electric_nan

@electric_nan@lemmy.ml

“I’m knittin’ like a fuckin electric nan”

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electric_nan,

Rclone. You can set it up to work with most/all commercial cloud storage providers. Basically a little bit of configuring in the terminal, and you get the storage mounted like a network drive. You can even add in a layer of encryption. For awhile I had my media server using google drive this way as storage for like 10TB of TV/movies!

electric_nan,

It’s a source of comfort. People want to be in control. If they can’t be in control, they at least want to feel like someone or something is in control. That there is some organizing force or principle to the universe. Religion, astrology, conspiracism etc all flow from that impulse.

electric_nan,

I use Parcellite on Mint. It works pretty good for me.

electric_nan,

Except that in the actual commercial, they are in separate bathtubs lol.

electric_nan,

I love LMDE. Longtime fan of Mint, and recently changed all my ‘GUI’ machines over to LMDE. I tried pure Debian with Cinnamon, but it wasn’t the same. Mint makes it nicer, and I believe Debian is going to be their main base sooner than later, the way Ubuntu is going.

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...

electric_nan,

I’m quite happy with Linux Mint Debian Edition. I think it is the future of Mint. It’s on a very recent kernel, and more and more software I use nowadays is in Flatpaks anyways. I don’t feel like I’m missing out on much new stuff, but maybe I’m just not aware.

electric_nan,

Why would the US government be in charge of whether people know about aliens or not?

electric_nan,

Imagine the 'Trolley Problem" where there is a toddler on one track, and on the other track there is a cooler containing 100 in-vitro embryos. Which would you save, and why?

electric_nan,

Oh no! There were 2 toddlers and 200 frozen embryos on the trolley. Derailing it has destroyed them all.

Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)

In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....

electric_nan,

I get the same shit at work where I can’t use a VPN: like 7-8 relevant results then basically just ads for local businesses after that.

electric_nan,

It depends on you. Some people get therapeutic benefit from regular psychedelic experiences, and never stop. Other people gain life-changing insights from one or several trips. Still others use/abuse it purely for fun, with a range of consequences resulting. A minority of people have adverse reactions where latent mental illnesses like schizophrenia can be triggered.

I’m in the second camp. A couple quotes that I relate to: “Once you get the message, hang up the phone” – Alan Watts. “Never point [psychedelics] at anything you don’t want perforated with new light”-- Terence McKenna.

electric_nan,

Linux Mint Debian Edition. Has a lot of the comforts and niceties you got from Ubuntu compared to Debian.

electric_nan,

You don’t have to be a beginner to love Mint. I am very happy that they are putting more energy into the Debian edition. I’ve tried lots of other distros over the years, and I am just comfortable in Mint.

electric_nan,

This is exactly my experience as well. I started using Linux in 2007 with Ubuntu ‘Feisty Fawn’. I have used Arch, Fedora, Debian, Manjaro and a few others as daily drivers over the years, but have used Mint almost exclusively for the past 7-8 years. Recently also switched to the Debian edition. My servers mostly run Debian, but sometimes Ubuntu.

I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! sankara-salute

electric_nan,

I use it in Cinnamon.

Distro Picking

Hi! You may be sick of these posts by now, but I have been having a very hard time selecting between three distros; that being OpenSUSE, Fedora, and Linux Mint. I have tried linux in the past, I did debian with cinnamon and ran into some issues, so I ended up sheepishly reinstalling windows and getting AME10. I want to give it...

electric_nan,

Linux Mint Debian Edition. Second choice would be Fedora.

electric_nan,

Before switching to LMDE, I did try just using Debian with Cinnamon, thinking it would be pretty much the same experience. I did not really enjoy the experience. There were too many niceties missing that I had taken for granted with Mint. I wasn’t interested in spending my time hunting down all the tweaks and packages to make those changes.

electric_nan,

It’s been my default choice for years now, and I’ve recently switched to the Debian-based version. Couldn’t be happier.

electric_nan,

Six Feet Under.

issues with QbitTorrent stalled torrents

I am just getting back my sea legs, but apparently they’re pretty shaky because I can’t get my ubuntu torrent (no seriously, it is) to download. It never starts downloading and is stuck in “stalled”. I’ve tried a number of things, but even with default settings it isn’t starting. I’m using proton VPN on Linux Mint,...

electric_nan,

I frequently end up with magnet links stuck at “downloading metadata”. If I convert the magnet link to a torrent, it works fine. It is a real annoyance about the otherwise great qbittorrent.

At what point is violence on a large scale justified?

I know this is a really vague question, but it’s been on my mind A LOT lately. I’m specifically asking about people fighting on behalf of a group that is subject to oppression of some kind. 3 years ago, with all of the protests in America that included violence majorly against property and minorly against people but were...

electric_nan,

It’s never justified, but it also feels gross to join this chorus of condemnation against Hamas, when it’s so much louder and widespread than any condemnation of official Israeli policies which have had the same or worse material effect for decades.

electric_nan,

Tons of blackberries.

electric_nan,

We do have foxes, but they’ve been a disappointment thus far.

electric_nan,

I stopped cutting my grass and now I have rats :(

electric_nan,

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.” -Anatole France

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