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z3rOR0ne, 4 hours ago

Gotta love that George Carlin bit. Though I prefer another one.

z3rOR0ne, 4 months ago

Fuck this is pathetic and sad. If you want a thriving (or at least a functioning) society, then provide the infrastructure and nonprofit services necessary to ensure at least a baseline of individual needs are met (food, access to clean running water, shelter, access to education).

It’s obvious that these fascists don’t want this. They wrongly believe they can provide this kind of society by doubling down on capitalism, which can only exist in a society where needs are solely provided in exchange for wage slavery. Poverty, homelessness, as well as the unregulated ultrawealthy are a necessary part of this dynamic.

Now they want to push even more people they don’t like into prisons…here…in America… already with the largest for profit prison system in the world. Its obvious that if they had their way, they’d just bring the gas chambers back up and claim it’s humane when in actuality it’d just be for profit (as well as for their own sick shits and giggles). Yet somehow, we all know that even with these obvious holocaust callbacks, they’d still claim they aren’t fucking fascists.

WTFF.

z3rOR0ne, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Truthfully, the way I cut out most of the noise everywhere is to search using duckduckgo lite on Librewolf/Mull browsers. That with ublock origin (and block cookie banners), noscript, and redirection extensions to nojs alternatives like libreddit, scribe, invidious, along with putting various bypass paywall scripts into ublock’s filter list. It all just adds up to an overall better experience with fast, to the point results.

z3rOR0ne, 3 months ago

The GrapheneOS team has written extensively on why they advise against the use of Firefox in their Usage Guide.

z3rOR0ne, 3 months ago

Just be aware of the supported devices for GrapheneOS, as the older Pixels may not receive updates.

z3rOR0ne, 4 hours ago

Jesus…so let’s do a count now… OpenAI has deals with Microsoft, Apple, Google, Reddit, StackOverflow…just…wow

z3rOR0ne, 8 hours ago

Yeah, it’s still worrisome. This makes Firefox a lynchpin for whether ad blocking works for the foreseeable future on the whole web.

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago

Well, I don’t know if it’ll be maintained long term considering the disclaimer at the top of the README, but the PhotoGIMP plugin has always kept the interface consistent for me, and I’ve had it installed working well for 3.5 years now.

github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago

It does change the keyboard shortcuts to mimic Photoshop’s and it also changes the UI including icons. I don’t know, I like it better than the GIMP defaults.

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago

Hey, you guys know any good alternatives to Lemmy? Lol.

z3rOR0ne, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Check your location by Searching ”whats my IP address?" Search engines should show it at the top of the results along with your ISP location. If using a VPN, that should show the different location you set it to.

If ONLY Google is showing your true location and your search is showing a different one, then yeah, Google is possibly using a previously known location.

z3rOR0ne, 5 days ago

Not to this extent, but I’m still under 100 hours of overall gameplay (only on like my 7th death). I just mark houses I’ve already looted, particularly large hordes to avoid, and resources I can’t take at the moment but plan to come back for later.

It’s cool seeing what other players do though. Thanks for the inspiration.

z3rOR0ne, 1 day ago

Lol, yeah I know it’s definitely not for everybody.

z3rOR0ne, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

I’ve been on BSPWM for nearly 2 years now. Custom scripts and keybindings all over the place. My workflow is so customized and keyboard centric with this TWM. Vim bindings in the terminal, Vimium in the browser, and a heavily customized Neovim Text Editor with Espanso Text expander global keybindings every where… Not to mention a 55 key split Ortholinear Keyboard with custom firmware…yeah… My hands almost never touch my mouse except to game.

z3rOR0ne, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Nah, didn’t go that far (yet), just heavily edited a qmk_firmware configuration. So yeah, I’ll admit I didn’t exactly write my own keyboard firmware.

I have the soldering tools ready for when I have time to learn. Sadly I only have time for software lately, and hardware/firmware has had to take a back seat.

Customizing your workflow around the keyboard is a helluva drug though! If it weren’t for Vim being configured for QWERTY out of the box, I’d probably configure a COLEMAK or DVORAK setup as well.

I’d encourage you to go as far down the rabbit hole as you’re comfortable, the learning curve can slow you down initially, but the dividends pay off in the long run imho.

