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My use case: I'm an engineering student, I need something with a lot of storage, hopefully SSD (right not I have MatLab, Anaconda and KiCAD taking up most of my 128 GB HD, and I had to uninstall the STM32 cube IDE from lack of storage), and reasonable processing performance so I can actually run these things at a reasonable rate. I need to stay within the windows/ms office world to simplify collaborating and file sharing etc. I'm not using it for gaming.
Don't need a massive screen, or touchscreen or anything fancy. HDMI port would be reasonably important.
I want it to last me at least the next 4-5 years, and I'm hoping to not spend more than about £300.
I know a lot of people reccomend ThinkPads, what's a good model to get cheap at the moment? Or any other suggestions?
Is Windows 11 so bad that I should only be looking at ones that come with Windows 10 installed?
Thanks for any helpful advice!
Edit: Thanks to everyone for taking the time to advise me, I've ordered a refurbished T480 with 1TB ssd, plenty of ram, and a 1 year warranty for £340.
I have a Thinkpad T480 and I'm very happy with it. I paid about $250 (~£190) for mine. It came with 16 GB RAM, but is upgradable to 32 GB. The one I bought came with a 128 GB SSD, but I swapped it out for a 1 TB drive which added another $100 (~£76) to my initial investment. This model originally came with Windows 10 and most on the market will come with it, but can be updated to 11 if desired.
I personally have not used Win11 since they made some changes I don't like, so I can't really give you advice on that aspect.
Usually I would be one of the indistinguishable voices saying thinkpad or dell.
But:
You might actually be able to get an m1 macbook air at that price and have better experience.
It would be faster than anything in the price range and I don’t think you listed any software that is a problem for macos.
Problems:
they all have ssds and all ssds fuck up over time. You gotta read each block into memory and rewrite it to solve the problem. There’s a piece of software called spinrite that will do this on x86 but the m series aren’t x86. The solution is to boot asahi or some such Linux and use either badblocks or dd (lol!) to do the same thing. Often rather than fix the ssd people will just replace it, but the m1 macbooks have their storage soldered in. This problem is why I suggested the m1 series because you can get them insanely cheap when they inexplicably get slow and the owner can’t figure it out.
They all have ssds and ssds fuck up over time. For your large storage workloads you will want to use an external drive and have backups. This is true for all laptops with ssds. This is true for all computers.
You can’t upgrade the ram. Is this a problem? You decide. Buy with the amount of ram you believe you will need. 8gb should be fine for cad and other similar workloads (source: I used a mac with 8gb for kicad last year and it didn’t have any problems. Used one with 4gb for the same but mfs aren’t ready to have that conversation). If you’re worried about the future, pick one with 16.
Apple fucked up and made a really good computer. You can call this a problem because it’s not clear if they’re gonna go the 2012 12” mbp route and support that thing for a decade or the 2011 15” route and drop it after the minimum support window. You could also say it doesn’t matter because they’re still being sold new in Walmart even though they’re technically discontinued earlier this year and that would make the minimum support window at least the time period you’re looking to have it for. It truly doesn’t matter because no software balks at last years (or often several years old) macos and they’re gonna be on the hook for security updates for a while now.
I can understand that perspective.
Things might be slightly different in the eurozone, but it’s almost impossible to have an incompatibility problem in the us. Macs are extremely popular in higher education and a lot of the software that is used in the academy differs from the stuff used in industry specifically because cross platform is a priority in education.
I have some macs and some apple phones and tablets and some android phones and tablets and a bunch of linux machines and some virtualized windows environments. They’re all just tools.
Getting acquainted with macos will cause you to develop a whole new set of psychoses unrelated to “I’m a Mac/im a pc”. Think “I hate systemd/wayland” for Linux or “I hate settings app/centered start button” for windows.
If you can get past the initial hump of learning it, as a university student you’ll probably never be in a better place to use a mac.
If nothing else, you’re unlikely to lose money if you hate it because they retain value like crazy.
Ooooh!
Good one, Grandpa!
(No offence, its likely I'm older than you, but your pun heavy reminded me of my dad's, and that's what my girls always say to him when he lets one off)
My SO and I have been together for around 15 years. We’ve had our ups and downs, like everyone else, but I think we’re in a really strong place for the last year or so. I’ve had to face up to my imperfections and work to change them. But some of our problems were caused by my now diagnosed ADHD. (Medium severity inattentive type)
And she just rolled with it, she has accommodated my newly discovered needs like it’s nothing.
She is compassionate and understanding of my preference to write down timelines so I can see the whole picture. She is happy to take housework off my plate that I’m simply not built to do well.
Holy fuck I love this woman.
This friend of a friend hardly competed in the Amazing Race?
Because, if so, I already got it!
he looked past the asocial behavior caused to autism; the dirt poor immigrant background and sensibilities; and the entitled liberal world view to date and marry me anyways and that was no small thing for a solidly middle class, cultured, and classically beautiful man to do in the gay world.
if i had my choice he would still be here by my side; but he was deported since i couldn't sponsor him for citizenship due to doma
This question made me come to a weird realization that I dont appreciate when people do or say nice things to me. I tried to think of something and I know that she has done plenty of nice things and said nice things but nothing stands out.
Then I thought about how I'd react if she did something nice for me and I realized I get annoyed and dislike it. I can handle small gifts but I don't like people doing things for me or helping me and I ignore compliments because I already feel comfortable with myself so I don't feel like I dont need them.
Im not even sure how to appreciate a gesture beyond just saying thankyou as a formality and trying to figure out how to pay them back.
Mine is an odd one, she let the breakup be amicable. It’s never easy to breakup, but our relationship turned into a LDR with a 5 hour time difference. Long distance relationships are never easy but we were giving it an honest shot. Eventually we both knew it was time, but neither of us wanted it to end. When the idea was floated that this could be coming to an end she insisted that we don’t blame ourselves but rather the circumstances. Our last date was both of us updating each other’s dating profiles.
We’re still friends, we still talk, I was at her wedding a few years ago, and the man she’s with is an amazing man, I wish them the best. It was an issue of circumstance, not compatibility, and of all the relationships I’ve been in that is the only one that I do not blame either myself, or my partner for the breakup.
I'm also willing to do the same for her :]
Define "sandboxed"
Application can only access a limited part of the system? = use flatpak or build a container/VM image using the nix pkgs.
Application can be uninstalled completely and has separate libraries? I prefer nix.
Hey everyone, I'm relatively new to linux and was looking for some advice/direction. I have been using Mint Debian Edition for around 6mo or so, and want to learn to use the command line efficiently and proficiently.
I have set up EndeavourOS on a backup laptop I have and have been playing with it, reading the Arch Wiki and such, but I feel like I'm not necessarily learning why I'm doing things, just doing what has worked for others.
So here I am. I guess I'm looking for recommendations for books or articles (physical or online) that can help me to learn and understand the workings on linux, and especially the command line.
Thank you all so much.
There’s a book called “How Linux works” and I think you might find a lot of good info there.
And at a glance, this Bash tutorial looks pretty good: bash scripting course
Shell scripting is an important part of process automation in Linux. Scripting helps you write a sequence of commands in a file and then execute them. This saves you time because you don't have to write certain commands again and again.Zaira Hira (freeCodeCamp.org)
Very weird. Maybe its the client. Can't see it in the browser either
I’ve seen this one recommended in the past. I think it’s great for beginners yet still full of useful information.
LinuxCommand.org is a web site that helps users discover the power of the Linux command line.linuxcommand.org
The only way you're REALLY going to learn is be actively using things. If everything is just working, GREAT! That's all you need to know. Just keep enjoying it.
If there something specific you are using this for, let us know and we might be able to help you out.
That being said, one of the easiest to force yourself to learn where everything is, is by using the CLI instead of GUI wherever applicable. Install packages, do updates, change settings...etc.
My first recommendation is to become familiar with one flavour of Linux. Debian is a solid choice and it will give you a good understanding of how a great many derivatives operate.
The command line is a tool to get things done, it's not an end to itself. Some things are easier to do with a GUI, many things are easier to do with the command line interface or CLI.
Many Linux tools are tiny things that take an input, process it and produce an output. You can string these commands together to achieve things that are complex with a GUI.
Manipulation of text is a big part of this. Converting things, extracting or filtering data, counting words
For example, how many times do you use the words "just" and "simply" in the articles you write?
grep -oiwE "just|simple" *.txt | sort | uniq -c
That checks all the text files in a directory for the occurrence of either word and shows you how many occurred and what capitalisation they used.
In other words, learning to use the CLI is about solving problems, one by one, until you don't have to look things up before you understand why or how it works.
Did you just, not read the OP and come straight to this person's comment to argue with them based off the least charitable interpretation? The OP already uses Linux Mint Debian Edition. This person mentioned "flavours" of Linux, clearly meaning the various 𝑥-based families of distros (ie Debian, Fedora, Arch etc). Which is pretty solid advice when it comes to learning the CLI in my opinion. I think they were trying to gently nudge OP away from their second EndeavourOS install, as even though ArchWiki is great (sorry KDE but it has better Plasma docs), OP would end up pretty lost on trying to use those skills back on LMDE.
But to circle back around, Debian, the distro, actually is a good choice for learning the CLI because it can be installed without a desktop environment, potentially using something like Distrobox. That way OP could learn the CLI within their LMDE installation in a sandbox, so they don't risk messing up their main computer.
Did you just, not read the OP and come straight to this person’s comment to argue with them based off the least charitable interpretation?
Yeah, kinda
IDK if thats true in 2024. I Debian 12 isn't much harder to setup than mint or Ubuntu, and the version of gnome it ships with is perfectly fine. I'm not a winner anymore, so maybe there's something I glossed over.
Oh wait, I just remembered the thing I glossed over. Needing to install sudo would definitely throw a beginner for a loop
Yeah that’s the biggest cure for “learning something and not knowing why”. Instead of just reading to read, try doing things, and when you have a problem or question look it up.
Want to install multiple programs at once? Google it. Want to search for a program, but it spits out 700 versions? Google how to filter outputs in the command line.
Unless you just really like reading dry ass documentation then you kinda just have to do it. And when you run into an issue then figure out the fix.
I never had an IT background and also "just tried" Linux a few years ago.
Now, I'm still not an Linux expert, but relatively proficient with it.
I tried reading "How Linux works" (free e-book), but didn't have a great time with it.
It's just too detailed for someone who just wants to use Linux. It might be an absolutely great resource if you plan to work in IT, but other than that, just it's too much wasted time.
What helped me a lot was to use Linux as an OS for my homeserver.
You don't need anything fancy for it. Just use an old spare laptop or something similar you have laying around, or buy an used small form factor PC, like those Mini-PCs many businesses use. Those often cost less than 50 bucks and would otherwise land on the trash.
Then, install your server OS of choice. The most popular one is just plain ol' Debian, and it's what I used. It's a great choice!
Servers run without a display or GUI (DE/ WM). You set it up once, and then connect to it remotely via SSH.
With that, you can either install a web interface like CasaOS or Cockpit, or just use the CLI for everything.
For the start, you can choose just Nextcloud AIO and call it a day. It comes with all things needed for a functioning webserver. But, things said, the learning experience ends here pretty quickly. It's made to be easy and painless.
If you want to learn more, then consider setting up the stuff for yourself. It's also really not hard (coming from someone who doesn't IT stuff professionally!), but takes a bit more time, because you have a lot of choices.
For that, you might consider checking out c/Selfhosted awesome-selfhosted on GitHub.
Theres a lot of really cool things you can discover!
The main reason I recommend that, and not just "Try LFS, Arch, Void, Gentoo, or whatever" is because I find it pretty much useless. Sure, you learn how it works, but for what price?
When you set up your own homelab, then you have actual useful things running, you also learn a lot, and maybe you can add it to your CV when applying for jobs.
I for example work in the chemistry sector, where IT stuff like this is pretty useless on the first glance, but I often got invited for a job interview exactly because of that. It's just a nice skill to have!
For checking out great CLI tools, check out the according video from TheLinuxExperiment or other YouTube/ PeerTube videos.
Try to learn the basic commands, like cd, ls or cat, then look up for more advanced/ alternative tools, like tree (instead of ls), bat (instead of cat), and so on, and then try to learn shell scripting.
I really like using fish instead of bash, because it's a very friendly and interactive shell ;)
I hope that my comment was helpful! 😀
Linux is a tool. And I find that the best way to learn handling a new tool is making a project with it.
A book is (maybe) fine, but a project will help you use your knoweldge while you gain it.
