Lettuceeatlettuce

Lettuceeatlettuce, 1 day ago

Plasma has been pretty stable for the last several years I’ve been using it, especially X11. Wayland is buggier, but not terribly so, and it gets better all the time.

I’ve switched over to Wayland with Plasma now because it is stable enough for me now, I’m on Nobara.

I don’t really use Gnome, so I can’t speak to that experience.

If I were to vouch for a DE that is rock stable, it would be Cinnamon. I’ve never had any problems with Cinnamon. It’s not super pretty, and it’s a bit clunky, but if I want a DE that just works and gets out of my way, Cinnamon is my first choice.

It’s what I use for my business laptop, LMDE with Cinnamon, rock solid.

I should also add that I’ve always used fully AMD hardware, CPU and GPUs, and never brand new. Always a year or two old, so the Linux kernel has time to address bleeding edge bugs and such.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 3 days ago

This whole scenario makes total sense to me. Try to put yourself in the role of the woman:

Man vs bear, random encounter alone in the woods. Both can easily overpower and harm you.

With the bear, you know it’s one or the other, it either is going to be scared off by you yelling at it, or it’s not and it will very quickly kill you.

The man, if he intends no harm, cool. But if he does intend harm, it can be impossible to tell. He can lie to you, appear friendly and helpful, all the while plotting to harm you horrifically. The bear can have no such malice.

The bear will not target you because of your race, sex, political views, gender identity, sexuality, or nationality.

The bear won’t pretend to be your friend to lure you into a sense of false security. The bear won’t become enraged at something you say and all of a sudden turn on you.

The bear has no fragile sense of ego that it will attempt to assert if it feels you “wounded” it in some trivial way.

A bear cannot be brainwashed by toxic propaganda or cultural norms about gender roles. A bear will never have any sense of sexual entitlement.

A bear won’t drug you and assault you, a bear won’t call its friends to join in when you are vulnerable. A bear won’t hold blackmail against you after getting you drunk and manipulating you.

If all women had to do 99.99% of the time to scare away dangerous men was stand up tall, puff our their chests, and yell loudly, I doubt we would be having this conversation.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 4 days ago

Sitting in a hot tub as a kid will make you infertile.

Totally an old wive’s tale. I looked it up when I was an adult and found out I had been deprived of tons of hours of hot tub time.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 4 days ago

Unclear, my grandma was a nurse. I thought she should have known better, but then again, maybe back in the day that was considered accurate advice medically.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 4 days ago

Well you assumed my sex, but regardless, that claim is still disputed. Some research indicates that it does temporarily lower sperm counts.

None of that is particularly relevant though, because my family was claiming it would permanently cause me to become infertile.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 6 days ago

For invoicing at my small business, I use Invoice Ninja.

Open source, self-hostable, and they offer cloud hosting. Free for the base version with less than 20 users. It has a bunch of features, you are able to create very professional invoices, define services and products, calculate taxes, fees, etc.

It’s very clean, fast, and intuitive.

For accounting, I use GnuCash. It’s old looking and clunky, but it has a bunch of features and works fine for everything I need.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 5 days ago

No prob! Yeah I’ve been super happy with Invoice Ninja particularly, it’s a really solid piece of software.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 5 days ago

Needs a NSFW tag! Soooo sexy!

Lettuceeatlettuce, 6 days ago

Nintendon’t mind being total dickheads.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 6 days ago

Welcome, friend!

Lettuceeatlettuce, 7 days ago

So glad my job allows me to use Linux as my OS. I do IT, and everybody else in the company uses Windows.

Constant problems, brutal driver issues, OS crashes and lockups, software installation failures, hardware incompatibility problems, it’s awful.

Linux at work, Linux at home, such an improved experience.

I’ll still always love XP though, the last OS from Microsoft that felt like it had a soul.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 7 days ago

I’m happy for you, I wouldn’t wish it on people, it sucks.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 9 days ago

Thinkpad A485. If you’re going used, I would grab a T460, T470, or T480. Really reliable models, all those can be had for $300 or less online, work great with Linux, and last forever. Plus they are decently repairable.

If new, I would also go with Framework laptops. Super repairable and sustainable. And very high quality laptops. My friend got one and it is super nice. Runs Fedora on it flawlessly.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 9 days ago

I’ve heard a lot of good stuff about the Carbons, especially the older ones as Linux machines.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 10 days ago

Eli5: Wayland is a new way for Linux to make things appear on your screen, things like windows, graphics, and even your whole desktop.

The old way was called Xorg. It has been around for a very long time, and works pretty well, but the code is veryyyy messy and many developers wanted a new and easier way to make things appear on your screen, so they made Wayland.

