Crunkle_Foreskin

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

I'd recommend that you stop using Flatpak immediately, it's a horrific security nightmare.

https://flatkill.org

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

I really need to try it out sometime.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

Enlightenment has a fantastic feature set and some very interesting ways of using a Linux desktop.

But...the themes are just so 2005. It's hard to look past that, or at least make it a little bit 2015 at the least.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

Fedora 30 - 36 were phenomenal releases and I mostly used them, recommended them elsewhere.

I had to start using the Spins because the default GNOME desktop is just becoming unusable. Stripping functionality to make it prettier, not fixing longstanding issues.

Then Fedora had that kerfuffle with the licensing issues with codecs, and I couldn't play a certain type of HEVC video that the vast majority of my video library is encoded in.

Then, more recently, I had issues with Python in their repos. That was the last straw. I'll definitely check it out again in a few years to see if they've fixed a lot of these problems, but I wouldn't recommend the distro in its current state.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

I used it for a year a year or so ago and changed for some reason. Recently did a fresh install and I am seriously unable to think why I left it.

It's insanely fast, performant, resource-friendly and much more community driven than other distros with the void-packages repository on GitHub. Oh, and it doesn't have systemd so my install boots in 3 seconds flat, compared to the 22 seconds for Fedora 38.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

Wayland also has much slower results when playing games or rendering. Sometimes up to a 20% reduction compared to X.

I don't like using X, but Wayland isn't ready for power users yet. I don't think people generally would notice the difference.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

Absolutely Fedora. I found NixOS to be over-engineered.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

I really hope this isn't just another Budgie DE which uses core GNOME tech. Reassuring to see the new Rust code.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

After the amount of capeshit that's been coming out of Hollywood in the past 10 years, this can only be a benefit.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

I don't doubt some of the execs made dreadful decisions (look at history: Alien 3, Suicide Squad are notable examples).

But writers should know the basics about dialogue.

Let AI generate the monthly hero releases. Let talented writers make thoughtful, provocative and beautiful film. It'll only make those experiences more special.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

Uhh, so that just happened...

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

If there's any rich screenwriters on here who got sad because I criticised paying $20 for a ticket to watch their sub-par work, I do apologise.

Film critics in the 70s and 80s were pretty brutal and can roundly deconstruct incompetency better than I ever could.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

What about those dried wood snacks?

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/oak-bark

Ohh, so it seems like bark is edible but wood isn't. Definitely chimes with other answers above.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

Void Linux. It doesn't have the heavy SystemD, starts off with a simple XFCE environment.

Not to mention the incredibly fast XBPS package manager.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

For a beginner, maybe not. But I'd probably suggest it over something like Arch just because of the excellent installer, amazing community and healthy ecosystem of packages.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

This is actually brilliant news.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

Totally agree. I've had an Asus motherboard and an Asus router. The mobo turned up completely dead and the router was completely ruined. Wouldn't boot, kept flashing.

Never buying Asus hardware ever again.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

AppImage is a lot better than Flatpak because it isn't a walking security nightmare (http://flatkill.org).

But yeah, I got a build working with the PR. I'm not on my computer right now, but it's a pinned PR in the GitHub issues for the WebCord project. You go to the fork with the branch, you run a couple of quick npm commands and then you can do a build.

I did have to remove a few of the package makers because they'd set it up to do a .deb build, and I haven't used apt in years. I vaguely think they had a Flatpak or a Snapcraft package maker in there too, but I don't use those.

You run the make and package commands which you can find in the package.json file, then it outputs a built application for you.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

WebCord is a working native solution.

The Devs had also upgraded a lot of Electron stuff and security problems that the official Discord client doesn't do, as well as fix a lot of bugs and issues that Discord haven't bothered with.

Oh, and if you're using KDE Plasma, it uses the Qt file picker and not the GTK one.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

I totally agree, the American system is awful. Germany, on the other hand, has the most beds per person in the G7. Fully insurance driven.

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

Yeah, like Nazis are scared of you.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/410/015/531.jpg

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

Yeah, made a huge mistake there

Crunkle_Foreskin, 10 months ago

The main problem I had was that newer HP printers require it to be connected to the network using their mobile software, which was pretty janky and froze during the pairing process.