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tin

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My gender is liminal, I'm just passing through.
:flag_trans: :nonbinary_flag:
she/her; ae/aer

Former Hare Krishna, Trekkie, digital minimalist, EOS enjoyer, Vim evangelist, Chaos Buddhist, statistician. Not necessarily in that order.

Links at https://tntgl.cc

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thelinuxcast, to random
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I need a good email client that isn't thunderbird or mailspring or any of the other old ass crusty email clients that all suck. Seriously, why do we not have good email clients on Linux? Maybe I'm just asking too much

tin,
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@joel @thelinuxcast aerc's pretty good

thelinuxcast, to random
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I'm going to get cancelled by the GNU/Linux folks.

tin,
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@thelinuxcast Again? ;)

thelinuxcast, to random
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This is gonna be fun.

I’ve read some of her stuff before. And she’s a good author and historian. But she has a tendency to want to prove that she has the largest vocabulary by using words no one knows.

tin,
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@thelinuxcast That's a lot of ground to cover in a single volume.

thelinuxcast, to openSUSE
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The absolute biggest issue I have with is that the mirrors are horrible and the repos play games. Packages disappear on the repos you use and move to others, and then they seem to move back. It's a pain in the rear. --allow-vendor-change seems to help some, but errors still happen all the time.

tin,
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@thelinuxcast This was my biggest issue as well. The last time I tried to install OpenSUSE (last year), the repos were in such a state that I couldn't even update after installing. Definitely poor timing, but I hopped.

tin, to random
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Ah yes, just what earbuds needed. A touchscreen. https://www.engadget.com/jbl-brings-its-touchscreen-smart-case-to-three-new-wireless-earbud-models-130052055.html

bloodaxe, to Help
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I'm a bit frustrated right now...

I've tried to switch from GNOME to KDE on . But when I switched from GDM to SDDM, SDDM won't detect my Nordic keyboard layout. In other words, I can't log in to my PC whilst using SDDM 😑

The solutions I've found online have not helped me... Does anyone here have any idea what might be going on, and what the solution might be?

tin,
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@bloodaxe Admittedly I'm not a KDE user, but do you have to use SDDM with KDE? I would think you can use whatever display manager you want to launch a KDE session?

thelinuxcast, to random
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I kinda...like snaps?

There's something wrong with me.

tin,
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@thelinuxcast Is there a way around the slowness?

tin,
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@thelinuxcast Weird! I admittedly haven't used them but I've heard on Ubuntu they are sometimes painfully slow. Is OpenSUSE the difference?

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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16 GB at the minimum, if you ask me.

tin,
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@itsfoss Not me reading this on a laptop with 4GB... 👀

tin, to archlinux
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Had to chroot into my vanilla install today to reinstall the kernel. Not sure what went wrong, but something broke during the update. Was back up and running in a few minutes.

That install is a daily driver that's well over two years old at this point, first time I've ever had to chroot in to fix something on any of my / machines. Who's unstable?

thelinuxcast, to random
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So, Retro Gamers, tell me, is it natural to just want to download all the ROMs you find? lol

tin,
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@thelinuxcast Very much so. And for some systems, like the 2600, it's pretty easy to just have them all.

tin,
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@thelinuxcast ... tfw PS2 gaming counts as retro. I'll just be over here, moving into assisted living...

nixCraft, to linux
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nofetch is a minimal command-line tool for and .

tin,
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@nixCraft Finally, an app with no bloat.

thelinuxcast, to random
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The 8 Best Markdown Editors for Linux
https://flip.it/JpGP-F

tin,
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@thelinuxcast I find the lack of :vim: disturbing.

tin, to random
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In 2018 I finished my master's in mathematics and went straight into teaching (adjunct, college level, mostly stats). In May of 2022 I got a new job as an applied statistician, and that position came with a hefty dose of impostor syndrome.

Impostor syndrome could have cost me my job. Because I felt it so strongly, I lacked confidence and approached every task believing I wouldn't understand it before I started. I made mistakes because I wasn't paying attention.

1/

tin,
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I wasn't paying attention because I didn't feel like I had the expertise to do my job.

One day I had to have a serious heart to heart with my supervisor. He turned me around and I committed to being better.

Since then, I've been diving into projects with the conscious mindset that I do know what I'm doing... and surprisingly enough, I do. I have two degrees in this. It's just stats. It's bigger and deeper and messier stats, it's far more rigorous than academic stats, but its' stats.

2/

tin,
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I have little post-its to remind me of details to pay attention to. I approach every project with confidence.

I still have impostor syndrome. I always have a sinking in the pit of my stomach when I deliver a project. Did I miss something? Have I made a mistake?

But now I am told consistently that I'm doing excellent work. This morning I'm told that I "nailed it" on a particularly complex sampling allocation. It's incredibly gratifying, and yet I still have that fear.

3/

tin,
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I say all that to say this: if you have impostor syndrome, don't let that feeling become a source of self-sabotage.

Read. Study. If you feel behind the curve (like I did), catch up. Ask co-workers. Develop confidence.

You can have impostor syndrome, and all of that self-doubt, but trust yourself, and apply the skills you have. Be patient with yourself. Write reminders for yourself. Be your own nitpicker. Change your proofreading style. Slow down.

You've got this.

4/4

br00t4c, to free
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▶ Republican Congressman Admits Party Is In Shambles After Week Of Failures ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUY6sa-qjd8

tin,
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@br00t4c I'm sorry... "week"?

tin, to linux
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TIL a new trick: csplit.

I had a text file with 87 sections, which I wanted to split into 87 individual text files.

Each section was separated by the same pattern: "xxxxx" (to make it easy to hop from section to section in Vim.)

Was able to use the following command to automatically split the text into individual files:

csplit (filename) /(pattern)/ '{*}'

Worked like a charm.

man csplit for more stuff. Super handy.

tin, to linux
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I love the tinkering aspect of but after almost 2 years this Arch install has been so stable I don't really think about tinkering much. I'm happy with my setup. At most I'll change around color schemes, but that's just a matter of commenting / uncommenting some sections in config files.

In turn, I'm a little less active posting here than before, but I'm still around.

tin,
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@Wyatt Haha, I actually have a gentoo install on my to-do list. I was going to make installing gentoo my winter break project, but all of my laptops are low spec (puny celeron, 4GB of RAM) and that seemed like a Bad Idea. Once installed it'd work fine of course, but getting through the install in a reasonable time was daunting.

br00t4c, to Futurology
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Deepest Virus Ever Detected Unearthed by Scientists in the Mariana Trench

https://gizmodo.com/deepest-virus-ever-detected-found-in-the-mariana-trench-1850862204

tin,
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@br00t4c I look forward to the forthcoming trenchvirus pandemic.

thelinuxcast, to random
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Okay, so now I've tried Tutanota and Proton for an alternative to Gmail.

I like neither.

Tutanota was not great. I've talked about that in an upcoming blog post.

Proton has given me nothing but trouble with DNS. I can't receive mail from any outside account and have no clue what's going on. The DNS says that everything has cleared, but still no incoming direct mail. Maybe doing something wrong, but I don't know what it would be.

tin,
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@thelinuxcast That's odd for sure, I've never had any issues with Proton. You're using the web interface and not a third-party mail reader? You mention DNS - I guess that means you're trying to set it up with your own domain?

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@thelinuxcast Yup, if it's all green it should be all good.

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