Icons clearly come from Windows 95 (some, I think, from Millennium even). Not in itself a bad thing (I do actually think 9x icons were an improvement), but if it’s advertised as mimicking Windows 3.11, it better stick to that promise. Flat toolbar buttons are also out of place. The spacing of buttons on the title bar matches neither version. It’s also weird seeing the theme with Ubuntu fonts instead of System and MS Sans Serif. Scroll bars do look pretty faithful at least.
What I’d like to see someday is a theme with a kind of remastered Windows 3.x/9x look: icons upscaled, cross-hatch Bayer dithering smoothed out into flat, solid surfaces, dotted lines replaced by semi-transparency, bitmap fonts remade into vector fonts while maintaining all the character shapes, so that they maintain the look and feel while taking advantages of high-DPI, high-colour screen. That would be a joy to look at, kind of like watching an episode of Star Trek TNG in 1080p.
In your HN profile settings, change the top bar color (to something jarring/habit-breaking), as a reminder the next time you land here instead of there.
Nice as a proof of concept, but it renders one's browser history useless, and Ctrl+F is mostly broken as well.
Recommend taking an additive approach—to enhance navigability with new methods, not throw out the stuff that already works (and works well) as a consequence of reasoning that this is A New Thing and New Things are supposed to replace what already exists. Casualties here include stuff like clickable hot zones for navigation if in the given moment one's hands can provide higher bandwidth that way for a desired action, operating on e.g. a link by context menu e.g. to copy it, mouse scrollability, etc. Unlike the poorly reasoned bickering below, it does not follow that these interaction concepts are at odds with one another. Keyboard and mouse accessibility are not mutually exclusive.
I looked at NewPipe and its not what I am looking for. I think what I am looking for is settings in youtube that will reflect the way the youtube app behaves on appletv, if they exist at all.
A couple of times I have been tempted to convert my daily-use computers to bcachefs, but this item on <https://bcachefs.org/> has consistently dissuaded me:
> We currently walk all metadata at mount time (multiple times, in fact) - on flash this shouldn't even be noticeable unless your filesystem is very large, but on rotating disk expect mount times to be slow.
Has there been any progress on this front? Most of my disks are spinning rust, and I don’t expect that to change soon. Also, any other reports on how production-ready this is?
1. Or at least to the extent that it is currently a (small) thing, it's the wrong thing.