So set up a Lemmy/Minetest/Matrix/Teamspeak server
or write a bash script to change your audio output device/volume
or program a simple bot in your favorite programming language
or mix some music
or gather a bunch of PDFs and search through them and concatenate them
And while you do that and create directories, change permissions, move files, create users or "cat" or "grep" or "sed" stuff, find out, what every single line you write in a terminal does.
And instead of using a graphical program to move files, shutdown your PC or update all programs, only use the command line.
This will help you in the long run.
There's a lot of good suggestions here.
As someone who uses Linux but doesn't love it, be prepared to restart from scratch a lot. Keep the OS on a blank drive and just point the OS to your storage drives once it's up and running.
Otherwise you are going to be losing data every time you break something in the OS, and that is really no fun.
Ctrl-C will not do what you expect, use Ctrl-Shift-C, or click mouse wheelXTermCtrl-Alt-F1, you can press Alt-F7 to switch back to the graphical desktopvi, no need to reboot your PCmc and get all the benefits without typing cd and ls every time you want to find a specific file⁽¹⁾ Real Fedora-Wearing Sysadmins don't use vi to edit files, they either write a sed script or use cat to copy the file to the terminal, then use cat again to copy the contents of the terminal back into the file by clicking the mouse wheel while typing manually the lines they need to change.
There’s someone posting a pretty well-crafted intro to Linux series here on Lemmy. Look for that and go to the linked website and dive into the parts that you find interesting. I think they post a course chapter per day in the format of (approximately) “Day 15: Topic for that day.”
I’ve skimmed some of the course material and thought it useful for beginners. I’m really happy that they keep posting each month.
As other's have said, have a goal. A computer is a tool, use it to accomplish something, try to get something working for yourself that currently doesn't. If your PC aleady does everything you need it to, great, you're ahead of everyone else 😅.
Don't think of the command line as a good option, it's archaic, and its capabilities are objectively rudimentary, it's just often the least bad option because no one has made a convenient GUI for what you're trying to do (or if they have, they did it poorly, and somehow the command line is still less bad). So you will inevitably have to interact with it.
I think it's the opposite, GUIs are often convoluted and rudimental compared to the power of the terminal. The terminal can be very sophsticated.
Just because it's how we used to do things in the past it doesn't mean it's archaic, quite the opposite it's a very powerful and useful tool that no GUI can ever possibly match, in fact generally GUIs are either for noobs (and I don't mean this in a derogatory way) and/or convenience, but you can't really match the ease of automating, power, and freedom a terminal provides when in the hands of someone who understands what they're doing.
I'm talking about a properly made GUI, you're talking about most GUIs. I believe I covered this in my original comment: poorly made GUIs are worse than a terminal interface.
But don't act like a linear string of characters, typed in one-by-one is the optimal way to interface with a computer. Obviously, a non-invasive neuralink implant that is able to interpret your intentions with 100% accuracy without uploading any of your data to Elon Musk is the ideal Human Interface Device, but we're not quite there yet.
In the meantime, I assume you run a window manager of some kind. Why? Do you regularly browse the internet from the terminal? Unlikely. Why not? Have you ever tried non-linear video editing, image manipulation, or 3D modeling in a terminal? How about debugging multi threaded code, or visualizing allocation patterns? And if VR/AR is part of your workflow, trying to use a terminal in concert feels sillier than the hacking montage from Hackers.
Terminals are objectively more limited than a GUI, because that's literally the definition of a terminal: a very limited graphical user interface. The advantage of a terminal is that it's easy (especially for programmers who don't have an artistic/UX-bone in their body, and are thinking in terms of functions and operands) to make a primitive interface that adheres to a set of expectations. But no one commits every parameter for every command line tool to memory, and even if they did, people don't want to type out a novel when moving a cursor to a specific region of the screen feels more natural and takes a fraction of the time. (Not that it always feels more natural, but when in the times when it does, that's what every sane person should prefer to do).
So just like I told OP, the goal shouldn't be to use a terminal; you should instead focus on solving a problem. The terminal is just often the least bad tool that currently exists to solve a lot of problems.
Terminals are only limited in tasks that require graphics content, what a shocker.
For all other cases they're vastly more powerful than any GUI can be, because no developer can (or should, it's unrealistic to ask them to do this) match the amount of complex operations terminal commands can reach with one string or script. With GUIs you also have to deal with different sets and toolkits, like GTK, Qt, etc etc.
There's use-cases where GUIs work better and cases where terminals work better and which ones belong where also depends on the user, but saying terminals are more limited than GUIs and bad is flat out wrong and dishonest.
I think you and I are using two different definitions of the word "powerful", or are at least applying them to subtly different aspects of the discussion.
And I agree with you. But hopefully you also agree with me that a GUI is objectively more "expressive" than a TUI, and in that sense has a higher ceiling for how useful it can be to a user.
In addition to rhe other advice, I'd add what helped me the most: install arch from scratch.
Use an older PC you have lying around, or just a VM. Use the installation guide on the arch wiki (or a video on feetube if you prefer to listen to a human explain stuff) and just learn as you go.
Step one: Find terminal that's convenient for you. For me it's yakuake and some use a runner or whatever.
Step 2: Find stuff that you do on a regular basis with your computer and do it with the terminal instead. (Open 3 programs, run a steam game or whatever)
Step 3: Use a bashrc file to make an alias for it.
Step 4: Find stuff a couple of actions you do the same way every time like open 3 work programs, start torrent + vpn or whatever and put them in a bash function inside bashrc.
You might not need it though. The terminal is has mostly only two uses in my opinion. Automate stuff and/or do stuff you can't do with the UI. I use the terminal heavily for work (programming) but hardly otherwise because the best way to break my OS is to change some OS config with terminal commands lol
best way: try to use it for daily tasks. Copying and moving files? terminal, moving around? terminal, editing text? vim. Etc etc. Eventually you will learn to use it.
Also check out RobetrsElderSoftware's "[command] is my favorite Linux command" shorts to find out new commands. Also install tldr (sudo apt install tldr on mint, sudo pacman -S tldr on Arch & derivatives) it's very helpful when you want more (and better formatted) info than [command] --help but less than man [command]
I have a list of learning resources for CLI tools and scripting here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/curated_resources/linux_cli_scripting.html
I've also written a few TUI interactive apps to practice text processing commands like grep, sed, awk, coreutils, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps
Learning resources for Programming, Linux, Vim, Git and more.learnbyexample.github.io
This. Right now you might feel you aren't learning anything, that you are just copying what says online without understanding it. But little by little, by changing a config line the internet told you, by doing x command to search for y path, you slowly and unknowingly build up your experience with that config file or command. Next time you need to touch that same confg file or command, it'll be easier, and easier. So on until you just know it and dont need to look it up.
Give it time. Every small step builds toward the big goal. And if you know how to search and learn from the internet efficiently, you dont even need to ask here for advice. It'll come naturally
Working through this beginners guide to the Linux command line (BASH) you will be up and running utilising powerful techniques, tips and tricks to make your life easier in no time.ryanstutorials.net
I don't get it. Why do people like Starbucks? To me it's bitter and granular. Compared to a Nero which is smooth and sweet.
Yet, many avid coffee drinkers I know love the taste of Starbucks. Is it a genetic thing?
i’m from melbourne, australia which is one of the best places in the world for coffee… when i go to the US i try to find good coffee but our version of good tends to be VERY different
US good is a dark roast - which i find very bitter… australian coffee (and melbourne in particular) is quite a light roast, which is more acidic but less bitter
i find most good coffee in the US to be pretty undrinkable (this probably comes down to choice of preparations: black drip is pretty weak; espresso starts out strong), but a starbucks blonde is… inoffensive (note write relation to your comment: a light right is probably what you’re talking about; especially a light double ristretto… a ristretto is a half shot, twice… the bitterness from coffee comes at the end of the shot, so nero is perhaps a light roast double ristretto… you also tend to get most of the caffeine in the first half i think? so it’s more caffeine if that worries you)
so when i’m in a rush and really just want to not hate what im putting in me, ill find a starbucks not because its good, but because its fucking hard work to find a good coffee that’s also my taste - my usual cues for a cafe just don’t work in the US, and there’s no a fantastic cafe on literally every corner so the choice is even harder
Several factors.
BO = Body odour. FO = Foot odour.
~~Are you blood group O? Mosquitoes seem to have a preference for certain blood types, specifically group O.~~
Seems like the paper was missinterpreted by a news article and by myself.
Aedes aegypti is the major vector of Dengue in Sri Lanka. Dengue virus is transmitted via blood feeding of vector mosquitoes. Blood is an essential component for the fecundity of mosquitoes and the knowledge on feeding behaviour of Ae.Science Publishing Group
I had a friend who would catch them out of the air and eat them, said it kept them from biting him.
I don't know. If I am outside with others (like on the porch or in the yard - not counting wilderness areas where they are aggressive) I don't get bitten but if I am alone they do bite me.
I do run cold, can stay cool in warm weather, don't sweat easily, and I breathe quite slowly. So my money is on warmth and CO2 as the biggest factors. Other people are probably louder and distract them away from me.
ETA This was interesting too, maybe you really are mosquito bait.
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/the-chemistry-of-mosquito-attraction
Using an outdoor testing arena in Zambia, researchers are hoping to use new discoveries about mosquitoes' attraction to human scent to develop malaria interventions.Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The most recent research I can find is from 2019 that showed significant preferred on O type.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2023&q=mosquito+preference&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Not sure what you're looking for with 'new information', but here's a link to a Google Scholar search with a variety of articles published in the last year.
Just skimming it, gut microbiome, surface temperature, and age are all factors.
Mostly diet.
There are some genes that affect how you smell, and how you perspirate. But diet dominates
I don't believe this. My daughter and I get bit as soon as we step outside. My wife and son don't even put on bug spray.
We all eat the same
Mosquitoes find their prey using three senses:
First by CO2, as mammals will be releasing it in big quantities (though they also bite reptiles).
Second, by body smell, which as others here have mentioned, diet and genetics may dictate how it is affected.
Third by shape (that's when they are already there) and are trying to figure out where to stick it.
The first one is hard to fix, so for the second I'll recommend icaridin or, if not available DEET, and in gel form not spray. DEET can be a skin irritant, hence why is less preferred.
Spray though is sometimes used when applying it to clothing, as it also may have your smell attached to it.
For the third one, I haven't seen conclusive data but a lot of observational studies: from wearing light-colored ample clothing that doesn't define the limbs to (I guess) wearing stripes like a zebra.
Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7945690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173961/
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-mosquitoes-detect-people
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22333-7
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/the-chemistry-of-mosquito-attraction
And a lifetime in humid climates like the Bayou.
With the increasing threat of the worldwide spread of mosquito-borne infectious diseases, consumer interest in anti-mosquito textiles that protect against mosquito bites is also increasing.PubMed Central (PMC)
Isn't there something that emits co2 and then zaps them?
I guess I should just get a net and a hand held zapper?
There's some reports that the interaction of soaps and shampoos influence how tasty a person smells, so it might be worth trying different products.
Different soaps can make you more or less attractive to mosquitos. Here, experts explain what attracts mosquitos and what you can do to prevent a mosquito bite.Korin Miller (Prevention)
There's definitely the genetic component too, but the scents from soap is an interesting thing to test out.
And for what it's worth some types of oil of lemon eucalyptus works reasonably well, if you don't want to use DEET.
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/insect-repellent/oil-of-lemon-eucalyptus-insect-repellents-a7989538414/
Some friends really like this stuff "Repel Lemon Eucalyptus Insect Repellent2 Pump" and consumer reports also thinks it works pretty well.
Oil of lemon eucalyptus, or OLE, powers some of CR’s recommended insect repellents. Learn why it works and how it can protect you against mosquitoes and ticks.Catherine Roberts (Consumer Reports)
Not a doctor, but I wouldn’t assume a cream and a tablet will function the same way for the same problem.
One thing you could try: instead of showering, take a bath. Soak in the water for a while, then dry off and apply the cream right away. Obviously doesn’t help for everything, but in my experience, having well hydrated skin makes a lot of things sting a lot less.
I sent a PM.
Some questions:
Is it warm to the touch? How big is it? What is the shape? Color? Location? Is there exudate? Is it more dry or more moist than the surrounding skin? Is it elevated or depressed?
Antifungal tablets aren't really a direct replacement for topical applications. They can be, but it's all about what you've got and where it is. Which is an oversimplified version of things, but true enough.
