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bbbhltz, 2 days ago

It does work both ways, as the theory states that competent individuals were more humble and underestimated their skills.

bbbhltz, 2 days ago

Hi,

It it possible that Plank doesn’t work with Wayland, plain and simple.

bugs.launchpad.net/plank/+bug/1632841

The latest version dates back to 2019.

I think Dash to dock is used often.

For Guake the version in Bookworm is from 2022 and you may need to set an environmental variable or perhaps it isn’t built with Wayland support on Debian.

You could hit up the Debian forums for a better answer.

bbbhltz, 1 day ago

Also, for Plank at least, I have a feeling that development has stopped so waiting won’t help. You’ll need to find an alternative.

bbbhltz, 6 days ago

I didn’t know there was a TV series of this. It would explain a lot because I have memories of jokes that are not in the film, so perhaps they are from the series. Decades of confusion might be resolved!

bbbhltz, 6 days ago

If I’m correct, that would mean that technically, I could authenticate to an SSH server without supplying my name if I use a private key?

Yes.

The public key contains a user name/email address string, I’m aware, is the same information also encoded into the private key as well? If yes, I don’t see the need to hand that info to an SSH call. If no, how does the SSH server know which public key it’s supposed to use to challenge my private key ownership?

Most of this can be found reading through different Git docs, whether from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea, etc. When using Git you can use different keys for different repos/forges and each has a defined pair, similar to accessing different SSH servers that require specific key pairs. I do understand your questions, but I lack the finesse to explain it since I really only use SSH and Git for my blog and not for anything too complicated.

bbbhltz, 7 days ago

There are some tips here that might help

github.com/…/arch-linux-font-improvement-guide

Important to note that restarting or running sudo fc-cache -fv is key when doing things with fonts.

bbbhltz, 8 days ago

Merci pour le partage et bravo à ceux et celles qui continuent de parler français là-bas.

bbbhltz, 10 days ago

I skimmed the transcript. Here are some thoughts.

Problem: Is there a male dating crisis?

I am not young or dating. We do have friends that are 25 and under. They are men and they do complain a lot about the dating scene. I am also a professor and I work with 18 to 25 year-olds. I can only say that there is a greater sense of anxiety among these students and that they all pay much closer attention to their appearance than before.

Cause: societal expectations and dating apps

There are other things to note here. I do think changes occurred, and dating apps gave some people an unfair advantage and commodified dating. Leading up to the incel movement in the 90s and early 2000s, the idea of PUAs was already in full swing. That type of trend was, and still is, very toxic and I see how it messed up my brother-in-law (he still thinks negging his partner is a kind way to control her).

I can’t speak for societal expectations. I have noticed that some of my male friends, who have been single since their 20s (they are 40+ now), have things in common: overweight/underweight, bald, low income, hobbies like video games.

Possible Consequences: desperation, depression, gender standards, violence

I can absolutely imagine at least 2 of my partner’s friends being violent. They talk about women using terms like “libtard” or make assumptions based on haircuts. They are becoming openly racist, especially when they see biracial couples.

Another group of friends have given up on dating and now focus on their wellbeing and hobbies. They do not seem angry about their circumstances. If you ask them why they are single, they say they cannot afford a partner.

Solutions: balance

The responses are probably lacking. Balance might be a good idea. Pointing out double standards is a start. When speaking with couples in their 20s, I have heard some women state that it took them years to realise that they had unrealistic expectations—they should someday mention that to their children. We cannot blame social media or control it, but the press should stop sensationalizing it. Mental healthcare for men shouldn’t be stigmatized.

My thoughts

Videos like this should have some age limit on them. It does not contain all of the information required to come to a decision and could lead a younger person down a rabbit hole of biases. In turn, they could be lead to MRM forums and echo chambers. Amateur news summaries like this, no matter how many source cited, can quickly become part of an alternative information network and exacerbate the very problem they are highlighting.

bbbhltz, 20 days ago

An old friend of mine that I’ve lost touch with is Chinese. They lived in Europe for a number of years. When they couldn’t get a new job their visa ran out and the went back home.

No problem getting a job. They had a place to live. Things were good.

But… When they left Europe they basically told their roommate, a student who was about 10 years their younger, that they were leaving and that’s it. They abandoned the apartment. This left not only rent up to the student, but also the €300 fee of changing the name on the rental contract.

