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You could even say it self-optimized and saved fuel by not decelerating!

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I thought that was mandatory to get updoots. It seems putting on a skirt and fishnets is now enough smh

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Will someone finally explain the difference between Venom and Swarm Spiderman? Because they look the same (or would, if the Swarm had ever taken Parker).

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The Honeywell HomeAssistant integration works pretty well, and has been around for a while, but it works through a web API. I’d prefer to have a fully local connection, but I’m not going to replace the entire HVAC control system to get it.

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I prefer the retro aesthetics of the TOS Type 1, especially for the integrated Type 1, but regardless, it’s an excellent choice for the reason you state: it’s a very versatile tool!

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Neither is Madonna. Those aren’t pictures of dead boomers, just famous ones.

Looking to make the switch

Hi everyone, looking to make the switch from windows. I’m reasonably technically apt but not a programmer by any means. I’ve been doing some homework on which distro I would like to use and pop_os kinda feels like the right direction. I’m running an Nvidia 3060TI on a Ryzen 5600 chip set on an Asus tuf motherboard. Any...

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There are distros that make it easy for non-techies to install and manage Linux, and if you have any computer aptitude at all, it should be pretty easy. The devil is in the details; if all your hardware is well supported, there’s no reason why you should ever have to open a shell. Trouble usually happens with peripherals like printers and some extremely protective vendor chips like Broadcom. In those cases, it’s usually still possible to make things work, but it can require researching, finding, reading how-tos, downloading, compiling and installing software.

I think 99% of trouble I’ve ever had in the past 20 years has been with printers+scanners or Broadcom chips - they’re very common. I read about people having issues with graphics cards, but that seems to be mainly Nvidia; I’ve only ever had Intel or Radeon, and haven’t had trouble with graphics cards in the past decade or so, myself.

Anyway, my advice is to do some distro hopping before you settle on one. Boot from a USB stick for a while; it’ll be a bit slower, but it’ll make playing with different desktop environments and distributions easier, before you commit.

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I don’t use gnome; can someone who does plz tell me what style that is? The color scheme is Everforest, but what’s the rest of the style called? It’d look good on rofi & polybar.

Edit: I guess the theme is also Everforest Dark? I think it’s this one.

Edit 2: Someone has already done most of the work for polybar, rofi, and some other tiling WM tools; dotfiles here. I haven’t tested it myself yet, but it looks pretty good.

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You could do it in Wayland, too, it’s just that every single Wayland app would have to re-implement the rotation and rendering themselves.

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If a person has to work to pick fruit from a tree so they can eat and not starve, does that mean Nature is slavery?

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The problem is in the β€œlook forward to.” How depressing to get a globe and recognize a memory from your past. You wouldn’t even have that to look forward to.

Is it just my circle, or has it been a challenge getting into the Christmas/holiday spirit the last couple of years?

Sure, the first year (or two) of COVID were wretched, but most of those barriers have since cleared β€” yet I’m still struggling. I’ve noticed the same with a number of people within my family and neighbourhood....

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My cousins have upped this game. They have toddlers. Starting in Feb, they begin stealing back the least popular toys and hiding them in the attic. Then they regift them back to the kids next Christmas. They only buy a couple new items every year.

It reduces clutter in the house and will probably work until around 6, when they plan to shift from regifting to donating.

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Clever editing. Took me a couple watches to see that the stuffed thing falling down the hill wasn’t the guy in the suit.

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Some of the Yubi keys have fingerprint sensors, and they have good Linux support.

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Just a data point: OP is looking for a desktop solution, and Rust Desk may be fine for that; I was pretty impressed with it. However, I caution about using it to share out on Android. I traced down random crashes and reboots into safe mode to Rust Desk running on a Pixel. It took me a while to figure out which app was causing it; it seemed to have no correlation to use, time, or anything else I could discern. They only went away after I completely uninstalled Rust Desk (which is why it took so long; I couldn’t correlate it to running Rust Desk, so I didn’t suspect it).

The reboots into safe mode turned me off to it on mobile - I had no issues at all running the desktop client on Linux. Android aside, it’s a really nice bit of work, and I fancy even nicer than VNC, which for me is saying a lot.

That said, on a fast network, I still prefer a good old X client over ssh to VNC, if for no other reason than easier per-app windows - but I like the L&F and performance of X on a fast pipe.

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Depends on the tools. If they’re statically compiled, it should be fine. If they aren’t, it might still be fine if the distro and versions are similar. But what you want is statically compiled binaries.

It’ll need to be the same architecture (ARM -> ARM good, AMD -> ARM bad), and check each tool on your working computer with ldd; the fewer lib dependencies, the better.

Scripting languages are probably not worth messing with. Even if you have a running interpreter on the broken machine, scripting languages tend to lean heavily on third party libs, which may not be installed. The exception are ba/sh scripts, which have a good chance of using only commonly installed commands (why else use bash?).

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If your goal is absolutely no GNU Linux, Chimera Linux is your jam.

If using a single program makes a distro part of that program’s organization, then Linux’s name gets really long.

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there is no such thing as a zero-trust society (although I now want to write that scifi story and tease that idea out).

It’s been done, kinda. Guy named Hannu Rajaniemi wrote a dilogy called β€œJean le Flambeur.” I think it’s in the second book, The Fractal Prince, the lead character visits Mars, which has a society where everyone has the ability to encrypt and/or sign all interactions; citizens have an organ that facilitates this, making the operations as fluid and natural as speaking. It’s well thought out, well written, and the series is an entertaining read. It reminded me of John C Wright’s β€œThe Golden Oecumene” trilogy.

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That’s sort of how herbstluftwm models it. Workspaces are called tags, and are areas windows can be arranged. Monitors are like SVG viewports, with dimensions; Herbst auto-manages physical monitors, but lets you define virtual monitors with arbitrary dimensions. Workspaces (tags) are displayed on monitors and windows are adjusted to the dimensions of the monitors as tags are moved around. Monitors can be overlayed… the terminology is counterintuitive (windows have tags, but can only have one tag at a time, and monitors can overlap, etc), but it’s a really nice way of approaching things IMO, and is one of the main reasons I’m sticking with X.

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I don’t care.

What should be used for anonymous usernames?

More often than not, the best way to hide is to simply blend in with the crowds – this also encompasses one’s choice for a username. It is relatively simple to make a single throwaway account – just come up with a username, and off you go – however, if one makes throwaway accounts often, the task of thinking of a unique,...

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I don’t create anon accounts nearly as much as you say you do, but when I do I a correct-horse generator, and just pick the first two words and mash them together. It has never produced a conflict yet.

keepass2android’s password generator can generate these on mobile, and there are several for the command line.

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Have you seen the 1977 movie β€œWizards?” There’s a scene in it which is this. Almost exactly.

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Frying anything makes it taste better. Deep frying makes almost anything edible delicious.

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Wouldn’t that be more like β€œrate your car?”

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What, recently?

Historically, Destiny or Borderlands, probably the latter. But lately, I’m spending all of my time in Factorio.

I haven’t looked at the hours stat; it’d probably only depress me.

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