BaconIsAVeg

BaconIsAVeg, 10 months ago

The first one is demographics; since 47% of the users are Americans, and 21% of them are 10-19yo, it’s safe to say that ~60% of the users are ineligible, and thus will only contribute for free.

Just want to point out that there are a ton of Telegram communities focused on bypassing these types of limitations, because $0.10 USD for 1000 upvotes goes a lot farther in rural India than it does in Indiana.

By offering an incentive program, they’ve just opened up the door for a whole new third world economy. They should have stuck to fighting 3rd party API access tbh.

BaconIsAVeg, 10 months ago

This. Having to open a console to run a flatpak in bspwm is annoying as all hell. PWA’s are just as bad, I ended up writing a script I could run from dmenu:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">#!/usr/bin/env bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PWA_PATH=${HOME}/.local/share/applications
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">for app in $@
</span><span style="color:#323232;">do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  DESKTOP=$(grep -i "Name=.*${app}" -lm 1 ${PWA_PATH}/*.desktop)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  if [ ! -z ${DESKTOP} ]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    APPID=$(basename ${DESKTOP} | cut -d- -f2)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    /usr/bin/google-chrome --profile-directory=Default --app-id=${APPID} &
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

BaconIsAVeg, 10 months ago

Imagine you ssh into a server to do a database import, and from previous experience you know it will take about 3 hours. You start the restore, then get up to make dinner. You come back an hour later and realize you forgot to plug your laptop in.

Is the import command still running? Who knows.

With tmux you just charge your laptop, ssh in again, and reconnect to the virtual term that was running the command to check.

BaconIsAVeg, 10 months ago

How is EndeavourOS? My main desktop is running Ubuntu (I stuck with it as I’m quite familiar with the debian package managers), but I have a laptop I’m looking to fart around in once my Pi arrives and I can move PiHole to it.

I was thinking Arch, but I’m open to giving EOS a try.

BaconIsAVeg, 10 months ago

I don’t really have a need to use a laptop at all, however it’s getting janky on my main machine when I want to try something new and break a ton of stuff, then I’m up until 4am fixing it using w3m from a terminal before work the next day.

It’s more of a sandbox.

Honestly, I don’t care too much about the underlying distro at this point. I switched from Gnome to bspwm last night with polybar and it’s like a whole new world that satisfies the itch I haven’t felt back since the early Enlightenment days.

BaconIsAVeg, 10 months ago

A lot of people left Reddit because it was a drowning ship. They didn’t flock to the fediverse because of what it stands for, and they’ll happily bounce over to the next popular corporate run data farm at their earliest convenience.