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| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-28, 21:45 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps" (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #361 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Eh, I'll take error codes over localized incomprehensible strings always. But no matter if you go with errors or identifiers, the important bit is to actually document your shit. It's no fun to get a "Code 8C09000F" or "E_NOT_A_FROBULATOR_COMBUSTOR" if you go to The Fine Manual to find a one-liner that tells you absolutely nothing... or even worse, a 404 Not Found! Microsoft is particularly nasty at this. Posted by sureanem Sounds like the typical marketing drivel you get nowadays to me, which is meaningless by design. In other words, noise. Who cares if it has a bunch of grammar/spelling errors on it? Sane people will turn their heads elsewhere, while CxOs will orgasm while synergizing their entropies and opening their corporate checkbooks wide open. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-29, 02:15 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps"
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Dinosaur
Post: #362 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
> Jeff Atwood Fuck that guy too, he is the asshole that came up with Discourse, "you're on mobile? that's different!" and "gamification of message boards". To me his opinion is as worthless as a bag of moldy bread. I'll always prefer using my software in Spanish whenever possible, developing software in my native language, and keep contributing with localizations when it's at my reach. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-29, 12:15 in Super Game Boy on Higan/Bsnes
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Dinosaur
Post: #363 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Another fine case of when Engineering, Marketing and Accounting collides: - Engineering: "We can make the GameBoy Faster. Better. Stronger." - Marketing: "We must sell MILLIONS of SGBs for the holidays - there is no time for getting fancy!" - Accounting: "Your wet designer dreams costs money, time to drop features" The OBJ mode entry is particularly sad :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-29, 21:42 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps"
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Dinosaur
Post: #364 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by sureanem When I hear "scale", all I understand is "Javascript hipsters" and "hyperconverged computing". In other words, more noise. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-29, 23:49 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps"
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Dinosaur
Post: #365 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
So all message boards must scale because they COULD have as many users as Fecesbook or Reddit someday. That's an... interesting rationale. And by "interesting", I mean completely nuts. As much as PHP is the fractal of bad design, there is nothing wrong with message board platforms like ABXD, phpBB or SMF for small boards like this one, or somewhat bigger boards with a couple hundred active users shitposting every hour. Not everything has to be BIG or fancy, y'know. It's like quoting a customer for a Cray supercomputer if all they need is something to host their HR/payroll app for their 3 users making paychecks for 250 employees. An supermaket Lenovo/HP shitbox will do the job just fine. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-30, 17:16 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #366 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Finally got some help to buy that pesky nanoSIM, but thanks to the endless greed of everybody at Soviet Venezuela, I had to buy a NEW phone line for $$$$REASON$$$$ (Movistar salesdroids allege it's "too procedure-y" to swap SIMs on their backends, but they will gladly sell two new lines for less than of what they charge to do the swap) Phone is now working as a PHONE. Except for a little tiny detail: Caller ID is not working! All incoming calls just came up as "Unknown". As much as cell carriers SUCK over here, that's a thing they never have broken: Caller ID. And after some quick browsing, turns out that some of the preloaded AT&T shitware may break that (how nice of them). Except that... it's not my case? I've got rid of ALL AT&T shitware (including Call Protect, which is infamous for actuall breaking Caller ID), so what gives then? Need to research more on this before I waste my time calling Movistar (yes, I checked on their self-management client portal: Caller ID is active on my line) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-31, 00:03 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #367 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by sureanem I have no other working GSM handset at the moment. Even worse: "to curb rampant phone theft", Movistar is tricking users to enable "reverse" SIM lock: the SIM will only work with the IMEI of the phone it was registered to when you bought it, so I can't even put this SIM on another handset (nor I can find anyone that uses nano SIMs to borrow its card and test). Naturally this is plain BS as you're only protecting the phone line (and when your phone gets stolen, you simply call your carrier and make them disable the SIM, no IMEI security theatre needed!), not the handset itself! Texts work fine, LTE is