The one at work was a ‘2nd chance’ Kensington Orbit which was missing it’s top support, making it a tad unstable. I asked if that was by design, company gave a full refund and let me keep it. It’s safe at work, coleagues have no clue how to use it and it wobbles when in use. (When you don’t put a few post-it’s where the top support should have been)
I have 2 orbits with scroll ring at home, and a few marble mouses as spare. (But that scroll ring is adictive)
That takes me back. Years ago I used a xxodd laptop (running debian, biggest pro, it came without Windows license), Model M keyboard (spacebar cap wore out after 10y heavy use, have 10 keyboards spare) and logitech marble mouse. (Alas, as all good Logitech products, discontinued years ago)
Now running Debian on a i9 Gen 13 laptop with 24 cores, 64G mem, DasKeyboard 4 Ultimate, Kensington Orbit with scroll wheel and 2 24" QHD screens.
And guess what, I’m reading lemmy on my Samsung Tab S2 8", refurbished.
Image description: a screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Doctor Who TV series, with a user-added caption that reads “Preserve the media you can before it’s gone forever.” The Wikipedia article reads, “No 1960s episodes exist on their original videotapes (all surviving prints being film transfers), though some were...
I am an anarchist, so the idea of the community doing all the work, creating content, and then mods basically ruling over them as a reward, just doesn’t sit right with me....
I use Firefox as my daily driver but sometimes sites just work better on a chromium based browser. I had been using Brave but it seems like they keep adding on more bloat (crypto, VPN, AI) and I’m over it....
I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi last year and never regretted it. I like the ad blocking that it has as standard and the uBlock origin plugin makes it 99% perfect. It’s pretty light weight and the tab stacks work good. No clue if those stacks are chromium or vivaldi, but they work.
I was having a conversation with my friend about this. We were discussing AI and she believes AI will destroy all of humanity just like so many others. I personally don’t believe that. I’m aware of all the theories and the multitude of ways that it could happen and I understand that with AI, in theory we wouldn’t...
No clue why we need AI for that, we can arrange our mass extinction perfectly by ourselves by just continuing on this road. 🤭
At this moment, I think the main issue is that we as a species don’t think enough of our mass extinction. For some strange reason, most people (at least in ‘the west’) think they’ll survive whatever happens, nuclear war, climate change,…
However, no matter the method of our extinction, I guess most people thinking about it think it would be bad. From nature’s point of view we’re just “a species” and when evolution in this direction proves to be a bad route, no big loss.
When you pay enough and have the right government, a society.
free tuition
free or at least affordable healthcare
social security
physical security
transportation
Without it, our country (the Netherlands) would be a lot smaller, as most of it would be below sea level. It still is, but the dykes, which are build and maintained via taxes, keep the sea at bay. No roads to travel on, no military to defend the country, no healthcare that is affordable for all and no food on the table for the unemployed.
When your taxes are spent well, it’s a great return on investment. (My income for one ;) ) However, when the government is mostly corporate owned, the return is a lot less.
I’m selfhosted for my email, but then again, I don’t email on my phone. The phone is to small for my aging eyes. I prefer a physical keyboard when I type, so I email behind a computer.
BTW I can read the email via K-9 mail on the phone, in emergencies. (But then again, it’s email, no guaranteed delivery)
From wikipedia: “Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity, use...
I wish it would be as easy to install as typing apt-get install i2pd and just answer a few questions. (Or even better, have it as advised package off qbittorrent)
I’ll look into the script to see what it’s doing before trying an install, but most users either blindly run the command or won’t bother.
I usually use ddg to search for sites, lurk there for a while to see what the questions and answers are and after a while either ask a question myself, when I like the site and haven’t seen the questlon with appropiate answer in search results. That is, when I’m not member of a RL club and they have meetings/a site I can find the answer.
I’d say their main goal is to keep managers busy with something to prevent them from hindering work that needs to be done to keep the place running. ;)
Reddit for the subs for the games I play (not on Lemmy). Youtube for vids for the same game and a local newspaper site. I only use a browser when behind a computer. (As I’m in IT, that’s not to often in my spare time)
Lemmy is read in liftoff when using a tablet, when I’m not gaming.
Facebook is totalky ignored now. I’d like to delete the accou t, but for me to be able to delete it I 1st need tomeither give them permission to use my data or bug a subscription due to EU law. (which I don’t want to do, so I let the account just die)
I have Intel for my laptops and arm in the RPis. No AMD in use here. (My ancient AMD based servers refuse to boot)
I should have written Intel/AMD, ‘the big, power hungry, stuff’ or non-arm. ;) I don’t want to waste memory for a desktop environment on the RPis when a simple, '90s window manager does the trick as well for the vnc server.
I get the feeling you’re not happy with Gnome, but not unhappy enough to ditch it.
Open Source window managers and desktop environments enough to choose from, preferred ones here are ctwm for low resources environments (RPi) and xfce4 for intel based laptops. There are loads of other options, I’m sure, but no experience with those. (KDE and Gnome are the reason my wife and I use xfce4)
What's a sci-fi or fantasy book or series that you want to see adapted as a movie/television series?
I didn’t read this series when I was a kid, but I finally got around to reading Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber....
It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time (www.businessinsider.com)
Do you have a mantra that keeps you going through tough times?
“it do be like that sometimes” is starting to lose it’s magic a little
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What is the name of your cleaning robot?
What name have you chosen for your robot and why?...
Piracy is Preservation (feddit.de)
Image description: a screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Doctor Who TV series, with a user-added caption that reads “Preserve the media you can before it’s gone forever.” The Wikipedia article reads, “No 1960s episodes exist on their original videotapes (all surviving prints being film transfers), though some were...
Fellow Lemmings, how to create Social Media that does not have mods? (lemmy.world)
I am an anarchist, so the idea of the community doing all the work, creating content, and then mods basically ruling over them as a reward, just doesn’t sit right with me....
What chromium based browser do you recommend and why?
I use Firefox as my daily driver but sometimes sites just work better on a chromium based browser. I had been using Brave but it seems like they keep adding on more bloat (crypto, VPN, AI) and I’m over it....
Why are we as humans obsessed with mass-extinction of our species?
I was having a conversation with my friend about this. We were discussing AI and she believes AI will destroy all of humanity just like so many others. I personally don’t believe that. I’m aware of all the theories and the multitude of ways that it could happen and I understand that with AI, in theory we wouldn’t...
What do we get in return for paying taxes?
Garbage answers encouraged.
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If you love piracy you should consider voting/joining your local Pirate Party (pp-international.net)
From wikipedia: “Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity, use...
Gaming Companies Flag 'Highly Skilled Hackers' as Emerging Piracy Threat (torrentfreak.com)
What websites do you highly recommend to other likeminded hobbyists?
This could be websites to look up guides, places to buy quality products, or what to buy to get started. All being related to your hobby.
How do you keep yourself from eating all your candy-stash in one sitting? (lemmy.world)
Many of you have either been trick or treating themselves or have leftover candy from handing it out for halloween....
Wrf is wrong with UK?
communism 2.0
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What's the purpose of strategy statements and other "corporate plans" in office culture
What exactly is accomplished when corporate culture sits everybody down and has a power point about the strategy, business goals for the next year....
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Accurate (sh.itjust.works)