Shareni

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Shareni,

it’s just so out of the way

That’s why you rebind caps to:

  • hold = ctrl
  • tap = ESC

Kmonad is my favourite tool for this, but there are other options.

Bonus: rebind hold ret to ctrl and you can C-[ with one hand, and it makes navigation a lot easier if you can’t palm ctrl

Shareni,

NixOS is the new Arch…

Yeah nah, arch has an actual use case for normal users - it’s just the same old Linux with the most recent packages.

Nix and guix simply don’t work as distros for regular people. They’re made for scientific and corporate applications. They add a huge amount of complexity in order to solve problems you don’t have.

Nixos is like rust: hyped into the stratosphere by people who don’t use it

I say this as an ex Arch type who moved to Fedora, now ublue-kinoite, waiting for Nix to mature enough to daily

I’m running guix in fedora as a PM. You get most of the benefits, and can still use other PM’s like npm without crying for a week first. Although imo guix works better in that scenario since you can just “guix install X” and then use X like any other binary.

Good luck web devs (lemmy.world)

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Shareni,

Linus didn’t choose Linux because he thought it sounded too self-centred.

Shareni,

I really wouldn’t touch secondhand Ms. No upgrades, no repairs, horrible components (CPU is ok, everything else is straight from the dumpster in order to cover costs).

So when something dies on your device from a company that has a long history of terrible design and QA (I’m betting on storage) you have to pay another $1000+ to replace the whole motherboard. On top of that, I’m guessing that they’re also ripping off customers when selling those replacement boards, as having usable ram and storage costs an extra $1000+ when buying new.

Shareni,

Inb4 apple locked down components to motherboard serial number

But seriously, I guess the only hope is to wait for the Chinese second hand market takes off.

Shareni,

When m1 came out, some tech guy on twitter did a review of MacBook Pro and studio storage. Apple literally used components that are so bad they had to disable data safety protocols to go above HDD speeds. The end result was that losing power is likely to corrupt your data.

Besides that apple was cutting out “unnecessary” parts of the arm specification in order to cut costs. The result is that the first 2(?) generations have hardware level exploit “m1racles” on top of others like “pacman”.

I really wouldn’t trust them to last

Shareni, (edited )

It was a joke. But you can see why I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out true in the end.

I know for a fact they’re making it impossible to make small repairs like changing the screen closed sensor. It requires a proprietary calibration tool they won’t sell, and so MacBooks can’t go to sleep when closing the screen.

On top of changing it from a sub $ hall sensor to some proprietary bs that’s far more expensive.

Shareni,

their hardware feels great to use

I tried using a friend’s m1 MacBook pro, and it’s the worst laptop I’ve touched in a while. Like my oldest budget core2duo laptop has a better keyboard than a brand new $2000+ device. There’s a very good reason it’s permanently docked.

it makes me wonder how people could say that the components are so bad.

I’ve mentioned a few reasons in this thread. They basically used subpar components to offset the cost of developing their own CPU.

If in 10 years you can get an old MacBook Pro for 200$, I might jump on it even if upgradeability has been lowered.

It’s not lowered, it’s absolutely removed, unless you count replacing the entire motherboard as upgradeability.

16gb ram is too small? New motherboard.

Crappy SSD is dying? New motherboard.

Shareni, (edited )

Naah, C stabbed himself in both of his feet while planning. The rest of it is his dying mind hallucinating saving the princess.

Lisp is the true hero, but the author has parenthophobia

Shareni,

A no name pour over dripper and filters are a cheap way to make coffee at home.

Moka, French, and Turkish give you better results, don’t require disposable filters, are usually cheaper, and aside from Turkish don’t require experience to make good coffee.

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...

Shareni,

Why do you think Ubuntu is the favourite distro at Microsoft? They’ve tried extinguishing Linux through suse, but are now back on the old EEE plan with canonical helping them.

Shareni,

They have the ability to arbitrarily push out Snap updates.

That’s right! Your production server is getting patched without your knowledge or consent.

What deranged donkey is using snaps for infra?

Shareni,

It’s great for the price, but it’s got plenty of issues.

The gpu is worse than useless most of the time, the cpu is perma throttled on Linux, split battery issues and you can’t choose which one to use or when to stop discharging, the keyboard is worse than on the xx20 models, USBC can’t be replaced

Also, you missed the point of the joke. T480 most certainly does have IME, and it can’t be corebooted.

Shareni,

What about that time Suse supported Microsoft’s claim that Linux infringes on their patents? Ms got enough grounds to sue everyone even marginally related to Linux for over a decade, Suse got a contract to sell licences that prevent Ms from suing companies for using Linux.

Shareni,

With enough sophistry anything can seem insignificant. The Linux we use today has developed within the constraints of Microsoft threatening to sue anyone and everyone. The only reason they could do that was due to suse, as the longest running commercial distro, publicly saying that Linux infringes on those patents.

Shareni,

So you’re saying we should have maenads chase them down in a forest, rip them apart by hand, and eat then?

Shareni,

weed

Weed is better today, but you wouldn’t get arrested for it back then

chocolate

Ah yes, the industry that depends on child labor, human trafficking, and slavery…

aspirin

Chew willow bark

It was paradise for a very small fraction of the population and rape/slavery/castration for the rest.

Yeah, today you don’t buy agrarian slaves, instead you just magically get cheap bananas, chocolate, oil, lithium, etc.

Out of sight, out of mind?

Shareni, (edited )

Yeah, the designers were lobbying to force showing hardware ads during boot…

Less is more.

Listen to your own maxim.

Shareni,

Lmao you’re working in a barter economy?

Shareni,

So you’re working in hope to get a nebulous pile of 1s and 0s or a some colorful pieces of paper. On top of that those numbers and papers have no intrinsic value, but are instead valuated by some dipshits and can become worthless overnight.

What’s your point there buddy?

Lmao yeah me trading an hour worth of work for a meal that I will consume is the same thing as me trading an hour of work for a nebulous pile of 1s and 0s and hoping some dipshit will pay 2 hours worth of work for them later

Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora

Hi! I’m seeking some advice and sanity check on hopping from Ubuntu to Fedora on my personal PC. I’ve been using Ubuntu LTS for almost two years now, switched from Windows and never looked back. But I cannot say I know Linux well. I use my PC for browsing, some gaming with Steam (I have AMD GPU), occasional video editing,...

Shareni,

Check out Nobara. I’ve recently moved to Fedora and it skips a lot of the early hassle.

Shareni,

Guix

Shareni,

Don’t use “dnf update”, just “sudo nobara-sync”.

It’s not a problem because the update script automatically skips the other GPU packages. Uninstalling it would be an issue because some nobara packages depend on it.

Shareni,

I saw that error when I first installed nobara. Googled it, and the solution was just to not use dnf to update, but nobara-sync instead.

Shareni,

I’m using docker packages for Doom Emacs. The main one is docker.el. On top of being faster and easier to use than the cli, you can also do some pretty neat stuff like use dired+tramp to browse files and open them in Emacs.

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