Here’s a pic of my current setup. The keyboard is prebuilt (Voyager ZSA), just with custom firmware. Couple clamps keep it vertical for ergonomics.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/fd8a4ae9-d223-4909-8925-fded9557c5e4.jpeg

z3rOR0ne, 1 day ago

Honestly my first olkb was the Planck from DROP. A 40% keyboard where the numbers and symbols are each on their own separate layer. The defaults on the Voyager were very clunky IMHO, so I simply switched them to the defaults of the Planck, including moving the home row up one whole row. This left a few spare keys as the Voyager is a 55 key, so I simply added two Super keys instead of one as well as a few other duplicates.

I’ve also heard of some interesting workarounds for using Vim with Colemack/Dvorak. It is funny, when I first discovered OLKBs, I kept encouraging people to use them, and I still do. Same with Vim. But ultimately I get why people don’t. I’m so used to this workflow now, going back to a standard keyboard feels clunky and slow, and I’d imagine my setup feels awkward and alien to most if not all other people.

But it’s uniquely mine and I can type 100wpm if I am on a roll with his setup.

The clamps are a hilarious accident that happened to work for me. I was experimenting with different ways to get that near 90° angle shoulder width apart, and this was the3 soluuon I haphazardly stumbled on.

Glad you like it/find it entertaining! I wish you well in finding what works for you! ✌️

z3rOR0ne, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Damn…makes me want to take the time to pirate games I already bought and own…

And then write it in my will that those who inherit my few earthly possessions have to play through each of my games at least once in front of a lawyer in order to receive their inheritance. Lol, I kid, 😂…or am I 😈?

z3rOR0ne, 5 days ago

Damn…I want one. Utiini!

z3rOR0ne, 3 months ago

They are paying 2/3rds of their income from a 80 hour warehouse job for a 1 futon closet in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, and then being told they are living too frivolously by assholes.

z3rOR0ne, 1 month ago

So if I’m reading this correctly, three of them have already been patched and the other has also been patched, but has an optional config flag you must enable to enable the patch and fix the security vulnerability?

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago

Yeah, Fedora has the closest I’ve seen to this, as they do a rolling release distribution cycle, but with a major update every year. It’s still too hands on for the average Windows user from what I’ve seen.

That said, in the particular case of the Fedora upgrade, I’ll admit I get lazy in the other direction. If I can accomplish a task from the terminal, 99.9% of the time, I’ll do it simply because it’s exponentially faster.

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago

Ah BSD, the OS that probably doesn’t have an NSA backdoor in it because it’s just not worth their time, lol.

z3rOR0ne, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Most desktop computer users want a system that works out of the box, never breaks, and hides away the complexity behind a “we’re doing magic under the scenes, give us a second” style screen.

And it appears that some distros, like Ubuntu, Mint, and PopOS, ElementaryOS, and ZorinOS, have either outright achieved this lofty goal or gotten very close (I am on Artix and haven’t used these for any considerable amount of time but from the outside it looks like they’ve done so).

From my limited perspective, it appears the main reason behind noob friendly distros being even possible is the long release cycle of their base distro, Debian. Thusly configuration scripts for these variants are easier to upkeep than on Arch based distros because there simply isn’t this rapid fire bleeding edge schedule that needs to be kept up on Debian.

I’m not opposed to recommending Arch for computer savvy noobs to Linux, even those that aren’t necessarily familiar with the command line. As long as they show a genuine willingness to learn it over time. Especially if they want to be an engineer/ developer of any kind, they should become familiar with the command line regardless of which OS they use.

But if they’re a normie, who just wants to try Linux because they’re tired of MacOS or Windows and just want a simple OS that they can use for basic office tasks, browsing the web, answering emails, playing video games, watching videos, etc., then don’t send them down the Arch rabbit hole. They’ll simply not want to spend the time figuring it out and they’ll just go back to Windows or MacOS. Recommend they try ElementaryOS, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, ZorinOS, or PopOS depending on their use case.

Arch requires constant maintenance and a bit of discernment/vigilence to keep going and that’s something most users aren’t willing to go through.

It’s like getting people to learn how to drive vs becominng your own mechanic. Sure, people are willing to learn to drive, they can immediately see the value in it, they want to get to places and have their own autonomy. But Arch is becoming your own mechanic (with Gentoo being like also being your own machinist). Most people don’t want to be their own mechanic, most of the time they just want to drive from point A to point B.