There are 4 screenshots of what MUFFIN is, and it appears to basically be 4 types of toolbars, one of which is essentially a ribbon. This isn't really anything revolutionary, they just made up a stupid word to describe maintaining 4 types of UIs for people.
Honest, this is why Linux can't have nice things. Yea I know many people hate the MS ribbon-style stuff, or the OSX menus, but at least it's consistent (for the apps made by the same developers following the rules) and easy to maintain. I can guarantee that this MUFFIN approach will just result in 4 quasi-usable scenarios, each with bugs, rather than 1 well tested scenario that 80% of people like.
As per the recent article: https://mobile.slashdot.org/st..., there is also a recall on the iPhone 6S due to a battery hardware failure which causes the phone to shut off anywhere between 5-40%. I just swapped the battery on mine through their recall program and it fixed it.
I own an iPhone 6S (among other phones), and this exact issue happened to me (and my phone is within the serial numbers posted above). What's really fucking irritating is that it started only 8 months after I got the phone. I immediately contacted Apple online support who ran a "diagnostic" through iTunes and said everything was perfect, followed by several trips to the "genius bar" where they said everything is fine and unless it shuts off above 80% (it was shutting off at 40%) there's nothing they can do.
This has been going on all of this year, and I continually tell them there must be a hardware issue since it's significantly worse in cold weather, however the latest word they gave to me was "Apple is aware that there is a small software glitch that will be fixed shortly for this issue."
Then, suddenly today, they admit this is a hardware defect and my serial number is included. Are you fucking kidding me? I cannot believe the disrespect this company has for their clients, and I can't wait to never buy any of their products again. I'll stick to my Nexus 6P.
Yea, I take issue that you seem to suggest that 99% of those requiring photoshop / illustrators are not professionals. In fact, I'd argue that the MAJORITY of those who require these tools ARE graphic artists. It's only the few hobby-ists with a DSLR that can get away using Gimp and Light studio or whatever.
The fact that you truly believe that "99%" of those requiring these tools don't need it is the very core of my issue: you're just making shit up in your mind to wrap reality to how you see it, to make Linux seem acceptable to the masses (99%). Anecdotally in your circle of Linux-friends I'm sure they can get away with Gimp; and I also bet not one of them is a professional graphic artist.
Show me one professional graphic designer who actually makes quality work and can use Gimp and.. I don't even know what the illustrator alternative is on Linux. Inkscape? It's awful.
They use macOS and Windows for a reason. The real tools are Adobe's (at this time), and no professional takes Gimp seriously. The fact that you suggest it just re-iterates what the problem with Linux zealots are.
What also prevents problems, is simply buying hardware that works fine with Linux. Instead of trying it on some random machine not (initially) purchased for that purpose.
I'm pretty sick and tired of hearing this counter-argument to my "problems." The majority of hardware I've ever bought has worked "out of the box" with Windows and Mac, I'm talking older scanners, brand new graphics cards, keyboards, mice, etc. The few that didn't immediately, were either solved in Windows by "automatic driver download", or by going to the vendor's website or using the provided disc (last ditch resort). I've never actually come across hardware that:
a. didn't work, or
b. required me to screw around with source code, and re-compile a kernel
And, you appear to be speaking to me as if I don't know how to use Linux. I do, I've been programming for the last 20 years and working with all 3 platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux). I respect Linux, but at some point the community, including Slashdot, has to admit that my experience is fairly common (even if you anecdotally haven't had it) and you can't expect 'regular' people to want to deal with this. I'm in the tech field and even I don't want to deal with this! Why? I have a family, my time is valuable, and while I can screw around for ours with my OS, I don't want to. Make it "work" without having to screw around, or at least admit there's a problem, and then we can start to get somewhere.
I had a hell of a time installing Linux Mint on an HP Envy M6 and I posted about it in their forums (which was 100% ignored): https://forums.linuxmint.com/v...
The tl;dr of it is this, to get it installed I had to:
- Find custom network drivers because the ones that came with it (RT3290) did not work at all. This involved getting source code and re-compiling because the deb package failed on line 1 with an error... why, why would should that ever be necessary for a professional desktop OS (not a hobbiest machine)?
- The EFI installation for the bootloader would continually go in the wrong directory, so it never worked. It took me several hours to realize this was the issue and manually fix it
- Suspending has never worked when the lid closed. When it comes 'back' it would just have an error and X would be dead
- Battery life was awful until I followed a well known "guide" to fix it... again, why?
