for 1: kdeconnect or warpinator
is it right that both of these only work on LAN?
I think so, at least Warpinator. Try Syncthing, it operates on pure magic.
I use Syncthing for other purposes, but I think it’s pretty complicated for a one-off transfer.
given that most people use windows, it is:
- download exe
- run exe
- attempt to teach the other person to not be scared of the “hacker window” that popped up
- exchange IDs
- accept folder, find a place for it
exchangeing IDs is especially tricky if you both are in a call, and the PC does not have a messaging account that can reach you, because they live on their phones or something
Probably not basic user friendly, true, but the upside is that you set it up once and can send files all the time by just placing it in a directory, doesn’t get simpler than that.
- Getting users to post text instead of screenshots of text.
Would be cool, if we could cross-post Mastodon posts…
If only there was a way to copy text, and then paste it someplace else. Sigh… unsolved problems.
Yeah, really unfortunate that that’s not possible. Always having to take a screenshot and then type out letter by letter what’s on the screenshot, that can be quite annoying.
But even if copying text was possible, the reason people post pictures of text is to give proper attribution, but also to distance themselves from the content, so that it’s clear that they don’t necessarily hold the exact same opinion or that they might not have all the knowledge to defend the statements in the post.
Cross-posting could fill that same roll without screenshotting text.
the reason people post pictures of text is to give proper attribution, but also to distance themselves from the content,
If only we had some way to reference an original source. Something like a figurative link, if you will.
That would be cool, but human brains are weirdos. If you’re already copying text, you could’ve edited or annotated it, for example. For example, if it’s an opinion you don’t entirely agree with, you might feel obliged to say so, because you have the ability to do so when it’s a text post.
If you want to call that irrational, I’m not arguing against that. I’m just saying it’s the reality we live in and I’d like to have tooling to deal with that better, because I would also prefer text to not be screenshotted.
human brains are weirdos.
Truer words were never said. :)
Like this?
[mbin has entered the chat]
it’s m[or[ule]]bin’ time
There’s ALT text.
Not in the OP. For primarily text content, images of them are pretty pointless: there are links to source, quotes, etc.
That’s pretty good: could that go in the OP body or is editing not possible?
As with all open problems in computer science, we solved these back in the 80s.
Discord steals focus 3 separate times on startup. It’s so goddam infuriating. Battle.net does at least twice.
Steam does as well.
I found out recently that KDE has a “Focus stealing prevention” in their settings and it has been glorious.
Happy cake day!
Thanks!
Ooh! I need to look that up.
For 2, one of the few pieces of Windows software that I haven’t been able to replace in Linux is GetRight. Many HTTP servers support downloads starting at an offset from the beginning of the file, and GetRight uses that to allow download pausing and resumption.
It was a real life saver back when I had an extremely flaky Internet connection.
Wow, getright! That’s a throwback. I used that in the 90s.
On linux I use aria2c for similar tasks. It can resume http downloads, as well as split them up into multiple threads for faster downloading.
It’s cli-based and powerful (therefore perhaps a bit confusing at first), but there are UIs for it as well for a more get-rightty experience.
I think jdownloader also has some application here, though it’s mostly for getting things from those ad-filled file hosting sites frequently used by those on the high seas
Why would you multithread it except for heaving mutiple paths of entry to your home connection or you are getting a throttle from the file hoster?
Have you tried JDownloader?
Firefox does that out of the box.
My other pet peeves besides these:
- Android locking screen a second before I jab the screen, every single time
- YouTube app. Android and smart TVs. What’s wrong with it? (Vague overall gesturing) It’s garbage. How is one of the biggest tech companies in the world able to ship this and expect people to pay money for subscriptions is beyond me.
Applications that steal focus more than once in their startup are the real devil
Honestly, when I open a new application I normally want to interact with it now. Always drove me nuts , when I opened a Powershell window in a folder and then had to click on it again.
I think it’d be nice if there was an OS-app version of the web browser middle-click. I never feel confused about whether an opened link is or is not taking focus because I shared my intent by which mouse button I used (left: open and switch, middle: just open).
Until its a popup and you’re entering a password.
Or it took several seconds to load.
- Yes I hate this so much.
- Use a better window manager.
- Use a better web stack.
- Don’t most browsers support this?
- https://wormhole.app/
I love it so much when reddit clients think they are smarter and they renumber points 5 to 1 as 5 to 9…
It’s not the client, it’s markup.
this is not a defined thing in markdown, just the markdown renderers of some clients do it
This here is apparently the original source of the markdown specification, and there it clearly says that this is the correct behaviour: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list
Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:
- Bird
- McHale
- Parish
It’s important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The > HTML Markdown produces from the above list is:
<ol> <li>Bird</li> <li>McHale</li> <li>Parish</li> </ol>
If you instead wrote the list in Markdown like this:
- Bird
- McHale
- Parish
or even:
- Bird
- McHale
- Parish
you’d get the exact same HTML output
hmm, you are right. it’s not actually a bug in the renderer then
Don’t most browsers support this?
but not all web servers. often it’s disabled
My favorite way to share files is to compose an email and attach the file. I then save it as a draft and then go to another computer and open that draft and download the file. Its the best method and it has worked for at least a decade. Sometimes you have to send it to yourself but the method is perfect
Another quick fix is to set up a “Note to Self” group in Signal (make a group with 2 people then remove the other member). Nice tidy way to move things around, it also helps to find things you moved earlier
Printers.
Printers are solved now, you just don’t have one.
Printers are a fucking gawd damn scam
Nice, a relevant xkcd that I didn’t guess before clicking the link! Well done!
I’m pretty sure that 5 is a feature because the button that moved is usually replaced with a clickable ad.
I recently wanted to send a file from Linux to an old tablet over Bluetooth. Can’t be done apparently. I can send it to my phone, a windows laptop can send it to the tablet, but my Linux PC apparently can’t. Still baffled about it.
I wanna… I have a dream where computers don’t create their own problems to solve and are not used to shoehorn in the desires of rich people and give us a future that we didn’t ask for.
