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Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...

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disapprobation

TIL a new word. Thanks, stranger! 🙂

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The good old scunthorpe problem

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Back in the distant past of 2008, a RuneScape player by the name of Icedpizza thought my complaints about driver problems on older hardware would be easily solved by this incredible thing I’d never heard of called Ubuntu. Downloaded 8.04 Hardy Heron and my life has never been the same since.

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Oh man, thanks for this. I had no idea, having used gitea for years now.

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Wow, the entitlement of “I don’t want to do things myself, do extra work for me instead”.

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yeah it’s almost certainly gonna be bound to Super+C, the existing keybind for copilot

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The context menu or right-ctrl key, probably

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before the what, op?

BEFORE THE WHAT??

sweats, knowing a time-traveler in our midst refused to tell us about the coming copilocalypse

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Seems like this is a bug: askubuntu.com/…/how-to-make-snap-firefox-use-loca…

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I’ve played games on my Linux desktop without so much as even needing to care it’s running on Linux via Steam and Proton for years now, and it’s only getting better. Basically the only games I’ve seen not work are the ones with kernel level rootkit anti cheat really.

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I don’t know of any public ones, but you can always host your own copy of Collabora with an instance of Next cloud.

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Fortunately, some remasters even in gaming are the same: Going back to the source, maybe fixing some bugs, and then using the highest quality assets that were available at the time but had to be scaled down to make the game make sense for the hardware of the time. Unfortunately those are few and far between.

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Rescanning with modern tools is the exact definition of a remaster - Going back to the original ‘master’ copy and using modern techniques to produce a newer, better version :-)

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That’s pretty much what I do as well. It was an absolute game-changer for me when I discovered tiling WMs some ~7 years ago, because it meant super consistent keyboard shortcuts for getting to exactly what I wanted to interact with. I know where individual apps/tasks go, so I put them there. And then when I need to switch to them, it’s as straightforward as Super+[workspace].

Also helps a ton that i3wm’s workspaces only take up a single monitor at a time, which makes it excellent for jumping between monitors.

None of this is set in stone, but I usually follow a relatively consistent pattern:

Center Monitor

  • 1: Primary/“serious tasks” web browser
  • 4: Any remote or virtualized desktop I might have open at the time
  • 6: Image/video editors. Also sometimes just misc usage.
  • 8: Development web browser next to neovim
  • 9: Steam/games
  • 10: Misc. Often a DBMS or file manager
  • 11: Misc. Often where I put any secondary tasks or second projects I need to reference
  • 12: Misc. Often where I’ll stick any long-running tasks that I just need to check on every now and again.

Left monitor

  • 2: Music/comms/task list

Right monitor

  • 3: Always only a terminal.
  • 5: Text editor to use as a
  • 7: Secondary/“wasting time” web browser
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Little Caesars: It’s hot and ready!

Us: Is it good?

LC: It’s hot, and it’s ready.

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Worth mentioning: Anyone using TachiyomiJ2K (I use it for Surface Duo dual-screen support) or another fork with support who has some self-hosting prowess, there’s always Suwayomi - It will let you “migrate” to a third-party sources repo even if your app doesn’t support it, since it becomes your device’s only local extension.

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I highly recommend the Dark Reader extension for your browser

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CDs nutz lolgottem

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Others have addressed the root and trust questions, so I thought I’d mention the “mess” question:

Even the messiest bowl of ravioli is easier to untangle than a bowl of spaghetti.

The mounts/networks/rules and such aren’t “mess”, they are isolation. They’re commoditization. They’re abstraction - Ways to tell whatever is running in the container what it wants to hear, so that you can treat the container as a “black box” that solves the problem you want solved.

Think of Docker containers less like pets and more like cattle, and it very quickly justifies a lot of that stuff because it makes the container disposable, even if the data it’s handling isn’t.

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Except they can absolutely come up with new things; their responses aren’t just cut and pasted bites of previous text snippets. They are generated based on a neural network’s idea of what the most likely next token is, and tokens are often fragments of words. There’s a reason you can have it do arbitrary things with text- Because it’s doing slightly deeper things than just imitation.

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The solution for me is that I run Nextcloud on a Kubernetes cluster and pin a container version. Then every few months I update that version in my deployment yaml to the latest one I want to run, and run kubectl apply -f nextcloud.yml and it just does its thing. Never given me any real trouble.

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I think the story is photoshop

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A vintage meme sir but it checks out

Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

I have a few Linux servers at home that I regularly remote into in order to manage, usually logged into KDE Plasma as root. Usually they just have several command line windows and a file manager open (I personally just find it more convenient to use the command line from a remote desktop instead of directly SSH-ing into the...

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screen doesn’t scroll

Screen (and any other muxer) can scroll just fine. You just have to learn how to do it in each one. Tmux, for example, is ctrl+b [ to enter scroll mode.

mistyped file operations

Get a good TUI file manager. I use and recommend ranger.

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