stellasis posted: " To myself... You cannot truly call your self a web guru if you can't even explain the parts of a URL. URL is one of the fundamentals to learn in web development. It stands for uniform resource locator. The browser uses a URL to make a request to a ser"
To myself... You cannot truly call your self a web guru if you can't even explain the parts of a URL.
URL is one of the fundamentals to learn in web development. It stands for uniform resource locator. The browser uses a URL to make a request to a server (a kind of resource) for some information. Without URL, it's going to be impossible or even messy to locate a resource in the vast ocean of the internet.
Components
Basically, a URL is composed of 4 parts
scheme
identifies the protocol to be used to access the resource
host
the host name that holds the resource
path
the specific resource in the host (a host can have multiple resources)
query
filter/s to retrieve the desired resource
Illustration
I have included other nuances of a URL for my own reference
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Ru posted: " Like several friends (Nicholas, Chris, Jan-Lukas, Kev), I have been going through a process of figuring out my device/development/sort-of-entertainment setup. It's interesting in the sense that we did not embark on this together as a conscious decision. "
Like several friends (Nicholas, Chris, Jan-Lukas, Kev), I have been going through a process of figuring out my device/development/sort-of-entertainment setup. It's interesting in the sense that we did not embark on this together as a conscious decision. It has been worthwhile reading blog posts on this from them (and more folks elsewhere)!
Just a couple of days ago, I reinstalled Pop!_OS with the idea & belief that I will make this work, and it will be my main OS.
But first...
History time!
I have been a Linux user from 2015 to 2017 -- this was my distro hopping phase. You name it -- Manjaro XFCE, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux Mate, Budgie, Ubuntu, and a couple more. For the most part, I was using some XFCE based distro since my memory was limited to just 4 GB, only upgraded to 8 GB for a short while before I gave the laptop away. I also had a lot of time and interest in tweaking. XFCE was perfect for this.
Briefly, I used Windows as an exception in early 2018 when I got a new laptop. At this point, WSL was not usable, and I got a little bit tired of carrying out my freelance work with cmder. Everything that I needed did work -- except for symlinks. Vagrant and cmder carried the bulk of my needs on their shoulders, as Docker was not at all a part of my workflow at the time, or my clients'.
So then, I moved to Pop!_OS since it supported my Nvidia hardware out of the box. I was delighted. And starting to feel settled.
For extended periods between 2018 and 2021, I have been happy with a dual boot of Windows and Pop!_OS, with the latter being my primary (think 99% of the time).
With that out of the way... here are some things I immediately felt the lack of on Linux/Pop!_OS/GNOME.
Excelling.
Pop!_OS does excel at a few things:
Freedom.
Brilliant font rendering on my MDPI display (fares worse on LoDPI).
Just works with my Nvidia hardware.
Stable as heck.
Their custom additions are nice, even though I don't use them much (such as tiling).
I booted Fedora to test GNOME in there and was surprised to see no dark mode. Maybe Pop!_OS have built this out on their own from Ubuntu's beta? Either way, amazing.
Window and workspace management is superior.
Falling short.
Despite all those amazing things, Linux as a whole is difficult. Here are some things that troubled me enough to make me want to move back to Windows within days.
An official desktop client for WhatsApp.
Now and then -- not too often -- I need to make a video call or two. On Windows and Mac, this is possible with WhatsApp for Desktop.
The web version of WhatsApp doesn't support this, so none of the unofficial desktop clients can do anything about it on Linux. Booting into another OS for one video call is a crazy idea.
A cropped screenshot from WhatsApp for Desktop on Windows 10, showing voice and video call options for a chat.
Apple users in India don't tend to have Signal or Google Duo (my other preferences). This was the case with the person I had scheduled a call with yesterday.
First-class clipboard and emoji helpers.
I am surprised Windows leads here -- not only are both of these available natively (!), the clipboard manager is also capable of understanding images and shows a preview in the clipboard dropdown.
Windows clipboard manager showing a picture copied to clipboard with a preview.
Pop!_OS/GNOME doesn't. I use and have to use GNOME extensions. The clipboard manager I use doesn't understand the concept of photos in clipboard. It also doesn't do an automatic paste -- very clumsy to use.
Emojis are also nicer to use on Windows. And has been around a while. I came across a design for it on GNOME, but no idea if and when that will see daylight. It was last edited in 2017. I am guessing they did release it, but I recall it not working outside GTK apps.
A calculator that's feature-packed, functional and pretty.
I can literally get currency conversions with live exchange rates. Or convert between different units of distance, volume, and so on.
I can convert either from USD to INR, or INR to USD. No need to open a browser and a search engine.
Granular volume control.
Windows goes from 0-100 at a step of 2.
Pop!_OS has something like ~7-10 volume configuration in total? It's easy to hit a spot of "too loud, too quiet" and resort to changing volume both at the system level and at the application/website level.
Dell's proprietary battery management utility.
My laptop is over 3 years old and has only a 16% wear level. That's fantastic and has only been possible because I keep it plugged in and between 50-60% as much as possible.
