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  • The only issue with Tesla is that the quality of their cars is mediocre at best, while you’re paying premium, and that Tesla is the most childish and obstinate company to work with.

    We have something called Råd & Rön’s Blacklist, which is respected Swedish consumer magazine’s list of products to avoid. Tesla is one of the brands that’s listed there. Partly because of the poor quality of the cars and partly because they don’t follow the rulings from the National Board for Consumer Complaints here in Sweden.

    And they don’t give a **** about insurance companies either. If something happens to your Tesla, you’re on your own buying a new one yourself. You can forget about getting any sort of help from Tesla.






  • The touchpad was invented in a time where graphical operating systems was barley even a thing. I don’t think they’re meant to be used more than perhaps you sitting on the train on your way to work or something. :)

    I’m sure it’s about minimalism for some. For me, it’s about doing as much as possible with as little as possible. When you have less, you usually also gets creative with what you have. When you live in excess, you tend to get lazy and unproductive. :) While my system might look and feel minimal, I consider it to be way more productive, ergonomic and functional than most other systems. However. I can understand that most doesn’t have the time or interest in learning all the thing required, and that they’re fine with less.

    You have a good point about the last thing you wrote there! I guess it’s all a balance of what you’re willing to give up, your time learning all this stuff, or your health. :D






  • I use niri, I don’t know if it’s ressource demanding or not but the readme seems to say it works fine on old computers: Performance: while I run niri on beefy machines, I try to stay conscious of performance. I’ve seen someone use it fine on an Eee PC 900 from 2008, of all things.

    That sounds promising!

    Regarding eye candy it’s also very sober by default, it can do animations, blur and transparency but you have to ask for it in conf.

    That’s good! While I love eyecandy, I don’t understand why you want it with a tiling window managers, but that’s just me being old I guess.

    I use it because It’s a nice middle ground between traditionnal wms and tiling ones. No messy stacking windows, no need to think too much about the layout, plus you get a larger screen than everyone at no cost :)

    I can’t imagine ever using it, but it’s great that it works for you (and a lot of other people). :D

    I haven’t really looked into any of the modern alternatives, but it feels like they’re a lot easier to get started with if you’re new to tiling window managers, which can be overwhelming as it is.

    There are very nice looking things like noctalia or dankmaterialshell that can take care of everything for you (dms in particular), including bar/dock/niri conf/wifi etc. It’s much easier to have something functional and nice looking than before (including with other wms like sway).

    You lost me here. What is noctalia, dankmaterialshell and dms? :D

    And docks? Like those bouncy panel thingies in Mac OS?


  • I love eyecandy as well! It’s what got me interested in Linux back when Beryl was a thing. :) However. When it comes to tiling window mangers, I personally find it distracting, but I completely understand the appeal of it for others. A lot of the desktop screenshots looks really cool, but I don’t see how people can be productive with all the bling. :D

    I’ve been a happy keyboard driven user for a long time now, and I can’t ever imagine going back to using the mouse for all the things. I still use it for my secondary web browser though, but that’s becasue a lot of websites sucks. :( I’m pretty sure that escaping most usage with any pointing device have saved my writsts from a lot of pain!