I hear you. I used HP-UX and Linux at university, then some Solaris, and various others, coming back to HP-UX professionally then Linux. Having a terminal partially below other windows but active and pasting and typing in them is hard to go without once it's in your workflow.

Nowadays, kids don't even learn moving windows around, getting spoonfed on tablets half the time. And crippled windows and Mac the other half.

BTW Windows doesn't even have edge resistance on move. It will be a cold day in hell before the rest of the usability features is available.

I find most people have no idea there's a way to change defaults. My preferred settings are possibly unusable for most people. I have seen programmers use Apple devices. They couldn't configure them how I said I'd prefer to have a window manager behave. Supposedly I want something I shouldn't want... To each his own. I'm just happy there are options that can support my wishes.

The full screen without decorations actually sounds interesting and efficient, and in some far away past I have dabbled with a tiling window manager (ratpoison I think). Due to being stuck at work on Windows 11 it would be a hassle to switch to something too different. I tried but found it annoying. Now I use KDE mover sizer on Windows which makes it somewhat bearable.

Overlapping windows are a solution to limited screen real estate, that enables to keep context on each view and at window sizes that conflict with side by side viewing. That said, without focus follows mouse, kwin move / raise lower/ resize without needing the window edge (typically using modifier keys), active window not forced to top, and similar features, its use quickly diminishes.

Indeed, without that, you get Royal Dutch Philips as it was in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.... Perhaps before (I didn't keep track yet) and slightly after. Fantastic inventions and developments, terrible business decisions. Shelved the CD-R for 10 years because they're record company might be making less money. They did get USD 0.10 on every disc including CD-ROMs (such as on magazines and such, AOL ring a bell) until about 2002 or so.

Stop the victim blaming! The Koreans are the baddies!

What, this is a nerd site? Oh, carry on...

On a more serious note, I immediately wondered why he didn't use a not work connected tablet instead of his work machine for Teams, during the home office years after COVID I always refrained from installing anything MS onto my Linux box, since I consider their software untrustworthy. Not just in the sense that they might have gaping security holes but also that they might use telemetry and other features to see what's out there.

Happy Easter and keep it up! Sorry I don't have mod points.

I'm sorry if you live in a place where you can't vacuum (1.8kW) and at the same time cook on your stove (5kW) and use the oven (2.8kW) plus have regular stuff on at the same time, most of which will be of after 21hrs, so charging at 11kW or at least 3.7kW should be possible from the same home connection without any upgrade to the distribution network, between 21h and 7h. Considering also the need to charge up about 10 to 15kWh since the average commute is about 60km if that,...

So to avoid you sponsoring your neighbours, the best thing you can do is get an EV before them. Have them sponsor you.

This message was brought to you only partially tongue in cheek

True, but that reduces the problem to the delivery and not the generation, in times where the former is easier than the latter. Parent comment seemed to claim that the energy budget would not allow a full transition to EV.

Just a side note, the refining of oil to gas takes about as much electricity per distance driven as EV. So no, if the whole world moves to EV we're not going to have a terrible energy problem.

From a certain angle, exactly. Reminds me of a Dutch friend about how many bike locks are required: one more than the bikes left and right of yours...

Good point, but would that be equally so if sandboxing were totally the norm? Then every such program would take it into account, right...? I mean, sandboxing just prevents looking sideways, if you're in the lower layers (BIOS, OS) you can look up all the way, or am I missing something?

Agreed on the BIOS infection part. The programs could have been compiled with an infected compiler too. But I don't get why you want sandboxing on your life disc, you mean, inside, to reduce attack surface in case only non essential programs are infected, or running running your life disc in a sandbox, or just out of principle?

Because with all sandboxing, if your operating system isn't clean it's not going to save you from that attack angle. But I'm convinced you know that.

I actually don't disagree in spirit, it just seems to me that we have different definitions of truly paranoid.

A colleague of mine with a Windows Linux dual boot machine, games on one side and mail and web on the other, uses a live Linux disc to do e-banking. He's just an informed guy, I wouldn't consider him paranoid at all.

If you're paranoid or actually in the know that "they" are after you, you have to use different machines for different purposes. I mean, one can trust sandboxes only so far, and if you're truly paranoid, why would you.

That said, you'd probably stick with pen, paper and pigeons...

But how will parenting get confirmed identities to the big corporations for better advertisement targeting?