reallyzen

reallyzen, 1 day ago

DDG has it’s non-track version online since a bit now. Use the !ai bang to get to it

Also you have the choice of Claude insted of ChatGPT, and your queries aren’t harvested for further ai training

In any case, it’s a completely different tab, it’s not mingled in general search results

reallyzen, 1 day ago

You can also ask it when is the cutoff date of their database - there is a gentleman’s agreement between providers not to have ai involved in news / current politics in it’s public chats.

I tried them on a topic I’m pretty proficient on, (a spaghetti recipe lol) and the answer was the most bland imaginable.

The way it is setup by DDG, the restrictions and blandness, shallowness of the replies give me peace of.mind when a ‘natural language’ query is the easiest one. And Claude wouldn’t give me the DOB of that queen because it is Personal Info!

reallyzen, 1 day ago

I may loose some answers in searches since I only use DDG

I often do not read articles or information from websites if the gdpr popup isn’t solvable in a click but the site ask to click on a thousand toggles

Where I am at the moment, the lack of FB marketplace sucks

A lot of cultural info goes through Instagram here, so I have to be a bit proactive if I want to know what’s happening

I use signal or text when possible, but work is impossible without whatsapp

reallyzen, 1 day ago

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Ponyos, is in fact, GNU/Ponyos, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Ponyos. Ponyos is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, that version of GNU which quite nobody uses today is called Ponyos, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Ponyos, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Ponyos is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Ponyos is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Ponyos added, or GNU/Ponyos.

reallyzen, 2 days ago

An early one, a 7 with the smaller engine I believe (the difference is in the rims). If I’m right this puts this picture as pre-ww2 because the 7 was very quickly replaced/followed by the 10 and 15. Numbers are “fiscal horses", the amount of taxes to pay being relative to the size and power of the engine.

reallyzen, 3 days ago

I know everybody always grandly takes on the High Seas, sailing them with lots of "arrrr“ and stuff, but I’ve found that small, quick flowing rivers oftentimes do yield a good catch.

reallyzen, 3 days ago

J’ai vu hier Sarāb en concert, c’était très très bien. Les reprises de Fairouz sont à la fois émouvantes et audacieuses, avec claviers et guitare bien pétés. Pour ce concert le festival avait invité Hiba Mekkaoui à les rejoindre avec son Qanun - Je n’avais jamais entendu cet instrument hors du répertoire traditionnel, et là ça déchirait. Une excellente découverte !

reallyzen, 3 days ago

Check out Switzerland. Huge private healthcare network, expensive country but the salary is high too. Excellent public transport, good social protection… And magnificent landscapes, smack in the middle of Europe you have access to everywhere. You’ll have to learn French or German tho. It can be a bit quiet, but very very safe. Traditional food is meh, especially if you’re not a fan of melted cheese by the bucket.

reallyzen, 3 days ago

That’s why I mentioned “huge private healthcare network”: the employer does the Work Visa authorisation paperwork for you.

reallyzen, 4 days ago (edited 16 hours ago)

That’s how I was on Slackware at the time. Reputable, functional, stable - and totally tailorable to your exact needs.

Everybody talks about Arch as a “pedagogic” distro, but you’ll learn a lot working with Slackware. I wonder if Lilo is still around.

reallyzen, 5 days ago

Marcan (@marcan) is talking about tackling thunderbolt and power usage while sleeping these days - and other stuff

social.treehouse.systems/…/112277289414246878

AsahiLina (@lina) was back on the graphic driver to get, ultimately, to Vulkan

vt.social/@lina/112371925319342726

reallyzen, 5 days ago

Marcan (@marcan) is talking about tackling thunderbolt and power usage while sleeping these days - and other stuff

social.treehouse.systems/…/112277289414246878

AsahiLina (@lina) was back on the graphic driver to get, ultimately, to Vulkan

vt.social/@lina/112371925319342726

reallyzen, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

You guys know that there’s an actual rtfm app that condenses the output of man to human-readable stuff right? Right??

reallyzen, 4 days ago

My bad: it’s tldr not rtfm

Me too I have stupid disputable aliases…

github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

reallyzen, 4 days ago

Of course. . …I was wrong and it is tldr not rtfm.

github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

But surely you heard about TheFuck?

github.com/nvbn/thefuck

There’s actually an rtfm package in Arch’s aur, but it just opens the archwiki for you which just adds that tiny bit of… of That Arch Way Of Doing Things I guess.

reallyzen, 3 days ago

BRB, got a dotfile to edit real quick

reallyzen, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

AsahiLina was at it yesterday, ultimately chasing Vulkan compatibility:

vt.social/@lina/112371925319342726

reallyzen, 5 days ago

You’re not wrong. That’s why I kept a small macos partition to do the hard crunch when needed, like rendering in kdenlive. Everything else I can just do on Asahi, including Ardour multitrack exports.