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ianp5a

@ianp5a@mastodon.cloud

#Munich #Muenchen

Shape #Design aesthetic #Drawing (see paisley header)
#Photography #3D #cad #parametric modelling, #Linux

#Bike #Cycle commute
Strategic #usability, fixing the digital mess
#Damaging the planet

#Beerfest #Beergarden #Biergarten #Beer

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LateNightLinux, to random
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What's the best non-mainstream Linux distro?

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ianp5a,
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@LateNightLinux
Solus!
Yeah, you'd forgotten about that one, hey?

ianp5a, (edited )
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@Pantherina @diazona @louis_sch
Having an option to choose should keep twice as many people happy. The markdown apps I use, don't show any formatting marks, and have style icons. Lots of us outside the IT world are used to this wysiwyg way.

LateNightLinux, to random
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What's pulling you away from open source, and what will pull you back?

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ianp5a, (edited )
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@LateNightLinux proprietary CAD software is a very, very long way ahead of FOSS CAD. The differences in usability being so great as to be unusable for many tasks. Only those who use simple sketch+pad blocks seem to be OK.

jon, to random
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And yes, I hate the ‘discussion’ about short haul flight bans.

The idea in principle is fine, but the crux is HOW you do it and WHAT you ban (France bans very, very little) - but the number of people going “ooooooh can we have the same here?" massively outweighs the number of people who’ve examined the ineffectiveness of France's ban

ianp5a,
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@trantion @jon
The soft-start ban means you improve the likelihood of getting it introduced with less resistance.
But it also means you have time to find and ramp up the pain points before tightening the ban. Green alternatives are often not available for the many new green laws heading our way.
The DE farmers might not have made such a huge fuss about losing Diesel subsidies if there was easy green alternatives all ready to go. Decades of previous, coal burning, governments to blame of course

ianp5a,
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@jon @trantion Right. I'm assuming it's easier to adjust the travel time, over time. By then, airlines will certainly have re-arranged operations to minimise costs, and plan for the next steps as they see the way things are going.

ianp5a,
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@jon @trantion
I have to try to squeeze in optimism, at every chance I can get these days. It's not easy.

slashdot, to random
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'Microsoft Stole My Chrome Tabs, and It Wants Yours, Too' https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/01/30/1824233/microsoft-stole-my-chrome-tabs-and-it-wants-yours-too?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

ianp5a,
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@slashdot Microsoft would be very clever if they manage to steal my Vivaldi tabs, when I update Linux.

ianp5a,
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@orbitz @m4
I just install stuff on Kubuntu without knowing for which environment it was created. It's possible that Kubuntu has the necessary Gnome support files to make it all work. I added other app stores too. It all just seems to work without me needing to know how.

ianp5a, to photography
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Taken on a compact Canon camera from inside a taxi in 2012, then processed in to enhance the mood on a very dull day.

kde, (edited ) to windows
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Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades?

Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

@kde

ianp5a,
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@Bro666 @holycrap
I install it from a USB stick. It's not hard. Last time that took me less than 10 minutes. I'm not an IT person, never using the command line or any IT things.
Linux is not perfect, but very usable. The distro I use looks after itself. If anything does mess up, I can simply reinstall.

slashdot, to random
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Scientists Think They've Found 'Blobs' From Planet that Collided with Earth to Form the Moon https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/11/06/0049251/scientists-think-theyve-found-blobs-from-planet-that-collided-with-earth-to-form-the-moon?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

ianp5a,
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@slashdot If the alien eggs, leftover from that planet, withstood the heat, they should start hatching just about now. And burrow up into the sewers. Worrying.

popey, to random
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Never seen them so big.

ianp5a,
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@popey Unfeasibly huge!

cliffwade, (edited ) to fediverse
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Were you an active user of Google+(Google Plus)?

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the

Comment below with how you used it the most and if you miss it or not!

ianp5a,
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@cliffwade They tried to bully us into joining G+ to get their user numbers up. They stopped letting android users review apps without joining G+.
I didn't join. It yet was another centralised network, which would have gone toxic like all the others. A piece of poisoned history.

thelinuxcast, to random
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So ask for good hashtags for cars, get shamed for liking cars. Got it.

