folkrav

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folkrav,

Organized is a really big word to describe what essentially amounts to hiding shit out of my eyesight in some sort of organization I’ll forget the sense of in a matter of days, until I need it again and have to open all the bins to find everything again anyway. But like some other people here, I use hardware organizers for the small stuff like tools and brushes, and larger bins for things like my soldering gear, helping hands, etc.

folkrav,

Fizz often have promos where you accumulate rewards such as monthly rebates after certain milestones. It’s currently costing me $28/mo (+tx) for 20GB after some small rebate. And they do data carry over for a couple of months, so I basically always have 40+GB in bank. I tend to buy my phones upfront when I get a good deal, and keep them until they stop doing the job, or when I don’t or want to change it for whatever reason, I resell/hand down/donate them. Phone plans just keep getting cheaper for me, which is a nice change of pace from most expenses in my life these days… But you have to stop the loop of financing with the Big 3 and getting two year plans, and either financing yourself or ideally saving and paying cash, or some mix of both…

folkrav,

Bismuth (and Krohnkite before) never worked nearly as well for me, and AFAIK are both abandoned. The built in tiling is closer to FancyTiles/tiling zones, not auto-tiling like Pop Shell. Pop Shell also has been here for “years” by that metric lol

folkrav,

I understand and agree with your general point, but this idea that everyone can “just” leave their country, or hell, sometimes even the general area they live in, needs to die.

folkrav,

Fair enough!

folkrav,

Exactly! I’m moving next year for accessibility and proximity to hospitals, due to illness in the family… Just moving to that next place and making it livable is gonna take a lot of time and monetary investment… Getting me to move again then would take said place not to be livable anymore, probably…

folkrav,

What’s wrong with alternatives?

folkrav,

I’d wager it is, or was, a loss leader. Its position at the very end of the store has to be strategic to make you look at everything else on the way.

folkrav, (edited )

GUIX is a GNU Project. You know, Stallman et. al, the guy behind the FSF, or well… the GPL itself (GNU General Public License). If it happens with GUIX, Stallman would be the biggest troll in existence, and we’d have much larger problems to discuss about open source as a whole.

folkrav,

I’ll be that guy pointing out at semantics - “open-source”, in the widely used OSI definition of the term is actually equal to free (as in freedom). It’s why open-source advocates go so hard at saying “this is not open-source” when companies just dumps their source code somewhere and dubs themselves open-source for it.

folkrav,

Fair enough. I know the FSF likes to make the distinction.

folkrav,

If only there was another grocery store than Maxi that sold okay quality stuff at discount prices around here. I’ve got a farmers market and a local grocery store where veggies get down to an interesting price in season, but otherwise I basically have to choose between Maxi, Walmart, or pay considerably more at IGA or Metro - with the wife, dog and two kids, it approaches a hundred more for comparable groceries at the latter. Can’t say I find giving my money to Sobeys or Metro any more attractive either…

folkrav,

Hmm I’m not seeing them in there? Pretty sure Metro is its own thing (which owns Jean Coutu, Brunet, Super C, etc), and IGA is Sobeys.

folkrav,

Aren’t K8s and Go fundamentally Google projects?

folkrav,

Hmm yep, you’re right. Wasn’t aware of this, funny.

All CLAs aren’t created equal, IMHO. I ain’t a lawyer, but looks to me like K8s’s grants the CNCF a license to the use and patent your code, but you remain the copyright owner. As far as these things go, this one doesn’t look that terrible, at first glance. Or, at least, I’ve seen worse.

folkrav,

My deluge server been reliably running behind gluetun for almost a year and a half now. It’s pretty damn great indeed.

folkrav,

It’s not so much opposition rather than other BSDs having almost negligible desktop presence… If we really want to get into semantics, too, Linux is technically not UNIX.

folkrav,

How so? Outside very niche stuff or podcasts I just don’t seem to it used that often.

folkrav,

Say this to my very large Canadian ISP who still doesn’t support IPv6 for residential customers. Last I checked, adoption in Canada was still under 50%.

folkrav,

I honestly just use it for my resume with a template I found, so my knowledge is extremely basic, but I really do love the concept that I can “compile” and actually see the source of my document’s formatting.

folkrav, (edited )

Yeah… It always being there hardly makes it a “renaissance”, no?

folkrav,

On one hand, it kind of needs to happen. Our economy as a whole is overleveraged on housing. On the other hand… A large proportion of our MPs are either landlords or reported housing related income, too, so why would they want things to change?

I’m in the unfortunate situation that I can’t possibly wait it out, for accessibility reasons. I’m utterly pissed off at the idea that I’m probably throwing way my life savings at a card castle that’s waiting to crumble. It’s just completely fucked up.

folkrav,

No Mario Party, maybe

folkrav,

Many of our MPs are landlords themselves, which may influence how… reactive they are to the issue www.landlordmps.ca/data-analysis

Our economy is over-reliant on housing as an investment in general, so getting people to do anything about it is hard to begin with www.oecd.org/housing/…/housing-policy-canada.pdf

It’s not looking good. We’re in so deep already. A lot of people will lose their homes either way.

folkrav,

more PPP and lower pay is their answer to the crisis lol

folkrav,

KDE6 took a week or so, didn’t it?

folkrav, (edited )

I mean, tone does have to do with how you use a language 🗣️ and symbols to communicate, and the emojis in the middle ➡️❎⬅️ of sentences and how many there are in relation to the amount of sentences 💬 do make it kind of read like a copypasta ©️🍝

folkrav, (edited )

They mention monetization. Pretty sure you can’t monetize shorts.

