+drag on the vertical scrollbar in case of even as low as 800 records, causes lags during the scrolling.
  • Writer: Images cause slowdown. This has been a major issue for a long time and you can probably find some discussions related to this, floating around.

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[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On ~~my Android phone~~ the Android phone I have, I find it hard to tell where the stuff I downloaded is.
Until I connect it to the computer and see the directory structure easily.

The Files app seems to be trying to do some kind of Abstraction over here.

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[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Sounds like something an apple exec might say... For their products.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 4 months ago

commands to install dependencies n shit

That only happens if you are fixated on installing the software without connecting to the internet.
Otherwise, the package manager does it for you (that's what its job is)

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

something extremely niche

Desktop Linux is already pretty niche.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 4 months ago

Just take it and move to another start system.

And learn assembly

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 5 months ago

Ah right! I forgot about that.

So you either have to pad all instructions in all previous binaries, or reduce the amount of available instructions in the arch update.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

RV64 has a maximum 32-bit instruction encoding

I kinda expected that to happen, since there's already enough to fit all required functions. So yeah, even this is not a good enough criteria for bit rating.

those original 8-bit intructions still exist, and take up a huge part of the encoding space, cutting the number of n-bit instructions to more like 2^(n-7)

err... they are still instructions, right? And they are implemented. I don't see why you would negate that from the number of instructions.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I see it as the number of possible instructions.

As in, 8 bit 8085 had 2^8^ possible instructions, 32 bit ones had 2^32^ and already had enough possible combinations that we couldn't come up with enough functions to fill the provided space.

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[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 5 months ago

Except that softwares and hardwares probably came out of the word "wares".

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Reading this as someone who torrents debian ISOs instead of directly downloading then in the hopes of reducing server load, while at the same time, not torrenting any pirated stuff.

But well, I was born a wee bit before 2000

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 5 months ago

Right. Because after you buy it, it is your drone made by DJI and not DJI's drone.

Guess some of the laws still have their premises correct.

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