- After a few weeks a new Linux Mint version came out and there was no upgrade path. The only option is to format and re-install. At this point I just gave up because that's unacceptable. Every new version of Windows (7-10 even), and Mac OSX (10.4-10.8 as an example) do not require a format and will just upgrade. Why can't Linux?
I love "playing" with Linux, but until it works on a desktop like MacOS and Windows without requiring screwing around, re-compiling, and format / re-install for major version upgrades, nobody who doesn't have time for a Linux-hobby can use it.
Seriously? Allo has failed, it doesn't even have 200k installs after over a month of being out. Compare this hangouts at 2.7m, which they ABANDONED for no good god damn reason and removed threaded SMS view (which was essential graceful SMS fallback). And do you know why? Because Google can't get their shit together. If you buy a Pixel on Google Project Fi, it comes with Allo, Duo, Hangouts, and Messenger. Do you understand how frustrating it is to a consumer when every product created gets dropped? Even/r/Android no longer has any love for Google's bullshit in regards to their messaging apps. The WORST part about all of this is they already had the product: Google Talk. Remember that? Could use it on desktop, had video calling built-in, chat logs. everything except SMS fallback.
As for Facebook messenger, again no SMS fallback and nobody really uses fb anymore for a variety of reasons including security concerns.
There is currently no good Android SMS+messenger app which is why WhatsApp is still so popular, especially in Europe (which I doubt anyone can ever overcome), or Kakao products in Korea. iMessage would be met with happiness by most Android users because despite all the BS Apple does, iMessage is a good product, and is only missing a web interface (or Windows desktop app).
Have.. I mean, have you used any Samsung products lately? I own a Nexus 5, Nexus 6P, Samsung Galaxy S6, S7 and Note 7 (I do a lot of hardware testing). They are all rock solid, but the most rock solid is the S7 and Note 7. Without question, they are very well made devices, and stand up to a lot more than the Huawei 6P. The LG Nexus 5 is pretty solid, but there are problems especially with the power button (a problem that plagued older Samsung phones).
So when I see comments like this, I can only picture some luddite tightly gripping his Nexus 4 screaming about quality without ever having tried a new phone and just hating on it in principal.
Yea, because attempting to change all of society is going to work/s. People are going to keep doing what they're doing, if companies want to capitalize on it, they need to make their product more attractive to potential customers.
Furthermore, I'm running Android Marshmallow and it allows you to grant or deny specific privileges to each app. This app asked for 4 permissions: contact list, camera, location and storage. This is how you know it's "authentic".
If it's asking for more than that (i.e. microphone), you've got a malware ridden copy.
As a Canadian, I should be more upset about this, but the BlackBerry community had become extremely elitist and and toxic near the end of BlackBerry's success and I have no sympathy.
Sometimes I would post reasonable questions in various places, including BlackBerry's official forums, and I would get ridiculed. I had a Z10 and a Q10 for a short while (testing for my company), and it was even still a problem at that point. I switched to Android (Nexus devices) and haven't looked back.
One very specific example: I had a friend's BB curve and they had forgotten the password. I asked on the forums how they could still login to BlackBerry (they had the account password, just not the phone's) and maybe somehow back it up (maybe via USB). I was accused of stealing the device and laughed at. My friend tried to remember, but after 5 guesses the device wiped itself and there's no way to recover it. Ever.
I get security, but come on, there were photos on there that they really wanted and there was literally no recovery process, and the community was shit. So I'm not upset by this. All those toxic supporters can go fuck themselves.
"My computer must answer to me," isn't anyone's priority or requirement, except for "OSS zealots."
I assume you put "OSS zealots." in quotes to try and emphasize that many people view this type of individually somewhat negatively. I'm not against (or even disagreeing) with what you said, but one thing I'd like to point is is the pure bullshit statement that OSS advocates often use of "it's open source so I can see what's in it."
The reason I call bullshit on this is because I doubt you, or any other "normal" OSS supporter has really read every line of source code that their application / OS has in it. There's no way, it would take too long. Instead, you trust that other people have done it for you, and you trust those other people more than a corporation of say Microsoft.
Really the entire OSS movement is about who you trust. For OSS advocates, you trust those in the community more than the "faceless corporations" because in the end, it's all closed source to an individual who can't realistically read it all.
I suspect this is exactly the case. They want to see while the getting is good, although I still think they would have made more by keeping prices higher, rather than flooding it and trying to make it up on volume...