If you're certain that the problem is fungal, and I saw where you said a doctor had diagnosed it as yeast, I think you might be better off trying a different topical application. Back when I was working out a lot, I'd run into yeast and other skin issues because it's just so easy to stay wet in places under clothes when you're on a tight schedule.
I tend to prefer powders anywhere that skin touches skin, like the groin, or armpits.
Creams are for flat sections of skin, with sprays being for places that are harder to reach.
But you also kinda need to have the right antifungal.
For yeast, there's really two. Nystatin and clotrimazole. If one doesn't do the job, try the other. If they both don't work, you're either doing something wrong, or it may not be yeast.
Wherever it is, clean the area well with water, soap, and mild friction via a soft cloth. You do not want to scrub hard, that just irritates the skin, and may help the yeast find little crevices to hide away from the medicine.
But, even more important dry thoroughly. Like, you want the skin to be fully dry, not in any way damp or moist, particularly if the area is where skin touches skin.
Then you apply the product. I'm not sure why it's hurting enough to make it difficult to apply cream, which is weird for yeast in my experience, with the exception of women with a yeast problem on their labia. A light pain is fairly common, but nothing as bad as sunburn usually. But you gotta get it on there. And you have to apply it as directed. Even if it hurts, that's the only way to make it go away.
Now, a doctor may well prescribe you an oral medication, they're certainly available, and can definitely be useful depending on circumstances. But they don't actually work that great for some situations. I've seen people take them for vaginal infections, and it not do anything for the labia at all. Nothing wrong with asking your doctor though.
I hear some of the old exploding-heads crew is back as hilariouschaos.com
Not under any active development
i don't really see the usecase that isn't perfectly covered by lemmy?
"hexbear is fediverse 4chan!!!"has the largest weekly trans megathread in the entire fediverse, a supermajority of non-cishet users, aggressively bans racism, bigotry and transphobia on sight, has hard-coded mandatory pronoun tags
Lmao okay, sure bud
What exactly about 4chan are you looking for?
How does 4chan's design differ from traditional forums, really? There's less moderation and more anonymity than you might usually expect, but the very nature of ActivityPub means that aspect doesn't really make as much sense in a federated forum.
So do you just want something like Lemmy but without nested comments or upvoting, and only sorting posts by new and comments by old, the way a traditional forum does? For that you might be able to try LemmyBB which is a front-end to Lemmy that says it's supposed to look like phpBB forums. (Unfortunately I can't verify because the two domains its Readme claims run that software are both no longer active.) Or you could try Morum, forum software based not in ActivityPub but Matrix. There are also plugins for non-federated forum software, like Discourse which aim to enable ActivityPub integration with their forums.
Is there some other feature of 4chan that you want to see?
A federated bulletin board. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmyBB development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Not so sure that's true though. If you look at a 4chan threads in some boards, you can recognize the individual anonymous' from the ID next to them.
I suspect it's using either a cookie, or the IP address to track a user and while not storing that info, generating an ID hash from perhaps a unique ID for the thread + their details.
No reason you couldn't federate using the same. But, even without that, each post and comment has a post ID and replies would be tracked that way. Just, you'd need to remember which replies were your own.
The home instance could store for a thread some info about posts/comments from an IP or cookie too and highlight them. But that info wouldn't be federated.
I actually don't think it'd be a problem, really. But, is this something missing from our lives? I'm not so sure.
When you post in a thread you get an ID for that thread. When you post in a different thread you get a different id.
The only way i could see it working is following a particular board on an instance. So I might follow the fitness board on the chan.nz instance and id see all threads pop up and I could open them and view the comments just like on lemmy or mastodon. Actually I think that would work.
When you post in a thread you get an ID for that thread. When you post in a different thread you get a different id.
That's what I said. You don't need any ID to federate the messages. If you reply to a comment the nesting is based on the comment/post ID and not the usernames.
You couldn't track a users posts after the fact, and I think that's kinda the point.
Via Andy Miller (2007), an amusing metaphor for Linux memory overcommit. Originally posted by Andries Brouwer to the linux-kernel mailing list, 2004-09-24, in the thread titled “oom_pardon, aka don’t kill my xlock”:An aircraft company discovered that it was cheaper to fly its planes with less fuel on board. The planes would be lighter and use less fuel and money was saved. On rare occasions however the amount of fuel was insufficient, and the plane would crash. This problem was solved by the engineers of the company by the development of a special OOF (out-of-fuel) mechanism. In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane. (When necessary, the procedure was repeated.) A large body of theory was developed and many publications were devoted to the problem of properly selecting the victim to be ejected. Should the victim be chosen at random? Or should one choose the heaviest person? Or the oldest? Should passengers pay in order not to be ejected, so that the victim would be the poorest on board? And if for example the heaviest person was chosen, should there be a special exception in case that was the pilot? Should first class passengers be exempted? Now that the OOF mechanism existed, it would be activated every now and then, and eject passengers even when there was no fuel shortage. The engineers are still studying precisely how this malfunction is caused.
Twenty years later, as far as I know, the OOM killer is still going strong. In fact, if you don’t like the airline’s policy on what counts as an “emergency” (for example, that it might exhaust your swap partition too before killing any bad actor at all), you can hire your own hit man, in the form of the userspace daemon earlyoom.
Explanation of the OOM-Killer: Understanding Out of Memory Killer (OOM Killer) in Linux
Learn about Linux kernel's out of memory management handling mechanism.Abhishek Prakash (Linux Handbook)
Can it not be disabled? I've heard so many horror stories about the OOM killer that I'm really not a fan at this point.
And might as well add one of my own.
I needed to do an unpacking of a very large file, which I kept running in the background, but it used a ton of memory and took a ton of time. So to ensure I'm not bored for 30 mins, I opened up the browser. Around 10 mins or so later, I go to check up on the window where the operation is running only to find out the operation.... stoppped? So after that, I just started the operation again, closed all other windows and background programs, and checked out stuff on my phone while I waited.
I mean, this is literally what someone in the original mailing list said:
How about a sysctl that does "for the love of kbaek, don't ever kill these processes when OOM. If nothing else can be killed, I'd rather you panic"?
I saw a trailer some months ago about a TV show anchor, that progressively slipped to supernatural tropes. Does it ring a bell to anyone?
Edit: sorry mods I realise it is not an open ended question.
The teen girl without a permanent home who was forced to don jail garb, wear handcuffs and ask for mercy after falling asleep in a courtroom is suing the Detroit judge who had her taken into custody.
Eva Goodman, 15, and her mother filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan against 36th District Judge Kenneth King. They allege he violated the teen's civil rights, arguing King acted outside the scope of his judicial authority when he detained her, yelled at her and threatened her with jail time.
Judge Kenneth King previously served as an adjunct at Wayne State University, but the school reassigned his classes after his removal from his docket., Detroit Free Press (Detroit Free Press)
That judge should clearly have been removed from the bench, instead of just being asked to attend some sort of behavior class with pay. The usual slap on the wrist with a feather for the privileged.
He clearly lacks a sense of scope, and limitation to his powers. And apparently has extreme views on punishment for nothing burgers that aren't even illegal. He also has a complete lack of empathy and understanding how strongly punishment can influence a person, especially a young person, and especially a person being punished harshly despite doing no harm.
He is completely unfit to be a judge.
I hope the girl wins her lawsuit, and the judge will receive some true punishment through that.
the term "cake day" just makes me think of r*ddit. I've seen Lemon Day going around, but we probably want to avoid affiliation with lemon party.
not that we can tell anybody what to do anyway, and each instance could even have its own. anyway, it needs to be something that obviously means "anniversary" and doesn't require explanation otherwise it'll just be annoying
Jerboa is the official mobile app for Lemmy.
A lemming is a type of rodent, and so is a jerboa.
There are normal cheeses, there are lactose free cheeses and vegan cheeses as well. I think that's all possible bases covered? Beside, cheese is delicious (I have yet to have a delicious vegan cheese but I'm told they exist - probably didn't get here yet or too pricey for me - but that's beside the point 😁).
I vote cheese day, your logic is bullet proof.
I think some variant of cake day is fun but I'm regretfully going to play devil's advocate this time (even though he really doesn't need any more advocates).
Is an account anniversary a thing we want to recognize as a part of Lemmy culture? There's quite a few people who aren't on their original Lemmy accounts anymore due to servers going offline and cultural disagreements with their original instances. When account migration becomes a thing, does your anniversary follow it? There's a higher percentage of people who make new accounts every so often for the purpose of privacy and that's a behavior I think, as a community, we want to respect even if we don't want to celebrate it - having recognized and trustworthy-ish regulars also has value. I'm not sure if Reddit-level recognition of an anniversary makes sense in the context of the culture we've already started building here.
Also, the majority of those who are on our original accounts have anniversaries within like a month of each other due to Reddit's API bullshit - and doesn't our Canvas event fall around that same time (although using that specifically as a "Fuck Reddit" event is imo not productive - I like the fact that last year's canvas had fuck u/spez everywhere and this year's didn't).
I think the concept of "account age" is not beneficial for some people like me.
Your account get two years, three years, but then for just that "big age number" you have difficulties to delete your account and quit the platform because "all of that would be lost".
It's roughly explained but you get the idea.
cake day is a colloquial term that means birthday. ~~it's not invented by or for reddit.~~ also being reminded of reddit isn't something to avoid; you can survive. it's just a website. be normal.
edit: it seems like it was probably coined for reddit, but I know it also means birthday now. even if it didn't who gives a shit, the rest of my comment stands.
you're acting like you just started with "it doesn't matter". that's not where we started. you walked in here telling people to "be normal", so you opened with a factually incorrect statement followed by condescension.
your answer can be whatever you want it to be. but if you proclaim "i don't care" & then continue to engage on the topic, including doing additional research, for the next 14 hours, people are going to notice that you do actually care.
dude you're the one continuing the engagement. you're counting hours and shit like I've been constantly thinking about this when in reality i made a comment and was ready to forget this insignificant fucking thing but you're the one who keeps prolonging the thread. you ask additional questions and when i try to answer them it's supposedly me being engaged and caring so much for x hours, x being updated with every subsequent comment of yours, that I'm doing additional research. it's called looking it up in the dictionary because someone specifically asked and not finding an entry.
turns out i was right in being condescending. just be normal dude, either carry a conversation or don't. but don't come out here with inane shit and then exclaim how it's me who's invested ... for replying to your comments that you commented.
I'm verbose, what can I say...
also at least i type one comment at a time, eh. I'd say you have to give up the claim that the other party is driving the engagement once you reply to the same comment twice.
I think cake day is fine. It's because you get a little cake icon by your name, every forum does that. That said, I think the lemon party concern is kind of a stretch, lol.
Just call it what you like. People will know what you mean from context. If we need a community consensus, it'll develop naturally.
I think we just don't call it.
The people who like that kind of stuff can acknowledge it if they want
Cake Day is from birthdays, mate. You know? That annual celebration of creation where there's usually cake?
Stop letting spez live in your head and just enjoy where you're at.
Ok. So you're saying your disillusionment should apply to everyone?
If you can't have fun with it, no-one else should get to?
But you DO act as if people won't just bring over whatever they personally liked. As if there's some debate to be had, and a kind of consensus to be reached about not doing so with stuff people like you arbitrarily consider "valueless".
Even within your own framework of "value" can you really argue that something lots of people like, that doesn't really cost anyone else anything, is somehow detrimental enough to oppose?
And who the fuck cares if it's shallow? Positive online interaction is positive online interaction. How the hell do you come to the conclusion that having less of THAT would be an improvement?
Damn, that's crazy! I got introduced to MUDs in high school as well by one of my best friends. It's neat the people you can meet but never though to go any further and meet them in real life especially if you needed to go to another country.
I almost met a girl through one of those online kingdom building games (Utopia Jesus, it's still going) but called it off last minute. Kinda wonder how my life would have been different if I had gone.
Build, explore and research to increase your power. Deploy your armies, thieves and powerful magic to combat your opponents and bring them to their knees. Work with your team mates to maximize our kingdom's glory.Utopia Game
MUD stands (sometimes) for multi-user dungeon... it's essentially a text based mmorpg that's usually light on the "massive" (the more popular MUD I played on for a while had a max concurrent user count somewhere around 120) and they tend to be very focused on role-playing and descriptions rather than mechanics - though your mileage may vary, a few are extremely focused on the mechanics and pay little attention to role-playing.
It's quite fun and the communities are always really welcoming, I'd suggest giving it a try if it sounds interesting!
I did a show at the local theatre when I was 17. First time doing theatre. I had been homeschooled and sheltered my whole life for religious reasons.
