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psst – you are never important to your employer

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(Google recently laid off parts of the Flutter team)

and Raylib has a LOT of bindings (ie. not just Zig)

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very much a convenience factor – Apple broke the MP3 sharing scene with the simplicity (at the time) of iTunes – video streaming started out simple but now it’s turned into cable TV, trying to find out which service is streaming a particular show, if it’s region-locked, or gated behind a premium upgrade, or just been dropped completely, or two services are still arguing over who gets the rights, or find out all the seasons are on one service except one season is on another service …

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when you need the modern equivalent of TV Guide just to find a show …

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thing is, most of us should of known, they pulled this same crap back when they tried forcing everyone to drop the physical discs and switch to streaming only …

Decision of Next Os

I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I've decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That's because of users, not OS.. right? I love to deal with problems but I don't want to...

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(NeXT is something completely different)

anyways … the problem isn’t with Arch itself, it’s users randomly dipping into AUR thinking that the same level of safety checks that apply to the official repository also apply to the user repository – if you stick with the official repository or doublecheck an AUR package before running some random script off StackExchange, you’ll be fine

and if you want Arch with a little more polish, start off with EndeavourOS to get your feet wet and decide if you want to move to a pure Arch system at that point …

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(on the Linux side, I »think« only tiling window managers have really experimented with and taking advantage of this sort of thing)

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needs more samba

Fix for the capslock slow response

This is an issue that I know for a fact that is not specific to plasma, but I came here to ask for help since I run Plasma and I'm hoping that there is something I can change on the DE to fix it. Caps-lock is very slow and causes THis ISsue, and it is driving me crazy. I'm the person who can never learn how to use the shift to...

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on a side note: Xah Lee notes that speed typist Sean Wrona finds it faster to do the sequence Caps, letter, Caps than the chord Shift+letter

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“my desktop didn’t need the complexity of Guix”

so … Alpine next?

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https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sparky (for anyone wondering)

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(go old school, curl and wget)

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so … Xed vs Zed?

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(as a side note, Lix (and Aux and whatever else) is going to need an easy, clear, DOCUMENTED (and preferably automated) migration path)

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I’ve heard of GnuCash but I have no experience or knowledge of it

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EDIT: only came across it because I was looking at the Guile language and GnuCash is listed as using Guile

EDIT 2: unwarranted advice – for memory and ADHD, take a look at the original bullet journaling (not the Instagram/TikTok fad it’s turned into)

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How to Bullet Journal – a quick intro by the original creator (biggest problem is that it’s been turned into a craft project by Instagrammers, more weight put on picking out the right washi tape than keeping track of tasks)

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$ snips install ...

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the issue isn’t so much with IRC, XMPP, Matrix, or Discord per se (aside from Discord having its own issues) – it’s that every dev/org/group is trying to use a chatroom as a replacement for support channels, wikis, knowledgebases, FAQs, forums, announcements, mailing lists, etc.

[as the meme states: “I don’t want to join your fucking Discord server just to get basic information that should be on a proper website instead of hidden away in the archives of a fucking chatroom”]

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XFCE users looking around worriedly – can you please not mess with GTK? … please?

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so … um, I’ve been hearing nice things about LXQT lately?

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we nominally now have yet another fork – Cosmic – born out of the frustration of having to do everything through Gnome extensions that would break with each new Gnome release … (well, that and @soller wanting to work in Rust)

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*sigh*

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consult the Google Graveyard for your next tech stack!

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SICP

Can someone explain the "don't put all your eggs in one basket" argument to me? ( kbin.run )

I'm (probably) switching to Proton Pass from Bitwarden because its easier to create email aliases (all in one instead of making an alias with SimpleLogin, then copying that to Bitwarden and making a password there) but I've heard people saying not to use Proton Pass to not "put all your eggs in one basket". Can someone explain...

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in the case of technology (specifically anything cloud based * ) – if you have your needs split across multiple services, if one of them goes down / gets hacked / goes belly up, you only lose access to what was stored on that service – if everything is on one service, then you lose access to everything

* the cloud is just someone else’s computer

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problem is that the original COBOL programmers were expecting their stuff to be replaced within a decade, they never realized that companies would never pay to replace something if it was still (barely) functional after years of neglect – now those programs have become the backbone of their company and they’re having to shell out because it takes a special breed to learn COBOL in the day of C, C++, C#, Elixir, Nim, Crystal, JavaScript, Lua, GDScript, Dart, Swift, Kotlin, Clojure, …, …, …

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“…, …, …” ⇒ https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Languages

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it keeps saying “42” …

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keycaps on the whole bottom row have been flipped – just find the (normal) bottom edge digs into my thumb too much if they’re in their correct position

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is Debian shipping with it default yet?

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going for the UwUntu experience

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Random SearX Redirector

Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

My gf and I have had discussions about teaching morals to kids. In that vein, I asked myself, would I teach piracy to my kids? Yes, it’s technically illegal and carries inherent risks. But so does teenage sex carry the risks of teenage pregnancy, and so we have an obligation to children to teach them how to practice safe sex....

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Piracy decreases the profits of the publishers, publishers decrease the profits of the rightful owner. Piracy hurts the rich man, the rich man hurts the poor man. The publishers will still hurt the rightful owners whether piracy happens or not.

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well … SteamOS is based on Arch …

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depends on what form factor you need

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yes

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Coming Soon – “The Compact style of the case is designed for the Iris CE and the Cepstrum low-profile Choc keyboards”

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so, to summarize:

  • German: /suse/ or /zuze/
  • English: should be /suse/ but more often /susa/ but definitely not /sus/
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(looks like you’re viewing a nice pinstripe, not a single thread)

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it’s the journey, not the destination

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two popular choices for the container lifestyle are Debian Stable and Alpine (to the point it’s almost sacrilegious to run Alpine on the desktop)

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I had big hopes for the Pixel Qi technology (high-res LCD layered over a low-res color display that could be turned off to save power)

Firefox failing several privacy tests out-of-the-box, according to Brave article ( lemmy.world )

I understand firefox is free software and greatly customisable. I think forks like LibreWolf are fantastic. But I believe the FOSS community needs to be more critical of mozilla. They haven't been the sharpest tool in the drawer for a while......

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a Chromium browser trying to throw shade …

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Corporate Instances versus Open Fediverse

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