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I think, that's not a coral, but rather a dead tree next to a stream...

Yeah, the wording is confusing. A long time ago, there was no paid software, there was only software where you got the source code and other software where e.g. it was pre-installed on some hardware and the manufacturer didn't want to give the source code.

In that time, a whole movement started fighting for software freedom, so they called their software "free".

Well, it didn't feel like I'm tweaking to my needs (that came afterwards on top), it rather felt like I'm just undoing design decisions that someone made to cater to their specific needs.

And I named the time mainly to give an idea of how much there was to tweak. My main problems were:

• That I could not undo some of those unusual design decisions.
• That it doesn't exactly make the system more robust when you need lots of non-default settings.

Well, that was just kind of one example to illustrate that it isn't just a static screenshot, you actually see what's going on in real-time. It's also useful when you're running a longer operation, like OS updates or encoding a video, and want to see when it's done or that it hasn't failed. You can just tell when the command output has stopped moving or a popup has appeared...

But thanks for the recommendation anyways!

Ich glaube, das Problem ist einfach, dass die Teile schlauer wirken, wenn sie das bestätigen, was man sagt. Ähnlich zum Confirmation Bias interpretiert man sehr gerne weitere Infos in die hohlen Phrasen hinein, wenn es eben zu dem passt, was man selbst glaubt. Wenn das LLM widersprechen würde, dann müsste man sehr viel genauer darüber nachdenken, wie die Argumentation schlüssig ist, und würde dann eben auch recht schnell entdecken, dass keine logische Überlegung hinter der Aussage steht.

Aber ja, ich glaube auch, dass das langfristig eher die Beliebtheit der LLMs schmälern wird. Bei Menschen hört man ja auch früher oder später auf, die Ja-Sager zu fragen, weil die einem einfach nichts neues sagen.

I can hear them, too. The upper limit for what humans may be able to hear is around 20 kHz, so 15.5 kHz is well within range.
Of course, not everyone can hear them. Some folks just don't have the same range, but in particular also the older you get, the less flexible the eardrum becomes, which zaps that range, too.

And yes, they sound fucking awful and give me instant headache, which is perhaps unsurprising as that's literally how they deter other animals. I wish they were illegal or at least regulated to actually be out of hearing range.

I certainly think that it has many eccentric design choices. It's not going to be for everyone. Some parts of it, I also think just look bad, which I had to customize. Well, and openSUSE's theming made a big difference, too: https://simotek.net/tech/projects/opensuse-e/enlightenment-on-opensuse-13-2/nggallery/thumbnails

"Retro" is also definitely a word I would use, though more positively connoted. It has *different* eye candy to the usual desktop designs, which is a big part of the charm. In a sea of flat designs and tiling window managers, it stands out as its own thing.

Muss bei sowas immer daran denken, wie bei uns in der Schule der Mythos umging, dass Haare nicht nachwachsen würden, wenn man sie ausreißt.

Gibt mehr als genug Menschen, die sich alle paar Wochen mit 'nem Epiliergerät oder Wachsstreifen so ca. den halben Körper ausreißen, und das dann ein paar Wochen später nochmal machen, weil Haare offensichtlich nachwachsen.

Aber logisch denken ist da für viele wirklich einfach nicht drin. Es könnte ja theoretisch doch vielleicht etwas dran sein. Und selbst wenn es sich strikt ausschließen lässt, will man es ja nicht 'riskieren'. Da sorgt dann die Angst dafür, dass man gar nicht mehr logisch denken will.

I tried it a few years ago. I was really impressed by how lightweight and gorgeous it is. In particular, I found it really cool and actually useful that you got a live view of your other workspaces on your panel. You could even fullscreen a video on your other workspace and then watch (a very small version of) it in your panel.

But yeah, even though I came back to it multiple times, I never ended up sticking around. It would crash regularly (not the worst thing, since recovery was generally seamless, but still meh), but in particular, it had some peculiar design decisions.

For example, if you double-click a window titlebar in virtually any window manager, it will maximize. In Enlightenment, I believe it got shaded (i.e. the contents of the window got hidden and only the titlebar was still visible).

Another prominent one was that its applet for connecting to WiFi and such didn't support NetworkManager, but rather only ConnMan. If you've never heard of ConnMan, yeah, I only know it from Enlightenment, too. Similarly, my distro (openSUSE) didn't package it either (and openSUSE was said to offer a relatively good Enlightenment experience). That's something which should just work, because you can't expect people to look up how they can connect to WiFi while they can't reach the internet.

And yeah, these are just the big ones that stuck in my head. There were lots of smaller usability issues, too. Many things you could fix by changing the configuration, but we're talking many in an absolute sense, too, i.e. you might spend an hour or more just tweaking things so that they behaved like you might expect.

I mean, to my knowledge, it's still Rasterman keeping most of the development together. You don't need a ton of adoption when one guy tirelessly works on it.

Although I'm guessing Samsung probably sponsors him, so that's probably quite crucial for him to be able to put that much time into it.

Bei den Zivilkriegszuständen der letzten Tage, muss man ja lebensmüde sein, um bei einer Militärparade aufzutauchen.

Sure, but that doesn't actually happen in reality, that things just stop changing. Occasionally, you get rather isolated ecosystems where the changes go back and forth in a mostly self-contained manner and then adaptation might plateau for a bit, but at some point, a lightning or an earthquake or something will strike and then it's back to adaptation.
Well, and those species which were the most adapted to this isolated ecosystem are also likely to die out then, rendering this temporary endpoint not exactly "ideal" either.

But it's also not one singular endpoint either. Diversity is itself a strength, which helps species survive. This is particularly important where there is change, because external influences will affect different members of this species more or less strongly.
But even without change, splitting the work is beneficial. This can be as mundane as not everyone carrying around the equipment for bringing out the babies. But in particular with societal structures, it can also mean that the big muscle folks might do the muscly tasks and the big brain folks do the brainy tasks and those with claws for hands open up all the tin cans.
Evolution will not push past that to arrive at some hypothetical "ideal endpoint", because that society with work splitting is fitter for survival than a monoculture would be.