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  • ugo@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•Going all-in on a Wayland future
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    12 days ago

    Yeah I second this. I’ve been on wayland for a few years now and while my needs are pretty standard I also regularly need slightly-off-the-beaten-path features. Not everything used to always work, but in the last, I want to say 18 months, I never found my needs lacking.

    Multiple monitors work, adaptive sync works, mic / webcam works, screen / window sharing works, remote desktop and wayland forwarding works, etc.

    That’s not to say everything is guaranteed to work all the time, but I am surprised to see people saying that even today they always find something fundamental that is broken when they attempt to switch.

  • ugo@feddit.ittoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Can't have nice things
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    1 month ago

    You’re right about battery quality / longevity varying a lot, but this makes me wonder if we live in different worlds

    Adding a $1 battery versus $5 battery isn’t a big difference to OEMS who are buying millions to put in their 1000$ widget

    OEMS absolutely care about these costs. Hell $1 vs $5 is a massive difference, if you sold 1 million devices that’s a $4m difference. Now you may think that the cost difference being only 0.4% of the total sale value (assuming a $1000 widget) wouldn’t matter much, but you need to remember that, to a large degree, every corporation is obsessed with money. Most companies, and certainly big companies, do not care at all about quality, ethics, or any other kind of value except money. Everything else is contingent on making more money. And execs will be more than happy to put the saved 0.4% directly into their own pockets.

    Hell if you look at the electronics sector it’s full of choices that save fractions of cents on the BoM. If you multiply those savings over hundreds / thousands of components on a pcb, and millions of units sold, it becomes a tangible difference.

    I’m not at all on expert on these things, but even I notice them from time to time, that’s how pervasive this is.

    Sorry for the rant, nothing against you, I just wish quality and capability and ethics of products was more often one of the selling points.

  • ugo@feddit.ittoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•One more bailout bro
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    1 month ago

    I am interested. If no barter system, how did the exchange of goods and services happen? Or I guess maybe those concepts didn’t make sense before money as communities would be focused on survival, thus the “assets” of the community being freely available (i.e. only part of the community hunts, but the results are available to all?)

    If that is the case, could it be that a part of the invention of money came from increasingly successful communities that could allow themselves to travel and meet and trade and exchange cultural artifacts rather than be fully focused on survival of said community?

  • ugo@feddit.ittoAutism@lemmy.world•Hell on earthEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Counterpoint: I’m a twisty mofo and my adhd friend would often enough times respond to something he thought I was going to say instead of the thing I actually said (since I’m a twisty mofo) because he would be concentrating on not interrupting rather than listening.

    I’m not placing blame, that’s adhd, just thought it was funny (except those times when it was just frustrating).

  • ugo@feddit.ittoApple@lemmy.world•Who is the iPhone Air for?
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    3 months ago

    I went from a motorola moto g3 (5” screen, 72.4mm phone width) to a samsung galaxy s9+ (6.2” screen, 73.8mm phone width) to an iphone 13 mini (5.4” screen, 64.2mm phone width).

    I once held in my hand an iphone 4s, and I think that is the perfect physical size for my hands (58.6mm phone width).

    Yes the (relatively) small screen on the iphone mini can sometimes be a bit of an hindrance, and yet I would buy an iphone 4s-sized phone in a heartbeat.

    I got a big screen and I went back. I’d go back further if I could.

  • ugo@feddit.ittoAutism@lemmy.world•Do you agree?English
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    3 months ago

    I fixed this issue by being stupid and forgetful, so I never feel insulted if someone explains something I should know. In fact, I just assume I have wrong / incomplete / partially forgotten information even for the things I know I know, just in case.

    I am also stubborn so I will, in most cases, learn enough to fix my issue or be knowledgeable enough to recognise an expert that can fix it for me or help me through.

    Or maybe I’m just autistic and coping.