My personal reason was observing the huge amount of investments into Javascript and its infrastructure (by Google and others). After Node.js was released it was a rational bet to make that Javascript would dominate, both server and client side. As someone who often does both front end and back end, it felt good to move to Javascript. It's got to be said that keeping a "common" directory around with shared code for both front- and backend is still a PITA, but still better than most other alternatives.
You're just lucky YOU aren't affected yet. Try telling that norwegian poker player who is unable to wire legal poker earnings from a tournament abroad to his bank home. Or to any of the people who made money on crypto who they want to use as security for an appartment loan. Or to someone trying to wire gains from legal online casinos abroad. Or to someone trying to access a web site that the norwegian authorities do not like who are DNS blocked (yes, easy to circumvent for tech people). Goverment and politicians abusing authority and limiting individual freedom is already here and growing. When it starts affecting "most people" it is usually a lot harder to reverse. The norwegian goverment already passed a law that allow mass electronic surveilance. And they want to limit the public's access to goverment records. It's a very slippery slope, left side "social democrazy" (spelled "beuracratic dictatorship") like most of EU. People need to open their eyes and fight goverment overreach now.
>Try telling that norwegian poker player who is unable to wire legal poker earnings from a tournament abroad to his bank home.
Probably blocked due to terror laws. If you can't Western Union money, there is a REALLY good reason.
Wait until you hear about how we are a cashless society and our bank app for money transfer. That you need mobile ID and bank account to use :) Max tracking. But its very handy.
>Or to any of the people who made money on crypto who they want to use as security for an appartment loan.
Good, I hate crypto shit and I want it to go away. It is all a scam. Get a real job and invest in a real bank. Crypto is all tax fraud scam shit.
>Or to someone trying to wire gains from legal online casinos abroad.
Good, I hate gambling and online casinos. If you have to gamble, do it in my country so the taxes benefit.
>Or to someone trying to access a web site that the norwegian authorities do not like who are DNS blocked (yes, easy to circumvent for tech people).
Yes THIS I agree with. I think ISP DNS blocks piratebay etc here now. Or some ISPs do. It's shit, but I already use a 3rd party DNS provider on my PC and phones.
Your point btw? I am running the Snowflake when my browser is open.
I love how your arguments against anything you dislike but should be legal because of personal freedom (gambling, crypto) is simply a teenager ranting.
> If you can't Western Union money, there is a REALLY good reason.
That isn't remotely true. Why on Earth would you ever give Western Union this kind of authority, lol.
They've proven they can't be trusted many times over, most notably when they participated in the blockade of donations to Wikileaks.
It's viscerally disgusting to me that just a few years after that, someone would put them on a pedestal as some kind of moral arbiter. What the fuck.
> Good, I hate crypto shit and I want it to go away. It is all a scam.
Yawn. What a tired and ignorant sentiment. The fact is, people saying things like this are making exactly the same destructive mistake as people saying 'all politicans are bad' - you're throwing out a very important baby with the bathwater.
Fortunately, digital money doesn't give a flying fuck about your opinion.
> Get a real job and invest in a real bank. Crypto is all tax fraud scam shit.
Ugh. See above.
> Good, I hate gambling and online casinos. If you have to gamble, do it in my country so the taxes benefit.
You lack the minimum required table stakes of tax knowledge to be saying things like this.
My point was regarding the "no censorship in Scandinavia" comment that I replied to. The rest of your arguments are just ramblings about you not caring about individual freedom. You even justify their actions using your own made up arguments (which I'm not even bother going to sensibly refute). It is your exact attitude that gets us into trouble with power greedy politicians. You're an easy mark.
In 2016, I identified and wrote about the lack of retina support for Gimp here https://artplusmarketing.com/gimp-and-inkscape-on-retina-mac... . I know Inkscape got retina support since then, but as I understood it, Gimp was waiting for better Mac GTK support or something. Does anyone know if Gimp has fixed the retina issues I wrote about years ago yet?
I'm all for using free / open source where it makes sense and is cost effective. And frankly, Office is probably overkill for most of the actual needs of users. Having said that, I tried making a three page brochure a year ago, using the most recent LibreOffice release at the time. Just a mix of some screenshots and paragraphs of text. It was just too slow to be useable. On the same computer, Google Docs running in the browser was able to handle the same brochure without any noticeable slowdowns of any kind. That's a strong indication that LibreOffice is just ... not up to the task.
