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  • While Linux is imperfect perfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward complicated.

    /s

    Not so much in Linux as in tools I want on Linux being Windows only (or X11).

    1. Microsoft’s Terminal App is my favourite console application, there are a ton of other applications to use but nothing hits just right in the way their application does.
    2. GOG Galaxy. There is Heroic which is an excellent application the integrates really well with GOG but (the last time I used it) cloud sync was Windows only, so you had to run proton/wine to get cloud sync support even though the game had native Linux support. In the end, I just wish GOG could if not port their client to Linux, at least help Heroic Launcher make cloud sync work with Linux.
    3. xdotool - I used it to automate hiding/showing my terminal window. I tried ydotool but could not get it to work.

  • But in practice idk if they always have actual hydraulic brakes. I’d still think they do, even if there’s also regenerative braking.

    I thought most of the input from the driver (steering, breaking etc) had a layer of computer between the input interface (steering wheel etc) and the actual moving parts.

    I’m thinking at some point it will probably be that you’ll need to hand over driving to a computer whilst in a city or smth.

    That is an interesting solution on how a first push for self driving cars could look like.

    I saw a documentary some years back about self driving trucks in Australia, a company used them instead because it was safer for a computer than a human to drive through the desert.








  • I had to implement drag and drop in a Windows application recently. Since you don’t know the content type nor the size of the content, pointers has to be used, which makes sense. For the most part when working within the bounds of my own application, I haven’t found a good use case for pointers. That could of course be because I am not used to thinking in that way.