> If you’re someone who grew up on Macs there’s almost nothing in the Linux desktop space that tries to replicate that set of patterns… it’s all Win9X-type taskbar setups, mobile-type setups (GNOME, Pantheon), old niche *nix setups (e.g. WindowMaker), and of course minimal tiling WMs. There’s no clones of Mac OS of any flavor.
I know of it but haven’t tried it. It looks kin to minimal tiling WMs like i3, but with a lot of polish applied. It’s nice I’m sure, but it’s not all that Mac-like.
Part of the issue is that people who don’t use Mac’s think it’s only about the looks. The looks are secondary and it’s about all the little pieces of functionality that have been a part of macOS for decades at this point.
Yep. Their tweaked GNOME variant isn’t too bad, but it doesn’t fit the bill much more than vanilla GNOME does. Not that enthusiastic about what I’ve seen of COSMIC so far.
Downloaded. Ran it. Tells me "900" files can be cleaned. No summary, no list. But I was at least asked to buy the app. Why would I buy the app if I have no idea if it'll help?
If you don’t mind CLI tools, You can try dedup - https://github.com/ttkb-oss/dedup . Use the —-dry-run option to get a list of files that would be merged without modifying anything and how much space would be saved.
On good file systems (see <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174685>) also identical chunks of files can be merged, resulting in more savings than with just whole files. As of now, dedup cannot help with this, but duperemove or jdupes do.
Back in the MS-DOS days, when the RAM was sparse, there was a class of so-called "memory optimization" programs. They all inevitably found at least few KB to be reclaimed through their magic even if the same optimizer was run back to back with itself and allowed to "optimize" things. That is, on each run they always find extra memory to be freed. They ultimately did nothing but claim they did the work. Must've sold pretty well nonetheless.
I remember using MemTurbo in the Windows 2000 era, though now I know it was mostly smoke and mirrors. My biggest gripe these days is too many "hardware accelerated" apps eating away VRAM, which is less of a problem with Windows (better over-commit) but which causes me a few crashes a month on KDE.
> Back in the MS-DOS days, when the RAM was sparse, there was a class of so-called "memory optimization" programs. They ultimately did nothing but claim they did the work. Must've sold pretty well nonetheless.
QEMM worked by remapping stuff into extended memory - in a time that most software wasn't interested in using it. It worked as advertised.
Quarterdeck made good stuff all around. Desq and DesqView/X were amazing multitaskers. Way snappier than Windows and ran on little to nothing.
> If some eligible files were found, the amount of disk space that can be reclaimed is shown next to the “Potential Savings” label. To proceed any further, you will have to make a purchase. Once the app’s full functionality is unlocked, a “Review Files” button will become available after a successful scan. This will open the Review Window.
I half remember this being discussed on ATP; the logic being that if you have the list of files, you will just go and de-dupe them yourself.
This user just joined HN, 1 hour ago and has 3 points. This is literally astroturf. No comments. No discussion.
Looking at the merits of this ... idea. Sure sounds dystopian to me. Just look at the Appendix for '1729'.
> "Crazy-but-correct ideas..."
Who says this is correct? The person writing the sentence?
"A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder..."
Whose morals? What national consciousness? A recognized founder? You mean a single monarch? These are all within the first part of that paragraph. Which means they have huge importance.
Here's how I read this:
"We don't like being just CEOs of companies, we want to own our own country too!"
My guess is Google, Microsoft, Signal, Apple, Cloudfare, etc etc etc have all been asked if they could make backdoors. I expect they have all been asked. It's not the same as asking if they have made a backdoor.
So I think a journalist asking an organization like Google if they've been asked isn't really informative, because they almost certainly have been.
I'm not sure how it's relevant other than to say an answer from Google's response might seem oblique, but they're also being asked obliquely and that colors how you might interpret their response.
> but even when SCOTUS was friendly to the anti-Trump cause
Sources requested for this statement, made unilateral with no evidence.
> Declaring it a 'coup' is as silly as when Trump lost in 2020 and declared it a 'rigged election.
A single person, who somehow owns multiple major companies with, clear conflict of interest, is not a coup? What? He & his "engineers" reportedly have access to American citizen information. Where's the required oversight by Congress? I get trimming the government, but let's talk about it in the open rather than relying on his word and his word alone.
> You don't win by insulting, by dunking on the other guys on ~Twitter~ bluesky, or by protesting.
Would you say that to Tea Party folks who widely protested Obama? What? This makes no sense. Didn't they also insult Obama and his birth? Or anyone who voted for Obama? Whataboutism.
Frankly, I feel you are delusional and have bought into the ruse of the current news cycle.
> "Everyone not already in our tent is evil, fascist, dastardly white supremacists," but to their chagrin, their current tent is under 50% of the voting public and it isn't growing.
This is incredibly dangerous. A select few, having such control over so many millions? Are you nuts?! This is a serious question, as a new member of this community, is this a normal type of comment I can expect on HN?
I'm almost certain this thread is being targeted by bots. Comments in support are always cookie cutter talking points like "cutting waste and fraud", "what's wrong with executive branch auditing itself", etc
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