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  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldTitle
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    10 hours ago

    Maybe reddit’s formatting could interfere with using full unicode. Some of it could get interpreted as formatting marks, which could introduce bugs when trying to read it back.

    Like, if your binary file translated into unicode happened to have {1*xF9*u in it, it would then read as {1xF9u when you go to read it back, and now you’re missing two bytes from your binary file. But since none of the hexadecimal symbols are used as formatting marks, you’re safe when using hex.









  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldTitle
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    14 hours ago

    Back when I was on reddit, I remember finding some obscure subreddits that only had one approved poster and every post was filled to the brim with nothing but hexadecimal.

    In theory, any website that allows you to post things could be used as a storage drive…








  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldKDE wins
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    21 hours ago

    The whole “it’s just one option and having lots of options is good” argument would make more sense if Gnome was a niche DE that you specifically have to look for and install if you want it.

    But when it’s the default DE for some of the biggest distros out there – and especially when it’s the default for some of the ‘beginner-friendly’ distros – then that argument isn’t quite as good. My biggest problem with that is the (pretty frequent) case of users new to Linux and deciding to try it out. So they pick one of the most popular ‘beginner-friendly’ distros … it comes with Gnome by default … the new user tries using it, and they have a hard time with it; it doesn’t do the things they want it to, and it’s difficult and complicated to work around those problems … and then instead of coming to the conclusion that Gnome sucks and trying a different DE, they come to the conclusion that Linux sucks and go back to Windows/Mac … because they don’t know the difference between Gnome and Linux, and they may be unlikely to try multiple different flavors if the first one was ‘bad’.

    I don’t have a problem with Gnome existing. In fact, I’m glad it does. I’m glad people who like it have the option to use it. I have a problem with it being the default DE of major distros, especially beginner-friendly distros. It’s giving Linux as a whole a bad name.