I don't know, many people seem to love it. For what I've seen and the crazy amount of repos we have with ansible scripts and yaml and crazy string problems I'd say I completely hate it with passion. But I'm not really into the devops side of things, so maybe you need to get much more deeper into it to "appreciate" the insanity of yaml files and multiple repos.
There's not really much choice than trying to use qemu command line directly on windows. I didn't find any single useful GUI that was usable or newer than 3 or 4 years ago. It's a pretty sad state of affairs. I spend hours until I discovered that I needed to add some magic flag called machine for acceleration even work.
I don't understand the it is hard part. You register with a phone number after installing and that's it. Isn't that the same use case as whatsapp?
Sorry I never used Whatsapp, so it's really really hard to understand what are those features that people keep arguing about that are missing or so much easy of use on that application. I use Signal and Keybase regularly and I don't find them lacking.
So any write up anywhere talking about those misterious and amazing features and user friendly UI that only Whatsapp has?
I'm actually stopping there because Signal in the last year picked up a lot of other features that WA has and people want (like emojis).
What still could be useful
> Enabling md markup (I'd argue that this is more important to Signal because of the large amount of coders that use it). Note: this is in messenger.
> A better desktop app
> Way to add users without handing out phone numbers (low priority)
As just texting a single person it is just fine. But text is not alone. This needs to be a chat app, not a texting app. Because that's what people want.
> it's really really hard to understand what are those features that people keep arguing about that are missing
Ask them. Use WA. Figure it out. Figure out why non-techie people don't use Signal.
I have friends that I know use keybase for work with a specific corporate account. I want to talk to them using their private account which I can't because the app only supports a single logged in user. So, is it easy or possible to have multiple accounts logged in and used at the same time? This includes that support for android also.
Maybe the chat application should be extracted into a separate more native application maybe since another "problem" I see my friends talking about is that it is too slow.
Also I'd suggest you may be interested in reading the article properly because he clearly explains and has a reason for the color-coding and for it to be visual.
Informative. Never had any idea that these MIDI things allowed people to use different music to reproduce it. I mean I always thought that MIDI was something about connecting real instruments to computers or something, never really saw a use for it. Reading from the comments it seems people used to share and play these on a previous era. Interesting. The video of the game sounds interesting I guess.
I think for many people this here doesn't mean anything. I'm having a really hard time understanding what is going on in the comments and on the post itself and I've just settled with "it's something about ascii art on terminals" and that's it. Probably has uses. But don't dismiss the confusion on lots of people since this appears to be target at older folks.
One can render ASCII art or even "poor man's graphics" in any text editor regardless of their age. Yes it's dated, but if one is working anywhere near physical equipmet like terminal concentrators hooked up to servers' serial ports, one quickly learns to appreciate graphic approximations of windows with just ASCII characters.
The rest like Amiga ASCII art from Skid Row and PaRaDoX and the like... you missed out. It was a glorious childhood. It's hard to relate just how great it was owning a Commodore Amiga computer. The ASCII art in front of cracked games from the group who cracked them belong with that experience, and back in the day, it was mind-blowing. This font is a modern implementation of characters enabling that kind of art again, on modern systems, in programs like OpenOffice for example.
And the target is the cracking / demo scene, irrespective of age.
I have an Amiga and C64, so I'm very familiar with the art form. Again, I don't understand the value of combining them in one font. I can understand implementing each of the respective fonts as modern fonts, but not this.
Haven't installed a rom on my sony xperia yet because it explicitly said in a few places that doing that voids the warranty. I still have around 1 year and half of waiting until mandatory warranty ends so I can feel ol with doing it.