Since then I've deconstructed my faith, learned I'm trans, have had sex without getting married gasp, tried drugs, came up with my own values and beliefs, all the usual stuff, and it can all be traced back to that small impulsive choice to do something that intimidated me and try theatre.
I mean, I'm sure I would've got out eventually but I'm happy things happened the way they did.
I guess I'd say it like this:
The story unfolding was the most memorable gaming experience I've had since childhood (and I game quite a bit), but it probably took ~2 hours of being like "I don't get it" before anything clicked. My partner (who watched) and I couldn't put it down after that.
But for sure, it can't be for everyone
I was planning to join the military after high school. It was a 3 hour drive to the closest MEPS (military entrance processing station), so the local recruiters only made the trip out there once a week. I already had my date set when another guy dropped out, so my recruiter asked if I was interested in going a week earlier. I said absolutely, because I was dead et on being in the Army, so what difference did one more week make?
So that's how I enlisted on Sept 5th, 2001...
Forgot a lighter which has so far led to 2 weddings and 5 kids?
In the first week of school, a buddy and I wandered around with beer and joints to various dorms but forgot a lighter. Asking around for one, we made a new friend. Fast forward a couple years, "new friend" let me know about a home for rent opening up. I rounded up some folks (including original buddy) and we rented it. Except one guy was gone for the summer. So, a gal came from out of town to live with there. We became friends, she fell in love and ended up moving here. Between her, her best friend and sister they've had 5 kids with partners mostly from that original friend circle.
So, if I had remembered a lighter way back in first year, we wouldn't have put a house of folks together, wouldn't have met gal and her pals and thus a few weddings and kids would've happened differently or not at all.
Oh no I got to be real special. It was leiomyosarcoma. I was a paramedic for years fell down some stairs once with a patient when I was younger. Had some torn muscles and all that. Went on with life for 30 years with "a sore back" all the time. Oh well. Young and dumb right. One day I kicked a kitchen chair leg passing by. Turns out I couldn't feel my foot...or the the other one either. Within 6 months I was paralyzed chest down. They chopped it out and I got major radiation treatments that will probably give me cancer before I die. Fun times.
Moral of the story...get your shit checked out.
Holy shit. That's terrible you lost your hearing on one side from a surgery. Its even scarier your going to get the other surgery done and could lose hearing all together. You will one be in my thoughts for sure. Secondly I hope they get you taken care of and people ANC headphones or earbuds will change your life if your a concert goer, gun shooter, construction, basically anything where you need to hear but also protect your hearing. Tinnitus is a removed. Nothing like EEEEEEEEE to soothe the already tense nerves. Thanks for the info. Don't put off health issues people it can only get worse!
Edit: kinda a wild metal story after some thought. Thanks for sharing! Wild
What was the countries if you don't mind?
I moved from Sweden to France and that started out with a girl friend asking me out of the blue if I wanted to do a (studying) year in France? Sure why not?
Read about Nyctereutes procyonoides (raccoon dog) on the Animal Diversity Web.Animal Diversity Web
Ha, this brought back a memory.
I wore 2 layered T shirts to the mall way back in the day when any deviation in style was seen as shocking, (ETA my kids do not understand just how ridiculously conformist the past was, it's hard to believe if you didn't live through it) and this somehow caught the eye of a guy who was in a punk band, which got me into that scene, which, while I wouldn't call it wholesome, probably saved my life, as I was so alienated at school and really unhappy.
Was bored one day and decided to watch Bojack Horseman since it had that guy from Arrested Development in it. It was weird, but funny, so I kept watching.
After a while, I started to recognize a lot of myself and things similar to my life, and since I was seeing someone else do this stuff, I knew that it wasn't healthy or necessarily supposed to be funny if it were a real person.
It helped me to start understanding that all my life, I've had horrible depression that lead me to really sabotage myself and almost every relationship I've ever had with anyone.
I ended up talking to my doctor, and it turned out to be something that was very easy to fix, and as soon as I got on the proper medicine, I almost immediately started experiencing life in a new way.
It helped me come to better terms with a lot of my childhood, and I no longer felt a crushing weight every day and could deal with day to day events in a healthy way.
I'm still a damaged person who doesn't quite understand a lot of things I think "normal" people understand, but I'm able to identify it and talk about it instead of it making me angry and frustrated.
I'm in an overall significantly better place now. I understand myself a good bit more, and I've come a long way in being a better person. I still carry a lot of emotional weight not that I realize all the bad things I've done to so many people, and I frequently feel the loss of those relationships, but it's more a reminder of how far I've come instead of something actively hurting me still after all these years.
I really liked the show, and there's a lot of fun things in it, but it's hard for me to watch now, as it reminds me too much of old me. I do really love Paul F Tomkins though and listen to him on Threedom and I just saw him on the Comedy Bang Bang tour.
I never expected a talking horse to turn my life around when nothing else did, but I won't complain.
In a D&D game that I got in through Roll20 matchmaking. One of the players asks if I want to join another campaign with his friends, said yes.
One of those friends is now my fiancee that I moved states for. The original guy ghosted all of us in a harsh way but I'll forever owe my new life to him.
I decided I hated living near Silicon Valley so much that I resolved to leave.
After years of preparation after that one little moment of declared intent, I left.
It's been a massive change of scenery, people, culture, and environment. And I love it.
And if there are more than one house ind the past and the plural of mouse is mice, it would be look hice.
(Seriously considered if choosing English for the language of this comment was appropriate 😁)
Definition of 'take a decision' by Merriam-WebsterMerriam-Webster Dictionary
😂
It's bad enough on its own that you can't afford to fuck it up.
When I was 9 or 10 I decided I wanted to dress up as a character from a show I was watching at the time for carnival.
Together with my mom I performed a web search in order to find images of that character.
We found a website specializing in that show and after a while I found out it had a forum attached to it. My mom allowed me to register there and I started to participate in it.
Most of my social contacts during my teen years were in online communities I found indirectly through that forum.
As someone with good parents, I get very demoralized hearing about how ungodly awful most peoples' parents were. It's so ubiquitous that I almost (almost but not quite) subscribe to the philosophy my friends have where they hold that children should (literally) be raised "by the village" rather than by two parents, which in theory would minimize the effects of one imbalanced mind having full control over the children.
Lately I've been reading a lot of books on narcissism and have been picking up on the idea/notion/possibility/viewpoint that narcissism is a spectrum like autism is. In autism, which itself is incredibly common due to the fact that it's multiple genes/processes/whatever performing multiple parts of a spectrum (think a carpet representing humanity and a shattered cup on the carpet, I use the shards in this visual to represent pieces of the spectrum scattered across humanity, apologies if anyone thinks a shattered cup seems like a negative comparison, I don't), you have the majority of humanity having some variance in it, which goes to demonstrate there's no such thing as a neurotypical. As in, if a scouter was invented that instead of scanning your power level scanned your autism level, everyone would have their very own signature number. ~~I would be over 9000.~~ Same with narcissism, if this view is correct, as it would be another shattered glass on the carpet that is humanity, with the shards from both glasses overlapping in their territories (which when you think about it makes the family dynamics in The Good Doctor all the more awkward, it's one spectrum at odds with another in a show where the main character is a medical savant with autism). And again, not trying to make an awkward comparison, I have friends who openly confess to me they're deep on the narcissism spectrum, and these people at least are trying their best in life, as well as showing narcissism is a neutral condition that just happens to seem more negative in modern urban situations.
Consider this the sequel to my last such question which had a similar idea to it. What's the most narcissisty your parents ever come or came, even if you hold them in generally good regards?
My mom was so dead set about molding me into her idealized version of a hippie kid that she wouldn't let me cut my hair as a young child despite the trauma of all the homophobic shit and actual fights I endured in kindergarten.
She to this day refuses to accept her part of responsibility for my complicated relationship with gender and social norms while also robbing me of a somewhat normal childhood even if it was reactionary social pressure that motivated me to want to conform to gender norms.
Everyone should get decide what battles they want to fight. Putting your own battles onto a child is not ok.
Accepting a social norm is a healthy approach for things you don't give a crap about, like say, your hair style or length, and not turning it into a unnecessarily big thing.
Emotionally manipulated me back into multiple abusive situations to act as her shield, and has refused to so much as acknowledge what was going on. Can't even have a talk about it, it's just shut down immediately.
Now she doesn't even know that she has a daughter instead of a son, and never will.
That's an interesting hypothesis you've cultivated. It needs additional testing, however, I'd like to add on the impact of intergenerational trauma and genetic drift, there's systemic runoff of abuse which impacts future generations within a specific animal group, resulting in evolutionary and social adaptations.
Enough of these adaptations kill a planet or a species, I'm afraid.
Right, everyone knows telnet makes you gay.
It's all detailed in the RFC854 for the telnet protocol by J. Reynolds and J. Postel. (Gay was pronounced with a J back then, like gifs)
That's why they later invented SSH to uh... secure you from... the... gay packets...?
Source: am network engineer.
Sorry your mom sucks.
Our neighborhood had large community mailboxes and my dad would always make me walk down the street to get the mail. One day there were some older kids outside and they started squirting me with water-guns. I got home and told my dad and he asked me to show him where the kids were. When I did he yelled at them saying, "don't squirt my mail!"
The sad thing is I though he was talking about me, as in male. It wasn't until years later I realized he didn't give a crap about me, he was mad his mail got wet.
It's by far not be the most narcissistic thing my dad did, (that would be beating the shit out of me for not wanting to go to church because it made him look bad). But I think about it often because I want my kids to know they are the most important thing to me, and I never want to say something that would make them think otherwise.
All my life I thought that she would love me, if I achieved certain test scores or finished a certain degree.
Then there was high school graduation night. I had worked really hard to get there and I will never forget how she made that annoyed face to let me know that she wanted to leave early. It was like a punch in the gut because it became clear to me at that point that there was nothing I could do to make her love me.
She wasn't capable of giving love. That's really fucking sad and I am still grappling with it, but it gets easier.
My parents had separated since before I started forming long-term memories and I was raised by my single mother. We used to visit my dad's side of the family for a week or so every other Christmas, I lived with him for a couple months as a teenager when my home life got particularly rough due to a profoundly toxic non-parent influence and during stay that we ignored each other apart from the cliche "divorced parent and kid who don't actually know each other at all trying to act their respective parts but neither knows how or really wants to or frankly likes the other one but they both know it's polite to pretend" sorts of interactions (which were quite sparing even as those go).
To be clear, I don't hold any of that against him even a little bit; that's all perfectly normal on his end as far as I'm concerned. That's all just there for context when I tell you that, now that I'm well into my 30s, I recently heard from my older sister who actually tries to stay connected to him that he's begun boasting about how proud he is for having shaped me into the man I am today. And, like, I'm not even on social media so I'm not a person he's even capable of keeping tabs on from a distance if he tried. He fully has no idea who I am. He not only doesn't deserve to take credit, he doesn't even know what he's taking credit for. I'm just so automatically an extension of himself by virtue of my DNA that he goes around telling other people that he's proud of me.
(A more technically accurate but less entertaining answer to the question is that he's politically a Libertarian.)
A few years back my family and I went to my cousins wedding a few states away, we decided on driving rather than flying due to covid airfare prices. So it was my mom, dad, brother, niece, and myself. My brother and I were both in our late twenties at this point in time so it was kinda weirdly nostalgic.
Anyway, on our way back from the wedding, we were driving through the cornfields of Pennsylvania when we noticed a few oddly parked cars on the side of the road. It was near a stop sign so we had plenty of time to figure out what was going on. A guy on a bicycle was hit by a car and laying on his back surrounded by people on the side of the road.
My mom is a nurse so I immediately asked her if we should pull over, she thought about it for a few seconds and said no we are meeting your sister in Cleveland for dinner and we can't be late. So we kept on driving. A few minutes later, she looks back and realizes how selfish of a decision she just made right in front of my 8 year old niece, so she says we should all pray for the man. Me and my brother just looked at eachother in awe as she proceeds to recite the Hail Mary.
Not my parents, but I've had a narcissist work colleague pester me about my partner and I not wanting to have kids, trying to convince us I guess, using her ultimate argument...
Her: But... you need to have kids so they take care of you when you're old!
Me: So... wait. Is that the reason you had kids?
Her: Well yea! (like that's the only logical answer, duh)
Me: ... wow ...
