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nottheengineer, to linux in Wanting to improve my Linux skills after 17 months of daily driving Linux

Installing arch is a great way to learn. Also don’t be scared of daily driving it, it’s not like it breaks twice a week. More like once a year, which is better than ubuntu in my experience.

nottheengineer, to linuxmemes in If linux distributions were tools.

But what makes ubuntu better as a first distro than mint or fedora? It installs snaps even when you specifically invoke apt, a new user who doesn’t understand the messages will press yes, see that it seemed to work and have issues later that can scare them away from linux.

What I’m trying to say is that we should bash the people still recommending ubuntu.

nottheengineer, to linux in My ubuntu installation broke completely

Same here. Ubuntu almost made me believe that linux is a pain in the ass to use and you need to fix some shit after every update.

Now I use arch and it’s great. Nvidia is very annoying because they constantly publish drivers that break things, but you can just roll those back and wait until they fix it again. And that gets worse as GPUs age. Apart from nvidia, I’ve had exactly one update issue (telepathy-kde being removed and causing the pacman dependency resolver to get confused) that was fixed in about 2 minutes of googling.

nottheengineer, to piracy in I Know What You Download (via torrent)

Does CGNAT protect from ISP letters?

Because for all the pain it causes me, it should at least be useful for something

nottheengineer, to memes in It's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck.

Shuffle uses a limited list that rarely gets updated, but not just the 100 most recent ones. You can force it refresh by turning off shuffle and force closing the app.

nottheengineer, to memes in ...Then you select it, and the Captcha fails.

It has to be more sophisticated than that. Otherwise users could easily taint the datasets by giving wrong answers on purpose.

It probably checks your answer against the current model’s best guess and if it’s close enough, you get a pass and your input is added to the training data for the next iteration. The more wrong you are, the more challenges you get.

nottheengineer, to privacy in Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

Yes and it isn’t rated IPX7 for that reason, just IP55. I wouldn’t hold it under the faucet but it should be perfectly fine for daily use.

Fun fact: It’s still entirely possible to make a phone water resistant even if it has a removable back. Samsung did it in 2014 with the S5. Glass backs are just there to make it easier to break a phone, not for any technical reason.

nottheengineer, to memes in ...Then you select it, and the Captcha fails.

These things feel like they are made by microsoft. You click somewhere, wait 3-10 seconds and then you can click again.

nottheengineer, to linux in how can I customise my Ubuntu theme without breaking anything??

Something like mint or fedora is just as easy to install and has less issues than ubuntu (snaps)

nottheengineer, to linux in Any experience with teaching kids Linux?

I know a lot of people my age (early 20s) who use tiktok and have no idea what tracking or privacy mean.

Kids might be smart, but if this is all they’ve known and it works well enough they don’t pay attention and don’t use their critical thinking.

nottheengineer, to linux in Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?

Not bad packages

I’ve made the opposite experience. There were loads of snap-specific issues when I used ubuntu. So many that I now recommend not using ubuntu just because of snaps.

nottheengineer, to comicstrips in Ein Jammer

Ich habe Jammer auf deutsch gelesen und mich entschieden, das jetzt immer so zu machen.

nottheengineer, to piracy in Ripping spotify

I use bluetooth headphones, 300kbps is enough.

nottheengineer, to askelectronics in Soldering Iron Tips Stop Working/Melting Solder

Probably the equipment or maybe how you’re touching the part you want to heat.

Take a look at this video where Louis Rossmann explains which tips works and which ones don’t and shows why.

nottheengineer, to asklemmy in Deleted

That comment was some very obvious sarcasm. There will always be a few idiots, don't worry about those.

But I do think /s has its place around autism communities because many of those people really can't tell.

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