a bad joke (just as expected) but it seems to somehow work to drain my pathetic data allotments (1.6GB... split between both lines!), USB tethering doesn't seem to work (maybe AT&T crippled that too: when I tell to enable USB tethering, the phone switches to Ethernet mode, but I never get a DHCP lease - the PC just keeps trying forever) Also, even basic things like setting a wallpaper or a ringtone are absurdly complex when compared with a good ol' dumbphone. For example, set a wallpaper: - Android: copy picture to phone (which involves mandatory Bluetooth pairing if you want to enjoy a wireless lifestyle), install a gallery app (because you've just nuked Google Photos since Android no longer ships with a native gallery app) that doesn't threaten to send your dick pics to Western Elbonia, open the picture, find the hamburger/three-little-dots menu, "Apply as", Background, specify background type (home/lockscreen), specify if you want to crop the image (because Android doesn't center images unlike Real Computers™ or older cellphones), rage because you get half a picture, install a editor on your PC, scale/resize, redo, rage again. - RAZR V9x: copy picture to phone (no need to pair devices!), open picture, Options->Set as Wallpaper, done. Picture will be nicely centered and scaled, preserving aspect ratio if applicable. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-31, 19:08 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #368 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Called Movistar to check out the Caller ID issue. They prompt me with two messages. First message: I should create a PIN for all of my customer service needs. So far, so good. Second message: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, our customer service hotline is out of order". Fuck. This. Shit. Decided to call the phone dealer who sold me those goddamned SIMs. "We'll check, don't worry, we will be calling you when everything is set up". Wait, did you infer that you forgot to activate Caller ID on my lines!? (FYI: the other SIM went to another phone at my family. That phone also is not receiving Caller ID data). Yet... the customer self-management portal says Caller ID is active. Fuck cellphones. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-01, 01:34 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #369 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by Kawa I can reach until 3. I get no "album", only "photos" (device uses Android 7.1, FWIW). When I tap "Photos", I get a "no applications can perform this action" warning, and hence no way to select anything. My gallery app (Simple Gallery Pro, as I've got rid of Google Photos) only allows to setup the homescreen wallpaper, not the lockscreen one. But since on smartdevices absolutely NOTHING makes sense, turns out there is actually YET ANOTHER way to set the wallpaper for BOTH screens. This one is actually buried on the Settings app: Display->Wallpaper->Wallpaper->My Photos->you get an ACTUAL file browser here->pick image file->phone nicely asks you if you want to set it as home or lock screen wallpaper (or even both). WHY IN THE LOVE OF ALL HOLY THINGS THIS SHIT IS NOT EXPOSED ON THE "LONG TAP" MENU!??!?!?! WHY WHY WHY?!?!?!?! And I've yet to setup a ringtone. Oh boy, this is gonna be fun. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-01, 01:50 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #370 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
And then you get like two or three ways on how your phone tells to you there is an incoming call. The "notification" one is really annoying as the answer buttons can easily get missed - I would prefer to simply get the phone app to go fullscreen when I'm getting called, just like every other sane cellphone have done since the dawn of mobile communications. Or y'know, go back to the era of physical SEND/END buttons, but we lost that battle when the BlackBerry Storm flopped harder than hard. But I'm a old grumpy dinosaur for wanting my phone to behave like a phone, instead of a very broken "personal computer" :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-01, 12:47 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #371 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I've never deleted a post. Edit a post like 3-6 times? Totally my style. Delete it? Nope. So... maybe something crapped out? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-01, 14:09 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #372 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Caller ID now works. Been checking out some apps from F-Droid, as the built-ins (that I didn't nuked) were pure garbage. - Bop-Music Player: all music players on F-Droid are terrible, not only because most are clones of a reference "Material" design or some garbage, but because ALL of them think that my doujin artists release singles (they don't!). Over half of my library are Various Artists (because the albums are usually compilations around a specific theme, like Touhou arranges or hardcore/electronic stuff). My Motorola dumbphones got this right at the first scan: there is only ONE "Hardcore Syndrome 6" album, not 13 separate singles! ALL of the tested players choked with this (including the built-in ZTE player)... except for Bop, which surprisingly enumerated correctly the albums. Too bad its UI is a dumpster fire (only the ZTE player is even worse) - it gets quite confusing to manage (simple actions like stopping playback quickly get confusingly difficult), visualizations