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floofloof,

Cinnamon was where I had ended up too. So now I have a couple of Linux Mint/Cinnamon machines and a Tumbleweed/KDE machine. It surprised me that I like KDE more.

floofloof,

Looks neat but Adobe’s prices are always shockingly high.

floofloof,

They’ve learned from their mistakes, and concluded that Clippy failed because there was no Clippy key.

floofloof,

It still has a better selection than Netflix.

floofloof, (edited )

why I should bother

Bother to do what? As you said, when your distro switches you go with it and notice no difference. You don’t have to bother to do anything.

floofloof, (edited )

I hope Arturia don’t change. They are one of the most reasonable companies out there when it comes to licensing and pricing.

Licenses for hardware are a concerning trend, because it’s unnecessary, and because the terms are never made clear before purchase. I suspect it’s mainly there to sabotage the second hand market.

floofloof, (edited )

I do use JetBrains software. If subscriptions all agreed that when you cancel the subscription you can continue to use the latest version before you cancelled, I’d be prepared to consider them. Any software ought to be able to do this except software that uses significant server resources. I’d even consider rent-to-own where you get to keep the software after a certain number of payments. (Splice offers some music software like this.)

Roland have a ton of good software synthesizers but I will never subscribe to them because the moment you stop they take the whole lot away. Even their “lifetime license” requires an active Roland account and the software disappears if you ever close the account or they change their minds. Similarly I haven’t used any Adobe software since they went subscription only.

floofloof,

htop is nice but btop is best top.

floofloof,

Found the bug. Thank goodness for comments.

floofloof, (edited )

If you’re working with others, even simple code benefits from comments explaining what it’s intended to do. Sure you can read code and get a good idea of what it seems to do, but you can’t be sure that’s what it was meant to do, or why it was meant to do that. Having a quick statement from the author enables you to work faster. And if you find a mismatch between the comment and the code, it’s a smell that could mean a bug.

And for methods and functions it’s particularly helpful to have a description at the top. Many IDEs will pop this up when you’re using the method, so you can quickly confirm that it’s appropriate for your needs and get your arguments in the right order.

I even comment code for myself because it will save me time when I return to the project months later.

No comments would be fine if you could trust that everyone writes code that does what it’s intended to do and you can read code as quickly as you can read English. Maybe I’m a poor coder but I find neither of these is usually true.

floofloof,

There’s always Cryptomator too. VeraCrypt also works and syncs quickly.

floofloof,

To secure VNC you can tunnel it over SSH.

floofloof, (edited )

Run different virtual machines for different purposes. For example, you can have a VM that does all its networking over a VPN and downloads torrents in the background while you do other things. Or you can run other OSs in VMs.

Also, containerized software is everywhere now and it uses more resources. Extra memory helps.

floofloof,

I’m running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a Dell XPS 9360 with an 8th gen i7 and it works very well. Something similar should be within your budget.

floofloof, (edited )

With a regular phone they can also fairly accurately tell where you are, and read your texts. The main difference is the information goes to the carrier but not straight to Google or Apple.

floofloof,

Oh, those are arms. I thought the moustache was a bit too stylish for the character.

floofloof,

On Thursday afternoon a stabbing incident in Dublin saw three children and an adult injured near a school, which some people blamed on the government’s immigration policy.

Police say right-wing agitators were behind violent protests which followed the stabbing, bringing angry mobs onto the streets of the city centre, burning vehicles and smashing windows amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment.

I have my suspicions about where Musk’s sympathies lie.

Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread (www.cc.gatech.edu)

“More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.”

floofloof,

My favourites are the ones that let you set a 35-character password and, presumably, happily hash it and store it in the database, but then provide a login screen that requires passwords to be 20 characters or less.

floofloof, (edited )

Here’s a fuller account of what was said:

archive.is/Z9vMg

(Original URL: washingtonpost.com/…/3-elite-college-presidents-a…)

floofloof, (edited )

In my experience, every computer is faster with Linux than with Windows. But if this measures just the processor performance on similar tasks I guess it’s news.

floofloof,

So you want everyone to be able to go about their business except people who want to discuss things? Why don’t you go about your business? And how do people discussing things on the internet stop you?

floofloof,

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/a01d11ff-ff65-4318-bb3f-8305e13b39aa.jpeg

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Helped one child; killed 5,500 other children, as at November 22nd.

hrw.org/…/gaza-hostilities-take-horrific-toll-chi…

Of course it’s good to help a child, but this smells like a propaganda piece.

In total so far, “18,205 Palestinians have been killed, and 49,645 injured”:

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/…/ar-AA1lj5MP

floofloof,

It came as Gaza’s health ministry said that at least 15,899 Palestinians, 70% of them women or under 18s, have now been killed in Israeli air and artillery strikes on the enclave since Oct. 7. Thousands more are missing and feared buried in rubble.

Whatever this is, it’s kind of walking like a genocide and quacking like a genocide.

floofloof,

A cheap price and a great return on investment for them.

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