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onlinepersona,

I’m not saying it as a source of pride. It’s incredibly annoying to me that I need to edit a file in order to manage my system instead of having a GUI like KDE’s to manage all the settings. On NixOS, there’s just no way around that at the moment.
Unfortunately, I don’t know another somewhat sane declarative distro. Do you? (No, not GUIX. That’s just NixOS with a ton more brackets and less packages).

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onlinepersona,

Because GUIs on linux don’t do everything that the CLI can. I use my computer for more than just browsing and editing documents, so the GUIs that do just that, don’t cut it.

Also, I’m on NixOS. There’s simply no way around the terminal - sadly.

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onlinepersona,

I tried it out one single time and it failed to install or update or something. Had to then find all the places it had inserted itself into in my system. Later I found out it’s based on some LISP variant. Even later I found out you can’t install firefox with it because of gnu or something?
That all combined dissuaded me from touching it again.

nix has terrible documentation, but it’s kinda worked for me, so I’m sticking with it.

onlinepersona,

Slint

onlinepersona,

Thanks, that’s the best explanation I’ve gotten so far 👍

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onlinepersona,

I’m actually curious what BSD provides in comparison to Linux. What does it add, do better, or worse?

The only thing I know is that they introduced some stuff way before linux did, but that’s simply due to the age. BSD jails for example have been around for a long time. Buy beyond that, it was never apparent to me why linux took off and BSD didn’t.

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onlinepersona,

It’s nearly an hour long and Nick said they only covered a portion of all questions.

onlinepersona,

That’s for the courts to decide. It’s difficult to escape modern life though. Also, banning ads completely is a near impossible task IMO. It would be like banning messaging. Nailing down the definition of an ad would always lead to people finding ways around that.

“An ad is a message aiming to sell a product or service” --> define selling, define product, define service. Once those are defined then there’ll be a way around that too. “I’m not aiming to sell a product or service, I’m just informing the public that it exists”. Where would you go from there? You can’t make the act of informing a person of a product’s existence a crime: “Hey bro, I bought this new product and -” “OMG, you’re such a criminal for telling me about a product”.

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onlinepersona,

In the end, I don’t think it matters. People care about accessing what’s used most and if they have to watch ads to do so, they will. If “no ads” starts to have a competitive advantage because people are sick and tired of them, then maybe ads will start to die. We’re a long way from that though.

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onlinepersona,

Comes from chooser-beta.creativecommons.org

Which browser isn’t it working on?

onlinepersona,

My experience with the linux boot has never been flicker-free. It’s bugged me for years, but I don’t have the technical knowledge to fix it. There’s a black screen between BIOS and plymouth, then a black screen between plymouth and the login screen, then another black screen between the login screen and the splash screen, and finally a black screen between the splash screen and when the desktop shows up.

Mac and windows do a much better job at having a seamless experience from boot to desktop.

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onlinepersona,

That’s macs. Fuck em. With linux I can always put in a USB stick with a live linux and fix shit.

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onlinepersona,

I honestly thought this was going to be about AI 😅

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onlinepersona, (edited )

I agree. Either use a business source license like Elastic and others, or fight for the installation of a third party that audits proprietary code for license use and sues if the rules haven’t been followed. It’s why I like the creative commons. They are quite realistic. Most of their licenses say: if you use this commercially, you have to pay. If not, then it’s free.

People who claim business source licenses are “not opensource” sound like such capitalist shills to me. It’s as if they’re shouting from the rooftops “it’s OK to fuck over opensource developers because principles matter more than reality”.

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onlinepersona,

I honestly thing we need that third party instance that audits proprietary code for the licenses it uses to see if there’s a breach. Then they could sue all the companies that don’t abide by the license. Most likely GAFAM would lobby against such a thing because they know they use a lot of opensource stuff that could force them to opensource their stuff, but honestly, fuck them. They’ve made a killing on the backs of free work.

onlinepersona,

Do contribute them to I2P. That can’t be taken down. You can even use biglybt or qtorrent to seed to I2P and non-anonymous trackers.

onlinepersona,

Missed that indeed. Weird sorting 😅

onlinepersona,

I was getting emails about pull requests and issues all night. It’s like some people just took advantage of everybody being outside of the house to code 😅

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onlinepersona,

Just FYI, There’s a button called “print screen” or “PrntScr” or something similar on most keyboards. If you hit that, it’ll take a screenshot that you can edit and upload :)

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Xbox Game Bar for Linux? (scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net)

I was a windows user back in 2019 - 2020, and moved over to Linux in 2021. I honestly forgot how i found Linux, and when I was using Windows, I remember using this feature “Game Bar”, which I used to make game clips on my PC. Although, when I got my NVIDIA Card the Game Bar Stopped working because of the HDMI cord that...

onlinepersona,

Is is just to record the screen or does it do something special in addition to that?

There are a few screen recorders out there. Maybe one will fit your fancy?

Also I can recommend alternativeto.net to find alternatives to just about any software or service out there. Here’s the page on the XBox Game Bar

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onlinepersona,

I use pigeons and let the wind tell me where to send them.

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onlinepersona,

I really need a link to a blurb about the CC thing, but not today. Basically think AI.

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onlinepersona,

TIL, thanks 😄

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onlinepersona,

Here’s to another year of the Linux Desktop! (been ~15 years for me) 🎉

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