Fast forward. Her kids are all grown up now, they've since cut all contact and she hasn't seen them nor her grandkids in years. I run into them once in a while and I've helped them out with a handful of times with things like moving or maintenance or tax reports or whatever. There's a few things they never really got to learn growing up and anything they could ever do was never good enough for her, even though she's terrible at most things.
Now and then, she'd still complain about them being ungrateful and I'd just ignore her... she's never once come even close to the self-awareness that she drove them away by being a narcissist asshole.
She's retired now, so neither of us have to deal with her now.
Great fucking plan, having kids to guilt trip them into caring for you...
They had the guts to move on and I'm proud of them.
I was probably the first to tell them so, some random passerby.
Fuck narcissists.
Not the most but probably one of the last ones. When I decided to move to another country my mother refused to help in any way, even though the money necessary would make no difference in my parents life. Not only that, but she actively sabotaged every effort I made and in my last day she asked me to talk to her. She cried and cried and said: “I fought so hard for you to stay here. Who is gonna take care of me now?”
And that’s how I moved to Canada in February without a winter jacket and had only 20 dollars in my bank account after paying the initial expenses.
My parents were wonderful, so I have no real complaints, but my father had a weird quirk. Tools, equipment, whatever that he had interest and purchased himself were "his." I mean, obviously, but he would use the possessive when referring to those things.
"You have to prime my lawnmower first before you try to start it." "Go and get my ladder." Never the ladder, always my ladder. I never questioned it (because I didn't care), but when I was a teenager I started noticing it and it was odd. Like he was establishing that the lawn mower or the ladder or whatever didn't belong to the household, they were his. And nothing seemed to get him worked up more than a neighbor borrowing something and taking more than a day or so to return it.
Lately I've been reading a lot of books on narcissism and have been picking up on the idea/notion/possibility/viewpoint that narcissism is a spectrum like autism is. In autism, which itself is incredibly common due to the fact that it's multiple genes/processes/whatever performing multiple parts of a spectrum (think a carpet representing humanity and a shattered cup on the carpet, I use the shards in this visual to represent pieces of the spectrum scattered across humanity, apologies if anyone thinks a shattered cup seems like a negative comparison, I don't), you have the majority of humanity having some variance in it, which goes to demonstrate there's no such thing as a neurotypical. As in, if a scouter was invented that instead of scanning your power level scanned your autism level, everyone would have their very own signature number. ~~I would be over 9000.~~ Same with narcissism, if this view is correct, as it would be another shattered glass on the carpet that is humanity, with the shards from both glasses overlapping in their territories (which when you think about it makes the family dynamics in The Good Doctor all the more awkward, it's one spectrum at odds with another in a show where the main character is a medical savant with autism). And again, not trying to make an awkward comparison, I have friends who openly confess to me they're deep on the narcissism spectrum, and these people at least are trying their best in life, as well as showing narcissism is a neutral condition that just happens to seem more negative in modern urban situations
This is a pseudopsychological word salad, but please accept my apology if you're 14 or chatgpt prompted for redditisms, if that's the case good job.
My wife's parents are pretty bad. The worst thing that comes to mind immediately (sure there are worse) was a time we recommended and watched Baby Driver. We had good reasons to believe she'd enjoy it (not relevant why and not going to get bogged in unnecessary details). Literally as soon as the movie ends she says to my wife "Well, it just shows how much we've drifted apart because I did not like that movie."
So, things sort of escalate and we're packing to leave because why the hell would we stay after a comment like that. She's already got crocodile tears and has twisted the situation around to make her seem like the victim. Stuff like "but you never do talk to me" blah blah blah.
She's always so paranoid about being viewed as a bad mother by her children, but rather than ever apologize for anything or try to improve its always just the passive aggressive "you must think I'm terrible" at the smallest things. It's so manipulative. It's like she knows saying it over tiny things will get her family to be comforting and insist it isn't true. Meanwhile when she does actually out of line things she never says that sort of thing and instead tries to be the victim. It's disgusting.
I really really dislike my wife's parents. I've found peace and am able to be cordial but holy fuck.
My parents once invited a friend to sit down and watch a movie with them. They offered him popcorn, and they talked a little during the movie.
After the friend was gone, I was told how rude it was for them to accept tge popcorn and movie watching. And the height of the rudeness was that when given his own bowl of popcorn, he ate it all!
Pfft. Clowns.
My mom is truly terrible, but one of the pettiest things she did was after I opted to not tell her about an important milestone in my life as a young adult. (I had already decided to slowly cut ties with her and was pushing a limit I hadn't explored yet.) She didn't take kindly to learning about it through Facebook, and acted as if I owed her the privilege of hearing something before anyone else. She made the situation all about her, detracting from the good thing I had accomplished, painted herself as the victim as she often did, and then started to retaliate.
The first thing she did was delete my Netflix profile on her account. Specifically so I would log in and see that it was gone. Specifically to be cruel to me. She did other things to cut me out of her life, and I just rolled with it since I had become fairly independent by that point and she was doing the heavy lifting for me.
Anyway, now she reaches out occasionally to say she doesn't understand why I won't talk to her. Typical narcissist.
I recommend reading this blog about estranged parents forums. The writer analyzes the logical fallacies of narcissistic parents, and it's very enlightening to get a peek of that world without having to interact with it directly.
The members of estranged parents' forums claim their children cut them off for no reason, but their own postings say otherwise.www.issendai.com
May be not the worst, but as I grew up I start to see my mother as a prima donna with anger issues. Though we have a good relationship now, my childhood had always been at the mercy of her anger and ego. All my failings were about humiliation for her as a mother and all my success (what little there was), was her doing. She showed very little affection. I remember one time being sick as a kid and hyperventilating on our way to a clinic. I was scared and try to cling to her as we wait for the doctor. She seemed more annoyed than worried at the time.
She's also a typical asian parent, driving academic success at all cost. I think her being a somewhat busy single mother is what kept me kind of sane throughout my life. If she's a typical middle-class asian housewife with all her time being dedicated to me, I think I'd be a lot more messed up. I know that single mothers tend to have to struggle a lot, we do have a lot of support from my aunt and we didn't have to worry about food and a place to stay. We lived comfortably.
Some of her physical disciplinimg includes typical cane lashes, face slaps, hair pulls, making me kneel on prune seeds, twist pulling my skin and ear, etc. But I think it's her verbal abuse that really gets to me to this day. It was always about how other mothers with high achieving kids have good karma (lucky) and she doesn't because of my mediocrity. I get compared to other kids a lot and sometimes she said I only deserve to eat other successful kids' shit so that their success might somewhat rub off on me.
As I grew older and became, well.. not rebellious, but indifferent to her outbursts, she started to play the victim. A mother at the mercy of her kids' "deliquency". The last time we fought was while naming my new-born son. In my country, it is somewhat of a tradition to approach fortune tellers to give names according to the weekday the child was born on. I didn't care for that and gave him the name my wife and I agreed upon before he was born. Us having a child, a wonderous occasion, became about her and she started playing the victim with all our relatives.
Well, she had mellowed out a lot since then. I think it's because she started reading a lot of educational posts from facebook and the country's general shift toward more progressive child nurturing attitudes. I had gotten over a lot of what happened, but sometimes I still struggle with showing affection towards her.
If they're just looking for the word 'lemmy' in the URL, link to the version of the post from an instance that doesn't have 'lemmy' in. E.g. for this post, instead of https://lemmy.ml/post/19458783, link to https://piefed.social/post/208919 or some even more obscure platform.
Does anyone have any life hacks on how to link to a Lemmy post from Reddit?
I heard Reddit seems to shadowban posts and comments it finds that link to Lemmy. I use both sites (I have my reasons) and was wondering if there was a way anyone could advise where I can link to Lemmy posts that are important/relevant in particular Reddit discussions without fear of getting the boot.
I'd look at it this way: a lot of people on Lemmy came from Reddit, but people's reasons for leaving are different.
Some left Reddit for what it was, but still want what it has. Namely, they want the content and community, but they want to access it on their own terms, so they try to recreate it on Lemmy. If Reddit hadn't fucked with their app access, they'd still be on Reddit.
Others want to actively avoid making Lemmy into Reddit 2.0, seeing it as a failed model, and so they try to prevent the spread of "Reddit-isms" in their instances. It's a gatekeeping measure to prevent the spread of normies, thereby keeping their communities small, niche, and nerdy.
I'm honestly surprised there are a number of people in here who would push back against the idea of having federated access to Reddit content when this very community is unapologetically a Lemmy analog of Askreddit.
Except for the gifs.
And the thousands of niche communities/subreddits.
A) It's not literally every post
B) Stop using reddit. Problem solved.
A) literally means figuratively. Go grab a dictionary and check yourself.
B) Was I complaining about Reddit? If anything, I'm complaining about the fact that Lemmy is much smaller and often delayed in getting me news about current events
Which makes me think they won't do that, at least until they realize their current plan won't work out in the long run. So far they've been going in the opposite direction by locking down everything:
OK, I'll get stoned for saying this, but I'd welcome it if done properly.
It's a large user base, lots of niche communities.
The more complicated part would be moderation, as that's already a problem now. Also, resources may be a problem.
It is radically public. It's designed to broadcast your content to hundreds of other peoples' computers running all manner of different software which might then rebroadcast it to yet more. The whole architecture is oriented toward spreading things far and wide, and what tools exist to restrict the audience or retract content already shared are little more than polite suggestions.
That's not a flaw, but people using it should understand how it works so they don't run into surprises.
They can do what they want, but if they want my contribution, they play by our rules.
Free, public API to support 3rd party readers. None of this paid API extortion, ads, super upvote monetization nonsense. AI generated stupid discussion communities I will block on sight.
More vibrant and active niche communities I will be happy to receive but I do like things as they stand too.
I wouldn't want it myself because I think Reddit is super shitty now, but if their instance could be blocked I suppose it wouldn't matter.
That said I don't think they will. They'll remain in their walled garden until they're as obsolete as AOL became.
I'd be very down to be able to subscribe to a couple select subs back there.
But I'd also be a bit disappointed because several Reddit communities have fediverse versions that are just nicer to be in, and I'm not so sure they'd survive if people could just go interact with the reddit equivalents via federation.
The best I've got is, it's complicated.
This should be my line!
It would be the death of this side of the federated internet. The amount of content it would generate once federated would crush existing servers. You would have to defederate or face near instant storage shortages. The federated que would take years to sync.
Anyway, it wouldn't happen because they would need to transmit real vote counts instead of fuzzy vote counts. You would be able to see how every single person on reddit voted. Which would simply expose the vote manipulation going on there.
I came to Lemmy because I disliked what Steve Huffman did to reddit.
I’d be completely fine with the users being here. I do miss the whole active community for every niche little thing part. If if federates that’d be neat.
It won’t, since greedy Steve Huffman can’t sell the fediverse to Google while screwing 3rd party devs and users that make it what it is. But I’d welcome it.
I don't think they would do that unless Lemmy continues to grow to a point where it challenges Reddit. Then it becomes a technical issue. I don't think they can do that. It was one thing for threads to do it, being designed with that in mind from day 1, but it's completely different for Reddit to do it. There are so many features that just wouldn't make the jump, and so much content that would need to be reworked.
If they were going to do it, it would most likely be a clean break where you just can't access old Reddit content on Lemmy, but all their new stuff would be accessible.
I also just don't see them giving away their content like that after cracking down on the API how they did.
Sure Reddit and Lemmy are different technical stacks, but neither is doing anything particularly unique or complicated.
If Reddit wanted to federate it could. It would take some work but it would be an achievable task in a reasonable amount of time.
Perhaps scaling or stability issues. I'm not sure the Fediverse is ready to handle the number of actions a site like Reddit handles. Then again I'm not super well versed on that part of the Lemmy software, so maybe it would be fine.
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
For real tho I like this place better.
Federating with Reddit completely idiotic for any Lemmy instance.
They will only gain limited traffic, and their userbase will be swamped by Redditors.
There is zero incentive for Lemmy admins to do this, and huge incentives not to do this.
Lemmy.world already exists unfortunately
I do miss some of the subreddits though
I'm here mostly because the implementation is superior. If Reddit was accessible directly from here, it'd be a total win-win imho.
It would also be a lose-lose for them, as it would open up their data to free-of-charge use via API without any benefit -- so it's not going to happen.
Everyone would likely defederate from them, much in the same way that you all rushed to close the shutters upon Threads.
I also don't ever see this happening, unless Spez fucks up with Reddit so badly that it sparks a mass user exodus, much in the same way that Digg v4 sank any hopes of Kevin Rose remaining a successful tech entrepreneur.