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The link to see it is the very first like in the summary, the 'announced' link: https://blog.documentfoundatio...
There are 4 screenshots of what MUFFIN is, and it appears to basically be 4 types of toolbars, one of which is essentially a ribbon. This isn't really anything revolutionary, they just made up a stupid word to describe maintaining 4 types of UIs for people.
Honest, this is why Linux can't have nice things. Yea I know many people hate the MS ribbon-style stuff, or the OSX menus, but at least it's consistent (for the apps made by the same developers following the rules) and easy to maintain. I can guarantee that this MUFFIN approach will just result in 4 quasi-usable scenarios, each with bugs, rather than 1 well tested scenario that 80% of people like.
I'm sort of curious how these videos do not violate the YouTube TOS. Isn't this hate speech?
As per the recent article: https://mobile.slashdot.org/st..., there is also a recall on the iPhone 6S due to a battery hardware failure which causes the phone to shut off anywhere between 5-40%. I just swapped the battery on mine through their recall program and it fixed it.
I own an iPhone 6S (among other phones), and this exact issue happened to me (and my phone is within the serial numbers posted above). What's really fucking irritating is that it started only 8 months after I got the phone. I immediately contacted Apple online support who ran a "diagnostic" through iTunes and said everything was perfect, followed by several trips to the "genius bar" where they said everything is fine and unless it shuts off above 80% (it was shutting off at 40%) there's nothing they can do.
This has been going on all of this year, and I continually tell them there must be a hardware issue since it's significantly worse in cold weather, however the latest word they gave to me was "Apple is aware that there is a small software glitch that will be fixed shortly for this issue."
Then, suddenly today, they admit this is a hardware defect and my serial number is included. Are you fucking kidding me? I cannot believe the disrespect this company has for their clients, and I can't wait to never buy any of their products again. I'll stick to my Nexus 6P.
Yea, I take issue that you seem to suggest that 99% of those requiring photoshop / illustrators are not professionals. In fact, I'd argue that the MAJORITY of those who require these tools ARE graphic artists. It's only the few hobby-ists with a DSLR that can get away using Gimp and Light studio or whatever.
The fact that you truly believe that "99%" of those requiring these tools don't need it is the very core of my issue: you're just making shit up in your mind to wrap reality to how you see it, to make Linux seem acceptable to the masses (99%). Anecdotally in your circle of Linux-friends I'm sure they can get away with Gimp; and I also bet not one of them is a professional graphic artist.
Show me one professional graphic designer who actually makes quality work and can use Gimp and .. I don't even know what the illustrator alternative is on Linux. Inkscape? It's awful.
They use macOS and Windows for a reason. The real tools are Adobe's (at this time), and no professional takes Gimp seriously. The fact that you suggest it just re-iterates what the problem with Linux zealots are.
This.
What also prevents problems, is simply buying hardware that works fine with Linux. Instead of trying it on some random machine not (initially) purchased for that purpose.
I'm pretty sick and tired of hearing this counter-argument to my "problems." The majority of hardware I've ever bought has worked "out of the box" with Windows and Mac, I'm talking older scanners, brand new graphics cards, keyboards, mice, etc. The few that didn't immediately, were either solved in Windows by "automatic driver download", or by going to the vendor's website or using the provided disc (last ditch resort). I've never actually come across hardware that:
a. didn't work, or
b. required me to screw around with source code, and re-compile a kernel
And, you appear to be speaking to me as if I don't know how to use Linux. I do, I've been programming for the last 20 years and working with all 3 platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux). I respect Linux, but at some point the community, including Slashdot, has to admit that my experience is fairly common (even if you anecdotally haven't had it) and you can't expect 'regular' people to want to deal with this. I'm in the tech field and even I don't want to deal with this! Why? I have a family, my time is valuable, and while I can screw around for ours with my OS, I don't want to. Make it "work" without having to screw around, or at least admit there's a problem, and then we can start to get somewhere.
I had a hell of a time installing Linux Mint on an HP Envy M6 and I posted about it in their forums (which was 100% ignored): https://forums.linuxmint.com/v...
The tl;dr of it is this, to get it installed I had to:
I love "playing" with Linux, but until it works on a desktop like MacOS and Windows without requiring screwing around, re-compiling, and format / re-install for major version upgrades, nobody who doesn't have time for a Linux-hobby can use it.