(It’s debatable how much easier Wayland actually is vs Xorg, but at this point most major distros are switching over to Wayland, so it’s a moot point)

Lettuceeatlettuce, 11 days ago

Great, in a country where smoking rates have steadily declined across all major demographic groups since the 70’s, this is the kind of legislation we are worrying about.

Forget about actually pressing issues like the crushing student debt and college costs, general consumer debt, soaring medical costs, soaring housing costs, homelessness in major cities, the genocide in Palestine, the growing environmental crisis, the erosion of civil liberties and labor rights… But we gotta talk about banning Menthol cigarettes…

Lettuceeatlettuce, 11 days ago

Nope, wasting time and resources on ineffective legislation doesn’t make sense.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 11 days ago

Enacting legislation requires time and resources, it isn’t a cost-free activity. If you are spending those resources on one thing, you are reducing the ability to use them on other things, so you have to be strategic.

Banning menthol cigs is a very bad use of those resources. Consumers in general hate bans. If those bans aren’t universal, they just create resentment in the population and incentives for people to create alternatives that in many cases are just as bad or worse.

In an election year where the Democratic party already is not in a strong position, it is idiotic to waste precious resources pushing for a ban on menthol cigs.

The utilitarian argument doesn’t work; smoking rates across demographics have been steadily declining for decades. And menthol cigs are not drastically more addictive or dangerous than any other cigarettes.

The popular demand argument doesn’t work either, because there aren’t large swaths of the voter base that are calling for menthol cigs to be banned.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 12 days ago

I switched because I was sick of dealing with corporate garbage and abuse at the hands of Microsoft.

It wasn’t the cost, I’ve always activated my Windows installations with gray-market keys bought on eBay for 5-10 dollars. Plus I’ve paid far more for open source software than I ever did for Windows and their proprietary trash.

I had so many problems with Windows over the years. Fighting with drivers, fighting with software installs, fighting with the registry, etc etc.

I also couldn’t stand how bad their spying was getting, how bloated and clunky their software was, and how much adware they were forcing on me.

I finally vowed about 3 years ago that I would never use Windows again for any of my personal computing, no matter what I had to sacrifice.

Turns out, I didn’t have to really sacrifice anything significant, and I gained far more than I lost. I would never go back to Windows now, especially with what is happening with windows 11.

My main computer runs Nobara, because I use it mostly for gaming. I use KDE Plasma as my DE. Both work fantastic, games run fast and smooth, and everything looks so pretty lol.

I use Mint Debian Edition with Cinnamon on my laptop and it’s awesome too. Almost never have any problems with it.

My work allows me to use Linux, so I run Debian with KDE Plasma. It took a bit of work to get everything running smoothly, but I’m enough of a power user that it wasn’t too bad.

My phone runs GrapheneOS, I’m on it right now typing this. Love it also, so glad to be off a corporate version of Android. GrapheneOS is awesome and does everything I need very well.

I’ve used a ton of different distros. Different strokes for different folks. I’ve used Arch, Fedora, Zorin, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Alma, and several others. Some were a fad, some I use for my servers, some I use for home lab testing, etc.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 13 days ago

Thanks a bunch for this, just what I was looking for!

Lettuceeatlettuce, 15 days ago

“Ay, you ever heard of Lemmy? Lemmy get your number?”

Lettuceeatlettuce, 16 days ago

Now try it again but give yourself amnesia so you don’t have any prior knowledge of skills or lessons learned from before.

Give yourself a severe drug and/or alcohol addiction for several years so you develop chronic health problems and hardcore substance dependence.

Experience enough traumatic events that you develop some severe form of mental illness, preferably multiple at the same time.

Destroy all your contacts from your former life, don’t record anything or log anything because you can’t have any permanent support group. Surround yourself only with people as or more desperate than you.

Make sure your social problems have caused you to rack up a significant number of criminal charges, bonus points for felonies that stay on your record for all to see if anybody even considers hiring you.

Now you’re close to experiencing what many homeless folks’ lives are actually like. This guy’s “experiment” is asinine. Just another sigma grindset bootstrap husk social influencer who has no idea what it is actually like to have nothing.

His conclusion is that people are homeless because why? They aren’t grinding hard enough? Because they aren’t putting in the hours? Because they just don’t really want it bad enough? Miss me with that bullshit.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 16 days ago

Very true.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 16 days ago

Same, they will often ask good questions and then come to perfectly wrong conclusions.

A lot of them are just soulless grifters though, preying on clickbait for views. Then they will sell their “guides” to brainwashed subscribers to milk them dry.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 16 days ago

Yeah, wealth and privilege lessen the risk factors significantly. Even if you get totally addicted and actually need help, if you’re rich, you (or your family) can afford to put you in luxury rehab clinics.

That’s why you see so many celebrities in and out of rehab multiple times. They can afford to destroy their lives over and over because there is always a way back for them.