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mdre··on The Windows 96 Story
Do you have many shell extensions installed? Try disabling some items on the context menu.
mdre··on Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
The lack of vertical taskbar is so mind bogglingly stupid, I don't know what to say.
mdre··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
That's a compressor/limiter. A simple feature that for some reason no one seems to ever implement in any consumer app/player/device. There may be some android apps for that on XDA and for rooted phones only.
mdre··on Fluid Paint
Those who have Wacom tablets or Apple pencils, does it react to pressure sensitivity?
mdre··on Vivaldi 3.6 Introduces Two-Level Tab Stacks
I asked this once, and people told me it had something to do with firefox being a PITA to compile, among other things
mdre··on Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
That's UHD. 4K is defined as 4096px wide. But I guess the mass adoption of the term 4K in consumer electronics changed the definition.
mdre··on Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
I spent 6 months learning about monitors before buying one for graphic design and the tldr version is: you buy from NEC or EIZO. The panel is one thing, but what sets them apart from the other ones are the electronics inside that drive the panel. And QC, the commodity brands tend to be very hit or miss.
mdre··on Google Poly is shutting down
Sketchfab
mdre··on Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
Can someone enlighten me on why does literally everyone use Chromium as the engine for their browser? Why does Firefox not have anything comparable to Chromium/Node/Electron? Is Chrome's JS engine that superior or what?
mdre··on Ask HN: Which Password Manager are you using?
Bitwarden, free tier is more than enough for me, great user experience, works on all platforms and in the browser.
mdre··on ‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier (2019)
I used to be one of those and loved it. So?
mdre··on Mozilla Hubs – Private social VR in your web browser
I'm concerned about it as well, but I've read about people getting their accounts banned for getting flagged as fake when set up freshly and solely for the Quest. Facebook is supposedly working on that. I'd like to create a separate account for oculus, but do I want to risk losing my purchases if they flag me? Even if I can get an appeal, all of this feels like a hassle. I've got a quest 2 arriving in a week, so I gotta decide.
mdre··on Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
Your sentiment reminded me of a very niche game that I got once, but couldn't get people to actually play. You're supposed to just go about your day, observe the life around you and sorta daydream / imagine stuff on top of that and then write physical letters about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Profundis_(role-playing_gam...
mdre··on Ask HN: How to Become a Music Buff?
This is literally the exact thing you seek. Piero Scaruffi's website. https://www.scaruffi.com/music.html
mdre··on HBO Max taking on Netflix with human curation instead of relying on algorithms
They've recently added an option to disable autoplay/skipping. I'm using it.
mdre··on The Kawaiization of Product Design
Cool to see someone that shares my view. Of course it's not all black and white. There are some illustrators who have established a name for themselves, like Karol Banach. People like him incorporate this template for human proportions into their trademark style, but the body elements are neatly composed into a larger picture. It's mostly mimicking 20th century fine painting styles. Decidedly more Picasso than Matisse. And then there are all those poor schmucks pumping out commodity illustration. Aside from Humaans, I think I've also seen some official guidelines for Illustration by Facebook. This is sad. This is how the Internet got corporate. Also, there's this thing to make process faster for the more ambitious ones: https://galshir.com/posea
mdre··on The Kawaiization of Product Design
So it's the exact opposite of what's trending in western webdesign illustration now.
mdre··on The Kawaiization of Product Design
Yeah, I'm wondering from time to time, what's going on with the strange cult of the small head. I've seen that illustrators call this trend 'big limbs', but I call it 'small head'. As in 'Let's not focus on this big head of yours, shrink your head, just go with the flow'. Get rid of your brain, your thoughts, your personality, everyone is OK. Looks like it's the millenial's equivalent of the boomers' large nose cartoony characters (or maybe a shitty pastel family-friendly castrated version of Robert Crumb's body fantasies) and it will pass. However, I think this one's still in its prime time and gonna keep pissing me off for quite a long time. Maybe I should try harder to propagate the style I enjoy- giant head, no body, tiny limbs.
mdre··on Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs
Finally! Someone made a list on Github that's not Awesome.
mdre··on David Hockney Shares Drawings
Dunno, for me he’s consistently brilliant. Even more so in comparison to many other elderly painters, who seem to keep painting the same painting, just shuffling a few bits here and there.
mdre··on Show HN: Introvert – Generative artwork to keep you off your phone
I try to do it, but then I end up using websites, log out, then log in after some time and get hooked on again... I used to have a blocker app acting as a pseudo VPN on iOS but I just turned it off constantly.
mdre··on Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award
What's really funny is that this guy had the balls to publish a book named "Creativity inc." which talked about the "culture of candor", the egalitarian culture of Pixar... much of this talk was later challenged by numerous women who opened up about the sexism and misogyny they'd faced there. And of course the other guy that founded Pixar, John Lasseter, turned out to be a molester and so was laid off. Great company!
mdre··on Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award
Cool, maybe Ed could split his part between all the workers he exploited.
mdre··on Kubuntu Linux 19.10 for a digital painting workstation
Photopea is not a cloud application.
mdre··on The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy
Having deleted Facebook 3 years ago made my social life miserable. Any time I tried to join a real-life group activity I was always the one person being out of the loop and I had to pester a single person I chose, constantly, to get any updates. So after a few groups and gigs like that I finally chose to rejoin Facebook. One thing I tried to keep me out of addiction this time, was to unsubscribe from everything, so my wall is always either empty or only showing updates from the current group I'm participating in. And thus I have no real desire to scroll FB, cause nothing really happens there for me - automatically. What really bugged was that none of my closest friends really wanted to chat with me for those few years - they seemed to have a real mental barrier against switching to the regular Messages app.
mdre··on Taking Virtual Reality for a Test Drive
Buy some VR Lens protectors. I got some for my vive, there were some special dedicated ones but I just got a pair of smart watch protectors that were recommended on Reddit.
mdre··on I Can Eat Glass
Here’s the Polish, have fun: Mogę jeść szkło, nie boli mnie to
mdre··on Blender 2.80
There is a GSOC project for that, MARUI developers are doing their version and also there’s a XR version solely for drawing by the grease pencil devs
mdre··on Blender 2.80
I always wondered what do the replace photoshop with on Linux, haven’t worked in the industry yet.
mdre··on Ask HN: Has anyone undergone stem cell treatment for auto-immune disease?
Seconded, please do elaborate on this.
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