If a police investigation is launched against someone in China, you can be damned sure they will turn up something. If this influencer ever saw a doobie they will find out, and if they never did drugs they will find an acquaintance who did.

I say this because one day when my friend left work there was a car waiting. It was the father of her roommate. Turns out he was a “special” police officer. He told them to get in and gave her a folder. The folder had photos of them, their friends, even me. There were notes on the friends, SMS and social media exchanges. This included references to drugs. He took them to a bank, told them to take out the equivalent of €900 (he had their bank statements already) or their family would hear about this…and then he left them there on the street.

bbbhltz, 19 days ago

Yup

bbbhltz, 22 days ago

There are solutions that work. Like you, I would enjoy a simple app that allows for subscriptions and playlists without tracking or using an account. I mostly use RSS feeds (newsboat) and watch the videos through mpv.

And yt-fzf is great too. It uses invidious instances instead of YouTube links.

bbbhltz, 24 days ago

I don’t feel like my system is bloated.

It probably isn’t bloated.

I guess it’s subjective, but when do you consider a system to be bloated?

If someone is testing out several different DEs or WMs and installing meta-packages, then I suppose I might say that things are bloated because they could end up having multiple apps to control the same preferences along with different libraries, etc., and then when they decide to update it takes ages. That would be bloated for me. I have tried the minimal stuff before. Like you said, hundreds of packages, not thousands. But, I didn’t install any manpages. So when I decided I wanted those manpages the number of packages ballooned. Nothing was really bloated, just a number on neofetch going up.

bbbhltz, 28 days ago

Content mills…

Just go to the source. The dev is sharing more info and videos. Sure, it is on LinkedIn which is rubbish but at least it isn’t 9to5Linux

youtube.com/watch?v=h96VqpbUAk8

bbbhltz, 28 days ago

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/1e7ba80c-27db-4bbc-b50d-ced76fdd9c23.webp

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/9ddd585c-bf38-43b1-80ae-3c1998be8c89.webp

bbbhltz, 1 month ago

Strawberry Music Player has smart and dynamic playlist generators. I cannot say how well they work.

bbbhltz, 1 month ago

The package manager for Alpine is…so fast. The community (IRC/Gitlab) is responsive and helpful.

bbbhltz, 1 month ago

So many to choose from. If I close my eyes I can practically stream certain episodes of the The Simpsons and King of the Hill. Other series have had such touching scenes they can still bring a tear to my eye 30 years after originally airing.

But, today I’m thinking about the perfect episode of a series about absolutely awful people… Seinfeld.

I understand why today someone wouldn’t watch that show (2 of those mains really showed their true colours and the main jas somehow avoided some deserved scrutiny), but when it was airing on my channels it was the thing to watch and talk about. Stupid Friends was just something to watch to make sure you didn’t miss the start of Seinfeld.

One amazing episode, The Marine Biologist, ended with a scene at Monk’s diner as George recounted his adventure.

That episode managed to have multiple arcs with a unique denouement and simple gag at the end.

The next day at school we couldn’t shut up about it.

bbbhltz, 1 month ago

Username checks out

bbbhltz, 1 month ago

Ebook reader for me too. It would be hard not to bring my DAP, but that only has a 13 hours battery. My old Kobo, though, has hundreds of books plus some games like solitaire, sudoku and boggle.

bbbhltz, 1 month ago

J’ai déjà mangé des insectes. C’est une étudiante qui a apporté en cours un jour.

J’en ai vu dans quelques magasins bio mais je trouve ça cher.

Mais, le jour où je peux en acheter je le fais. Pour la planète, bien sûr, mais aussi pour embêter ma belle mère qui croit dans les théories du complot autour de ce sujet.

bbbhltz, 1 month ago

Oui. J’en avais mais avec mon frère nous les avons perdues… Et je les ai revues en Espagne il y a quelques années chez la belle famille

bbbhltz, 1 day ago

My nieces and nephew had iPads at 4

My nephew plays COD. He is 8. He sleeps with his iPad.

The nieces are are 6 and 11. They are obsessed with tiktok.

My son is 7 and goes to school with kids that have iPhones.

And my son only watches screens when we are supervising. He watches a lot of TV and plays Switch games though. Never phones and we don’t have a tablet or any of the streaming stuff.

It is very hard not to give in.