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5 is infuriating, especially if the site engages in fuckery like putting an ad under where the desired click disappeared from, so the user ends up clicking the ad.
- bluetooth file transfer
- wget -c
- example.com
How is centered div formed
It’s actually really easy though! Look up a Flex box generator and copy the code it gives you!
For #1 you wanna try Magic wormhole. Maybe it’s less user-friendly than you need it to be, but it works and there are lots of implementations for different owes (don’t know about iOS though).
That is kind of the problem though. There are many solutions, all with their own pros and cons. But after all these years no universal standard has managed to appear.
You asked for it
I thought it would be https://xkcd.com/949/.
Honestly transferring files over the internet is a solved problem.
Have you tried NordVPN meshnet?
Cool stuff. How does this stack up vs syncthing? I have a weekly clip show I’d love to be able to share with friends and family
they both do private file sharing, but their working principle is inherently different: wormhole, localsend, pairdrop etc. send a file once, whereas syncthing aims to sync a folder on 2 or more devices bidirectionally
That sounds better for my use case, right? I could send my show out, and not have to worry about whether they deleted it.
There’s also localsend, which works like a charm.
python -m http.server 8000
i would absolutely recommend localsend. it has ios, android and desktop apps and it works flawlessly:
Edit: iirc you need to be in the same network though, it does not have gateway (?) servers like wormhole
I used to use Pushbullet. Haven’t really needed it in a long time since discord came on the scene really. But it did the job really well and was super easy to use.
4 - I bet there’s some a setting for that in some Linux DE
1 - I did literally that two days ago with scp, cause I’ve had 200 GB to transfer and 40 GB free space on my pendrive
4 - I bet there’s some a setting for that in some Linux DE
XFCE’s WM (xfwm4) settings. And yes, I keep it unchecked.
I’ll check again but it didn’t work as I wanted to last time. What I want: give focus to new processes started by the user, but once the user manually switches windows, do not pop that app into the foreground when it is done launching. Also: not stealing focus was useless when the unfocused window would pop up over the one I was currently using.
NeXTSTEP worked exactly this way, and it was glorious. Its window manager simply had the concept of “no current focus.” Programs could not steal focus, they could only gain focus either by explicit user action, or grabbing it when nothing else was focused. When you started an application, there would be no focus while it loaded. If you waited, the new application would grab focus. If you moved on to a different window, the new application would pop up in the background. New windows, dialog boxes, and notification-type events would put an indicator on the application’s icon in the dock.
That does indeed sound glorious. I am afraid to look it up because you spoke of it in past tense :(
It’s… still around, in a way. Apple bought NeXT Computer, and it provided the BSD Unix base for MacOS X, as well as all of those classes with the ‘NS’ prefix. Of course, Apple pasted on a totally new UI. 🙁
KDE has “Window Rules” and I think it has an option for that
Window rules rule!
yeah but we have a ton of porn!
But all my best vids are saved on another computer!
Have you tried:
- Curl
- yt-dlp
- finding that computer and stealing the hard drive
yt-dlp is goated for downloading porn, speaking from experience
I wonder, how many solved problems did Javascript undo?
Too many to count.
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Just #3 by the looks of it
I’ve had downloads resume properly over http back in the 2000s at least 4 times.
I think I just never need it, so I have no idea how “solved” it is. It’s absolutely supported by most clients, and I’ve had downloads resume, but I rarely Downloads anything large enough, over a network unreliable enough, to notice that a resume is needed.
Back in the early 2000s I was a teen on a 56k dial-up modem. There would be frequent connection drops, or if not that, my Dad would simply kick me off the Internet so he could make a phone call. Trying to download large files through the browser would only end in tears, so a download manager that supported resume was absolutely essential.
I used something called FlashGet (I was a Windows user back then) which looking it up now apparently turned into a malware-riddled mess towards the end of its life, as did so many things. But it was a lifesaver at the time.
FlashGet brings me back haha.
I have memories of using a free dialup internet with ads and trying to download a Worms Armageddon demo of like 11-12MB and using FlashGet because my sister was kicking me off dialup.
I used Get Right. That type of program was a life-saver.
Yes the problem is solved, but it’s not well supported where it’s needed.
That’s probably due to all those sites putting their own authentication mechanism in front of the download instead of just letting the webserver handle it.
Built something like that myself a few years ago with PHP. And while it wasn’t super hard it wasn’t trivial either and not supported out of the box by the common libraries.
I would guess they’re a Windows user based on 2 and 1. wget -c works for continuing downloads, and transferring files is trivial with sftp.
Fun fact we download things with browsers and not always wget also not everyone has an open port.
You’re using all 65535 or so values for ports? Port forwarding is not necessary inside the same network.
I hate 5. there’s nothing worse than clicking on a page, clicking a button and the split second before you click it the page inexplicably moves 2 inches up or down causing you to click something else
YouTube is terrible at this for me, I’ll open a video go to click full screen and right at that moment all the sidebar videos popup and the whole video window shifts left and I end up clicking on another video entirely. This happens to me at least 5 times a week.
YouTube as a site is just terribly designed imo. i miss the olden days of YouTube back when videos were rated with stars and everyone could customise their channel font, layout, background colour etc
- Any user input should take top priority over anything. I don’t want to wait for your 50 banner and ads to load to click the thing I already know I want. If I opened a program or clicked a link I don’t want, I want to be able to leave even before its wasted more time loading the thing I don’t want. And holy shit, those tutorial popups that explain features that you can’t click out of, and have to click through all the prompts to start using the fucking program, made way worse if you went there by accident and are now stuck.
I feel this.
I’ve visited websites of legitimate companies that I want to support, but as I’m looking to spend my money I get punched in the face with subscription popups.
If disrespecting me is the first thing you do when I visit your website, I can’t give you my money. It’s that simple.
And paid apps that beg you to review their app, no matter how many fucking goddamn times you’ve closed that popup, is a punch in the dick.
Google maps when Android auto detects music moves all the buttons up out of their usual place but it’s slightly delayed. Most dangerous #5 I’ve encountered.
The developer streams on the Steam store product pages cause number 5 a lot.
MacOS does number 4 a ton and it’s annoying.
I agree with 5 and 2. The others are user error and/or user ignorance.
#1 I thought nord vpn handled this pretty well with meshnet. Its been my go-to now for a year now.
