acockworkorange

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acockworkorange,

Conectiva Linux in late nineties came with Window Maker as default. That’s old school as they come.

acockworkorange,

Don’t forget the wholesale smoking since they’re teenagers.

acockworkorange,

Look, a dandelion! Must be the last one of the season!

acockworkorange,

Mozilla’s V3 implementation already extends out removing artificial limitations from it. Mozilla’s doing a reverse E3 and I’m all here for it.

Now if only the nincompoop IT dept on my company allowed me to run Firefox…

acockworkorange,

I for one welcome Mozilla’s use of embrace, extend, exterminate.

Any advice for a long-time Linux user, first-time Linux *desktop* user?

I’m a regular user of Linux systems but apart from a couple of test Ubuntu installs many years ago they’ve always been containers or VMs with no DE which I can throw away when I break them. The Steam Deck showcasing how far Wine/Proton has come combined with Windows being Windows has given me the push; I’ve made a Mint...

acockworkorange,

I haven’t had issues with windows messing my boot in a very, very long time. I see people mentioning it and it always scratch my head. It might be related to me switching to UEFI boot.

acockworkorange,

I haven’t had issues with windows messing my boot in a very, very long time. I see people mentioning it and it always scratch my head. It might be related to me switching to UEFI boot.

I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.

Everywhere I am there is a guy running a leaf blower. At my house, leaf blowers everywhere all day long. At work, of course, leaf blowers blowing dirt and allergens into the air. It’s such a special noise, it goes through walls and headphones so effectively. They are the most pervasive, annoying things on the planet. I hate...

acockworkorange,

Show as a non functional play button for me. Voyager on iOS.

acockworkorange,

We adapt. Whenever I have my relatives from Brazil visiting, they’re always wearing coats indoors while I’m wearing short sleeves and shorts. A few years ago, I endured 40-45 C summers.

acockworkorange,

Oh I meant from 20-25C to 40-45. 52C is indeed close to unlivable. And yeah, we’re fucked.

acockworkorange,

cope /kōp/

intransitive verb

  1. To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success.

    “coping with child-rearing and a full-time job.”

  2. To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them.

  3. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.


As a foreigner it’s really jarring seeing this verb adopting a new meaning of “failing to cope”. I’ve seen it many times, it’s definitely not you and not new, but it does make the English language just a tad more inaccessible.

acockworkorange,
acockworkorange,

It was particularly challenging as US and NATO codify rank as O3, O4, etc.

acockworkorange,

PPAs work for all Debian based distros, no?

acockworkorange,

Oh I’m not defending PPAs at all, I’m glad we’ve moved past them, I just thought it was a Debian tech that got boosted by Ubuntu. I see I was in error. Thanks for clarifying!

acockworkorange,

Encouraging something and disabling something are two different things. They have Flatpak in stable, which is untested software. That’s not why they didn’t use PPAs.

acockworkorange,

Which is sad because the whole circles concept was actually nice.

acockworkorange,

Oh it’s completely different. Reddit is phpBB v2. A forum/bulletin board.

Circles is closer to kbin. You could create ad-hoc circles for your friends which worked like labels. So you could post to that circle of friends without making it public to your circle of coworkers, for instance. You could also have communities which were essentially forums/public circles. And there was the microblogging aspect too.

acockworkorange,

*I was there, 5000 years ago…*Ads were unobtrusive and nobody cared about them. Then greed happened. Pop up ads, massive content hiding ads, privacy intrusive ads… not using Adblock now is like not using condoms.

acockworkorange,

Business versions of Windows either won’t have recall or the domain controllers will be able to enforce a rule against it.

acockworkorange,

How is that a “house owned by Justice Alito” not “Justice Alito’s house”?

acockworkorange,

Does that make it not his house?

acockworkorange,

It wouldn’t be your home. It would still be your house.

acockworkorange,

Who’s accusing you of defending him?

acockworkorange,

Keep trying. I won’t devolve to name calling. Have a nice day.

acockworkorange,

You don’t need 144 Hz and GSync. Waves hand in Jedi mind trick style.

acockworkorange,

Next on the list: get into tabletop RPG, but not DnD.

acockworkorange,

Fate, Savage Worlds, or Traveller.

Pathfinder is just the GNOME classic of RPGs.

acockworkorange,

Now we’re splitting hairs 😁

acockworkorange,

Nazi doctors found out a lot about the human body by torturing them and/or treating them inhumanely.

That is a myth. The documentation left behind by them had little to no scientific rigor, and basically nothing of value was gained from it. The situation was even worse on the Japanese side, where even the visiting nazis thought they were going too far and, again, nothing of value was gained.

acockworkorange,

I’d also add that this Lemmy community is a good forum too. Welcome home!

acockworkorange,

That it is. In GUI, you’re working for the computer to achieve your goals. At the CLI, you invest time teaching the computer what you want done, and it works for you.

acockworkorange,

Rational arguments do nothing to quell such emotional response. For the record, it offends me deeply as well.

acockworkorange,

Tell me more. What do you mean by 9 fingers? Is one split a regular spacebar and the other a mod key?

acockworkorange,

I can see using Fn+# for function. I’d keep F11 for the full screen shortcut though.

acockworkorange,

But then you can’t double tap the space bar machine gun style. Jk, sounds smart. Which side do you usually leave for space? I imagine that gets significant more user than the other.

[SOLVED] I'm cheap and want a Linux keyboard

Thank you everyone for taking time to help out. While looking for keyboards, I’ve found a great deal on a new Keychron C3 Pro at Amazon for around $30. It’s a wired keyboard, but it’s got hot swappable brown switches and I figured there’s no way I’d find something better to dip my toes in this hobby....

acockworkorange,

Thank you very much for that, I’ve been real happy with the C3 I got.

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