Mereo

@Mereo@lemmy.ca

Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.

I transferred to this instance from https://lemmy.world. My previous profile: <a href="" rel="nofollow">https://lemmy.world/u/Mereo</a>

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Mereo,

It’s good to be a Canadian :)

Mereo,

I had numerous problems with Wayland when I had an NVIDIA video card. Since I switched to an AMD video card, it has been a blissful experience. Wayland now works perfectly.

I finally nuked windows

I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I...

Mereo,

I’m curious, how did it nuke your bios?

Mereo,

I currently use Akregator. Which one do you prefer?

Mereo,

sigh. Most people will just accept the new default permissions without blinking an eye. They’re taking advantage of people’s ignorance.

Mereo,

Thank God I switched to Linux. Windows 11 is a glimpse of what’s coming in Windows 12.

Mereo,

Very insightful! /s

Mereo,

Because of Valve, Linux is finally my main OS. I’m a PC gamer and it was a pain in the ass to dual-boot between Windows and Linux.

Mereo,

The story behind Senerenity OS is quite amazing:

It was October 2018 and I had just completed a 3-month rehab program at a state addiction clinic in Sweden. I was unemployed, staying with family, and had basically nothing going on.

With no drugs or other vices to pass the time, the days seemed impossibly long. I struggled to find activities to fill them. I enrolled in school for a while, but it wasn’t for me this time either. Eventually I turned to programming, since it’s always been my big interest in life.

Until that point, my career had been focused on web browsers (WebKit at Apple & Nokia). However, I had always been interested in low-level things so I began tinkering with some of that. I wrote a little ELF executable parser… And an Ext2 filesystem browser… And a little GUI framework with an event loop…

Out of this tinkering, an operating system began to take shape. I chose the name SerenityOS because I wanted to always remember the Serenity Prayer. I was quite worried about my future at the time, and I figured that this name would help me stay on the good path.

My general idea was to build my own dream system for daily use. It would be a combination of my two favorite computing paradigms: the 1990s GUI and the no-nonsense command-line of late-2000s Unix.

Source: …substack.com/…/i-quit-my-job-to-focus-on-serenit…

Mereo,

For the life of me, I don’t understand why they rebranded themselves. HBO is such a recognized brand. I was confused at first about what Max was.

Mereo,

I hope that was a sarcasm, if so, add /s.

Mereo,

It’s the internet, you never know. In person, by how the person behaves, you know if he’s being sarcastic or not. On the internet, not so much. It’s just text and I’ve seen people who were quite serious.

Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I used to check the front page at least once every day, and occassionally check specific subreddits. Now I don’t look at reddit unless theres some drama, like mods getting purged, then I’d go there and enjoy the drama. Occasionally there will be questions that only reddit has the answer to so I have to reluctantly use it. I...

Mereo, (edited )

Block the communities you don’t want to see in your profile settings. That way, you’ll see more meaningful posts. That’s what I did, I blocked all memes communities.

Mereo,

Yeesh. That’s like hating Windows because your experience is based on Windows 98. A lot of things has changed since then, a LOT.

Mereo,

My grandfather used to tell me: “What I know is that I know nothing”. He used to tell me that even in his old age, he was still amazed by the things he discovered, just like a child. That taught me to always be humble and to understand the point of view of others and to always learn in life. So I will always remember this quote.

Mereo,

Haha, he must have been. We always had interesting philosophical discussions.

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