The dashboard screen of "Dell's Command Power Manager."
Dell's battery management utility makes this easy on Windows. With any Linux OS, I would either need to go to the BIOS or into Windows -- both inconvenient for a small change.
Fade transition between brightness changes.
I have a laptop I paid a ton of hard-earned money for. It feels nice to have cool, stupid stuff like this.
Streaming Amazing Prime in HD.
Amazon locks out Linux devices from being able to stream in HD.
Just yesterday, my room-mate wanted to watch something on my laptop together -- and I literally felt anxious. If it were something that was on available on Prime, I would have had to ask her to bring her laptop and watch whatever on it. And put mine to sleep. And re-arrange the space a little.
Not ideal.
Also, quite ironic by Amazon.
Quickly resizing images.
This is not a core feature, but quite handy, and now I use it all the time.
It's as easy as right-clicking an image file, and selecting "Resize image."
Some imagemagick trickery could probably achieve this for me on Linux...but it can't beat the friendliness of Image Resizer.
Dedicated devices?
I am considering buying a mini PC just to run Linux on it and dedicate it as my work computer. That makes sense to do because I already have a monitor, a wired keyboard, and a wireless mouse. However, it doesn't sit so well either with me for a few reasons:
Two devices.
It's expensive.
Less portability.
Already too many savings goals to bother with one more...
Wrap-up.
Of course, on a scale of how much something annoys me, these range from a simple, mild inconveniences to "I should go back to Windows."
For now, within a couple of days, I am back on Windows. It does a lot of things wrong, too -- but it seems to be working for me right now.
Let's see where this journey takes me in the coming years.
Muskan Gupta posted: " Hi everyone! Almost a month back I wrote a blog on Message Queue and there I told you that soon I'll start writing about Simple Queue Service. For a basic understanding of Message Queues, you can have a look here. Talking about Simple Queue Service, it's"
Hi everyone! Almost a month back I wrote a blog on Message Queue and there I told you that soon I'll start writing about Simple Queue Service. For a basic understanding of Message Queues, you can have a look here. Talking about Simple Queue Service, it's a service provided by AWS, and in short, just […]
pete scully posted: " The sky was bad in this one. We've had smoke events again this year, not anything quite like last year thankfully, but enough to cancel one of our soccer games and also a tournament up in the Tahoe area. They have had terrible fires up there. Thankfully "
The sky was bad in this one. We've had smoke events again this year, not anything quite like last year thankfully, but enough to cancel one of our soccer games and also a tournament up in the Tahoe area. They have had terrible fires up there. Thankfully the air here in Davis right now is pretty good, let's hope it stays that way. This is on D Street, I think this place is called Pomegranate. By the look of it they look like stylists, or something, I don't know. Have I drawn this building before in a previous iteration? Probably. I'm starting to forget what I've drawn, hard to believe though that is. I go to my Flickr album "Davis CA" and see there are 1,281 items there, and it seems like, wow that's a lot but I thought there'd be more. That includes UC Davis; in that separate folder there are 599 items. Again, thought there'd be more, given how much time I've spent drawing there over the past decade and a half. What am I saying, I'm not drawing enough? I probably am not. But I am busy, and I don't always have time to get a drawing that I want. Davis isn't actually that big. I say to myself, if I lived in a bigger city, in London or San Francisco or New York, I'd draw even more. Truth is, I probably wouldn't. I'd spend so much time on the bus, or the subway or tube, and I'd get bored drawing all the taller buildings. Then again, when I want to go to a different area with a completely different look or feel, it is easier in a big city. But you make the big small, don't you; in London I loved how massive it was but it also felt like I could fit it in the palm of my hand. Mentally you fit it all into a small box, and you sometimes don't go too far outside of the village if you know what I mean. There are parts of London I have never been to. I've never been to Richmond; watching Ted Lasso reminded me of that. (Kind of bit bored with that show to be honest. We don't swear like that in London! We swear a lot, but in a different way than that, more in a 'filler' kind of way; you have to hear it to know. Not just blaring it out at anyone. Also we say "wanker" but it sounds more like "wangkah") (That reminds me, when I was pretty new to Davis a woman at the checkout in the grocery store asked if I was from England, I said yes London, and then she asked me to say "bloody". "You what?" I replied. "Ohmygod I love it when British people say "bloody" can you say "bloody"?" I was like , eh? "Nah bollocks, buggeroff I ain't f*ckin' sayin' bloody, flippin' avin' a larf? Bleedin' cheek, f*ckin'." I think that made her day.) (I do say "bloody" a lot though.) Anyway enough of the swearing. So yes, just like you make the big small, at the same time you make the small bit. You look more closely at the small place at all the details, tracking all the changes over the years, and that's why the sketchbook (and the sketchblog, come to that) is a great tool for recording that. But did I draw this before? I had a look, it looks like I drew it in the background of the building next door (see here) but that's not really the same thing. No, I haven't drawn it before, I'd remember. I always remember, I think.
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