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troyunrau

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Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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How’s kbin doing? Granted they federate with Lemmy so it’s like asking about an instance. But not quite the same

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Pro-tip: sort All by New Comments. Yes, if you refresh, you get repeat content, but you also find the unusual stuff and the repeated stuff is where the conversations are happening.

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Word will be your biggest problem.

On rare occasion, you might get some sort of advanced PDF feature that will trip you up (embedded 3D objects or some weird encryption or something), but 99% will work as expected.

Linux is literally the home turf for major video player development. VLC works like a charm for literally everything.

My PC is hacked

I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder… Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?

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You

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What a reactive load of…

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Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that’s a thing…)

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Some of this is correct, and some of it is myth. Source: I was there ;)

Qt way back in version 1 was merely “free for non-commercial use” and shipped with the source code. KDE was founded on that version. This was in like 1996, before KDE even had a stable release. Gnome was founded immediately in response, choosing GTK (the Gimp Toolkit) which wasn’t really ready for use as a full fledged desktop toolkit, but existed and the license was friendly. KDE and Trolltech formed a few agreements – the first was the creation of the QPL, an attempt to create an open-source compatible license for Qt, and the second was the creation of the KDE Free Qt Foundation (it said, effectively, if Qt were to become closed, the most recent version prior to that would be released under the BSD license).

However, the damage was done. Stallman and others would never forgive KDE for choosing a not-free-enough toolkit, and the Gnome devs were associated with redhat. That meant Redhat and Debian, the two biggest distros, defaulted to Gnome. Ubuntu just adopted Debian, ergo Gnome.

Qt would shortly thereafter be released under GPL, GPL3, and LGPL. There’s still a commercial license option, and that pisses a lot of people off for some reason. But it was never a risk to KDE or the community – not since before KDE 1.0.

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I keep trying to add content to other communities, but I get drowned out by memes about beans and stroganoff… ;)

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She is pretty much the best character on the show by virtue of being the best cast actor. Wow what a good choice. I give a close second to Amos.

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ITT: people sitting in their comfortable first world environment commenting using electronics which were certainly mined somewhere, convinced they’re oppressed and not the root cause.

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Don’t forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We’ve all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.

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Jokes aside, I encounter Fortran in the applied physics community still fairly often. And have never encountered M in a professional context.

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Somewhere in a backroom, there’s a hamster named Julia. In a hamster ball.

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So embrace it ironically then ;)

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It was third year physics for me, and the professor opened with what was the paraphrased version of the above quote. One of the hardest classes we ever took. Very cool to see statistics used in a proof like that.

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Gotta overwhelm with numbers. A swarm of sparrows charmed by Radagast should do it.

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Not every illustrator is a structural engineer ;)

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There is a mostly abandoned town called Snowflake, Manitoba, Canada. They bulldozed the school even.

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Best meme. Shut down the internet.

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    The seals… bolted.

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    I’m pretty sure I saw this episode of Community…

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    Are they empty?

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    This cracks me up. The ole switcheroo punchline haha

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    Uncle, how do I delete someone else’s meme?

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