are shit, and the equalizer interface is also awful. But hey, its saving grace is being able to properly deal with my music library, which is MUCHO MUY IMPORTANTE. As a reference, Clementine (a player and media library manager for Real Computers) DOES get confused sometimes with such albums (but it's an easy -but time consuming- fix). BlackBerry also detected correctly those albums. - Simple Gallery Pro: The non-Pro version is at Google Play, but it has been superseded by the Pro version... which is payware there! But on F-Droid it's free and open source software, go figure. Barebones, just as it should be - simple but not to the point of being extremely dumbed down like the average application nowadays. Aside of not being able to setup wallpapers for the lock screen, it does its work and nothing more. - ConnectBot: I needed a SSH/terminal console, so I just picked the first result at F-Droid. Setup a connection, connect, done. (FYI: I was able to do that from my good ol' V9x with MidpSSH, in fact I used it quite frequently for triggering emergency shutdowns of my gear during blackouts when I was not at home - you DON'T need a smartdevice just to control your *NIX box) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-01, 20:46 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #373 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Let me explain my media collection directory/file structure: In the dark age of dumb cellphones with heavy firmware limitations, we were restricted to filenames of a certain length and encoding, and only a limited level of directory nesting. My very first "music phone" was a Kyocera K352, which was literally a stripped-down Chinese S1MP3 player (an Actions Semiconductors chipset and a separate NAND IC powered that part) duct-taped to a CDMA cellphone (as Qualcomm chipsets of the era lacked MP3 playback support). No subdirectories allowed, but the phone would happily take Unicode filenames. When I moved to fancier phones (the RAZRs), I could actually use subdirectories, but the full file path was restricted to 63 characters (including directory separators, file extensions, and a invisible "fs:/mmc0/" prefix of some sort that already ate 8 of those 63 characters). Furthermore, filenames had to be strictly ASCII, as the phone would simply not enumerate anything with Unicode chracters (despite the built in applicattions being fully Unicode-aware: those parsed tags properly albeit you would only get squares for our beloved Asian characters). I had to settle with a /my_music/artist/trackname.mp3 scheme, but at least the firmware was smart enough to group songs by the proper album names (I was incredibly lucky to not have two albums with exactly the same name in my collection!). But then you ended with abominations like "/my_music/____/_(8).mp3" on the memory card. No big deal... right? Apparently some media players disagree, and consider songs on separate folders to be part of distinct albums. For example, at my former workplace I ended installing Clementine, copied my music library to my workstation... and had to spend half a day telling Clementine that half of my collection were indeed of compilations by Various Artists. Contrast that with my collection on my home PC, where I'm free of arbitrary filesystem limitations, and everything lives nicely under "/path/to/my/music/Album Circle Or Label Or Artist Name/Album Name/おはよ!.mp3", and Clementine is fine with that and doesn't play dumb. My SD card is a 32GB Sandisk that comes straight from my VE20, and it's packed to the brim with music (~7500 tracks or so), properly tagged with correct metadata and 150x150 album thumbnails. I have no time to go back in time and start copying songs again to my phone, so the media player has to obey me and be smart enough to tell which albums are by the same artist and which ones are compilations. The only player so far I've found to actually do what it's supposed to do with this situation is Bop. > MortPlayer Music Let me check it out >Internet: Ads (AdMob) ... ME NO LIKES! Also, it was last updated 6 years ago: does it even work with Android 7+? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-01, 22:02 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #374 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by sureanem Why not just use a NON-BROKEN PLAYER? This isn't rocket science, people. Motorola got this right in late 2005 (!!!!) when they came up with the E816 (on which they debuted their "enhanced" MP3 player applet for its CDMA phones). FOURTEEN YEARS AGO. RIM also didn't played stupid games - the year was 2010 when the original version of the BB Torch 9800 got released, and that was the one I tested. Apple needs not to apply, as you're forced to interact with iTunes anyway (and given its humble iPod origins, most likely they managed to get this right too). Seriously guys, nobody should care about how the files are organized in your memory card. I'm not playing files, I'm playing SONGS - the files are just a protocol to get sounds into your phone's CPU/DSPs so you can listen to them. Why, oh why the Android ecosystem has to FAIL so hard at such as simple task? UPDATE: I gave a try to MortPlayer, as I'm at home and therefore protected by my adblocking solution. It insists into navigating my music as FILES, not by album/artist/etc. Uninstalling it now. