Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers – including Linus Torvalds – love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making an exception for the XPS 13 just because I liked it so much that I also ended up buying...
Earlier this year I was given one of those XPS machines with Ubuntu and decided to install Debian on it. The camera driver was so bad - I can’t remember technical details but you can’t simply get it to run on another kernel, it was a mess of hacks to get it to work. I decided I won’t get a camera driver. “We ship a laptop with Ubuntu” does not necessarily mean working Linux drivers.
EDIT: To add insult to injury, the touch bar suddenly decided to stop responding to input. It’s already bad enough to not have tactile feedback for Esc / Fn keys / Delete / Print Screen.
You needed: kernel driver, closed source userspace driver, GStreamer plugin, v4l2 loopback driver, v4l2 relay daemon copying frames from the GStreamer source into v4l2 loopback. Technically I could have made it work, I just decided not to.
Oh yes, I completely agree with you! And it’s in a large percentage of herbal/fruit mixes so they’re out of the question for me. I wonder how it became so popular, isn’t it sour for everyone else too?
No, I commute in jeans. Makes it super hard to find high-waist jeans that are narrow at the bottom and also have a certain degree of elasticity, so when I find them I buy a lot.
@privacyguides@privacy would really love to ditch my smartphone for a dumb phone. I’m skeptical that my calls would no longer be #E2EE I’ve seen the Punky phone that uses Pigeon for messaging but idk about that price 😅 Any thoughts? #privacy#signal
Having a hobby that’s considered embarrassing or childish
Having a psycho stalker
Buying a present from Santa
A reporter who doesn’t want to reveal their sources
Buying a toilet and you don’t want toilet recommendations for the rest of your life
Lending your computer to someone, and you don’t want your recommended videos to change
Under an NDA
… Or maybe you’re talking with someone who’s in one of those categories.
We have to normalise privacy in order to keep these people safe. For instance, it’s a stupid example but it works, if I always use private browser windows, my husband won’t suspect anything when I’m looking for a gift for him.
That’s only the tip of the iceberg and it’s not even touching some bigger problems:
You can be profiled based on your likes, social media posts, purchase history, etc, and maybe used for election results manipulation, or who knows what else. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it has happened, see for instance Cambridge Analytica.
Maybe the political situation will change in the future. Oops, now your data is suddenly in the hands of a malicious dictator.
If you keep a backdoor open to let the “good and trusted” actors in, there’s no way to not let malicious actors in as well.
I hate Facebook but realized I can’t uninstall the bloatware Messenger app from my phone since I actually need it for Facebook Marketplace (I usually use it for selling second-hand stuff and looking for other products/services). Also I have plenty of friends there and it might be good to reconnect with some without dealing...
About 4 years ago I got a 13.3" Thinkpad laptop to replace an old Chromebook for portable development, and installed Arch + i3 on it (btw). After a bit of ricing the configs, it started feeling really homey. I love using workspaces here! They feel perfectly suited for laptop screens which have minimal space, allowing me to keep...
Fortunately everything was safe. We just barely managed to collect all our things from outside (apart from the jug, which we left on purpose), and the tent took absolutely no water inside.
Normally it takes two gaiwan-fuls to fill my mug. This time I brewed it both times with a bit less water, then cooled it down a bit by using another mug (pour it from one mug into the other, rinse the now empty mug with tap water, repeat), and at the end I topped it up with ice cubes....
Ah, no, this is some Internet slang, and oddly enough it comes from the first meaning. AFAIK, the second one doesn’t exist in Japanese.
Basically, “hahaha” in Katakana is written as ハハハ. If you line up enough ハハ’s, it will look like a series of ｗ’s. In chats, they use ｗ (from 笑い、warai) to denote laughter. If you line up enough ｗｗｗｗ’s, it looks like grass. That’s how 草 ended up meaning LOL.
@japaneselanguage I like how Japanese is simply structured. Especially as a programmer, I have been able to pick up Japanese due to how sentences are structured.
(I don't have a Japanese keyboard.)
watashi wa (
niji ni (
hirugohan o (
tabemasu
)
)
)
Everything can be broken into blocks which is really nice. This is what programming languages do, so this feels very natural to me.
My native language is English, but I am thinking of moving to Japan.
Oh yes, I completely agree with you! I was saying this exact thing to my sensei some time ago and she couldn't understand what I mean, despite knowing a few foreign languages herself, Japanese is her native language so she couldn't judge it from the perspective of someone learning it as a foreign language. But I also like how everything is well-structured and it's also not full of exceptions. My husband only started learning a few months ago but he also agrees!
How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') (www.zdnet.com)
Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers – including Linus Torvalds – love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making an exception for the XPS 13 just because I liked it so much that I also ended up buying...
What is your least favourite tea?
Chili teas are mine. Just angry hot water that hurts
Fashion is a weird thing (lemm.ee)
Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?
I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data....
Any open source wrapper for Facebook Messenger?
I hate Facebook but realized I can’t uninstall the bloatware Messenger app from my phone since I actually need it for Facebook Marketplace (I usually use it for selling second-hand stuff and looking for other products/services). Also I have plenty of friends there and it might be good to reconnect with some without dealing...
Workspaces / Virtual Desktops – do you use them on your laptop, desktop, or both?
About 4 years ago I got a 13.3" Thinkpad laptop to replace an old Chromebook for portable development, and installed Arch + i3 on it (btw). After a bit of ricing the configs, it started feeling really homey. I love using workspaces here! They feel perfectly suited for laptop screens which have minimal space, allowing me to keep...
My wife always wanted a child with an unusual spelling of a popular name
When we had our firstborn, she said, “How about we name him Mark, but with a C?”...
Camping-style cold brew tea (sh.itjust.works)
Camping-style cold brew (toot.cat)
We used a sencha flavoured with banana, mango, melon, etc: tea.gr/eshop/caribbean-cocktail/...
Throwback to when we got ~45mm of rain in 30min when camping (sh.itjust.works)
Fortunately everything was safe. We just barely managed to collect all our things from outside (apart from the jug, which we left on purpose), and the tent took absolutely no water inside.
Finally managed to combine cold tea with gong fu brewing
Normally it takes two gaiwan-fuls to fill my mug. This time I brewed it both times with a bit less water, then cooled it down a bit by using another mug (pour it from one mug into the other, rinse the now empty mug with tap water, repeat), and at the end I topped it up with ice cubes....
Couldn't get this wrong because there was only one option (lemmy.world)
What those sayings actually mean (sh.itjust.works)
Saw this one flying by on Discord....
Our summer home (sh.itjust.works)
Chalkidiki, Greece. We don’t spend the whole summer there, but go back and forth quite often.
A modest proposal (sh.itjust.works)
Source: twitter.com/ScriptingJapan/…/1673932232036319232
ナース (sh.itjust.works)
Source: twitter.com/kudo_70/status/1447140179504939016
New kanji just dropped (sh.itjust.works)
Source: https://twitter.com/tsudashin/status/1413733451488919555
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Shine! (sh.itjust.works)
The world stops functioning if there's no coffee (sh.itjust.works)
This one is a bit tricky, in fact. What it means to say in English is "when the coffee is empty, we won't refill it"....