This interface is laughably terrible. For one, everything should be tabs: you should drag files from one tab to another completely blind. For another, I can see the scrollbars which is just bad. Further, there should be a giant ad at the header/footer which shills bitcoin. Finally, the password field shouldn’t be obscured but synced to our online Safe™ for easy retrieval at just 12.99 a month.

We’ve sure come a long way since those primitive days…

thanks for following up!

without proof, we’re up voting you because we want it to be true

For the entomologists, this is approximately 2.6 trillion ants

its not a ho, Marge. Gee, she’s a real person.

ah no sorry, I actually have no idea what you wrote - I just find the “deleted by creator” stuff I see so often super funny because of how biblical it sounds

I hope you have a better day than this one, and don’t let the mob get you down

weeps

immediately a Fremen begins to extoll about my water giving virtues

Cartoons back then were a little bit sambo so to speak, but the intent wasn’t strictly malicious, just uninformed.

You use the words/concepts you know to express something to an audience. If society tells you that native Americans wear headdresses, then you will likely add a headdress when introducing a new native american character, not neccesarily realising the damage of the stereotype behind it.

deleted by His Holiness

Always sedate your inlaws

it’s not a hoe-midge, it’s an oh-marge

breaks through window, wrestles cup out of your hands, stands over you, bleeding

Well it sounds like your desktop is pretty scalable - no matter how many monitors - so that’s pretty good.

And hah yeah, it might be worth investing in a badge that reads “Hi, I’m an IT specialist, this all normal” and pinning it on your shirt before you enter customs

Cos. Superiority complex. No true hacker should need more than a harddrive and a needle to flip bits to do what they need to do in a pinch

Ah I see what you mean by tiling. Still, such a setup feels… excessive, no? I can completely understand that you literally never need to pull up anything since it’s all just there, but I dunno (I’m reaching here) doesn’t your machine get hot from all the displays and forcing all screens to do constant screen updates?

It just seems unneccesary to me (like I said, I’m judgemental on this front). When you have to travel, you can’t take all that with you – so working on a laptop at the airport must be incredibly frustrating if you’re used to things just being there, no?

Did you seriously set up awesome as a floating window manager?

Haha, yes, the other layouts are wasted on me. Ideally a dwm desktop would suit me fine, but I enjoy the Lua extensibility.

Thank you! It’s not often that users on Lemmy reply with such openness and honesty, instead of hiding behind the skirt of sarcasm

Alt-tab was my very last use-case because I literally have bindings to pull up my main programs.

As someone who has gone from tiling(i3), to floating (stump), to tiling again (i3/sway), and finally back to floating (awesome) - I can say floating wins in terms of predictability. You press a button to focus on your desired window and your entire desktop does not need to convulse to accommodate for it.

Floating window managers win on speed and predictability, and I’m wondering now if this is causing the rift in single/multi monitors in this discussion chain.

I guess I can see for more UI oriented stuff how it can be useful to have on persistent graphic window

On Linux, using AwesomeWM bindings:

• Caps+E, pull up emacs
• Caps+D, pull up IDE
• Caps+Q, pull up browser (repeated calls pull up different windows)
• Caps+Y, pull up terminal
• Caps+Down, split the last two called windows side by side
• Caps+Down, undo the split
• Caps+Up, maximize the current window

I have many more bindings, but these are the main ones and probably the only one’s I will ever need

If I need to do something concurrently I will split my focus between two tasks and no more.

If I need to edit a UI with code, I do Caps+E, do my edit, then Caps+D and refresh the UI.

I’m literally a finger away from everything, and my head does not need to move from center.

this is the language we were given on the web, not the language we chose