Look, we know System76 laptops are based as fuck. I mean, Coreboot, Open source firmware, PopOS, and a fucking open source mobo in the works, just so fucking based....
About support: I have a Framework laptop. With my initial shipment I received a defective Ethernet expansion port. The failure was difficult to identify, but support was incredibly responsive and helpful. Once it was confirmed the issue was due to a defective Ethernet card (which took some investigative effort), a replacement was shipped immediately.
All this to say that, if you live in a supported country in the EU, I see no reason that people may find their support lacking.
“I was raising my hand as if to say, ‘I’m about to die; someone save me,’” Tim “Fireball” Lawrence says. He was about to drown in a swimming pool. While wearing a Yoshi costume, no less....
AITA for ripping up wildflowers and stirring up the Karen brigade?
I'll try to keep this short. A local dog park has three areas, two of which are for large/ active dogs. The front area is watered, grass, and maintained. The back area is gravel, and the weeds are allowed to grow at will. This part of the park is surrounded by empty fields on three sides, so the weeds are plentifully available.
Some of these weeds are wild sunflowers, which I enjoyed until my dog got stabbed by the dried up stems last year. One stab wound was 12 inches deep, running along the inside of her skin and over the muscle and bone. You could see her ribs in the gash. That was about $800 to fix. The second was more superficial, so I treated it myself. That second time was when I realized what caused the injury.
So this year, not wanting any dogs to be injured again, I started slowly ripping up the seedlings as they came in. No one has ever asked me about it.
This morning, there was a red marker laminated sign hole punched and zip tied to the fence saying "Please don't pick the sunflowers, other people enjoy them."
I laughed it off, and grabbed a couple more sprouts as I was picking up my and others' dogs' poop. A woman passing by said to me "did you see the sign?"
I said "yes, it's hilarious," and explained why I was removing them.
She said "well, MY dogs enjoy them."
I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but as she walked away, I realized it must have been her and this other old lady at the park that I've had situations with before. The other lady started taking pictures or video of me and my dogs.
There are no policies or laws posted against what I'm doing that I know of. I reached out to the park office this morning to ask if I should stop, so hopefully they will hear my message and I'll get some info from them.
In the meantime, am I a raging AH? It never occurred to me that people would get upset about removing a hazard like that until this "confrontation."
@AnalogyAddict I would say soft YTA, as you're saying there is a whole other area for active dogs without weeds, so let the dog play there while awaiting an answer from the park office.
Other people and wildlife definitely do appreciate the presence of flowers like these. What may be a hazard to your dog might not be a hazard to other dogs. When the park office explicitly allows you to remove the plants, then you're NTA.
This struck me too, if you're relying on instruments that exist in a universe where its constants are changing to measure those constants, then it seems very natural to me that your measurements would not necessarily change.
The constants instruments use to measure other constants might change at the same rate, leaving measurement results constant.
Then again, I'm not a physicist, so I'm nowhere near an expert.
If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.
Actually, if you're interested, gaming on Linux is great nowadays.
Nvidia GPUs are not really well supported, but they work.
However, if you game using Intel integrated graphics or an AMD GPU, the performance is perfect.
On steam I have yet to encounter a game that does not run well using Proton.
Is there anyway we could combine all the best aspects of these awesome UserScript and UserStyle enhancements into a single super script? If so, this could potentially be reworked for a pull request to the kbin project as a whole.
You can probably just combine all the separate css files into one big css file.
Reworking it as a pull request should also be possible, however these "improvements" should probably be optional to the user so it will require lots more work to design a settings screen to enable/disable certain aspects while having it be comprehensible.
One way I've been able to (slightly) reduce waste is by buying jars of toothpaste rather than buying it in plastic tubes. Glass jars can be re-used or recycled.
I ask because I like console, but at the same time have difficulties remembering all the commands. I'd like to try a GUI that is comfortable to use with only a keyboard....
True, I think AI has the biggest potential of changing our lives in the near future. I don't think we are anywhere near generalised AI right now, but even the current LLVMs have amazing capabilities. I think there may be many ways we can apply these AIs that we haven't thought of yet.
Now here's to hoping that these AIs won't be monopolised by corporations but instead stay available to the general public.
So hopefully I'm doing this right! :) (I'm still new to some of this so haven't figured out things yet! I did ask this via Mastodon also, but wanted to add more detail to my answer!)...
For me it's Outer Wilds. It's a kind of space exploration/deduction game where you fly around in your ship at your own pace and explore what you want to explore. After a while you discover that there are small mysteries that all point to a central giant mystery and you start uncovering that by experimenting with the mechanics and discovering new places.
It's seriously amazing but you can only ever truly experience its mystery once.