As much as I want to support libreOffice, my experience has been the same as yours.
The whole office suite just feels so janky/stutter-y/not-smooth. Its like there are fps drops or slight pauses before many actions. It is quite irritating. Also on a hidpi/4k display, many things still do not scale properly.
I wonder if there some specific bug you’re both hitting? I have a modest workstation and have not experienced this (fwiw 99% Writer/Calc, with the occasional slideshow)
LG had good phones. But while most other phones allowed some minor cracks in their glass, the earlier LGs did not. One minor crack and the touch UI would stop working (they fused the touch sensor to the glass or something). They insisted on this "feature" for longer than most competitors I believe, and for every customer that experienced it we would 1) Never by an LG again, and 2) Bitch about it to others. I'm sure this was a factor to their downfall as well.
It's 2020. I've been sitting in front of two 4k monitors for perhaps five years now, under Ubuntu Mate. Every month or so an HN comment implies it doesn't work. ;-)
So many years of people telling me that my exact setup does not work, yet here I am not remembering the last time I had an issue with displays on Linux. It has even gotten _better_ since I moved to Wayland which I am also told does not work.
To be fair, the last time I did was when I bought my current monitor, this year. 2560x1440, and only works properly when I log in so my X config loads.
I messed up some PAM config shortly after, and had to chroot to fix it - couldn't read a single letter I was typing (impossibly small and distorted for the number of pixels used to display them, character widths all over the place too) but manager to get it done, very carefully and slowly...
I probably should've made getting it working system wide a priority after that (maybe it's as simple as I used my user config rather than /etc, I can't remember) but I haven't. I suppose worst case I could use a different older monitor anyway.
Agree - been using 4k monitors with Fedora for years as well, and whilst there's still a few warts it's been steadily getting better and is perfectly usable.
Looking forward to seeing Gimp with native support though
I was recently looking for a good tool that supports both web site analytics and app analytics (custom events, typically pushed by SPAs). I looked at GA, Amplitude and finally Matomo (which I ended up with). GA and Amplitude either did not offer or made it hard to work down to the micro level, essentially tracking known individual users down to the singular event level. Matomo makes this easy, although it certainly looks a bit dated compared to the competition. And the free parts are somewhat limited (you need to buy stuff or hosting).
I would have though that there would be several decent packages offering www + app analytics by now, but as I wrote, options were quite limited. Some of the options mentioned in the subject here looks like good options for just website analytics, but I'm not seeing much as far as "app analytics" (custom events) goes.
Thanks for the tip. One of Heap's selling points seems to be that tracking events "manually" is over, everything is automatic. That might work if all "work" is defined as "stuff users do". For other types of "work" (calculation pipelines, job delegation etc) I'm sure being able to "micro manage" events can be useful. But sure, my use case might be different.
Less companies are focusing on user level tracking because one single user is not a meaningful statistical group.
Companies focusing on user level tracking today provide a different set of tools one might be used to and that can of course be compliant, see https://www.hotjar.com/.
And I'm sure that makes sense if you have lots of users and low revenue per customer. If your use case is the opposite, tracking individual usage becomes more important. At least until you have lots of those users. After that, who cares! :P
Requiring people to have a Google account or similar is probably the primary reason why competitors such as Zoom had any chance to begin with. They can call it a security feature as much as they like, though I suspect "loss leader" is more correct. But for business use, it means Google Meet is a no go. We simply can not require customers to have this or that account before they can join a video conference.
If I read it right, they still require everybody joining to have a Google account. Which means the others that don't require this will keep growing. I mean, we're a Google shop ok, but requiring our customers to use google accounts is just something that we can not do.
I think what that means is, if you have a GSuite account, you can let anonymous users join your Meet. But if you just have an individual, personal account, you cannot.
So, if you are a G shop already, then it shouldn't prevent your customers from joining your meeting without having a Google account. But if you're trying to host that meeting via a personal Gmail account, you will run into a problem if a non-Google account tries to join.
