@freakazoid I once tried and it didn't really worked out. It's been a while since so, maybe the issues I faced wouldbhave bothered me now. SyncThing was slow and very buggy and would constantly fail with me. I'm now using Nextcloud and, (although it's different as it requires a central server), I'm having a really good experience. (Btw, Nextcloud has a basic versioning system which is quite helpful/useful every once in a while).
@aral eventually someone's going to make a javascript-to-native compiler, someone else is going to code a POSIX-compliant kernel in javascript, and the whole of computer science will grind to a halt ;-)
DRM on USB-C is just an extension of attempts to change the business model of consumer electronics from ownership to rental. Planned obsolescence and locked down operating systems wasn't enough. Now they want to lock down the accessory ecosystem as well. And it all comes straight out of the consumer's pocket, because more power for vendors means less power for you.
#UX une illustration classique qui explique que ce n'est pas parce que votre conception est utilisable qu'elle sera adoptée telle quelle par les utilisateurs. Il y a le concept et il y a la réalité (et parfois, on ne peut pas tout prévoir)
> Oh man, people's conception of minimalism has changed beyond recognition. Just sign in to your wordpress.com account and search for minimalist themes. Or search for minimalist WP themes in general. A vast majority of them look like bloated Facebook-ish garbage. :-/ This wasn't the case 10 years ago. @lohang It used to mean a user interface that takes as little space as possible, now it means an interface with the smallest amount of elements possible, regardless of how much space these elements actually take.
Applications 18.12 is out. Now you can annotate PDFs with a "typewriter" tool in Okular, see previews of ODF documents in Dolphin, and show emojis in Konsole. Apps 18.12 with many more features and improvements will be landing in your distro soon.