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umbraroze ,

Debian, the cool guy distro in 1999. The machine overlords run on Red Hat.

In the low budget parody version, Neo ran Slackware, and the climatic battle was basically about Agent Smith somehow fucking up his libc.so.6 but then Trinity got him a copy of the file on 3.5" floppy from another system. Or something.

On an open, straight road, a giant tortoise can actually hit quite reasonable speed. ( lemmy.world )

(Not my image, so I didn't actually measure this buddy's speed, sorry. I don't know where this was actually taken or what tortoise species this is. This may LOOK like a left hand drive country, but do the tortoises know the traffic laws? ...that's another matter, you know.)

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

umbraroze ,

Scrivener!

The frustrating thing is that, at least for me, there are no perfect word processors geared for novels and other scenarios where you manage large text masses.

Scrivener is one of those cases where you have a pretty excellent software that doesn't have a lot of problems OSS alternatives have. I have smooth time with it. But at the same time, the software always could be better.

Probably the best OSS novel writing software I've used is Org-Mode for Emacs. But, you know, it's based on Emacs, so it squeaks around the edges and gives the impression that it's a miracle it runs as brilliantly as it does.

umbraroze ,

Yeah why are wolves always portrayed as enemies. They're so fluffy and howly! Just give them food.

umbraroze ,

I thought the Egyptians were responsible for that!

I mean, look at 𓆉 Gardner I2, and don't tell me it's not similar to the modern hieroglyphic 🐢 U+1F422 TURTLE. Appreciation of the animals has what has kept the civilisations stable and true. Like the turtles. Can you point to any example where society has fallen if they appreciated turtles so much that they dedicated a letter for them? (Or in case of the Unicode Age, twice?)

umbraroze ,

I'm from Finland and I got the joke. I was like "Ooooh, it's like that hot dog stand in Helsinki".

(Drunkards punching each other all night. World famous. 'Cause it inspired a footnote in some Discworld novel, I think.)

umbraroze ,

What's the latest on Forgejo's Windows builds? Last I checked there was no Windows build due to no volunteers for build/test - Gitea's old build stuff should still be good.

Which is a mild shame because Gitea's Windows version was an insanely simple way to run it if you are a solo dev on Windows and need a private Git site. Drop the binary on an USB hard drive, run it on terminal, boom, done.

(Currently contemplating just setting up a Raspberry Pi server.)

umbraroze ,

Heh, your comment actually made me finally go and resolve a problem I've had since I got this laptop in 2020. I didn't have SVM virtualisation acceleration enabled because that made Windows unable to boot somehow. A bit of twiddling after, it finally did! VirtualBox runs! Docker runs!

...but why would I use Docker for something like this. Might as well blow the dust off of my FreeBSD virtual machine and run Forgejo there!

umbraroze ,

Yeah, I just tried upgrading my Gitea Windows instance to Forgejo via Docker, and it actually works pretty much as easily as it did before. Fantastic! Might just leave it here instead of shoving it all in the VM - I can always do that later if it's necessary. Having a full VM does have upsides, but in this particular instance this is definitely good enough.

umbraroze OP ,

My personal headcanon: When no one is looking, Miriel tries to stregthen those useless legs by listening to some awesome inspiring music and just vibing along.

umbraroze ,

(Webmail provider releases a bespoke desktop app)
(me, old fart, bumbles out from behind the cables and servers and muck)

You fools! Have any of you whippersnappers ever heard of IMAP? No? Thought so.

[I'm not that familiar with ProtonMail. Chances are they already support IMAP. In which case: ... ....why? Why this? Why in this day and age?]

umbraroze ,

Since it's not mentioned in the article: the device is a Nokia 9200 series Communicator. Had a perfectly functional SMS app for its era, of course.

Nokia Communicators were absolutely rad. Had a 9110 and it was incredible.

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