Have you tried Linux in the last 10 years? Sure, it won't work perfectly out of the box with everything, but unlike OSX, if something doesn't work, you can actually do something about that.
The vast majority of the population can not do something about it.
Nevermind the fact that multimedia support is still fairly awful in all Linux distros.
However, Wave wasn't dropped. It's still alive and well. It was finished and is now put to use in actual products, such as Google Docs and Moderator, which are both excellent.
I did not know this, how exactly do you mean this? The synchronous editing and chatting features were launched before Wave. They may use some of the same backend technology but where are the federation aspects and Wave API's in Google docs?
RSS is possibly just a case of maintenance being a chore.
I disagree but I doubt we'll ever know for sure.
As for that comment about Apple things being delightful and effortless: I disagree.
You are welcome to.
CLI rsync is a million times easier to use than TimeMachine, for example.
I seriously think you should qualify that statement, on it's own that is ludicrous. Connect a new USB (or preferably Firewire) drive and click "OK" once -- how is rsync easier? I mean, I know what you are getting at, and I don't use TimeMachine for any of my backup needs which are many and varied, but still to claim that TimeMachine is not the easiest way of backing up your computer ever seems disingenuous.
Macs hate everything else on the network, even other Macs,
They do, with a vengeance. Don't get me started on this.
Anyway, I don't think we disagree on any of the facts and it is completely OK to disagree and dispute matters of opinion. As a matter of personal opinion I think the shutting down and expulsion of RSS from the Google ecosystem is driven by a need to monetize users and drive adoption of Google+ to which Google Reader was a very nice, non-creepy, alternative with, one might point out, orders of magnitude more active users than Google+ has.
The major hindrance to Linux is that absolutely nothing commonplace users would do is easy to do. Something as simple as attaching two monitors in Linux is way fucking harder than it ever should be.
Also there's a certain set of Linux nerd that I JUST WANT TO SHUT THE FUCK UP I DON'T FUCKING CARE THAT THINK LINUX IS SUPERIOR WHEN I NEED TO USE WINDOWS FOR WORK. There was a guy in the tools group at the last job I worked at that would occasionally need to set up some stuff for our source control. He would sit there and fucking complain about how how bad Windows is when I'm like look man, just shut the fuck up and get this done so I can get back to work. I don't care that you think Windows sucks.
He was also incredibly condescending when I didn't immediately know how to do a comment in Perl. I've never used Perl before get off my back.
Worst case scenario, you need to get arandr or something similar, run it, and click "enable" on the screen you want, selecting a resolution, selecting a refresh rate, and selecting an orientation. It's not worse than the worst case scenario under Windows or Mac.
I think in my case I was having issues because it wanted me to use some jenky nvidia interface but google was telling me that you cant actually do it with the interface you need to go and edit this config file, etc.
I have found a podcast/rss feed program for the android that have seem to combined the features of google listen and reader. It is called Beyond Pod and can import your information directly from reader into the application easily.
I don't care if a given rss feed includes the entire article. I just want the notification that there's something new. I use a bunch of GeekNights rss feeds, including one for new YouTube videos.
I'm looking forward to seeing what competitors come up with.
Google Keep Trust your thoughts and ideas to the makers of Google Reader. Good luck with that.
Erm, why do you need to sort by oldest? That seems a really small use-case.
In other news, I'm pretty happy with Feedbin. The web interface is getting faster and faster, and the synching with apps like Reeder is quick and painless.
Erm, why do you need to sort by oldest? That seems a really small use-case.
That's not my screencap. I just snagged the thing off an image search. I just wanted to show what it looked like since the website still needs a bit of work.
Just signed up for Feedbin and it's pretty good. Probably going to stick with it. Also pretty cheap at $2/month or $20/year. They also give you 3 days to try it out before they actually bill you.
They also have a mobile app... or, well, to be specific, support from third-party mobile apps. But yeah, having a business model is probably the most important feature at this point.
I was probably just going to view the json file containing the starred items by hand (note I haven't done it yet, so I don't know how much crap is in there) and just work from there. Feedbin doesn't import stars, yet, but I have so many stars that have been languishing that I probably can wait for it to do so or just do it by hand at some point.
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Nevermind the fact that multimedia support is still fairly awful in all Linux distros.
Anyway, I don't think we disagree on any of the facts and it is completely OK to disagree and dispute matters of opinion. As a matter of personal opinion I think the shutting down and expulsion of RSS from the Google ecosystem is driven by a need to monetize users and drive adoption of Google+ to which Google Reader was a very nice, non-creepy, alternative with, one might point out, orders of magnitude more active users than Google+ has.
Also there's a certain set of Linux nerd that I JUST WANT TO SHUT THE FUCK UP I DON'T FUCKING CARE THAT THINK LINUX IS SUPERIOR WHEN I NEED TO USE WINDOWS FOR WORK. There was a guy in the tools group at the last job I worked at that would occasionally need to set up some stuff for our source control. He would sit there and fucking complain about how how bad Windows is when I'm like look man, just shut the fuck up and get this done so I can get back to work. I don't care that you think Windows sucks.
He was also incredibly condescending when I didn't immediately know how to do a comment in Perl. I've never used Perl before get off my back.
Oh he's in the urban dictionary
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neckbeard
2nd entry
Worst case scenario, you need to get arandr or something similar, run it, and click "enable" on the screen you want, selecting a resolution, selecting a refresh rate, and selecting an orientation. It's not worse than the worst case scenario under Windows or Mac.
I'm looking forward to seeing what competitors come up with.
Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! Why couldn't the other RSS readers just copy the classic Google design we're all familiar with?
In other news, I'm pretty happy with Feedbin. The web interface is getting faster and faster, and the synching with apps like Reeder is quick and painless.
/charliebrownchristmasmusic
You are welcome.
IFTTT has to have something for this, or I have to learn the reader API really really quickly.