I feel like the difference with Threads is Meta is owned by a much larger threat that can’t be trusted not to use Embrace Extend Extinguish in some evil genius way that ends up working.
Reddit’s owned by some dummy that did a lot of damage to his own platform but isn’t known to be smart enough or have the resources to threaten the fediverse.
I'll be honest, I'd be happy. I know Reddit as a whole sucks, but there are individual communities that still hold value. I miss active communities for niche crafts, I miss fandoms, and I miss actual life-changing shit like trans DIY, especially for countries outside the US.
I mainly stopped using Reddit because they killed third-party apps. If I could access Reddit from here, that'd be a pretty sweet deal for me.
I agree, as much as I hate Reddit's leadership and a lot of the toxicity of the hivemind, it will be a long time before anything reaches the level of niche communities it has with a critical mass of users and I miss some of them.
Sometimes you just want to geek out about something small with the 40 people across the planet that actually care about it.
The only community I cared about on refit was r/Korea because I was a new migrant here. But I got banned for posting a link to my own website where I uploaded this video https://tube.jeena.net/w/aBpFLKq3x2r9R3aSrBtece which I myself recorded. They said I should have uploaded it to YouTube instead and was banned for ever.
Now I try to build up !korea@lemmy.funami.tech and it's not going great, basically only lurkers there 😁 but that's OK. I'm still so but hurt about being banned that I don't want them here anyway.
We just drove by here: 카닥터모터스 1544-2287 https://maps.app.goo.gl/nSx5M3fcomyA6amK8 And there was a huge fire. Appearently it was a fire in a sofa factory.JTube
Would be among the first to suggest a reddit-defederation pact to be honest.
Kinda like how peeps on Mastodon/Misskey/etc. have their anti-threads pact.
Reddit would become just another instance with no API control
Being that large of an instance gives a lot of api control all by itself. Theoretically Chrome is just another browser and member of WHATWG. in practice, if they implement something it immediately becomes a de facto standard. Reddit would be the same.
I wouldn't bet on Huffman's exit doing anything of consequence either. Reddit is now under the control of investors who want a return. One way or another, monetisation of users will increase.
It cannot because of copyright constraints. It sells it's data to others.
But look, if Reddit did, at least people could use third party and free apps.
linux-firmware package? for good work?
You start your comment with an @ to their username, and your domain name ends on “-stodon”...
Are you posting to Lemmy from Mastodon? Is that possible?
EDIT Also, OP, check out Archwiki, that's a great source! (in this case you can just view this person's link, but you can treat AW as a public Linux library in the future)
You start your comment with an @ to their username, and your domain name ends on “-stodon”...Are you posting to Lemmy from Mastodon? Is that possible?
It mostly is! Mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities like they're users and then it shows as toots on their feed, and the comments look like replies.
That should be included by default in the Linux kernel, excluding the fingerprint driver, as they're only Windows-compatible and would require contribution from someone. For the fingerprint, don't keep your hopes up - most of them simply won't work, thanks to them being manufactured mostly by Shenzhen Goodix, who are hardcore Windows simp.
However, if you're using a Linux-libre kernel, then that's a different story - most definitely, your WiFi drivers won't work, as it excludes nonfree drivers, so your two choices would be to wait for the driver to be included, or to switch to the original Linux kernel.
Idk what's up with your fingerprint rant, but the drivers for that have been out for years. Not official ofc, but it works better than in windows.
The issue is that it's essentially useless because Linux has no support for any type of fingerprint reader, so you can maybe set up your DM to log you in.
As the Fediverse continues to grow, people are looking to build new experiences that change what's possible on the network today.
Flohmarkt is a nascent project intended for selling personal items, and may be the first attempt of its kind here.
Historically speaking, the Fediverse has lacked apps related to money, trade, or commerce. Although there's a growing number of small businesses, services, and contractors within the space, the networSean Tilley (We Distribute)
A federated ebay\vinted\amazon alternative sounds like a great idea, but I saw this on their repository.
A flohmarkt can manually federate with other flohmarkts in its range
If I'm reading this correctly, there's no automatic federation between instances, which will make item discovery difficult.
The goal is to promote a local market. Not much point to have a marketplace with used items from the other side of the world.
Although manual curation of the connected instances would also work for a specialist marketplace where you can only find specific types of items.
I think both use-cases make more sense than general marketplace with mostly irrelevant entries.
Last time I used eBay it was also country specific.
And for that usecase a specialised marketplace for retro-gaming that you can actually browse would be much better as well.
Yeah, I'll try to look into this for clarity. It really depends on what they mean here - I think they're referring to curated server following between admins, which is what PeerTube does.
When I tested out the messaging system, I was able to federate back and forth with Mastodon. Maybe it works fine at a user level, it's just the search entries that don't get federated automatically?
So is there a link to a live instance?
edit: link to live instance https://rollenspiel.trade/#all
Yeah, very nice. It will be tough to bootstrap since you need a critical mass of people who ideally live close together so that it's cheap and quick enough to deliver the items in question.
I'll give it a try. Nothing to loose.
TLDR: I recently found out there is "deprecated" XFA format that acrobat still uses in their programs, and government forms have those for dynamic contents in the form that we cannot fill using other softwares. Looking for solutions.
This has been a problem since a long time. Back in 2020 I had dual boot because I needed acrobat to fill PDF forms, but after finding xournal++ program I nuked windows partition. Windows update messing up grub was one of the reason I decided to nuke windows and looking at the posts recently it's still a huge issue.
So the problem I recently encountered is that even the government issued PDF forms need acrobat reader (which is free software for PDF, but only available in windows and mac). Which I didn't think would be an issue and just filled the form in Firefox.
Turns out that was problematic as the PDF forms has fields that are automatically filled, calculated from other fields, only made available when certain checkboxes are checked, etc. and Firefox doesn't support that. Even trying to install the acrobat reader snap (which uses wine) in a VM and opening the PDF on it didn't work. The UI makes me think it's a really old version of the reader.
So without searching for other devices (and filling a PDF with my sensitive information) what solution is there? Installing windows is a hassle even in a VM, and it will use up precious SSD memory. But that's the only solution I can think of.
I also found masterpdf or something like that which the Arch wiki says has support for that, but it didn't work. It says XFA forms are converted to acro forms, and the dynamic part doesn't work. There are websites that promise to work for such forms, but I'm not going to be putting sensitive info on web apps.
Fuck adobe, this has nothing to do with PDF.
You can install the reader in a VM and copy the files to a WINE instance.
The youtuber mattscreative does that for photoshop, affinity and more. Photoshop is paid, so acrobat should absolutely work.
He uses KDE Plasma on Fedora afaik.
Follow the photoshop guide which uses a custom WINE version.
I know it's adobe problem. Because they deprecated it in PDF 2.0, last support is in 1.7, but they have continued using 1.7 with adobe extension 1 to 1.7 with Adobe extension 8. So it's like they have their own branch of PDF versions. But most people don't care, and here a government agency is using that and it's not accessible for linux.
Wine needs 32bit libraries that's why I'm not using it. I read the snap package handles the wine part for us, so I tried that in VM but didn't work. I'll try to follow your suggestion in VM and see if it'll work.
Yeah I gave up and installed Windows in a VM, I use it for those annoying forms and some old tax software.. My kid also wants to use powerpoint occationally. It's quick and easy to install in a VM though and doesn't take up much space but I got a lot of room on my SSD so everything is relative.
I'd like a Linux solution for the forms but it's still convenient to have a Windows VM once in a blue moon.
That has been a pain point for a long time, along with signing and verifying digital signatures in PDF documents in Linux.
Adobe is up there along with Nvidia on my top of shitty companies that actually hinder Linux adoption by ignoring it.
I am busy and don't have time to research all of the ways corporations have poisoned us.
What are some good rules on how to avoid microplastics?
Eat local foods?
Avoid processed foods?
Walk/bike?
Use dry soaps?
Don't use any take away containers?
Avoid walking near busy roads?
Use cotton/wool for all clothing?
There’s next to none in all water, when measured by volume.
But things concentrate, so the 0.00005% adds up over time.
A quick google finds me an article going into the measurements taken with the tap water here: it's so little it's in the range of a measuring error for none at all.
I'd have to pour 350 cups of water to find even one particle, if I'm unlucky
This is a “parts per ~~million~~ billion” sort of thing.
Think of it like PFAS or some other harmful chemical (which, you know, it basically is): the layperson would be categorically unable to get a meaningful measurement from a glass of water, but it can still fuck you (and everyone else) up real bad in the long run.
The only particles found were really small: 50 microns
going with that, 350 glasses, 250ml per glass, 1e+12 cubic microns per cm3
So 1 particle in 3502501e+12/50 cubic microns of water
according to my calculator that would be about 5.7×10^-10ppm
aka, next to none
yes I did the math using the simple example I found on the doc :0
I don't think you understand how small the particles are. You can't filter micro plastics out of soil because the micro plastics are the same size as the soil particles. Take a bucket of sand and dye half red. How are you going to filter it?
There are methods to destroy micro plastics like raising the temp. But that will kill the bacteria in the soil making it sterile.
I don't think you understand the physics of the problem. Have you played connect 4, the game with the checkers that you drop down a slot?
Imagine the black checkers are dirt particles and the red checkers are microplastic. The game set with the slots is the filter the particles drop through. Play a game and then open the slider at the bottom to dump the checkers. Do the red checkers stay in the game set while only the black fall out? Of course not, because they are the same size.
There is no possibile way to filter the plastic because it is the same size as the dirt. There are large and small dirt particles. There are large and small micro plastics. If you remove 1% of the microplastic you remove 1% of the dirt, so the remaining dirt is just as contaminated. You didn't filter it, you only removed an equal amount of dirt and plastic.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016121003095
Let me put it another way:
Microplastics are so small that they are found in rainwater - as in, they’re found in water collected precipitation in a pristine vessel. They’re literally everywhere, in every part of our ecosystem and food chain at this point. There is unfortunately no escaping them.
The research highlights the extent of plastic pollution and transmission even in remote regions of the worldMargaret Osborne (Smithsonian Magazine)
The micro plastic is in the dirt. Most commenters here think microplastic means a bit of plastic that broke off packaging.
Microplastic are plastic pieces that you need a strong microscope to see. They can be as small as bacteria.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016121003095
Abstract. In recent years, airborne microplastics have been identified in a range of remote environments. However, data throughout the Southern Hemisphere, in particular Antarctica, are largely absent to date.tc.copernicus.org
Short answer: very simple
Avoid plastic
You buy bottled water?
That has Microplastics.
You buy or store food in plastic?
Microplastics..
Use plastic straws?
Welp, Microplastics
Etc...
Basically it's difficult to avoid it since we use plastic almost everywhere daily, but not impossible.
Basically it's difficult to avoid it since we use plastic almost everywhere daily, but not impossible.
Car tires and brake pads produce micro plastics in our water system. It's probably impossible on an individual basis to completely avoid them.
All the plastic objects you listed are the long term cause of micro plastics. You don't get micro plastics from the plastic wrap on food or plastic straws. Micro plastics come from the straws thrown away that slowly break down into micro plastics over decades.
So avoid plastic to help the environment, but that won't change your micro plastics injested right now. It's in the food itself.
This.
Avoiding plastic in your day to day might prevent leeching, which is nice, but you'll still encounter it in the natural environment.
The problem is the plastics never really chemically break down. They do undergo mechanical weathering though, so it all breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces over time. Eventually these particles are microscopic, and make their way into everywhere and everything it seems, from soil to rainwater to your breakfast cereal and your testicles.
You can probably filter it out of your water, I imagine reverse osmosis is likely effective since plastic molecules are somewhat chonky. A HEPA filter should get at least the larger particles out of the air. I don't know how effective it'd be with smaller particles, sometimes called nanoplastics. Avoiding synthetic fabrics probably would help somewhat, but I haven't read anything about this.
You can't get it out of your food though, we don't know enough yet about reliable ways we could keep plants from taking it up through their root systems. From plants it gets into the food chain, and much like mercury with fish, it'll likely end up concentrating in animals, like us. You could potentially grow your own food via aquaponics using filtered water and maybe keep it plastic-free, but this is a real reach here. And you're basically vegan now and have to literally grow all your own food.
Note, I'm largely speculating regarding methods.
Some reading material, this first one is about plant uptake:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8618759/
Water filtration:
The ubiquitous presence of microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) in the environment is an undeniable and serious concern due to their higher persistence and extensive use in agricultural production.PubMed Central (PMC)
I did get to the thread a little late, the top comments were already in place. I also did make the choice to drop my reply in support of someone that was saying something valuable that wasn't getting much attention, instead of my own op reply.
