Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Unfuck your current system first (Score 2) 138

I mean, look at Photos. Worked fine. Now it is a mess. Can't do proper slide shows anymore (something that worked perfectly since I used it first on the first ipad), can't connect to a remote display: it just mirrors ... And lets think about all these small issues on macOS eg when you have multiple desktops and pin an app to all, after a reboot it is stuck on desktop 1 ... at the bottom of all other windows and it can't be brought to top. Or that macOS will never remember what app windows where on which monitor if you unplug one and plug it back in ... absolute top after your macbook goes to sleep and you can remove all the windows again.

But lets add an even wore UI on top

Comment No need to change anything (Score 1) 112

Just make sure your code works with the latest PHP version.

I also recommend to use phpstan (or phan or psalm) to static check your code and have some test unit system setup (phpunit, pest, etc) which makes checking if you things work on a new PHP version much easier.

Personally I do not use much vi anymore, I prefer to use VSCode with some plugins to make the coding more easier for me (eg automatic php code sniffer stuff to make sure my code formatting is ok)

But switching all to a framework? Whatever you would choose you would spend so much time re-doing everything and possible not gain anything at all.

Comment LOL. Self failure for me (Score 1) 187

I have and adblocker in Safari, but youtube still showed ads because this AdBlocker is far inferior to uBlock origin. But in recent days I see this "black" instead of the actual ad. So ... they blocked their own ads from me, I am fully ok with that.

btw Firefox + uBlock origin works as usual without ads.

btw, I don't care about ads before, but I do no"YOU TUBE ADS RIGHTTHERE"t want those ads in the middle that just cut the word ...

Comment Office for mac is sadly trash (Score 1) 38

The macOS apps are electron wrapper web apps and the web apps work better than the stand alone apps.

You can't scroll the Sheets in excel on the bottom in the app, but you can do that on the web.
So many things have super tiny modal dialogs that can't be resized.

This is all such trash.

If you are mainly on Google Sheets and then forced into Excel you can only ask what kind of madman did that. You can't even have negative time interval. Unless you switch to mac date type. But then all dates jump back by for years.

Comment Re:Use this as a chance to get back to basics (Score 1) 41

Sadly the only alternative that works like Dropbox (local folder that is a folder) is OneDrive.

google drive stream is some mounted crap that in macOS brakes pretty much everything.

iCloud drive is some strange folder somewhere so if you want to directly access it you need to go super deep in some secret folders.

Honestly, Dropbox works for me, I just ignore all the other stuff they try to push.

Sync data runs like it run the first time I used it.

Comment Video calls are subpar and will always be subpar (Score 1) 103

Light/Data travels at a maximum speed and even if all people sit in the same city the lag is long enought so that if you want to quickly put in a comment you end up cutting off someone.

Also if you have 10 people with video on too it still sucks bandwidth wise, especially if all traffic has to go over VPN that is for some reason not upser fast.

Any meeting I had has at least one person with shit microphone where you can barely hear them, or echo or some other shit. I am sick of this crap.

The sooner the whole covid shit is cleaned up the sooner I hope we can go back to normal offices. This whole "we all gonna work from home from now on" is super bollocks. It just doesn't work. I am doing that since March. Fuck it.

Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 261

And then you didn't look the word up, and you didn't learn anything.

In the past when I didn't know an english word, I thought, well, I will look that up later ... and then never did and so lost some information from the book. With the Kindle I can immediately look the word up, get the information I need and therefore get more from the book itself.

The only thing that a paper book has over the Kindle, is the quick way to flip around. For example to a map or other information in the book. That is something really lacking on ebooks. Most of them. Some have overlay interface for footnotes at least.

Slashdot Top Deals

Two percent of zero is almost nothing.

Working...