Seriously? Allo has failed, it doesn't even have 200k installs after over a month of being out. Compare this hangouts at 2.7m, which they ABANDONED for no good god damn reason and removed threaded SMS view (which was essential graceful SMS fallback). And do you know why? Because Google can't get their shit together. If you buy a Pixel on Google Project Fi, it comes with Allo, Duo, Hangouts, and Messenger. Do you understand how frustrating it is to a consumer when every product created gets dropped? Even /r/Android no longer has any love for Google's bullshit in regards to their messaging apps. The WORST part about all of this is they already had the product: Google Talk. Remember that? Could use it on desktop, had video calling built-in, chat logs. everything except SMS fallback.
As for Facebook messenger, again no SMS fallback and nobody really uses fb anymore for a variety of reasons including security concerns.
There is currently no good Android SMS+messenger app which is why WhatsApp is still so popular, especially in Europe (which I doubt anyone can ever overcome), or Kakao products in Korea. iMessage would be met with happiness by most Android users because despite all the BS Apple does, iMessage is a good product, and is only missing a web interface (or Windows desktop app).
Well at least Slashdot is sti
They just introduced their own Uber-style ride sharing program that will undoubtedly use this: http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAKCN12K2IA
They probably do not want competition.
I modded something incorrectly -- commenting to delete it.
I thought it was:
To get away from their wife.
Have.. I mean, have you used any Samsung products lately? I own a Nexus 5, Nexus 6P, Samsung Galaxy S6, S7 and Note 7 (I do a lot of hardware testing). They are all rock solid, but the most rock solid is the S7 and Note 7. Without question, they are very well made devices, and stand up to a lot more than the Huawei 6P. The LG Nexus 5 is pretty solid, but there are problems especially with the power button (a problem that plagued older Samsung phones).
So when I see comments like this, I can only picture some luddite tightly gripping his Nexus 4 screaming about quality without ever having tried a new phone and just hating on it in principal.
Yea, because attempting to change all of society is going to work /s. People are going to keep doing what they're doing, if companies want to capitalize on it, they need to make their product more attractive to potential customers.
Did you read my source? The guy made it, and posted it on imgur to host it. You're a fucking idiot.
If you're going to steal from reddit, at list link the source.
I downloaded the APK from apkmirror which I trust: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/n....
Furthermore, I'm running Android Marshmallow and it allows you to grant or deny specific privileges to each app. This app asked for 4 permissions: contact list, camera, location and storage. This is how you know it's "authentic".
If it's asking for more than that (i.e. microphone), you've got a malware ridden copy.
You can see the trajectory here: http://i.imgur.com/d3TiJAt.gif
As a Canadian, I should be more upset about this, but the BlackBerry community had become extremely elitist and and toxic near the end of BlackBerry's success and I have no sympathy.
Sometimes I would post reasonable questions in various places, including BlackBerry's official forums, and I would get ridiculed. I had a Z10 and a Q10 for a short while (testing for my company), and it was even still a problem at that point. I switched to Android (Nexus devices) and haven't looked back.
One very specific example: I had a friend's BB curve and they had forgotten the password. I asked on the forums how they could still login to BlackBerry (they had the account password, just not the phone's) and maybe somehow back it up (maybe via USB). I was accused of stealing the device and laughed at. My friend tried to remember, but after 5 guesses the device wiped itself and there's no way to recover it. Ever.
I get security, but come on, there were photos on there that they really wanted and there was literally no recovery process, and the community was shit. So I'm not upset by this. All those toxic supporters can go fuck themselves.
Windows 10 is free, and look at all the shit with it. Don't know what your point is.
Sometimes this is true...
"My computer must answer to me," isn't anyone's priority or requirement, except for "OSS zealots."
I assume you put "OSS zealots." in quotes to try and emphasize that many people view this type of individually somewhat negatively. I'm not against (or even disagreeing) with what you said, but one thing I'd like to point is is the pure bullshit statement that OSS advocates often use of "it's open source so I can see what's in it."
The reason I call bullshit on this is because I doubt you, or any other "normal" OSS supporter has really read every line of source code that their application / OS has in it. There's no way, it would take too long. Instead, you trust that other people have done it for you, and you trust those other people more than a corporation of say Microsoft.
Really the entire OSS movement is about who you trust. For OSS advocates, you trust those in the community more than the "faceless corporations" because in the end, it's all closed source to an individual who can't realistically read it all.
I suspect this is exactly the case. They want to see while the getting is good, although I still think they would have made more by keeping prices higher, rather than flooding it and trying to make it up on volume...