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  • TCB13@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    16 days ago

    DNS0.eu is the new thing. Maybe also Control D Free DNS, Alternate DNS or if you want to go more hardcore LibreDNS. To be fair your biggest concern shouldn’t be only where you get your DNS from BUT also if it supports DoT and DoH - encrypting the DNS is more important for a lot people than actually using something other than Cloudflare or some other big company.








  • TCB13@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlGNOME introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
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    1 month ago

    Sure, can they consider stopping wasting money / time actually develop useful stuff? For a DE that got €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund they’re not showing results.

    Okay fine, desktop icons can be a design decision, however a “disable animations” toggle on the settings that doesn’t disable ALL animations… that’s just poorly made software, not something you may have an opinion on.



  • TCB13@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlGNOME introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
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    1 month ago

    Yes, systemd is a very good and very well written piece of software while GNOME is a pile questionable decisions that uses web tech to create themes and takes about half a second to load up any window. Also the same pile where you’ve to use 3 different network management UIs to get stuff done. And… where you can’t have desktop icons because they were too hard to get done properly OR where you can’t have a “disable animations” toggle on the settings to actually disable ALL animations instead of just some stuff while leaving others arounds.



  • TCB13@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlAnnouncing systemd v256
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    2 months ago

    I don’t disagree with you but… it also provides a cohesive ecosystem of tools to manage linux. What we had before was a poorly integrated mess of smaller tools that was just too hard to maintain and sometimes use.

    Besides not all systemd components come out of the box with the base binary, some have to be installed if you need them. And no, it doesn’t get in the way. :)





  • TCB13@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlNew Debian release on the horizon?
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    2 months ago

    Trust me, at that point there won’t be any explaining possible :D

    We’ve been burned by a lot of distros in the past and right now it all boils down to using Debian and RHEL, everything else mostly failed at some point or will not uphold the stability guarantees. Even containers with Alpine fucked us over once with the musl DNS issues and a few other missing parts…





  • Please do not reduce the community effort to “cloning macOS”. It’s insulting to the people working on it…

    Well, it’s insulting for people to lose their work because someone did a lousy UX job. :)

    Cloning macOS should not be views as something “bad” because for what’s worth we all know Apple spends a LOT in usability research (they’re not as good as they used to be, but still better than the rest).

    Kudos for noticing this extra space which could enhance these kind of modals though.

    That’s the thing, I’ve basic design / UX training and all the literature on action buttons with dangerous effects tells you to add a margin. Any design undergraduate should also be able to notice that life saver as well… however the GNOME team totally missed it.

    This isn’t the first time them failing at basic UX and they don’t like when people try to suggest improvements nor when they later on criticize them.