Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Let's talk about something less trivial: resource usage. This is something I care a lot about. (If you head to my website, you'll notice it uses very few resources.) Eclipse *majorly* fails here.

Let's compare some Pale Moon memory snapshots. (Images once again CW'd because d'oh.) Going off of these, Eclipse is using over twice as much memory as Pixiv and the old dA layout (revived by internet archive) and over 20 times more RAM than FA.

The old dA layout had a system similar to FA. New posts were grouped under notifications and when you cleared them, that was that. It stopped bugging you. (Unfortunately, I don't have a screenshot of that for you.)

It may seems trivial, but I would not be surprised if this is indicative of deeper design issues. (If it is, I'll get back to you and let you know what they are.)

For comparison, here's Pixiv and FA. (under a CW because I forgot to censor some mildly lewd art on the Pixiv screenshot and bordline lewd on FA). Notice that Pixiv presents it immediately. There are other places to find that, but none of them present these janky notification dots. FA's system is basically dA but better. One place where you find new art and when you clear that, it stops bugging you. That's that.

Seriously! If I want all the dots to go away, I have to look at new art under "Deviants you watch", new posts under "Posts", then go clear all that out under "Watch". Who fucking designed this that way?! It's one thing to have two places where new art shows up. But to have to visit all these places just to clear notification dots?! Why would you do that?

So, UI design. It's not trivial, but unfortunately, there's one major oversight that is admittedly fairly minor, but I wouldn't be surprised if, as I explore further into Eclipse, it's actually a symptom of underlying issues.

The arrows in this picture point to where you can go to see what people you watch have posted. They do not link to the same place. The notification dots do not disappear in one place when you look at the other. If I clear watches under "Watch", the red dots don't go away

For the purpose of this little rant, I'll be comparing it to two other art sites I regularly use: Pixiv and FurAffinity (yeah, yeah, I know. I should really stop using FA. I'll get to it. Spare me the grief. It's besides the point of this thread.)

Let's talk about that new deviantArt layout that rolled out back in may. Specifically, two issues I have with it, one minor and one much less minor.

I finally got it to print well enough to get my paperwork. I'm still going to destroy this printer with a fucking vengeance.

Yeah, I like KPOP

I told mom that when we replace this printer, I'm destroying it with a fucking vengeance. Fuck. this. printer.

Tries to print
Prints nothing
Replaces ink cartridges
Only prints ~half the page in streaks
Tries cleaning
Doesn't help
Tries nozzle alignment
Doesn't help
Tries updating drivers
It refuses to acknowledge the printer is connected whenever it asks for that, say "installation completed" when I hit cancel, then still says the driver needs updating
Tries just putting the PDF on an SD card and putting it in the printer
Printer refuses to recognize the PDF

Dear Epson,
Why are your printers and their associated software such pieces of shit?
Thanks,
A frustrated trans girl trying to print off clinic paperwork

It's funny, because I tried twice. The first time, I thought I'd failed, so I put the coals into a metal bucket...only for them to start smoking and eventually catch fire. So, we added them to the already-lit second try.

Well, in "things I accomplished today" I managed to get a charcoal grill started without lighter fluid. Good stuff.

So, does anyone else get really bad cramps in their right hand when playing something like Mario Kart? Like, I get *really* bad cramps in my palm near my thumb and I'm curious if this is something other's experience or if just it's the fact that my hand is fucked up.

What I do know is this: it's a good OS, it's got a lot of potential, and if I can get that web browser issue taken care of (along with that weird issue with it not seeing my laptop's built-in display), I'll almost definitely be switching to it as my primary OS.

Honestly, I think that latter point is gonna be what hurts Haiku (at least for me) long term. If it can get a good web browser (including WebPositive being better for everyday use), I think it could work. It's got almost everything else I could want (Krita, LMMS, LibreOffice, even a JVM for Minecraft). It just needs a web browser that can handle what I want to throw at it. But, it's still in beta, so there's definitely time. Maybe I'll come back to try and get Pale Moon working. Who knows?

So, some final thoughts on Haiku before I swap back to Arch. I really like it! It's a very interesting system. I could definitely see myself running this once it gets a proper release. There are really just two big problems that damp that enthusiasm:
1) It doesn't seem to work right with my laptop's radeon (it doesn't seems to see the internal display) and
2) Lack of a good web browser. Unfortunately, WebPositive and Otter just aren't there. But if it could get Firefox or Pale Moon?
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