Linux user here. I don’t know of an open desktop calendar app that supports the protocol I need (CalDAV) without being one or more of:

• Bloated
• Too simplistic to be useful
• Too annoying to use (poor UI)

The best compromise I’ve found so far is Thunderbird. It is bloated, but less so than any Electron app I’ve used. I find the UI annoying, but tolerable for lack of a better option. I’m thankful for an open, cross-platform tool that gets the job done, but I wish I had one that was lightweight and pleasant to use.

It would be nice to see some new work in this area. It’s a similar situation with email apps.

I imagine he wants to avoid dependence on fuel suppliers, or pollution.

That explanation is fair enough but the headline is red meat the the EV disinformation brigade.

It’s funny how words affect people differently.

Not long ago, I posted a short, precisely-stated comment mentioning an observed fact that I had verified with a relevant authority. When I later checked in, I was surprised to find someone accusing me of spreading misinformation, and my comment removed by a moderator. It was clear that my accuser had badly misinterpreted my words. He refused to admit it or accept clarification. (And the mod had already acted, rashly.)

I re-checked what I had written about twenty times over the course of the day. There was nothing there to support the accusation. My best guess is that my phrasing or the subject matter might have touched on rough emotions from a bad experience, leading him to see what he expected to see instead of what I wrote, and triggering attack mode.

Communicating well really is complicated. It takes work on both sides, and can quickly turn into a bad time if it goes off the rails.

Because of this, I’ve been making an effort to read (and re-read) charitably, especially with people I don’t know well.

From the article:

In an EV era, tires are becoming the greatest emitters of particulate matter

The point being that electric drops tailpipe emissions to zero, making tires the next target for reducing emissions.

John Mashey wrote about this nearly 30 years ago. This Usenet thread is worth a read.

It’s a time-honored tradition among dictionary publishers.

Like the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel?

I hate the formatting of most forums. Reddit and Lemmy’s comment nesting is excellent.

The funny thing about this is that it’s just plain old threading, which has been around since the 1980s or earlier, with the slight variation of showing message contents directly in the thread tree instead of beside it (thanks to today’s high-res displays).

Usenet readers did threading. Email apps could do it if the developers wanted to; the required information is there. I’ll bet there’s forum software that can do it if an admin enables it.

For some reason, most corporations seem to have decided that classic message threading has no place in their interfaces. They resort to piling things into stacks or serializing them into seemingly endless scrolls. It fails to represent the structure of group discussions, and sadly, has been going on for so long that many people might not have ever seen the better alternative outside of reddit.

I imagine the reasons include convenience (for the ISP) and the possibility of upselling.

There is at least one advantage to customers: address rotation makes it harder for third parties to track you.

The law is pretty clear on how pending boos is supposed to work,

This is the first I’ve heard of pending boos. Did you mean lending books?

Friendly reminder that OpenWrt exists, and is probably safer than the stock firmware in any consumer router.

From a quick look, I see that at least one of the affected models has official OpenWrt support: the RT-AC68U

Because it’s the foundation of a lot of cross-platform code, from the standard libraries in various programming languages to innumerable shell scripts.

Unless all the computing devices you use run Windows, you probably depend on POSIX, whether you have direct contact with it or not.

Yes.

!sbcs@lemux.minnix.dev

this time from China (hopefully with the doors closed in the back)

“Fool me once…”

Looks like they want to make a user-friendly tool for working with git repositories. Neat.

This is the first I’ve heard of them, and after looking them up, I find they’re all cryptocurrency/blockchain projects. This makes me think the likelihood of them being misguided designs (at best) or outright scams (at worst) is pretty high.

Also, at least one of them carries a high volume of far-right politics, according to articles cited in Wikipedia.

No thanks.

If one of them were to eventually evolve into something appealing, I expect we would see substantive discussion about it in the various privacy and software development circles that follow such things. For now, I choose none of them.

the man is being downvoted but is right.

No, they are being snidely combative, both in tone and by disingenuously suggesting that their cherry-picked class of users somehow invalidates the fact that these other tools work very well for many people.

That is not being right. That is being a self-absorbed jerk.

at least suggest affinity or krita.

I did.

Pro tip: Avoid routers with proprietary firmware.

OpenWrt is a nice alternative that can be installed on many devices.

desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Nothing does cross-platform desktop apps as well as Qt.

Definitely not Electron, which is very wasteful of system resources and has endless desktop integration bugs. Not Flutter. Not WxWidgets. Not Gtk. Not any of the various Java or Rust frameworks. Not Dear ImGui. Nothing. (Well, I haven’t tried Lazarus yet, but it requires a language that’s not on your list, so is probably not relevant here.)

Some of the newer frameworks might shape up eventually, but it would take years of focused effort. This is an area of computing that is difficult to do well.

I’ve been considering Ruby, Python, Golang and JavaScript

Of those languages, I would choose Python with either PySide or PyQt. If my interface needs were very simple, I might also consider Qt Quick, which lets you build GUIs with JavaScript and a declarative language called QML.