It's Lemmy though, I have a feeling most of us read everything just due to how little there is to read. But yeah, we do share the natural first-commenter advantage thing that reddit has, it's a weakness of the overall format. AskHistorians created their highly successful sub mainly due to how much this irritated them. lol
Avoid anything that comes in plastic packaging and distill your own water. You will still need to drink normal water but I can't imagine any municipality is currently equipped to deal with microplastic so reducing your intake is probably a good idea.
Short of moving somewhere very rural and growing all your own food, it is close to impossible.
I'm going to take a different approach than most of the other comments here: you can't. Microplastics are in the air and a large chunk of it comes from car tire residue. You're breathing it, likely right now. Research is still in the early phases and we just don't know how bad it is yet, both from the proliferation and the impact side of things.
Source is Breaking the Plastic Wave and Overview on the occurrence of microplastics in air.
Environmental pollution from microplastics (MPs) in air is a matter of growing concern because of human health implications. Airborne MPs can be directly and continuously inhaled in air environments.PubMed Central (PMC)
https://www.aamc.org/news/microplastics-are-inside-us-all-what-does-mean-our-health
My take-aways from this article:
There's no good study on microplastics in humans.
They've tested "pristine" plastic on mice and it's pretty bad.
The plastics we're exposed to are loaded with chemicals and toxins.
She carries a stainless-steel water bottle and avoids plastic water bottles. She doesn’t microwave food in plastic containers and only uses glass, wood, or metal kitchen items, including mixing bowls, spoons, cutting boards, and food storage containers.takes her shoes off to avoid tracking in dust from the outside and uses a HEPA filter to capture particles from the air.
Great point. Tires are one of the leading products polluting our environment and lungs.
This article also links to The Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at UCSF which offers a guide for minimizing exposure to bad stuff. https://prhe.ucsf.edu/toxic-matters
Here's a relevant NYT Article - How to Minimize Your Exposure to Microplastics
Tiny plastic particles have been found throughout the human body, but researchers say they’re just starting to understand the impact.Bridget Balch (AAMC)
you should be dead and that is the only true way to be free of microplastics.
The microplastics will seep into your corpse.
The main ways you're exposed to microplastics is through ingestion and breathing it in.
To limit ingestion, yes the main thing to do is to avoid food and drink that comes in plastic containers. Reducing your consumption of processed foods will help with this. Eating mostly produce is a simpler way to approach this. Even though produce may often be transported in plastic, if you wash it before consumption you'll have done pretty well. Ideally you would also have a reverse osmosis filter at home, as your water probably has microplastics as well (but less than bottled water!).
To limit breathing it in, yes avoid frequent exposure to busy roads. They are often full of tire dust that is getting kicked up. This is cumulative, though. Walking by a busy street once is no big deal. Walking along one twice a day may add up.
Overall, however, to address microplastics we will have to control the production of plastics and the use of plastics in the first place. For example, there would be a lot less tire dust if we used more rail to get around. And there would be less need for bottled water if water fountains were ubiquitous and so were standardized stainless steel water bottles. In addition, we could use biodegradable plastics for more packaging so that they don't accumulate in bodies or the environment.
But this last point, despite being the only real solution, will literally require the overthrow of capitalism. I'm for this and am happy to talk about it more, but it is a lot.
Seal yourself in a sterile cement tube with nothing but filtered air.
Of course you'll have to have all the microplastics removed from your body 1st, including your GOD DAMN BALLS and BRAIN.
Good luck and God Speed.
The two most common sources of microplastics that enter your body are from the vessels you eat/drink from, and from particles in the air from things like clothes, carpets, furniture, linens.
How to avoid? Use stainless steel, aluminum, copper, (or other metals), ceramic, or glass storage vessels for things like water (including your Brita) for warming things in the microwave, or for storing food, and reduce buying things in plastic if you plan on keeping them there for awhile (eg glass ketchup bottle). Replace any plastic water pipes in your wall with good ol copper. My main water vessels are all stainless steel.
For particulate, consider air filtration, buy clothes/furniture/carpets made from natural animal/ sources like cotton, wool, bamboo, avoiding plastics like polyester. That includes your scrubbing utensil for dishes. Your carpets are probably made with some sort of plastic, so if it's too much to do hardwood, or replace with a natural fibre, the Dyson vacuums are good at getting out loose microplastics.
Be warned, one time I almost bought a stainless steel cup from a reputable retailer, and upon further investigation it was just plastic with a steel coating.. Yep, made in Communist China..
You can't outright, but you can at least try to minimize your exposure. Easiest way is to avoid buying products that use plastic packaging, especially if the product that you're planning to buy is food. Don't microwave plastics, even the supposedly "food safe" one - that releases a ton of microplastics into your food. Don't order takeout - again, lots of plastic in the containers. Even paper food containers contain a plastic coating.
Don't touch receipts, especially with wet hands. Or at minimum, wash your hands thoroughly after touching it
Use only textiles made of cotton, wool or linen (I recommend linen in summer and wool in winter, since cotton isn't very good at conserving your body heat), look for a bamboo toothbrush, avoid foods in plastic packaging (this can sadly be difficult) and only put them in ceramic, metal or glass containers.
I assume your goal is to minimise the amount of microplastics inside your body, so the materials that touch your food are a priority. The amount of microplastics in your food or drink also depends on how long they are in contact with plastic. For example, if you have juice in a plastic bottle, drinking it right away or putting it in a plasticless container would probably result in less microplastics than storing it in the said bottle.
If you are more concerned about nature, try shopping at second-hand stores.
The heat releases BPA from the plastic which will leech into the food
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/02/427161/how-to-limit-microplastics-dangers
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, offers insights on what her research on microplastics has led her to change how she and her family eats and what cleaning products she uses.University of California San Francisco
Thats a nice article thanks. But it does not answer my question.
Sure heating stuff in plastic doesn’t sounds good but storing in plastic.. I can hardly imagine the plastic to just dissolve into to the food. Especially if the food is solid.
Still interested if somebody has a solid source for this.
Here's another article that has more sources
It's important to keep in mind that nothing is really 'static,' the molecules consisting of the plastic and food are still vibrating and decaying into its local environment due to entropy, everything is to some extent. While strong and resilient, plastic molecules will still 'leech' out. The concern is more to what extent. High temperatures and liquids would be the highest risk factor, while low temperatures and solids would be much lower.
I think storing solids in plastic at room or cold temperatures are fine. But I avoid microwaving or storing hot items in plastic and opt for glass or ceramic instead. Our entire bodies are already compromised with micro plastics so for me it's just about minimizing exposure when I can
How harmful are microplastics in food, and what can we do to mitigate the health risks? In this Honest Nutrition feature, Medical News Today investigates.Amber Charles Alexis, MSPH, RDN (Medical News Today)
Afaik it tends to concentrate further up the foodchain, so keeping meat, especially fish, out of your diet will help. Particularly filter feeders like shrimp and anything that eats those.
I'd also like to add that wrapping food in plastic reduces waste considerably, so you might want to look into that and balance your view against that.
It's better to look into it yourself, as I'm not knowledgeable on the topic.
Afaik a significant portion of all food is wasted by supermarkets, restaurants, and at home. Wrapping it in a thin foil keeps it fresh and extends shelf life considerably. So it's important to weigh all these things in order to find what's best environmentally.
Further, it might be the type of plastic that's safer for food and is trivial to recycle. It's also very thin and soft and so that might require a lot less resources to produce compared to harder and thicker plastics. For example a plastic bottle might contain more plastic than say the wrapping of 100s of paprika's. Just pulling those nrs from the air but it's just to give a rough idea.
They’re in he air, the water, the food, your brain, apparently. Your reproductive fluids…there’s literally no escape. We signed this pact with satan when capitalism determined that profit is the only thing that matters.
The first step we could take? Bringing the exploitative and murderous system of capitalism to its knees. So we can promptly shoot it in the back of the head. Then, maaaybe our children’s children’s children would have an option to avoid microplastics.
Move to a different planet? I think this cat is out of the bag, they are everywhere now, it's the lead of the current generation.
The steps you listed seem like reasonable action anyway, but there simply isn't anything you can do to avoid them here.
you don't. you can try to mitigate it by using less plastic yourself, buying local foods, whatever, but it won't make much of an impact.
the less bad news is that plastic, by its own properties, is chemically relatively inert, so they're really not that harmful. they're still bad, mind you, just not all that hyped up to be.
PFAS are extremely inert, yet they wreak all kinds of havoc in the bodies of humans and animals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances
Scientists thought, as you say, that them being chemically inert means they wont be dangerous to living creatures. Sadly they were proven wrong on that.
Sadly, I don't think any of us, at least in the U.S. can avoid it and we've already been infiltrated by it, possibly even our offspring (due to microplastic found alongside sperm in testes), have been conceived with microplastics flowing in their systems.
For other health related concerns regarding food/ingredients
Many people believe that the United States has the strictest regulations on food standards in the world. That the FDA closely regulates the ingredients in our food, and the rest of the world follows the determinations of the FDA.admin (Is It Clean)
Hi all,
Simple question. Does anybody know a (not to expensive) sportswatch that is supported by Linux / FOSS software?
(Yes, I know 'FOSS software' is two times the word software) 😀
Can you be more specific? Are you talking just on mobile?
For watches and such on mobile, the device maker has to write software that runs on the watch, but interacts with the mobile OS's API in order to display information. It connects to your phone as a subscription device to things like alarms, messages, notifications and calendars. So if whatever app you're using on your phone routes events through these systems, they will work with your software.
If you're talking about integrations with desktop software, I'm unaware of any watch devices or device OS's interact with anything like that.
my daily driver is a ubuntu laptop so I was first thinking about that, but now that you mention a mobile app, ..yes. that would be nice too.
thanks for the food for thought 😀
ah. That looks very interesting. And they have a show here in the EU, and it seems to work with gadgetbridge (thx Lambda RX 😀)
Thanks!
It's complete crap, on the level of not being able to run the stopwatch in the background and having it restart if you get a notification.
Also, it's 65EUR if you want to order it in Europe
I call bs or it was before they started shipping from EU. You literally couldn't order to Europe or EU countries from the other warehouse while they were stocking it.
It's got a lot more issues than that. It's utter trash unless you like want to practice CPP.
He ordered it from the global store a few month ago, it took ~2-3 weeks to ship to germany.
Thats the only issues he told me. I also tried it for a day and didnt notice anything else it cant do, which i need. He and I only need it to show notifications/calls, track steps/heart rate, have a working alarm and show the time. I also didnt have the disconnect and notification issues, that he had.
Lucky guy, I ordered it to Germany and they wouldn't let me use the non-eu warehouse (so they can get rid of their overpriced stock I'm guessing)
Stopwatch - can't be minimised, can't see the time while it's open, restarts when you get a notification (the fixes have been sitting in the PRs for years)
Notifications - don't get cleared when you clear them on the phone, clearing them on the watch doesn't close the notifications screen, answering your phone through the watch doesn't dismiss the call notification
Heart rate monitor - essentially useless since it can't take periodic measurements, doesn't work great unless you're wearing the watch on the inside of your hand, but at least they've managed to finally read the sensor docs and program it correctly
Step syncing is a massive pain in the ass and often requires you to "manually" sync them by walking around while keeping both devices active
Battery barely lasts longer than a week even with infrequent wearing (and that's a massive improvement over the previous 3-4 days max)
Lift to wake up usually acts more like shake to wake
The UI is pretty bad overall
There are like 2 half decent watch faces
Horrific weight distribution and the shitty strap make it feel 10x heavier. Like, my automatic is almost 2x its weight and I barely feel it, while this crap is constantly reminding me it's there.
The CPP OS doesn't let you chose what apps to activate nor does it have any way to load your code aside from compiling everything
Updates are only mostly headache free if you use specific PC software. Keyword is mostly, I've had some updates take a bunch of attempts to install.
That's just from the top of my head
I heard of the heart rate issues in a lot of reviews, but it just works on my (and my dads) skin. Its bad that it doesnt work for everyone though. I found a stupid workaround for background heart rate monitoring, you just start the manual monitoring and then close the app on the watch, which doesnt stop the monitoring.
We only had sync issues only on my dads phone, my phone (Fairphone 5 w. CalyxOS) works just fine. The issues on his phone were fixed by an Android update a few weeks ago.
Im happy with the battery, it lasts longer than a fitbit we have.