I used Visual Studio Code for a while and it was pretty good, it was able to do near everything that I wanted it to do.
However, at some point I kept running into some issues with the autocompletion function (intellisense) and the documentation it shows on functions you're typing. These popups appear underneath the line you edit and kept obscuring code that I wanted to be able to see.
I could not find a setting to move these popups without disabling Intellisense in its entirety, which annoyed me to no end.
That's why I finally bit the bullet and switched to EMACS a few months ago and while it's a little less stable, it allows me to configure whatever and however I want to configure. In addition, it allows me to do many things other than programming in the same application. I read my emails in EMACS, I keep to-do lists and agenda in EMACS, I (used to) read Reddit from EMACS. There are lots of possibilities.
EMACS by itself is a very barebones experience, I installed DOOM EMACS, a framework which installs and configures many things for you out-of-the-box, which is very handy for getting started. One potential caveat is that DOOM is designed for vim keybindings which can be difficult to get accustomed to (I love them, though). The vim keybindings can be disabled, though I'm sure there are also other frameworks which take a non-vim approach.
It can be difficult to get started in, but for me EMACS is extremely rewarding.
Edit: I program in Typescript with React, Java, PostgreSQL and Rust all from within EMACS
When I first started reading, I started with individual books from my father's collection. Back then, I certainly liked the books but they didn't suck me in.
Years later, I remembered the discworld and thought I should read one or two of them again, so I went online and searched for what order people recommended reading them in. I settled on the chronological order. This time, the books absolutely sucked me in and I read nothing other than Discworld for two years. There is just something great about the gradual expanding of scope of the world and characters, seeing how the characters keep returning in one-another's stories.
If they're willing to try a few books, I would just start them off at the Colour of Magic.
However, if they want to commit to only one book, I would suggest one of the stand-alones to them and if they enjoyed that, then point them to CoM.
It's been a while since I last read the books but Thief of Time has always stood out to me as one of my favourites. To me it's a great introduction to the deeply ludicrous scenarios that Pratchett could write. I would recommend that one as a first stand-alone.
So, to get this started: Hardcore barefoot or minimalist shoes? At home it's barefoot for me, and outside usually minimalist shoes. Concrete is just uncomfortable to walk on.
@courts I do a mix. At home always barefoot. During the workweek minimalist shoes. If I go out on the weekends for a short walk in the neighbourhood, I usually go barefoot.
The concrete was definitely uncomfortable the first two times, but I got used to it really quickly. Now it actually feels kinda nice.
System76 or Framework laptop?
Look, we know System76 laptops are based as fuck. I mean, Coreboot, Open source firmware, PopOS, and a fucking open source mobo in the works, just so fucking based....
Behind The Dangerous Stunts Of Nintendo’s Iconic Mario Commercials (www.gameinformer.com)
“I was raising my hand as if to say, ‘I’m about to die; someone save me,’” Tim “Fireball” Lawrence says. He was about to drown in a swimming pool. While wearing a Yoshi costume, no less....
[bspwm] figured I should bring my best post from reddit (i.imgur.com)
Could the expanding Universe truly be a mirage? (bigthink.com)
A cute mathematical trick can "rescale" the Universe so that it isn't actually expanding. But can that "trick" survive all our cosmic tests?
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (www.theverge.com)
If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.
One Mega-Script?
Is there anyway we could combine all the best aspects of these awesome UserScript and UserStyle enhancements into a single super script? If so, this could potentially be reworked for a pull request to the kbin project as a whole.
Toothpaste in jar
One way I've been able to (slightly) reduce waste is by buying jars of toothpaste rather than buying it in plastic tubes. Glass jars can be re-used or recycled.
Is anyone here using a GUI for git? If yes - which one and why?
I ask because I like console, but at the same time have difficulties remembering all the commands. I'd like to try a GUI that is comfortable to use with only a keyboard....
Which current technology has the most potential?
Which will explode in the near future in your opinion and why?
it makes just as little sense to me (programming.dev)
I really do love the fun IDE colors....
OC I don't know where else to put this childishness.
What's your favorite 3rd person games (no 1st person)?
3rd person perspective is my favorite way to play. what are some of your favorite third person games?
Is there a computer game, or a specific moment, a fight etc that you wish you could do fresh with no prior memory of it?
So hopefully I'm doing this right! :) (I'm still new to some of this so haven't figured out things yet! I did ask this via Mastodon also, but wanted to add more detail to my answer!)...
We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less (ploum.net)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698...
How is Visual Studio?
So I started my coding journey with Python about 2 years ago. I primarily used IDLE which was super bare bones but was perfect for my needs....
OC Reading Order for the Discworld Series
One of the oldies but goodies....
To start us off: my main keeb at the moment, a 3D printed and handwired Iris!