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rtxn, (edited ) to asklemmy in What are your "poor person" money life hacks?

Get a chest freezer. It’s much more efficient for long-term storage than an upright fridge with a freezer because the cold air doesn’t spill out when you open it.

Toss your incandescent and fluorescent lights. Get LED bulbs (not smart lights, just white LEDs). Where applicable, install timer switches.

Fuck cars, get a bike. A simple, sturdy one, like an onafiets. They run on toast and determination.

Understand the difference between having enough money to buy something and being able to afford something.

Unsubscribe from music/video streaming services. Return to the seven seas.

Maybe engage in some light tax evasion.

rtxn, to comicstrips in Oblivious

We could be actively fucking and I’d still doubt if that’s what she meant. I’d need something like a testimony under oath and corroborating opinions from three independent psychologists.

rtxn, to piracy in Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent

uTorrent has been down the shitter for over a decade now, I wouldn’t be surprised if the download speed was throttled without a pro subscription. It could also be a difference in how the applications discover seeds, or how much CPU time or memory is allocated to downloads.

As a general rule, if an application is full of anti-features, it tends to have better, usually FOSS, alternatives.

rtxn, (edited ) to memes in Standards shouldn't be behind a paywall

You’ve just become the nemesis of the entire unix-like userbase for praising the space.

rtxn, to linuxmemes in Where they went Tim?

Sweeney is like a man-child who thinks that he should receive higher praise as his more popular counterpart simply because he takes the exact opposite stances on many issues as some kind of underdog. Blockchain economies, the legal gray zone of generative AI, Linux support; and kicking his superiors in the shin and crying to the world when he gets shoved in return.

Epic will always be a lesser store platform, and Sweeney will always be a lesser man.

rtxn, to lemmyshitpost in Alec Baldwin charged for shooting;

It’s never as simple as you think.

Analysis of the events and circumstances, and commentary by a lawyer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXmAeMQCvZQ

rtxn, (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in Revolutionary free thinker Andrew Tate

If anything, it is the bicycle. No taxes, no license, no expensive vendor-locked repairs, all features perpetually unlocked, basically all-terrain, runs on breakfast and determination.

rtxn, (edited ) to memes in Who else is ready for an "invasion"

If we ever found intelligent aliens, some of us would absolutely try to convert them to christianity, and there are already plans to exploit planetoids for their resources. We are the alien invaders, sans space travel.

rtxn, to memes in This is the master race...?

They’re angry because their own craniometry told them they were rejects.

(tangential - Disco Elysium had some really funny racists. Fucking Measurehead.)

rtxn, to lemmybewholesome in Not totally sure about that 2nd claim, but this is nice to see.

This conjures an image of a very determined Bert the Turtle smoking a cigarette and declaring “I’m gonna derail that fucking train.”

rtxn, (edited ) to linux in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I’m about to piss off a lot of people.

It’s Arch and Arch-derivatives. And I’m saying it as an Arch user, btw, and I actually love it.

Between the Big Three (Fedora, Debian, Arch), it is the least likely to have an official package for somewhat niche applications. If something is not available as a flatpak or appimage, I have to compile it from source or an AUR PKGBUILD, but we all know the dangers of doing that. Some software will just assume that it’s running on a particular disribution, usually Ubuntu. Some software will detect the distribution and straight-up refuse to work on Arch.

That being said, it would take a lot to make me switch to a stable point-release distribution. Arch’s advantages more than make up for the sub-par software support.

(actually, I lied. Fuck Canonical and *Ubuntu. And IBM.)

rtxn, to memes in Standards shouldn't be behind a paywall

On the command line, space is what separates each argument. If a path contains a space, you either have to quote the entire path, or use an escape character (e.g. the `` character in most shells, the backtick in Powershell because Microsoft is weird, or the character’s hexadecimal value), otherwise the path will be passed to the command as separate arguments. For example, cat hello world.txt would try to print the files hello and world.txt.

It is a good practice to minimize the character set used by filenames, and best to only use English alphanumeric characters and certain symbols like -, _, and .. Non-printable characters (like the lower half of ASCII), weird diacritics (like ő or ű), ligatures, or any characters that could be misinterpreted by a program should be avoided.

This is why byte-safe encodings, like base64 or percent-encoding, are important. Transmitting data directly as text runs the risk of mangling the characters because some program misinterpreted them.

rtxn, (edited ) to linuxmemes in I know it's not safe, but it's doesn't stop me

Don’t talk about chaos until you’ve used the AUR on Manjaro.

rtxn, (edited ) to mildlyinteresting in Random Cybertruck in a parking lot this morning.

Outside used to have the best graphics, but the development team really dropped the ball with the new asset streaming solution. Textures I would understand (looking at you, RAGE megatextures), but waiting until the camera is up close to load the LOD0 mesh is unacceptable.

rtxn, to memes in All Rome leads to roads

And THEY make fun of Canada’s fake-London?

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