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> I want the UI to remain stable,

Certainly, though with one exception: Contextual help for controls, especially for infrequent actions like configuration, which to an ordinary user feels new every time.

Specifically, one or more of:

- Circled "i" links

- Hover-help

- Conflicting option selections to grey out, rather than disappear


Canonical acknowledges reality, a few years late.


Working through the links gets to this:

https://netdollar.cloudflare.com/

> Will NET Dollar be fully backed?

> Yes, every NET Dollar will be fully collateralized by a U.S. dollar, ensuring transparency, reliability, and price stability.

Really? Backed by an asset that's depreciating at 3-4% annually? A money market fund, such as other stablecoins use, seems more likely. With billions of principal, every basis point of yield will be wanted. And the way to maximize is to hold commercial, not government, paper.

See "Reserve Primary Fund, 2008".


What's the current term then for a newly founded business that is pursuing some other strategy? For instance, bootstrapping to organic growth, or self-funding toward a long-term profitable "lifestyle" business?


A "new business" or a "small enterprise"


Re the other reply here, what's missing is discoverability -- at minimum a little circled letter "i" in the corner that would pop up a big sketch of the required gesture.


Discoverability is important, but elderly people are unlikely to be able to reliably (or at all) triple-tap with three fingers, regardless of discoverability. Many already have problems with double-pressing buttons (like for Apple Pay).


> And it's all because the Southwest CEO wanted to have only one kind of airplane. That's the cause of the 737 MAX.

Interesting how in the eyes of Joe Public, Southwest had nothing to do with it. Wonder if the Southwest board figures their cynical calculation worked out well enough to try again?


> For winter I got a standing tanning machine. Which I use 2-4x a week for 1 minute per use. I calculated this was equivalent to 5-15 minutes outside, depending on time, but engages the entirety of the bodies largest organ.

Excellent idea. In my temperate climate, I use the outdoor method, with one further tweak: Cover the head and arms, which get too much inadvertent exposure anyway during daily activity.


Sounds good, I'll schedule my time to wander the neighborhood nude, except for towels around my head and arms.


What tablets do you recommend?


> Notifications are also awful in Gnome.

> ... they disappear if you just mouse-over them. No history.

Spot on. Wonder if it's any better in latest versions?


Notification centre has been there since 3.x era.

Though it's accessed by clicking the clock so perhaps it's not very intuitive.


> Gnome looks nicer, is more coherent, and in my experience, absolutely rock solid.

In my recurring experiences, GNOME Settings's interaction with CUPS printing support is very far from rock solid -- as in, do yourself a favor and go around it straight to the command line tools.


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