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-02, 11:37 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #375 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Wow, can't believe I'm the only guy that actually uses (and relies on) tags as intended :/ VLC does the exact same shit: it fails to group by album. (I still installed VLC because I need a video player and won't be using MX Player - never used VLC for music in any of its incarnations) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-03, 12:03 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #376 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Installed foobar2000. UI is nice. Pulling the same "all your 13 tracks on $COMPILATION are singles" shit is tiring. So nope, Bop it is. I'm forced to endure suck, but I'll always pick the grade of suck that actually doesn't push ALL of my berserk buttons at a time. > Have you tried setting the Album Artist tag on the songs to "Various Artists"? It clues in some players to group songs as part of a single album. I guess that's a flaw on my tagging process. But given the messy status of my file layout on that SD card, it's quite late to go back and fix that, not with a serious media collection reorganization. Either that or start over, and lose a 10+ year collection. My options at this stage: 1) Keep searching for a non-braindamaged player that actually can tell apart between "this is a compilation" and "this is a legit single" without forcing me to reorganize my music. This now means jumping into the sewer pit known as Google Play. 2) Reorganize every single file on my SD card to please those newfangled media players that insist into "you're playing files, not songs" metaphors. There are tools/scripts for that, it's just matter to find one (if you know one that works under Linux, I'm willing to try it!) 3) Give up about all prospects of using this crippled hand computer as a music player, and hope my last remaining RAZR (the VE20, which actually works fine if a bit sluggish at times because noone was expecting a 32GB media collection on a cellphone in 2008) doesn't break for good. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-03, 13:00 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #377 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
https://gbatemp.net/threads/cuphead-is-being-ported-to-tesla-cars.539948/ Elon "I haven't learned to shut up my mouth yet" Musk is now willing to jump into the modern videogame console bandwagon... in the most dangerous possible way: by turning Tesla cars into gaming consoles. He managed to fool the Cuphead devs to bring its game to Model 3/S/X cars. What Could Go Wrong?™ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-03, 17:03 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #378 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I've been using EasyTAG under Linux since... what, 2011? Dunno what tag format does default to, need to check that. But before fixing tags and whatever, I first need to sort out the file layout disaster first. Right now my collection is sorted this way: /Artist/trackname.mp3 But then, to please media players, I need to achieve this: /Album/trackname.mp3 (From that point on, it should not be difficult to achieve /Album Artist/Album/trackname.mp3 once fixing tags) Can foobar2000 rename my files that way? Or is there another suitable tool I could reliably use for that? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-04, 19:20 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #379 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Achieved the same result with EasyTAG - I forgot that this one could also rename files (it even found a duplicate track - oh, my!). All tracks are nicely sorted in one directory per album (with a few loose tracks from dubious origins) Now the ZTE player correctly enumerates my albums: not as a bunch of loose singles, but as compilations! Of course this won't fool foobar2000, as I need to properly tag my stuff per album artist, but one step at a time! Also: beware if you do this, as after rearranging my tracks, Bop started crashing at startup! The solution was to clear app data and start over. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-05, 14:29 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 5)
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Dinosaur
Post: #380 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
How to piss off any currency collector Background: I've written before about replacement notes (second to last post here), which you USAians may know as "star notes" (no such luck for you Europoors, as it seems that either their security printers never make mistakes when printing Euros, or they simply don't care about having gaps on their money issues: I ve found no evidence of the "replacement banknote" concept for Euros at all). I found this one yesterday a few blocks down from home. Finding a rare replacement note in this sad state is like going to a museum and watch someone burn a painting just because. Very depressing, really. And I was missing this issue! You can't even use this as a placeholder! But what's more depressing: the reactions of normal people - "It's just money!" - "Why you're picking garbage from the streets!" - "Not your money, not your business" - "God, you're so annoying!!!" ...nevermind the fact any collector (and some speculators) will pay some good premiums for those Z-notes (even for currently circulating notes although you won't find those on MercadoLibre due to their policies), no matter its state as long as they're in one piece. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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