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New comment by noisem4ker in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

noisem4ker — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:50:46 +0000

Well-hinted fonts such as Consolas are indeed very rare.

I think I've only found Liberation and Hack to appear decent on standard density display. Roboto Mono is nicely shaped but blurry. I think Noto Mono used to have hints but dropped them. It was hours spent trying out different fonts only to ultimately go back to msttcore-fonts for me.

New comment by noisem4ker in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

noisem4ker — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:59:10 +0000

It's way beyond dictation. Medics I know (fresh postgraduates who used LLMs to help write their R code for statistical analysis for their research) are starting to treat it as one of their peers for domain reasoning, e.g. for discussing whether the conditions for a heart transplant are met. They're indeed in the "wow, this thing is human-like" stage, just not in the "let's delegate to the super brain, and then rubber-stamp the result at the end if it looks good" one we seem to be in... perhaps yet.

New comment by noisem4ker in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

noisem4ker — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:51:31 +0000

Your experience may be valuable, and in fact made me think, but I also think the brashness of framing everything in the "adapt or die" ultimatum is unnecessary and off-putting.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

noisem4ker — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:02:52 +0000

I don't think they were appreciating that HTML could be read unrendered. I think they meant that it was up to the browser to render HTML with sensible but unspecified or otherwise user-specified styling (the browser is supposed to be a "user agent", remember?) before web designers started aiming for pixel-perfect control through CSS.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

noisem4ker — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:21:53 +0000

It's documented here: https://umidevi.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-make-windows-xp-...

New comment by noisem4ker in "GitHub Monaspace Case Study"

noisem4ker — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:49:20 +0000

No.

New comment by noisem4ker in "GitHub Monaspace Case Study"

noisem4ker — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:23:33 +0000

> tabular alignment

Check out "elastic tabstops":

https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

New comment by noisem4ker in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

noisem4ker — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:56:34 +0000

The taskbar could be moved to any edge of the screen since its introduction in Windows 95.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

noisem4ker — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:52:49 +0000

The first-party desktop mode that was introduced in Android 16 last year.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/developer-...

New comment by noisem4ker in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

noisem4ker — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:44:39 +0000

Maybe I didn't look hard enough, as I was put off by the pervasive absurdity of it, but I don't feel like I gained anything at all from watching that film.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

noisem4ker — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:15:46 +0000

Linux doesn't mean GNOME.

KDE favors server-side decorations.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

noisem4ker — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:19:46 +0000

Hard disagreement.

https://0x5.uk/2021/03/15/github-rebase-and-squash-considere...

New comment by noisem4ker in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

noisem4ker — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:40:56 +0000

The provenance that is lost is the original base.

New comment by noisem4ker in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

noisem4ker — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:58:57 +0000

The European Commission has recently put WhatsApp under scrutiny in terms of the Digital Services Act, and forced them to open up allowing interoperability with other messaging applications.

Perhaps we'll see a return of apps like Pidgin soon.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Linux is good now"

noisem4ker — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:34:26 +0000

WSL. Android app support (for the little while it lasted). Recall.

New comment by noisem4ker in "ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests"

noisem4ker — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:39:22 +0000

For Chrome and Firefox.

New comment by noisem4ker in "2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results"

noisem4ker — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:45:14 +0000

That the first result is clearly marked as an ad is an opinion. One I don't agree with.

New comment by noisem4ker in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

noisem4ker — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:25:51 +0000

Google's Gboard completes "i want t" with "to" and "the" for me.

New comment by noisem4ker in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

noisem4ker — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:24:16 +0000

The S23 too was Snapdragon only, allegedly to let the Exynos team catch some breath and come up with something competitive for the following generation. Which they partly did, as the Exynos S24 is almost on par with its Snapdragon brother. A bit worse on photo and gaming performance, a bit better in web browsing, from the benchmarks I remember.

New comment by noisem4ker in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

noisem4ker — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:11:27 +0000

The container runs a virtual machine using the host kernel's KVM device. Windows is then automatically installed inside said virtual machine.

https://github.com/dockur/windows