so if it’s better than 1 or 2 years ago, what about devices purchased 2 or 3 years ago?

think you meant to say mpeg. look at your actual comment.

what has been the location of improvement?

I think a second machine is way better than dual booting. Dual booting is a pain in the ass. I try to avoid rebooting the machine for any reason, its disruptive.

Better get an old cheap thinkpad or small PC. And you dont have to take the risk of learning about partitioning on your primary machine as first baby step. Keep your important stuff where its safe until such time as you are comfortable switching over.

Can’t think of any better designed and built software package I ever used than sketchup desktop. I wasted soooo much time making needlessly detailed 3d renderings of things around me. I sort of specifically dont want anything that good because it was way too engaging and a real time sink. So fun though. I miss it.

Its criminal to throw that much good code in the trash. If the companies don’t want it it should revert to worker control or go to an archive/conservation organization. Another great product destroyed by capitalism.

I now need the try the various viable programs that have been recommended.

I’ve tried to get away with LO Draw a couple times. It has some basic lacks that make is kind of impossible to use. What is coming to mind is that while it has something called “Layers” it’s not what you’d expect for a graphics software. I recall you also can’t lock shapes. So if you draw one thing on top of another it’s very difficult to control what you are clicking on. There was a bunch of issues like that.

interesting can it be run as a desktop application (not browser-based)?

it is not a vector drawing app. it’s a raster editor.

I’ve been hoping for inkscape to get usable for ages. I will always give it another shot.

So after trying it out, I will say it has improved a lot compared to 5-10, even 2 years ago. Some strange and unconfigurable UI decisions that waste huge amounts of screen space— it takes about 3x as much as it should for what is displayed. Only my small laptop display the interface takes >25% of available screen real estate. It would be impossible to do anything substantial. They’re still working out how to implement pallets-- but at least there are pallets now.

For this basic application I can deal with little odd stuff; every program has them.

Small problems for the question I posed: No unit of feet, but does have inches. There is a way to type the dimensions tho it’s not as smooth as Sketchup and it sometimes adjusts the values — I entered 58" but it became 57.570".

Main problem: Terrible stability. It has required hard reboot of my computer twice and killing the application numerous times. They have some documentation about how to avoid these problems but none of them apply here. The first time it crashed all I had done was draw 2 plain rectangles. I have a pretty stable system, this is very unusual.

Also here is something fun: Preferences don’t appear to be saved unless you properly exit. So when I spent time setting things up, then it crashed, everything went away. I experimented by setting a pref then quitting vs setting a pref then killing. Killing results in reset of the pref.

Crashing and stability aside it is massive improvement.

I’m sure responsibility is variable but kinda sounds like could be a political issue rather than skill at least sometimes. They might be requesting data from elsewhere that comes to them all jumbled. And no authority to demand changes from the source.

Sometimes the chaotic sorting is very intentional, as with amazon. Cory Doctorow has written about how the sorting is one piece of their overall scheme: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)

Though once in a while I get prices sorted like $1 $10 $2 $200… If the coder was motivated they could’ve done better.

Anything with time sensitivity, context or relation to other events.

Haven’t you ever read something very differently that was written Jan 2020 compared to April 2020? They’re both “5 years ago”. Or sometimes people will reference current events in passing. If someone mentions “what trump just did” you need to know with more granularity than 1 year to understand.

More mundanely, “Indiana stinks this time of year” is meaningless without knowing the date.

I disagree with your premise that web developers “want to make it hard”, as that isn’t the motivation.

Yes that is fair enough it is unlikely to be a correct characterization. I was just annoyed and feeling persecuted by people who make a great platform that I love using.

If I had to make a general rule I would say relative dates for recent but precise for older. “1 hour” is good enough in a lot of cases but “2 years” is too vague.

A fancier UI could have a user setting for what dates to display, or if you click the date it changes to the other format. Maybe even for all dates on the page so it could be quickly toggled. Or clicking the date selects/copies it.

Admittedly a very marginal use case so for a small software, might not be a good use of time.

I think text on the page should be selectable but tooltips should not. Although I do generally appreciate lemmy’s overall use of user-select: none because it omits all the little icons like voting and reply which are unlikely needed and clutter up destination text file. I don’t always love how it skips the link icon because then I need to copy it separately. (Combining the timestamp with the link in the way of old blog trackbacks is still logical.)

I disagree that this software could be functional without some way to show the date. That is a basic functionality.

Having to hover over each individual comment or post rather than displaying on the page means it’s obscured. You can’t see it unless you do something, and then you can only see it for a moment. Even if you want to manually transcribe the date, you can’t type in one window and have that tooltip active in the other so you need to go back and forth unless you can memorize the whole thing at once.

Whether it is a good design decision as is another matter, I can see why you wouldn’t want the full date/time displayed in all situations. Maybe I’m just a freak for wanting to copy the dates.

Nice investigation. :)

If you will go as far back as LJ and phpBB I wouldn’t expect the dates to be relative because it would be extra work for the server. You would have to generate all the dates every time the page loaded? Using… perl? Sounds too demanding. And since everyone was browsing from a computer, not a tiny phone, screen real estate wasn’t at such a premium.

For disallowing selection, the support for user-select has only recently become fully supported across the board.

Fantastic I look forward to it.

I had a quick peek at the style.css:

.user-select-none{
    -webkit-user-select:none!important;
    -moz-user-select:none!important;
    user-select:none!important
}

I know I could use Stylus or Greasemonkey to override that rule. It works when I try it in the inspector. But is there a way to get the full date out of "data-tippy-content" and redirect it to the displayed page?

What a sloppy way to write this article. Header text to indicate CSAM then just naming people liberating netflix. Does german netflix stream CSAM? Or is this news outlet just kind of implying these people are sex criminals for fun?

On a different note, would love to hear from/about the 15 out of 18 people who were searched in Feb and apparently got away. Either being targeted for harassment by authorities, huge false positive fuckups, or have amazing opsec.

I agree it’s not only the IP because there are other people on it.

I don’t have any meta apps or google accounts for years. I buy on amazon very rarely. I have no apps of any of that type installed. 98% of my apps are f-droid and I flashed a rom. I use tracker blocker to sift through all traffic and limit to only what seems required.

I think it’s very difficult to control what the phone is doing. Using the tracker blocker app has made me aware of how much data is flying all around at all times.

I should set up a pihole. It’s been on my list of 5 or 6 years.

I disabled it everywhere because all I read was confusing with the sound of being easy to fuck up.