Why not use transmission headless with the web interface? ( Ok, Transmission's web interface is a bit shit and you have to use the command line for some options.)

There's nothing wrong with using Transmission. I find the new web UI rather nice, but IMHO, still not be ideal for newcomers. With PikaTorrent, my goal is to provide a simple, cross-platform client that can be controlled remotely without requiring any technical knowledge.

It's tough because this kind of person probably doesn't exist in any significant quantity.

Have you tried new v4 web interface?

Doesn't like like v4 is in the Raspberry Pi repo. I'll try it as soon as it shows up.

Defaults to bright mode. Well, I say defaults - is there a dark mode? Why don't all sites support a switch, defaulting to dark in case you don't want to blind yourself?

By whitespace I was referring to empty space. The colour of that empty space is irrelevant here

Usually you can just tell the user's preference via css..? Its builtin.

You can use Reddit - your DMs are safe there.

I'm just hearing....that Reddit have just deleted everyone's DMs.

"Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person." And this guy isn't a scientist.

He has an economics degree, which I certainly trust more than most crypto enthusiast's lack of even basic economic knowledge.

Why not, if demand outstrips supply?

Imagine an app without keyboard shortcuts. Web sites.. sorry,apps, not having them is one of the reasons they suck. Please, try and compensate for sucky sites by pretending better that they are apps.

The second reason web apps suck is when they have keyboard shortcuts.

E.g. Outlook Web hijacks CMD+R on my Macbook, of all things.

Wouldn't want to miss CTRL/CMD+K in some web apps though.

Definitely one of my pet peeves is when an app overrides a default short cut. Especially one like refreshing the page.

I wish there was some sort of universal agreement or API for what short cuts should do functionally.

Jira hijacks Control+F and directs you towards their custom search functionality. Exactly what I DON'T WANT.

Yep, github too is guilty of this sin.

I think this is a normal (and unhealthy) consequence of the JS browser APIs keeping expandong. A sort of Greenspuns Tenth Rule Of Programming that happened on the web platform.

I am not sure there is a cure. Every successful platform would have been bound to eventually become that.

AWS has this thing that allows you to connect to an virtual machine from the web console, giving you browser based terminal. Very convenient and nifty. Except using ^W to delete word is so hardwired in my muscle memory that I ended up accidentally closing the tab (and losing state) endless times... I don't think its solvable problem

That being said, same issue happens, albeit to a lesser degree, with desktop apps where occasionally the DE/WM shortcuts conflict with some applications shortcuts.

In Firefox you can enable the ui.key.textcontrol.prefer_native_key_bindings_over_builtin_shortcut_key_definitions setting, but I think you also need to enable Emacs keys in Gtk.

With this I'm able to use Ctrl+w normally in the Gitpod terminal, so this might work for the one in AWS as well.

My personal annoyance is when they hijack cmd-f to implement custom search functionality. Especially (but not only) when they fail to handle cmd-e and even more especially cmd-g.

I even understand why in some cases it’s necessary to provide custom search. For example to implement search over lazy loaded content which hasn’t yet loaded. But it never works as expected, even when it’s done well.

Vimium kind of gets you there. At least, you don't have to move your mouse with it.

Assuming you’re sincere :) The same text in different fonts, or different type setting with the same font, absolutely does convey different meaning. Most simply, UPPERCASE IS SHOUTING.

Letterforms make a huge difference to how text is read, perceived, and remembered, and how much it affects us. Unless you’re a wild outlier in some way, you are affected by type treatments.

I don’t know if you can visualize it, but I clearly can: the word “Daisy” set in (a) an elaborate script font, (b) a blocky slab sans-serif, (c) child-like hand-drawn letters. Most people will assign different meanings to each, and many people will derive more meaning from the type than from the word.

Do you have a child? Would you recognize their hand writing? Same thing.

I am sincere. You've picked some pretty obvious differences. I'm talking about the vast majority of fonts which are to all intents and purposes identical. I don't know if you have a kindle but to restate my original question - if you read the same book using each of the 8 or so built-in fonts, do you seriously believe you are reading 8 different books? I'm sorry, it's just a nonsense. Sure, you can have a favourite font or dislike how..i dunno..descending letters look, but I simply don't believe normal human beings look at a (normal, not comic-sans etc) font and a) give a shit about it, and 2) feel that one is more "professional" or "zippy" or some other adjective, like a designer has reached into their soul.

In this particular instance I disagree. The default Office font is the font that many people will read/write a very significant portion of the text they consume/produce in. So it’s nice if it’s a decent font.

I totally agree though when it comes to longreads of some over funded startup that redesigned their “brand identity” and commissioned some custom “fun, quirky but still authoritative and inclusive” font. That is just designers cirkcle-wanking.