Edit: So seems like you can, but they don’t generate much returns, so might as well say you can’t lol

folkrav,

Interesting. Do they tend to have the same kind of returns?

folkrav,

I mean, she’s from that wave of American-fashioned, modern reactionary conservatism. Of course she’s repeating whatever BS the companies she’s shilling for want her to. Trump made them realize they don’t even have to try telling the truth. They just need to spout enough nonsense to rile up their voter base, and for the part that doesn’t stick, play dumb and say it’s not what they meant (or hell, just never even address it). No need for facts when you can just make up your own…

Longtime Arch user, first time Debian enjoyer

As the title says, I’ve been using various flavours of Arch basically since I started with Linux. My very first Linux experience was with Ubuntu, but I quickly switched to Manjaro, then Endeavour, then plain Arch. Recently I’ve done some spring cleaning, reinstalling my OS’s. I have a pretty decent laptop that I got for...

folkrav,

I’m genuinely curious what you consider to be the “Arch experience”, other than pacman.

folkrav,

Most the people getting the term “open source” wrong tend to use it to refer to so-called “source available” software - damn to I hate that name. IMHO, “open” being overloaded to mean both libre/free and open to read is where most of the confusion stems from. I like the FOSS/FLOSS acronyms for this reason.

folkrav,

Source available means you get the code, and that’s pretty much it. Open source/free/libre is this, but you also get permission to modify and redistribute. “True” open source licenses also have provisions regarding having to distribute modifications.

folkrav,

The non proportional font on terminal 🤌

folkrav,

Papyrus or bust

folkrav,

The crazy part is, I don’t consume maple syrup that often. But when I do, it’s always way too much.

folkrav,

The plastic feels a bit like a heavy duty ziplock bag, or piping bag material, made as a tube (so strong shape, structurally) then flat sealed on both ends. Quite thick so not that easy to puncture by accident. Once in a while there’s one that leaks but they get removed at the grocery store by stockers, mostly. It’s easy to spot, it just looks flat and at worst (if the hole is on the bottom), there’s a liter and some of milk all over in their fridge.

folkrav,

My wife has a mean marinade using maple syrup. I love to use it with chicken thighs I throw on the barbecue for that sweet caramelization.

folkrav,

I have bottles of Sortilège (maple whiskey) and a Tomahawk maple cream (similar to Bailey’s) on the kitchen bar. I don’t even like whiskey usually, but with maple syrup everything becomes good I guess

folkrav,

Tried it once on Christmas Eve from another bottle in coffee. I’m not into sweet coffee usually, but that was good.

folkrav,

several reasons […] certain needed soft, etc

folkrav, (edited )

Psychotic depression, or psychosis episode by some undiagnosed issue, altered state due to substance/meds mix… the mind is a fragile thing. I’ll (hopefully) never fully understand it, but it can happen to “regular” people, given some mix of circumstances.

Sometimes they’re also just killers with a death wish 🤷‍♂️

folkrav, (edited )

The father who lost his whole family is the only one we can realistically think about right now, we don’t know much about the other guy and what happened for him to go down that spiral. Sounds like guy was stopped and fought with the dad, so maybe interrupted plans. Or again, he may just be a murderer who took his chance.

I thought you were asking a general question, not specifically this case. I was therefore answering generally.

folkrav,

My wife introduced my 6yo to the “old” Mario games on the Switch virtual SNES. He actually launches them instead of the other Mario games we own pretty often. It’s always hilarious to me to hear that old chip tune lol

The truth about linux having 15% market share in India.

I am from india. These numbers are inflated due to our population and government and health sector office pc using linux (ubuntu). These office pcs just require a chrome browser and all the work is done on the browser Nobody here cares what os they use in their office pc. I don’t see anyone here switching to linux on their...

folkrav, (edited )

Just like they previously counted for Windows before switching. I don’t understand why you arbitrarily decide that commercial/enterprise use is not a valid piece of market share that’s been part (if not the largest piece of) the counter since forever. Hell, the market share counter literally counts web browser hits lol

folkrav, (edited )

This. OP seems to discredit those numbers based on two arguments.

  1. They’re not personal computers but work PCs
  2. Those computers are mostly using a web browser and that’s it - no “paradigm change”

However, this is ignoring that

  1. those computers counted when they were on Windows too
  2. those genuinely working from a browser could probably have done so on Windows as well, no “paradigm change” either going on here
  3. the usage stats are counted from web hits anyway

Considering this, I’m not entirely sure why the numbers wouldn’t be any more or less significant than before.

folkrav,

You completely missed the point.

You’re using a statistic that literally tracks web views to justify your view that Linux users that just use it for work by browsing the web don’t really count. You say this despite them having counted as Windows users on their work machines, using the same metric, since forever before they had to use Linux.

folkrav,

Ok, I laughed

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