"Right now if you have a full screen app on your main screen you can't even see what time it is."

This drives me crazy. I'm in a flow, distraction free via the full screen and break it to see what date or time it is. Even on a multi monitor setup. Which usually ends up meaning I get pulled out of that flow because I see a new notification on some other app or because I grabbed my phone to check that info.

FWIW on KDE this is easily doable. I have my taskbars set up with per monitor taskbars as well.I can do pretty much anything while playing a game, watching a movie, etc.

Plus, you can add window rules in a nice to use GUI to automagically do it for you!

Getting a desk clock was a weirdly useful change for me, maybe try that?

Which has the added bonus of working even in fullscreen games.

I don't get the problem with hitting [meta] checking the time real quick, then hitting [meta] and being put back into your work. I do it with full screen games all the time with almost no issues.

But very widespread.

Do you never check your phone and realize you are now suddenly doing something completely unrelated?

Phones are focus breaking by design. It takes effort, silencing them.

I live by timers/alarms on my phone... if I don't set an alarm/timer, I'll never break focus for meetings etc.

Even if you don't get pulled into something else, having to stop what you're doing to check the time sounds like a bad UI.

That's not on you to say, and pretty fucking tone deaf to boot.

If someone cannot look at their phone to find out the time without becoming distracted and losing their focus, that’s not a phone problem.

Maybe, but why should you have to pull out a separate device to check the time?

The point is, there's no clock in any other monitor because the top bar is only on the main one.

To me it's not about a couple seconds that takes me to look at my phone. It's the inability to have it on all my monitors just like all other DE. And it's not only the time. You can't access your notifications, your app indicator icons or anything you add to that top bar through extensions.

Sure - I get the point, but also have never found the top bar on another monitor to be super prohibitive to my production. It's rare that I don't have a spare moment to move the mouse to check notifications (in fact, if they were close to my full-screen work environment, I might be tempted to check them MORE frequently).

you can literally press Meta/Win key and have Gnome's overview... want something better move to XFCE :P

It is not about the time spent looking at the time, it is about being unable to ignore shiny stuff when you get out of fullscreen.

*for now

"iPhone Air will be available in four gorgeous finishes"

Didn't the hype train around the word "gorgeous" for software run its course? To me its an immediate turn.

There is always an outlier, but Quickbooks is currently on minor version 75.

I'm sitting here in Texas paying apg&e an average rate last month of .141. And I thought that was high because a while back it was .11. And its probably mostly all renewable energy since we have windmills as far as the eye can see all around us and wind that never seems to stop.

You can run .net without azure very easily. I personally have 4x web apps written in .net 8, razor. They used to be on a aws windows instance years ago but it was overly expensive for what I needed. Then I switched them to a small digital ocean server running ubuntu. When I started these apps I wrote them on windows 7 for windows server. I switched the server probably 2 years ago. I recently made the switch off of windows to ubuntu as my daily driver, instead of going to 11. Everything still works great. I do miss visual studio, but I am getting used to linux and its tools now. Point is, server is running and there is zero azure involved.

> You can run .net without azure very easily

That's true, and we're all well aware of it. I've done that for a job too.

Nevertheless, the point stands. MS gives away a lot of the .NET tools for free. It is a "Loss leader", "to draw customers into a store where they are likely to buy other goods." (1).

"You can't run .NET without Azure" is not what I said, what I said is that .NET is free, but MS believes that continuing to invest in it, drives Azure sales. Ask yourself why MS spends money developing tools such as Aspire or YARP.

The fact that you specifically didn't buy some Azure today means little: this is still the plan, and it still seems to be broadly working. I have heard MS people say as much, and also say that the side-effect of some people running .NET on AWS etc is fine too.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

I just made the switch to ubuntu as my main os from windows. Firefox on windows never seemed to have any problems. Now I keep getting the same problem as your computer a. It doesnt happen every time, and i havent figured out the pattern. But clicking the x to close a tab does nothing, middle clicking the tab still closes it. Any time this problem starts I also have issues using the mouse middle button to scroll (on all apps, not just ff) Very, very annoying. Since these issues seem linked it seems bigger than just ff.

Use the ones with ht stamped on them. They are very common now. They are heat treated instead of extra chems.

If the network comes back up within 24hrs.

You don't have to ferment it to get a rich flavor. You just have to use fresh ginger instead of dried or powdered. We make it with Fresh Ginger, Lemon juice, orange juice, cane sugar and molasses. Then force carb.

I use fresh ginger. I’m just curious on how to make ginger alcohol