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On iOS you can also move up and down between lines and select text with the spacebar (hold space, tap on keyboard somewhere else with another finger, drag space to select).

How much does a creator's worldview influence whether you use their tech or consume their media?

Watching the drama around kagi unfold and it has me wondering how much you take into consideration a creator’s view on things like homophobia, sexism, racism, etc. when deciding to use a product. I think most of us have a bar somewhere (I would imagine very few on this website would ever consider registering on an altright...

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I hate the history thing. People still go after Brendan Eich for donating $1000 to the Yes on Prop 8 campaign in 2008. Prop 8 passed with 52.24% of the vote, over 7-million California voters probably including many that people still like (thanks secret ballot). It was thrown out by courts, nothing to do with people being moral.

That’s not to say he’s a good guy I agree with, he’s said and done other things much more recently that I don’t agree with, like his stance on COVID, but Prop 8 is always the number one thing people mention.

Edit: even later on in this thread. People should boycott anything made in California if that one donation is such a painful thing.

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They are going downhill and less user serviceable these days. Talking T series, the old workhorse. Older ones are still good.

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Yes, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service often ends up being a source of “Linux in the wild” posts.

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Simplenote, Notesnook, Obsidian.

Obsidian sync isn’t free, and it’s easy to violate their license if you mix work and personal notes.

I think Joplin tends to be better than most. If Obsidian was licensed and charged differently I might change my mind.

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It’s hard to move the winter solstice and days getting longer again is something worth celebrating, but maybe more emphasis on Midsummer.

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Entire album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan. I don’t like every song, but most. It’s a lot of fun.

Also the song Grown Up by Raffaella makes me laugh.

Just moved to Linux: a follow up

I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....

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Still possible to break your bootloader.

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Your instance hasn’t updated so it is not an option yet. When they do update it will be on the same page underneath the community block option.

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If you use Obsidian for work you generally need to pay for the commercial license, with some exceptions. I like to mention it because people grab it from flathub without reading the license terms. This is not including the sync fee.

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It is not compatible with Kindle unless you remove the drm and convert it, but it can be done. It is compatible with Adobe Digital Editions which is pretty much what every store except Amazon uses.

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(It’s from the movie The Naked Gun)

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It also doesn’t require a session to be logged in at the local console.

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RustDesk Has worked pretty well for me on the rare occasions I need it.

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If something else depends on it then it shouldn’t be removed, it’s only removing things that are not used elsewhere.

Usually just reading through the packages it’s listing and double check what it’s doing is enough. If something is removing a ton of gnome and you’re not trying to remove gnome, that would be an issue. If something is trying to remove the kernel (unless it’s an old kernel) or grub that’s also worth digging into. I’ve never run into problems with it, I don’t think it’s common these days.

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Make sure you test out those images every so often too. I recently got a new computer and used clonezilla to copy a system over, only to find btrfs restores fail spectacularly without warning until you boot into them.

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I’ve never watched Disclosure nor finished the book, but it seems like one of the few they should have been able to get right.

I enjoyed Sphere, but I haven’t read the book and watched the movie close enough to compare them.

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Sorting algorithm was broken for a while, maybe they fixed it but I got used to using new because it actually worked.

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Fedora is not a separate legal entity. Red Hat literally owns it. At one time they had considered creating a separate Fedora Foundation but did not.

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Google Latitude was doing this in 2009 and I knew millennials who used it. Much more widespread now, though.

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Certainly more than the Romans have done for us.

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Google also assists those law enforcement agencies with plenty of useful info.

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They won’t in this case. Israel can do nearly anything, the US will even condemn some of them, but that won’t affect support. As Biden has said many times “if there was no Israel the US would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.”

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Business grade will also be chugging along while the enthusiast has replaced the thing five times over.

I really think it depends on the product. People talking about low end keyboards or whatnot aren’t far off, but I’d take a good business laptop any day. It won’t have fancy RGB lights but will keep working forever.

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Listen to George HW Bush, from Texas, talking about immigration in a debate with Reagan (who also talks about “an open border both ways”). Reagan ruined a lot of things, but it still used to be different. youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok

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