TrickDacy

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TrickDacy,

It’s a good point. However it is worth noting that conservatives are like this. Not sure how it can be used to rehabilitate them or whatever, but maybe it could be

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Well, It’s being selfish and lacking the forethought to muse about things that can happen to them too

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I would suggest pop os instead. I can’t remember all the specifics but when I used elementary, they ended up changing a lot of stuff in an upgrade that didn’t float my boat.

What I do remember is that there is no system tray and the creators are philosophically very against having one (despite that still being a somewhat common design pattern that apps rely on), theming support got janky with the upgrade, and Nvidia support was not great.

Of course, Nvidia on Linux has a lot of issues all around but at the time I had one of those cards and pop os worked mostly fine despite that. I’m still on pop os due to what I perceived as a bad direction that elementary took back then. That was around 2021 iirc.

On the plus side, pop os is wonderful! It’s like Ubuntu minus all the bad parts and plus a lot of good ones. It feels very fast and I don’t really recall the last time I felt like I was fighting against it as a distro.

TrickDacy,

Yeah I felt that way too sometimes. I’ve been using pop os for a couple years now and I’m quite happy with it

TrickDacy,

Thanks for exporting this to the US, I made extensive use of it ~1999-2008

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Sounds basically like qanon for the Left but sure yeah totally

TrickDacy,

Such edge

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Even more super edge and such a hilarious and charming gif worthy of repeating

TrickDacy,

What’s the point of this post? That they should display the password on plain text?

TrickDacy,

Who gives a flying fuck about their opinions?

TrickDacy,

Probably the get last time touchscreens weren’t in cars

TrickDacy,

Ok then. My 2012 Prius had a touchscreen and everything else you mentioned. Op may have just been exaggerating though

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Why is that surprising? The word hacktivist is defined by doing good deeds. That’s literally what it means

TrickDacy,

That may be a fair point

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Am I living in a backwards world where Linux uses the invasive complicated way and Windows uses the private simple way?

No. Not at all. And judging by this thread, setting the location in the config file wasn’t difficult to figure out for most people.

TrickDacy,

extremist /ĭk-strē′mĭst/ noun

A person who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.

‘Free speech is a facade’: how Gaza war has deepened divisions in German arts world (www.theguardian.com)

“We have a conversation about racism that is led by the global south and people of colour from Germany, which the German state is trying to brand as antisemitic,” Younes added. “And if we present our relationship to race, racism and European genocides from a non-European or non-white perspective, we get cancelled.”

TrickDacy,

1984 has been a reality for a long time. People intentionally pay hundreds of dollars to give Amazon (and other companies) a direct wiretap into their houses.

Think about the mentality required to believe in trickle down economics. The belief that rich people getting richer helps the poor! It’s better than any satire ever could be.

Then there is the fact that the US government recorded every single communication possible, and built a million square foot datacenter to upgrade their spying operations. A whistleblower called it out and he can never return to the US again in exchange for his bravery. I actually heard someone working with me at a tech job say “wait, who was Edward Snowden?”

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Satire is meant to be exaggerated. Yet in your mind unless reality hits actual full on satire to a tee, it’s fine.

There is one uncleared level remaining in Super Mario Maker, with 18 days to go before the servers shut down (www.issmmbeatenyet.com)

UPDATE: Ahoyoo has confirmed that Trimming the Herbs was uploaded with TAS tools, meaning that The Last Dance was the final legitimate level all along! Congrats to kazeihinn on the Last First Clear! The journey continues in Super Mario Maker 2…...

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You’re probably right. I’m starting to think Nintendo is fully rotten to the core.

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A lot of people would get “its” wrong anyway, but my autocorrect on my phone changes it basically every single time. Including just now. I sometimes don’t catch it, other times I don’t feel like fighting a touch screen to go back and fix it. Having said all that, it’s a pet peeve of mine too lol

TrickDacy,

Pop os

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Interesting you put Ubuntu above pop os. Besides snaps, I always feel like Ubuntu kind of gets goofier all the time, and its descendant OSes have to do a lot of un-goofifying. I love pop os. I’ve had a lot of little issues on other distros that I don’t have in pop os. Ubuntu itself in the other hand, I’ve tended to have weird problems on that caused me to hop to something else.

TrickDacy,

I was a noob to Linux when I started using pop os. Still kind of am a noob. I’ve found it pretty easy to find solutions online most of the time. If a search query doesn’t find what I need when including “pop os” then I swap out for “Ubuntu”. You get basically all the compatibility of Ubuntu but no snaps and less jank overall

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

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I checked my pixel 7a bought from Google directly and I also don’t have this app

Explicit sync Wayland protocol has finally been merged! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....

TrickDacy,

Huh, weird that when I was there, there were literally thousands of cars. Probably just hallucinated it

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For years I’ve somehow missed this. Cars driving on nearly every street and somehow that “car-free”, yeah makes perfect sense.

TrickDacy,

Yeah I don’t understand that at all. I thought car free meant a place, usually a part of town, where cars are not allowed. Those places exist. So to call places nothing like that “car free” seems pretty useless imo

TrickDacy,

If Firefox could allow their engine to be packaged like this I’d use it. The problem I see here is chromium. Everything is a trade off and we need more ways to build maintainable cross platform applications.

Slack, for example, is Electron and it runs great. One of the best apps I’ve used. And it works better than the browser version…

The hate on Lemmy of electron is a bit of an overreaction if you ask me. Yeah it uses more ram than is necessary but again everything is a trade off. Not everything can be a hard to maintain rust app. Let’s try to embrace cross platform solutions, though yes fuck chrome/google, so sure criticize that part of it.

TrickDacy,

Slack desktop app is built with electron and works much better than the web app in my experience. So no it’s not actually always that simple.

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You really believe that? It would be easier for them to maintain only the website, so this really doesn’t make sense to me.

TrickDacy,

I don’t know what javafx is, but java is hell. For me. I’m glad it works for others

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I realize Firefox business practices aren’t total garbage for humanity and that they are constantly working to improve it on like .1% budget of Google. And that they are the only real competition which keeps us in a situation where we actually have a choice in browsers. So yeah let’s only care about the technical aspects, or something

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🙄

TrickDacy,

I’m a web developer. I think there’s a misunderstanding here. The person I responded to said that slack purposely made the web version worse than the desktop app, which I’m doubting.

TrickDacy,

Because I have used both versions of slack and they’re almost exactly the same. The desktop version only works better imo because of small factors such as having its own window so it does not get buried in tabs, and the notification options are (or at least were) more robust. Have you not used the two versions?

I don’t really understand your comments. Are you implying that there would be an advantage for slack to “cripple” the web version, when they are essentially running probably 99% of the same code in the electron version? They’re never going to get rid of the web version, and if you’ve used slack for ~9 years like I have, you can easily observe they’re actually one of the few app makers out there to make mostly positive changes to their app. They aren’t suddenly going to make the web app shitty.

Also, obviously yeah when it makes sense to, app makers in general make the web app version shitty on purpose. Reddit mobile for example. But just because that’s a thing in the world doesn’t mean it is what slack is doing…not sure why you seem to be implying it’s a universal practice.

TrickDacy,

I don’t often have trouble with slack being slow, or buggy. Been using it like 9 years myself. Interesting you’re comparing slack to icq. Are you referring to a current version of icq, or the one that existed in the early 2000s?

I am not sure I understand comparing an app designed to do video/audio chat seamlessly, threaded conversations, channels, filesharing, plus has dozens of subtle nice features that make for a rich experience and a… Chat app, that worked fine for sending plaintext messages but didn’t really do anything else.

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Not my experience. Not sure what qip is either

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