Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word? Anyway, apparently I also coined the Very Specific Object nomenclature now sporadically used in the 3D printing community. Yeah, that was me. This must be how Cory Doctorow feels all the time these days.
WineDB has it marked as silver.
Honestly, for a modern PC I can’t imagine Winamp is all that taxing of a program to run. I think the biggest bugbear will be its fairly tight integration with the Windows shell for file management and enqueuing things from an Explorer window, and maybe the external device integrations which would rely heavily on the Windows API and possibly WDM.
If you’re running Windows you can still use old versions of Winamp.
On Linux, I dunno. I’ll bet you it’ll run in Wine.
This weird geometrically square way of demarcating properties has created yet another headache-inducing clusterfuck, and has led to much scuttlebutt about the curious concept of “corner hopping” or “corner crossing” and its legal status. I.e., consider properties laid out in the following arrangement:
A│B
─┼─
C│D
You are legally standing on property A and know the land owner of of property D who has given you permission to hunt on his land, or whatever. The owners of properties B and C have told you in no uncertain terms that they don’t want you on their land even for one single nanosecond, not even violating its airspace – let’s say for no less plausible of a reason than your ancestors fucked them over by unilaterally deciding that they get to cut up and give away their land.
The property lines terminate in two fences joining in a cross. Is it legal for you to hop the fence from property A to D, or if you did so does it count as trespassing on properties B and C?
In a legal sense, can a person move like a bishop, conceptually infinitely thin provided you have no intent to access the land on either side of you, mathematically bisecting a point? Or do you actually move like a knight, unavoidably albeit temporarily occupying either of those squares for an infinitesimal but legally nontrivial amount of time?
A little vacuum pump, like a carburetor on a motorcycle from the 70’s? Hell if I know, but that’s my idea.
The whole look n’ feel. Not UI, then, maybe just call it overall design.
But it was the first thing I thought of as soon as I saw it. Even the cursive font, in pink…
I like my idea for kaiju sized Rock-em, Sock-em Robots better. We could host robot battles between skilled karate practitioners and put them live on television.
What, it’s been done already?
Ah, crap.
…That site’s UI looks like someone saw the marketing literature for the Frigidaire produce preserver and said, “Yeah, that’ll do.”
In its day Winamp was the most comprehensive media player and users were super into its skinability which was a big deal at the time. Nowadays the “plays everything” throne is very firmly occupied by VLC, with a little cushioned stool next to it for Media Player Classic to sit on. However, neither of them offer the user interface experience that Winamp does/did.
Winamp was iTunes before iTunes. It was Spotify before Spotify. It did an excellent job of managing the hordes of totally legitimate MP3’s we all had back in the day, and did so with an aplomb that nothing else seemed to manage. Really, its playlist and library management was top notch. Newer apps still piss me off because none of them do it the way Winamp did.
Side note, if you have an old iPod kicking around and don’t feel like dealing with Apple’s ecosystem, Winamp can still, to this very day, stick music on your device natively without having to install or use iTunes. Just saying.
But this source code release thing really baffles me. I have no idea what the point of that was supposed to be.
I scanned your QR code.
…I should have known.
I have used OpenSCAD for various things, and I am a programmer by trade (at least partially) but it still breaks my brain. I just do absurd things with FreeCAD formulae instead.
I see what you did there.
I haven’t delved deeply into the changelog or anything. The headline features are indeed integrating much of realthunder’s toponaming fix into the mainline release as well as including an assembly workbench by default which I believe is also realthunder’s. This is pretty big, because realthunder’s fork was perennially behind the mainline release by several versions, and now the main reason for using it renders that moot. So that’s nice. I generally work in such a way as to not get burned by the toponaming problem anyway, but I guess I get the warm and fuzzies knowing I may avoid unexpectedly being bitten in the ass at least one now.
The UI has been changed around a bit, in particular many things that used to be out in the open in toolbars are now in overflow menus which is probably beneficial for people who don’t design on a 4k monitor. But I do, so that doesn’t excite me any.
The renderer appears to have been updated. When you change views now, your viewpoint animates to the new view instead of just snapping to it. It seems it does a better job of keeping things in frame as well, both when you open a sketch that’s not currently on your viewplane and also when you switch views. Additionally, when you’re free rotating your view there’s a little red dot that shows your rotation point now. This was a bit opaque in previous versions and now it appears to default to originating where you clicked, whereas previously your rotation center was… whatever the hell random place it felt like putting it, near as I can figure.
