The first time I got an Android, I was utterly appalled that there was no note editing app in the base install.

I went looking for combined note/voice-note/picture/calander organizing apps. Most had too many strings attached (specific cloud-service sync options, or whatnot.) All of them lacked the ability to quickly procrastinate a task. You'd think that would be an obvious feature, but no. I went back to just remembering stuff with wetware. By the time my wetware starts to wear out, hopefully there will be something suitable.

Yep. Atrocious. Topped only by BIOS coders. I have a laptop that you have to limit your BIOS sessions to under 1 minute or it will overheat. Animals.

Really the main problem I have with NetWorkManager on a surface UI level is that nobody seemed to deem it necessary to smooth out the case for people who just want to type their password in and NOT have it stored persistantly, just cached until reboot or (optionally) logout from the window manager. If you do not store your creds, it constantly asks you for them whenever it re-attaches to an SSID. Not only that but it stacks up multiple popup windows while you are AFK until your OS is lagging and your taskbar looks like a zip-tie. When you're validating an EAP cert there is NO REASON to do this EVER -- if you are presented with a validated cert from your home AAA server, re-using the creds shiuld be the default behavior.

The other major problem we have with Linux and Android's WiFi, both with and without NM, is that there are certain types of disassociation events after which the machine should run another DHCP transaction, and it doesn't. Wreaks havoc with dynamic authorization scenarios such as registration portals.

There is a use-case for utilities like NM -- wpa-supplicant and dhcpd and UI configuration utilities need to be glued together somehow, and if you have ipsec tunnels and l2tp running there is even more to be pasted together. NM does a poor job of it, but at least it does do the job.

Probably it was in the video, because people seem to think everyone has time to watch oodles of video without a posted transcript to skim over, and nobody cares to actually associate their hyperlinks to the text they attach the href to.

There's no quick tech fix for this. Mostly because the problem is partially cultural. Qualitative trust webs have to be academically validated, then essential behaviors to support them have to be installed in the population. It will take at least decades and most of the work will go completely unrewarded, because our monetary/compensation system is hopelessly corrupt, being that it also needs said fix.

If it is proprietary you have to make zero effort to conceal it.

Well, you should at least probably ensure you turned on the right compiler options to strip the NSA_BACKDOOR_PASSWORD identifier out of the binary.

This. I'm not especially prolific or talented, but even I generally tend to write code directly from the spec.

(GP)

These are usually pretty useless, involve horrible paradigms only used by crazy people like a buinch of access macros for some sublanguage-of-the-week that the authors thought was chic, and don't yield any information beyond what the documentation says.

However, the GP's point about documentation like "opcode foo: does foo" stands. That said, if the documentation did tell me how efficient a given operation was, I'd take that into account, but I wouldn't necessarily treat it as gospel. A good amount of writing code is testing.

You should have just made up your own words to fit the letters.

Considering packaging is exactly where a distro's development focus should be, I'd say they are working just fine. Also, APT isn't the packaging system, dpkg is.

That's why I predict that the Open Source protocol will be a bit player in a market dominated by an inferior protocol that does require internet access (it will be called "cloud access" soon enough), is completely insecure, and the developers of which are more interested in data harvesting than making it work better. Because sticker prices will be lower due to offsets from revenue from advertising/market intelligence, and consumers are stupid.

It seems to be the way of the world.

I pretty much gave up on Pandora after a couple years of subscription. Yeah, it finds some new artists, but it's obvious that the algorithm is biased towards predefined notions of genre, and there's no way to change the weights. They say they are constantly improving their algorithm, but I see/hear no real evidence of that. If they were, I'd expect more options to start appearing to allow advanced users to tweak stuff. Never saw any even as a paying user. I suspect these days it is more of a mechanical turk than an actual algorithm.

Given the comparative price/port of mini GE switches vs USB hubs, the cost argument just doesn't hold water. PoE can add some cost, but it's mounds better than USB power, so if the ethernet folks had made a crappy class1-only PoE standard early on, they probably could have played in the crap market. Point being, the USB folks could have, but didn't, use existing line coding standards and just cut corners on the protocol they ran over that coding. Hell they probably could have built a chip that was intended to be sold as an ethernet chip but fused to a USB chip on the rejected dies. Instead they hacked their own junk together likely out of hubris.

Ethernet does need to come up with a new standardized connector that caters to the thin device fanatics, however.

There are things that are completely ugly, and then there are things that are a matter of taste. Personally I like the look of solar panels and think they are a whole lot prettier than shingles.

However, these associations use the aesthetic excuse for banning people from putting any solar up even on back roofs. So we know where they are really coming from.

Sooooo 80's. I want my mail client to save me work, not create busywork for me.

I have a hard enough time doing that in outook when the network is up and running smoothly.

Seriously, 10 minutes to search an inbox with just a few tens of thousands of emails in it? I pretty much have to keep both outlook and OWA open so I can use each to work around the serious deficiencies of the other.