Good job, Mastodon.

ianp5a, (edited )
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@thelinuxcast
Statistically, it could be due to the sheer enormity of the problem cars and drivers cause, means there is bound to be a huge push back. With Mastodon people really at the cusp.

vsaw, to random
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Oddly specific…

ianp5a,
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@vsaw I entered 0:00, but by the time I printed it out, a minute had passed.

wonderofscience, (edited ) to random
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An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.

Video credit: Usherwood et al.
Source: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/223/3/jeb214809/223686/High-aerodynamic-lift-from-the-tail-reduces-drag

ianp5a,
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@wonderofscience
I too put up helium bubbles, but still the owls get in!

rolle, to twitter
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Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-considers-removing-x-platform-europe-over-eu-law-insider-2023-10-18/

#X

ianp5a,
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@rolle
Do it!
Do it!
Do it!

Europe without that cess pit will have a better chance to move forward.

Sure the bottom feeder, Twitter users will moan. But they are part of the cause of the problem in the first place.

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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Democracy needs more than two parties. If you only have two, it ultimately means there's only one. The US is a prime example for that. The UK a close second. Democracy needs compromises. Which can be complicated. As an EU cititzen I know how complicated it can get. But I prefer the chaos over simplicity that reduces options. Especially in a world where the public opinion is formed on very few platforms that are owned by billionaires that don't care about democratic principles. Good night.

ianp5a,
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@jwildeboer 2-Party, First past the post voting means, you just need to spread misinformation about the 'other side' to win an election. It also effectively kills all other parties. And makes extremes out of the "main 2". It kills real choice. The US shows us how bad it can get. FPTP there, caused the culture wars, and the complete us-versus-them, hate politics. The UK will go the same way.
If you don't have a real choice, it's not real democracy.

jon, to random
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Welcome to Autumn 2023 Day 19, 17 Oct, Berlin - München - Villach - Tarvisio - Jesenice - Ljubljana

Today I’m crossing these borders
Freilassing 🇩🇪 - Salzburg Taxham Europapark 🇦🇹
Arnoldstein 🇦🇹 - Tarvisio Boscoverde 🇮🇹
Fusine Laghi 🇮🇹 - Ratece-Planica 🇸🇮

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#6/49.375/12.700

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-19/

ianp5a,
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@jon Broken seat reservations happened to me once. It appeared as all seats were free. We got in early and picked seats together. Later when the train was full, people with reservations turned up and demanded their seat. Incompetent, blundering DB made us go search for, presumably, unreserved seats. Which we might get thrown out of again. Horrible experience.

thelinuxcast, to random
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Raise your hand if your home directory is a mess. 🤚

ianp5a, (edited )
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@thelinuxcast
Yes 🤚. Except it's not 'my' home folder. It's the 'systems' home folder. I never use it, as it's a mess of unknown files from unknown apps. Even with files hidden.
I have to move all my folders to the Desktop folder, which is all mine.
Linux culture doesn't understand that a users space is a personal space, not to be stomped on by the OS.

jon, to random
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Can we have a go at translating Enshitiffication into French and German?

Here’s the Wikipedia page about it in English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Note “emmerder" in French is obviously NOT correct…

ianp5a,
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@jon
The Turd Reich.

(this post is just to point out a linguistic fluke for this context)

popey, (edited ) to random
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The correct number of bacon slices to go in a bacon sandwich is:

ianp5a,
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@popey We can only get bacon that is tiny after frying.
Perhaps poll:
1 layer of bacon
1.5 layers (partly overlapping case)
2 layers of bacon
More than 2 layers

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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The (Rotary Un-SmartPhone) kit has arrived! The weekend will be fun! Will I be able to put it all together? Will it work? We shall see! More info: https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html

ianp5a,
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@jwildeboer It looks dystopian. It would fit right in the film Brazil.

jon, to random
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Public transport journey planning has a public purpose - get people efficiently to their destination.

This planning function might not have financial compensation - there might be no ticket sale involved.

The likes of Trainline then have very little incentive as I see it to provide excellent journey planning. But if they can’t, and the likes of DB won’t, internationally… then who can?

#WorldPassengerFestival

ianp5a,
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@schotanus @jon If a private business is running a monopoly like service, then their incentive is to cut costs, not provide a better service. As people can't immediately go elsewhere, and sales won't change much.

ianp5a,
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@schotanus @jon If passengers can't choose a different service for a journey, as one company has the franchise, that is monopolistic. And you rely on their priorities. It's the same with a public organisation. But their priorities can be defined to be in the interests of passengers and not shareholders.

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