You can undock the “Tasks” panel now and even close it outright, which I like because I never use it for anything and previous versions incessantly switched you out of your tree view and into Tasks e.g. when switching between workbenches.
The measurement tool is much easier to work with now, i.e. it works how you expect it should have worked in the first place, and also produces labels that are significantly easier to read. I avoided using it before it because it was such a pain in the ass. It’s usable now.
Every measurement now defaults to whatever your projects default units are, even if you don’t specify one. This kinda-sorta worked before, but things like formulas would absolutely insist that you append “mm” or “in” or whatever to every single number or they’d break, which was deeply irritating. Now it just works as you’d expect, which again feels like how it should have worked in the first place.
Help’s not an add-on anymore. I have no idea why it ever was. I never use it, but once again: It should have worked the way it does now all along.
I notice you can drag things around inside the tree and more of them allow themselves to be reordered that way, although not all. Notably not sketches within a body, which is an issue when e.g. doing lofts, and the order of the sketches matters. So there’s improvement there, but still more work to be done.
The start page is different. It still doesn’t track the same recent items there versus what’s in your drop down file menu, though, and I still have no idea what that’s about.
All in all, there’s plenty of stuff I like about it more than I did 0.22, and not much new or changed that really pisses me off or messes up my workflow.
Google Opinion Rewards app.
Unless Google Googles you. I used to use this, but I have apparently been permanently silently banned from it with no explanation and no recourse. I did nothing wrong or disingenuous as far as I can tell; It simply kept asking me – presumably based on my location – how my experience was with retailer X, Y, or Z was. Always stores which I had not visited but simply gone near, and I truthfully answered that I did not go to those places and it’d give me thirty cents or whatever, but then one day it just stopped offering me surveys at all, apparently forever.
So I guess this flags the magic Google algorithm that I am worthless as a consumer and the app no just longer does anything on any of my devices anymore. It loads, it displays, but it never presents me any surveys. It squatted there on my phone completely silent for six months, so I uninstalled it. What a crock.
Also, I’m sure they’re spying on you all the time through that app. Obviously it tracks your location, and Satan himself only knows what else it reports back to them. I think I’d give it a miss at this point. I’d rather pay $2 of real money for some app versus having Google snooping around behind me all the time just to get something for “free.”
But yeah, Torque Pro is worth it. I use it all the time. So is Alpine Quest. Those are the only two paid apps I ever use on my phone.
If you don’t get yourself a pair of smoked lenses and go Doc Botnik with these, I will be sorely disappointed.
This is what everyone keeps saying the 2nd amendment was for, right? Tyrants?
I’m closing this ticket with, “Operating as intended.”
I think this one can be summed up as the old, “The nail that sticks up gets pounded down.” I don’t think it’s really any deeper than that.
Behave or exhibit yourself in a way that people don’t get, and the response from some is to just get irrationally angry and/or stupid about it. Logic does not apply.
There’s an empty spot at the bottom of that list and the author – who by the way is a monster – could have easily included Subaru.
This is one of those things that sounds simple and intuitive on paper (“just” take all these communities of the same name from disparate instances, smash them together so they all display on the same page) but once you start thinking about the details it becomes clear that it’d be a logistical nightmare and a clusterfuck to actually implement.
For a start, moderation would become diabolically complex.
I think the only way this could possibly work at present is if were client-side, i.e. you can create your own supercommunity by merging content into a single page on your own device, but purely for display and in a read-only fashion. This would not provide the implicit benefit I think you’re angling for, though, which would be solving the Fediverse fragmentation problem.
[blows dust off of cover]
My LG smart TV from 2017 or so has never been connected to any network.
About two years after I set it up, it went through this phase where every time I powered it on I got a new nag popup about this app, that app, this streaming service, and that streaming service having their “support ended” after which they would no longer work. One after the other. I can only conclude that the thing had fucking suicide timers built into all of its onboard apps to deliberately pull this crap on you regardless of any other factors to try to trick or entice you into buying a new TV.
Needless to say, I did not buy a new TV. Mine has had a PC plugged into it and has since day 1, which serves it all of its content except that which is generated by retro video game consoles.
What a crock of shit.