Imagine #libraries don't exist, but there's this person who thought of them and is trying to convince everyone else about them.
-Borrow books for free? People are going to steal them!
-You can just come in to use a computer? Well that's just going to be abused by freeloaders.
-Staff? Who is going to pay them? Why should my taxes be wasted subsidising access to books for people who haven't saved and bought their own?
How many amazing things do we dismiss? What is our society missing out on?
""The solution isn't to push users back to the command line. The solution must be to bring composability to the graphical environment."" -- @ajroach42
I wanna talk about this for a bit because I think it's an important piece of the UI puzzle that we just somehow haven't ever yet realised is a thing we need.
1) Text is a thing that we can a) edit and b) copy/paste
2) GUI constructs, on the other hand, generally we just... can't. They're like hot-glued to the screen.
3) but what if we could?
@ticoombs Simple: my input keeps getting ignored by the overproud specialist team, so I eventually stop caring.
In the end, I know less about everything, but why should I care?
Little headsup, Mastodon developers seem to be testing a language selector in the posting interface (see attached image).
The idea is you set the language you're posting in which will make it easier for other people to filter your post out if they don't speak it.
You can already set your default language in the Preferences/Settings section, but the idea of this new feature is to let you optionally change the setting for each particular message. This is handy if you toot in several languages.
I have no idea if/when this will be rolled out, the developers' instances often get test features like this.
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“…ever doomed to repeat this again, and again, and again, and again, and again!” #FFXIV
This perfectly describes my current gastric distress.
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@Vierkantor Mashed & Fried Paracetamol?
As a #Linux user, I have stopped using other OSes for a while now, but that's no reason to not give them a shot, so here it is: a review of macOS by a Linux fanboy
@schratze I have to say, I've never used ark. I usually use the command line unrar or 7z.
@schratze just open the any of the files and you'll be fine. Though I usually go for the part1.rar file.
And the winner is… Ukraine!
Congratulations to the Kalush Orchestra for their emotive winning song ‘Stefania’, which captured the hearts of Europeans tonight.
Europe stands with you tonight and always.
@scy Also ich nutze http://alltrack.org/
Sat in shock at us getting points here #Eurovision
@emma I still connect it more to Varis about to rip me to pieces for running to slow.
Pronounciation: /kʷuə̌kp tʰaǐ rɛ̄kì cʰʊ̄ŋm/
• 30+ years, Vietnamese/German, 🅾️
• 30+歳, ベトナム人/ドイツ人, 🅾️
• writes #WebFiction
• plays #FFXIV and #Riichi #Mahjong #立直麻将
• is German Champion in Riichi Mahjong since 2019
• organizer of Mahjong of Light #Tournaments #来冬の麻雀
• speaks English, German, and Vietnamese.
• is learning Japanese.
私は日本語は話せませんが、学ぼうとしています。
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