top 5 unsolved problems in computer science
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/30790048
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Printers.
Printers are a fucking gawd damn scam
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/30790048
wrote on last edited by [email protected]For 2, one of the few pieces of Windows software that I haven't been able to replace in Linux is GetRight. Many HTTP servers support downloads starting at an offset from the beginning of the file, and GetRight uses that to allow download pausing and resumption.
It was a real life saver back when I had an extremely flaky Internet connection.
EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll definitely take a look at them. Simply resuming downloads is why I initally started using GetRight, but it also came with a bunch of other useful tools that I came to rely on. While I've been able to replicate some of the basic functionality with individual browser plugins or programs, I haven't seen anything that integrates it all so well, with such a smooth interface. I haven't looked for a long time, though, so maybe one of your suggestions will be the one!
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For 2, one of the few pieces of Windows software that I haven't been able to replace in Linux is GetRight. Many HTTP servers support downloads starting at an offset from the beginning of the file, and GetRight uses that to allow download pausing and resumption.
It was a real life saver back when I had an extremely flaky Internet connection.
EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll definitely take a look at them. Simply resuming downloads is why I initally started using GetRight, but it also came with a bunch of other useful tools that I came to rely on. While I've been able to replicate some of the basic functionality with individual browser plugins or programs, I haven't seen anything that integrates it all so well, with such a smooth interface. I haven't looked for a long time, though, so maybe one of your suggestions will be the one!
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For 2, one of the few pieces of Windows software that I haven't been able to replace in Linux is GetRight. Many HTTP servers support downloads starting at an offset from the beginning of the file, and GetRight uses that to allow download pausing and resumption.
It was a real life saver back when I had an extremely flaky Internet connection.
EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll definitely take a look at them. Simply resuming downloads is why I initally started using GetRight, but it also came with a bunch of other useful tools that I came to rely on. While I've been able to replicate some of the basic functionality with individual browser plugins or programs, I haven't seen anything that integrates it all so well, with such a smooth interface. I haven't looked for a long time, though, so maybe one of your suggestions will be the one!
Wow, getright! That's a throwback. I used that in the 90s.
On linux I use aria2c for similar tasks. It can resume http downloads, as well as split them up into multiple threads for faster downloading.
It's cli-based and powerful (therefore perhaps a bit confusing at first), but there are UIs for it as well for a more get-rightty experience.
I think jdownloader also has some application here, though it's mostly for getting things from those ad-filled file hosting sites frequently used by those on the high seas
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/30790048
Discord steals focus 3 separate times on startup. It's so goddam infuriating. Battle.net does at least twice.
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Printers.
Printers are solved now, you just don't have one.
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- Yes I hate this so much.
- Use a better window manager.
- Use a better web stack.
- Don't most browsers support this?
- https://wormhole.app/
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I love it so much when
redditlemmy clients think they are smarter and they renumber points 5 to 1 as 5 to 9..edit: oops, still sometimes writing reddit instead of lemmy after almost 2 years..
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- Yes I hate this so much.
- Use a better window manager.
- Use a better web stack.
- Don't most browsers support this?
- https://wormhole.app/
Don't most browsers support this?
but not all web servers. often it's disabled
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for 1: kdeconnect or warpinator
is it right that both of these only work on LAN?
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For 2, one of the few pieces of Windows software that I haven't been able to replace in Linux is GetRight. Many HTTP servers support downloads starting at an offset from the beginning of the file, and GetRight uses that to allow download pausing and resumption.
It was a real life saver back when I had an extremely flaky Internet connection.
EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll definitely take a look at them. Simply resuming downloads is why I initally started using GetRight, but it also came with a bunch of other useful tools that I came to rely on. While I've been able to replicate some of the basic functionality with individual browser plugins or programs, I haven't seen anything that integrates it all so well, with such a smooth interface. I haven't looked for a long time, though, so maybe one of your suggestions will be the one!
Firefox does that out of the box.
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For 2, one of the few pieces of Windows software that I haven't been able to replace in Linux is GetRight. Many HTTP servers support downloads starting at an offset from the beginning of the file, and GetRight uses that to allow download pausing and resumption.
It was a real life saver back when I had an extremely flaky Internet connection.
EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll definitely take a look at them. Simply resuming downloads is why I initally started using GetRight, but it also came with a bunch of other useful tools that I came to rely on. While I've been able to replicate some of the basic functionality with individual browser plugins or programs, I haven't seen anything that integrates it all so well, with such a smooth interface. I haven't looked for a long time, though, so maybe one of your suggestions will be the one!
Have you tried JDownloader?
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Nice, a relevant xkcd that I didn't guess before clicking the link! Well done!
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/30790048
As with all open problems in computer science, we solved these back in the 80s.
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I love it so much when
redditlemmy clients think they are smarter and they renumber points 5 to 1 as 5 to 9..edit: oops, still sometimes writing reddit instead of lemmy after almost 2 years..
It's not the client, it's markup.
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It's not the client, it's markup.
this is not a defined thing in markdown, just the markdown renderers of some clients do it
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/30790048
My own pet peeve is UI components whose associated action is divorced from the components interaction feedback.
For example, a button that seems visibly pressed (even lights up! Maybe there's even audio or haptic feedback!) but once you release, nothing actually happens because you were supposed to press it or hold it down for slightly longer.
This even happens with physical controls: in some elevators you can press a floor button such that it lights up momentarily, and even beeps, and yet the elevator doesn't register the command and you have to press again, longer.
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Honestly, when I open a new application I normally want to interact with it now. Always drove me nuts , when I opened a Powershell window in a folder and then had to click on it again.
I think it'd be nice if there was an OS-app version of the web browser middle-click. I never feel confused about whether an opened link is or is not taking focus because I shared my intent by which mouse button I used (left: open and switch, middle: just open).
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My own pet peeve is UI components whose associated action is divorced from the components interaction feedback.
For example, a button that seems visibly pressed (even lights up! Maybe there's even audio or haptic feedback!) but once you release, nothing actually happens because you were supposed to press it or hold it down for slightly longer.
This even happens with physical controls: in some elevators you can press a floor button such that it lights up momentarily, and even beeps, and yet the elevator doesn't register the command and you have to press again, longer.
I've actually noticed this exact thing with elevators before... I was kind of amazed the beep and light were hooked up completely independently from the actual floor selection logic.
It sort of makes sense that the light in the button would just be hooked directly up to the button contacts. The computer would then be polling the buttons separately and it's possible to miss a button press...
These sorts of buttons shouldn't need a debounce period since pressing any of them a second time doesn't do anything. If the buttons were interrupt based, this probably wouldn't happen. -
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/30790048
I wanna... I have a dream where computers don't create their own problems to solve and are not used to shoehorn in the desires of rich people and give us a future that we didn't ask for.
