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zbecker

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I am an avid #foss and #linux enthuist. Like a large amount of people in the foss community, I have #autism and #adhd.

I tend to post about a little bit of everything.

I run #NixOS on my Laptop and #opensuse #leap on my #server PC which is running the instance that I'm on.

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@NateSwift @nolight

Lidarr works best with usenet. There are good dedicated private torrent trackers for music though.

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Very troubling to see Nikki Haley push for more draconian online surveillance in the name of national security. Undermining privacy in the name of civility or foreign bots is a way to disarm dissent domestically.

https://nitter.net/disclosetv/status/1724526032173064258

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@lsn

I agree with her that the ranking algorithms should be visible, but requiring everyone to verify themselves by name is just ridiculous.

Also, all companies have to do is get out of the US (I am aware this is much easier to say than it is to do), and there's not much any administration can do, unless the US wants to start blocking websites.

IANAL, so feel free to correct me about the second statement.

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@gabriel

Tbh, I don't think that ever will be on the table, outside of a candidate pushing for it.

I would hate to be proven wrong on that one, but imo the government regulating what sites are visible should be a first amendment violation.

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@NNYLiberty @gabriel

What did he task them to do?

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@gabriel @NNYLiberty

I would need to look into it more, but in general Internet is really annoying here as in most places there is no free market to speak of and you tend to only have one isp option available.

I don't know if regulation is the answer, but I do know that it is an issue. Incentives to build up infrastructure would probably be a better solution without looking into it further, but the problem with government incentives is that many companies often under-deliver.

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@dumptruckdan @ZeroCool @Moc

Out of curiosity, how so?

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@dumptruckdan @ZeroCool @Moc

Makes sense. Most of my issues tend to be due to my server computer just not having enough resources. I am not familiar enough with whatever backend kbin is using to help with the embed picture feature.

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@WarlordSdocy @ExperimentalGuy

I have the same and opposite issue.

Part of the reason that I am always using is because so much of my workflow these days requires Linux, that when I play something like a game (modding them is just less of a hassle on Windows) it just feels wrong and uncomfortable.

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@dukk @kjetil

Yeah is nontrivial when dealing with proprietary drivers. It doesn't just work out of the box. Your best bet if you want to use Fedora and have an easier gaming experience is .

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@nogrub

No, I'll have to check it out, thanks for the tip.

ai6yr, to random

Hmm, watched a movie and a number of the characters could be 100% based on people I know in the tech industry. 🤔 Either, it is way too easy to draw caricatures of folks in the industry, or people in the industry too readily fall into roles that are caricatured in movies. (or, the writers know some of the same folks I do... 🤔 )

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@ai6yr

What movie out of curiosity?

ai6yr, to random

Study: Nearly Half of Dog Owners Are Hesitant to Vaccinate Their Pets "Published in the journal Vaccine, the study analyzed a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States and found that more than half of people who own dogs expressed some level of canine vaccine hesitancy—i.e. skepticism about vaccinating their pets against rabies and other diseases. " https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2023/nearly-half-of-dog-owners-are-hesitant-to-vaccinate-their-pets/

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@ai6yr having autism I can usually identify if someone has it with a fair degree of accuracy, but I can't even imagine what would autism even look like in a dog...

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@helmet91 @Xylight

I have only really used upstream distros (specifically what I've used is debian, open suse, Arch, Gentoo, and nixOS). I've never had audio issues, except when I first started using Gentoo, as I was missing some compile flags.

That being said I only started using Linux 3 years ago.

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@spez @unionagainstdhmo

My understanding is that with Pearson stuff the professors often setup the HW through it, so unfortunately this is often not possible.

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@histic @ShittyRedditWasBetter

At the university I am going to they require a book for every course, and a plan on how they're going to use it.

What's great is that I've all my professors right back. All of my professors include a book that is fairly old and include some verbage in the syllabus about how they "reserve the right to assign reading assignments" i.e. book quizzes, but they actually never have assigned them previously and don't even have material made up.

I'm guessing the reason for this policy is because the university has an opt-out (you have to re-opt out every semester, and you have to check some professors lock their own material) $150 paywall to get online access to your books. The only way I can see this as worth it is if your taking like 6 classes and all of them use books written in the last 5 years or so...

ai6yr, to internet
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@ai6yr

I don't think this will work all that well, as my experience with using an LLM to generate code works well for simple things, like their example, "write a function that generates the Fibonacci sequence," but for more complex things your going to spend way, way more time debugging.

Who knows, code llama might be good, but I doubt it's going to be a huge leap towards replacing devs.

malwaretech, to random

Idk which airline to choose anymore. It use to be that the airline industry had monopolized proving the most garbage experience imaginable, but lately there's been an arms race towards making a somewhat decent product. United launched Polaris where you get your own little pod, then delta tried to one up them with Delta One Suite, JetBlue (originally a budget airline) randomly came out with their own business class suites, now Delta has gone and built their own private business class terminal at LAX complete with its own dedicate TSA screening.

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@malwaretech

Economy is still a crappy experience unfortunately.

ai6yr, to journalism

USA Today fell for the (fake/wrong) "Dodger Stadium is Flooded" social media 😬 And no correction (it was not. It was an optical illusion, a wet, black parking lot).

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@ai6yr

I live in a small town roughly 40 miles east of LA, and the flooding wasn't really that bad where I live (that being said the houses above me where the mudslides tend to occur likely had damage). That being said I have family living in San Diego area and it was quite bad for them.

But given that the town I live in was in the red zone and LA was not, I can't imagine it was bad in areas that don't have horrible drainage, but I wouldnt be surprised if most of LA had horrible drainage.

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Boost if you think “GNU/Linux” is dumb af.

zbecker,
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@mattl

distributions are collectively called linux, because they all have the linux kernel. linux doesn't have and makes GNU optional.

Should we call our distros GNU/Linux/Systemd/Grub/Gnome?

Of course not, that's dumb

But then we exclude ChromeOS and Android. Whether or not something is linux is down to an arbitrary philosophy.

That being said, the GNU approved distros (GNU guix, hyperbola, etc) I would probably refer to them as gnu distros or GNU/Linux distros.

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@kmkz_ninja @OrnateLuna

I know people who use linux mint (or other distros that aim at user friendliness) who literally never have to touch the command line. This claim that you need to use the command line was true 5 years ago, but today it is largely false.

I am in a Linux User Group and I am literally the only person who uses a tiling window manager (I use hyprland) instead of DEs like kde, gnome, cinnamon, etc.

zbecker,
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@lambda a lot of people do nix-env -ia nameOfPackage. I would recommend doing it properly with a file, and you just direct that command to the file (I would probably setup an alias). It gives you that declarative nature that nix is known for.

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@lambda they should if you use the single user command. The command that does it for the whole system requires root access, something you don't have on the deck.

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@lambda

Oh I didn't know, I just remembered reading that it utilizes an immutable filesystem and thought that it also doesn't give root access as well. That's good to hear though.

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@lambda

Oh, good on valve for making that easy to undo, albeit until you update.

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