I dont think its a perfect watch, but for <50Eur with shipping its not bad
As sport watches go, get a Garmin. Its proprietary, but it's the best in the class.
I have a Fenix 7, wife has a Fenix 5.
Battery last days/weeks (5/6 days with some 10-15 hours of sport tracking with GPS active).
I suggest some "older" models with MIPs displays, not AMOLED, because they have better (absolutely perfect) under the sun readability and much better battery life.
You need the Garmin Connect app on phone, but the web interface to the Garmin ecosystem is simply the best.
I managed to integrate Fittrackee (self hosted) and synched to my Garmin profile to keep all my activity self hosted.
Despite being proprietary, Garmin software is quite nice and the watch can be connected directly to PC to download activities and tracks even without using the app.
Probably not what OP is looking for.
But I'm also happy with my Garmin Instinct. I use it disconnected from my phone, it does everything I need offline and stand-alone. To add tracks for navigation I just connect it to my linux laptop and drop the GPX file into the NewFiles (or whatever it's called) folder on the watch. I was surprised how well it works without official apps. The only thing I used the app for was to update the firmware when I bought the watch.
Also, fittrackee looks promising - thanks for the tip!
One of the reasons I am looking for a new sportswatch is because I try to reduce my smartphone use and I noticed that I actually took out my smartphone just to check the time.
I have an old garmin vivosmart HR but I do have a problem with the charging cable.
Plus I am not able to download the healthstats with my linux 'daily driver' laptop.
Perhaps I should just get a cheap regular watch somewhere? 🤔
I am not sure that checking the time in the watch instead of on phone counts as reducing phone usage...
But anyway, any "smart" watch will not help you as they all need a phone app.
Get a cheapo analog watch, in that case...
I do not see that as phone-usage, I'm doing an experiment to see how easy / difficult it is to revert the "i need to know the time, so I grab my phone" reflex back to "I need to know the time, so I look at my wrist".
I'm currently reading some books on how easy it is to manipulate peoples behaviour using 'nudging', this to better understand the social engineering tricks used by hackers.
An chapter in one of these books in how social media use tricks to manupale our behaviour that resemble the tricks used by the gambling industry.
One of the things I find intriging is the size of a smartphones today.
If you look at it objectively, they are actually so large that most people would consider it to be annoyting: you have to carry it in a bag, in a pocket of your pants -but you have to take your phone out when you want sit-, or ..you carry it in your hands. Have you noticed how many people have their smartphone in their hand when they walk around?
But, of course, if you have something in your hand, it is very easy to open it quickly check your notifications; which reinforces the addiction.
So, that's the thing. People do not find it annoying.
So .. as an experiment, I am trying out how easy / difficult it is to break the habbit.
A small sidenote
when (or if) I manage to get my garmin vivosmart HR charges, it does rapport activity per week, number of steps and number of floors I went up on foot per day, even without a smartphone app. So that's at least something 😀
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If you run your own server it's as simple as setting
Online-Mode: false
And installing an account management plugin if you open it to other players (so people can't just easily change names and impersonate someone)
I exclusively played on and ran cracked servers for 6 years (2011-2017), shit rules
I completely get where people are coming from with that opinion, but I've been playing MC for almost 15 years, and I'm having just as much if not more fun with the game now as I did at any other point in its development.
Minetest is super cool and can be very fun. I play a bit on it as well, but exclusively advertising for it on the platform of hur dur mineshit sucks, which isn't necessarily what you're doing, I just see that a lot, definitely isn't the best way to go.
Sounds super cool :o ... Am still kinda salty about M$ blocking my account and holding my copy of Minecraft (that I paid Mojang for, well before it was Microsoft's!) hostage because they want my phone number, though. 😠
... Also I kinda wanna know if it's got the moddage I love about Minecraft, but am afraid to ask because I'm stuck on a laptop that can't really run much without getting all melty 😅
Yep, I didn't convert either of my accounts over as well.
I would just try it and see what you think of it! It's completely free. Minetest is the program you install on your computer, and then there are lots of different games that you can download and try inside of Minetest. There's more besides Minecraft-likes that you can try, and there are definitely mods available. I never modded Minecraft though, so I'm not sure how they compare.
As to system requirements, it could run pretty well on a six year old Android phone the last I tried. It might be worth a shot on your laptop! Be aware that it'll probably be a somewhat different experience than Minecraft, but not necessarily in a bad way!
Haven't watched the video - just my thoughts...
Minetest (specifically Mineclone2) is an impressive feat, and a very faithful reproduction of the original. I pretty much used the Minecraft fandom wiki to progress through the game. Hours of fun was had without handing money to M$.
I only really stopped because the redstone functionality wasn't fully implemented.
Hats off to the devs on that project regardless
The redstone is a large feat indeed. I started working on that but had to stop due to time constraints. Its still in my head though.
All in all there is just too much great stuff someone with a little drive and a little coding knowledge can do in the foss ecosphere.
Thanks 😀 it is a bit confusing
Irrlicht is discontinued but I think it is under a different name now
Xwayland
Is that a typo or is that distinct from just straight Wayland?
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html
It provides backwards compatibility for running X apps under Wayland.
Individual apps, particularly full-screen games, shouldn't need "Wayland support"(quotes because what that means will vary between implimentations).
Now, if you have to install xorg on a system that doesn't have it in order to play a game? Yeah that would suck, although games are on my personal shortlist of application categories that should always be run from a flat-pack/equivalent and/or containerized wherever possible.
Now I think about it, why don't (anti-cheat)games just run their own VM's and "calibrate" those versus any weird system variables? Seems like a better anti-cheat than hacking-my-kernel-to-make-sure-I'm-not-hacking-the-game...
Even if you use Flatpak, you need XOrg / XWayland on the host system.
Fedora Kinoite/KDE and the KDE Plasma desktop on its own are especially annoying, as I have no idea how to turn off those legacy support services from constantly running, like XWaylandVideoBridge (never used) or XWayland entirely.
I think Windows is just too bloated to also use Containers. With WSL they found a good way and apps should totally run in containers, but this is simply not yet done.
VMs would suck for efficiency as they rely on CPU virtualization and GPU passthrough. The former will never give native performance
Not all dependencies. Flatpak is an application, and a display server is outside of an application.
Closing an app should not result in a black screen XD
Not that hard to stop wayland or xorg at the launch of a given application and restart it at that application's exit. Of course, I only did it on the Raspberry Pi because the hardware lagged horribly running such apps with a gui/compositer/desktop the app wasn't using in the background, but it wasn't hard for me to get working, and its exactly how we did things with DOS apps and even some Windows games back in the WFWG 3.11 days.
Basically, there's no technical reason the host operating system should have to be providing say X, KDE, Plasma, Gnome, Gk, Wayland, whatever, to a flatpack app that needs those things. Yes, the result is a larger flatpack, but that's why flatpack's do dependency consolidation.
Unless ... Unless, you just really want to to run your games windowed with smooth window-resizing, minimization, maximization, etc.
Does anyone know how to "fly" with double space?
And how to fly faster?
These were big issues I had with Mineclone2 or how it is now called
While in game, Escape>Change Keys> in the right corner checkbox called "Double tap 'jump' to toggle fly". For flying faster, you can press J (by default?) to enable fast mode, you can change how fast it is in the settings menu, in the main menu. This is all assuming that you have the 'fly' and 'fast' privileges.
All players should check the settings menu at least once, I changed many things in there, and you should too. One of them was enabling the crosshair in the Touchscreen menu on mobile , it enables a much smoother experience on mobile.
TLDR: The creator prefers minetest to minecraft.
Hope this was helpful.
Thanks, friend! Also, are you saying the creator of Minecraft, the creator of Minetest, or the creator of the video?
Curse you, syntactic ambiguity!!! xD
Notes while I'm watching:
The "built-in support for mods" caught my eye. That's pretty slick, and a headache with MC.
tl;dr - it runs on just about everything, and focuses on giving the player an easy-to-mod "sandbox" to play in.
So I tried VoxelLibre recently and I have three main papercuts:
* The lack of dual wielding (and perhaps crits and other Combat Update things).
* Shift clicking items doesn't do the same thing as Minecraft in a lot of cases. Shift clicking armour doesn't equip it, for example.
* I think sometimes there's a keyboard combination for opening the inventory (shift+I?) that I keep accidentally hitting when I try to move.
Still, it's an interesting project and Iook forward to how it continues.
It's open, it's free, and it's fun! It's got a ton of mods and custom games to make it whatever you want out of a voxel game. That's everything I need.
Shoutouts to the Asuna game.
I played quite a bit of solo mineclone2/voxelibre. Really good stuff with a surprisingly short wishlist on my part.
It's silly, but one of my favorite things is that it fires up the launcher in under a second. Reminds me of when software wasn't bloated halfway to hell. 😁
Pixel Im(proved)Perfection aim to be close and familiar to Minecraft texture.content.minetest.net
There is a new texture pack that tries to emulate Minecraft's aesthetics https://content.minetest.net/packages/bramaudi/pixel_imperfection/
Interesting, I'll look into in, thanks!
Pixel Im(proved)Perfection aim to be close and familiar to Minecraft texture.content.minetest.net
Played some Voxellibre for the first time after seeing this. I fell to the most classic of blunders: I tried to spam click to kill an enemy.
My Minecraft skill did not translate.
Title, basically. My old torture device needs to be replaced, and while it's been mostly working OK, printers have no excuse for being as shitty as they are. So therefore I am looking for suggestions.
Specs:
- Must include a flatbed scanner
- prints in color
- Wifi connection preferred
- No PaaS or IaaS bullshit
- No dr8ver weirdness. I'm going to use it on linux.
- Available "anywhere".
- Ability to sit powered and connected in my HarryPotteresque "server room" under the stairs for ages, unattended, and work without hazzle when I need to print something semi-monthly.
I know the geek community likes Brother. Any particular model?
For reference, this new printer will replace my aging Canon Pixma 4250.
Buy a cheap used printer and get cheep off brand ink off Amazon.
The brother printer thing is mostly for laser printers.
I personally have one, and an old color hp that I put cheap in from Amazon.
They’ve chipped their toner but the off brand stuff that has chips works perfectly fine.
Source: bought 2 different Brother B&W laser models last year and 1 Brother color laser this year for the office. The cloners have already fixed this problem. Still works better than all of the other brands by a wide margin. Those 3 print every damn time from any device we have, mobile and desktop flavor of choice.
Used brother MFC-L3770CDW with a firmware T or older. If you can't get one with an old firmware you have to use brother replacement toner. It's sometimes possible to downgrade firmware but having had to do it once I never want to again.
But other than the toner issue it works fantastic on Linux and my whole house uses it.
Would not recommend for photo printing.
Advice from most to least certain:
If you want very long standby time (a reliably perfect first print after literally months of inactivity) and you have the space for an ugly cube of a printer, laser is the only option. Ink tank printers have unexpected wear parts, like internal ink sponges.
Black and white laser is stupid simple. Color laser “prints” four times in series onto an intermediate transfer belt (ITB) and then puts that onto the paper, still super reliable but bulkier, and your prints get watermarked with yellow dots because FBI or something. I’d go color.
Toner lock-in is becoming more common, not just for HP. If your page count is going to be low, just pay full price for name brand toner. If you don’t want to do that, like your use case could involve printing a single page or entire binders of paper between months of inactivity, read on.
Start your printer research by shopping for cheap off brand toner, get a sense for what they’re selling the most of and what that’s compatible with, and see what printers they support.
Some aftermarket toner just works, out of the box, because the printer isn’t crazy locked down. Those cartridges have normal sounding instructions. Some aftermarket toner requires you to transplant a chip from a first party cartridge, and their instructions include this. Avoid those printers.
And consider used printers. I have a used HP LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdw that I love, but I would never ever buy another HP printer, especially not one made later than this one. Be very careful before buying any HP printer, especially one made in the past 6-8 years. Even wear items (like the ITB) have modules with firmware and compatibility requirements, and I’m worried I could be one replacement component away from suddenly having a locked down printer.
and your prints get watermarked with yellow dots because FBI or something. I’d go color.
Wait, b&w prints yellow tracking dots but color doesn't? I thought they both (and inkjet) printed tracking dots, but if any didn't I'd think it was b&w!
Somebody said laser. Those things vaporize toner into your air.
A printer where you can actually see the ink tank and you can refill it.
What are you on? "Vaporize toner into your air"... Then why isn't my house covered in toner (and every office that prints thousands of pages a month)?
Toner is electrostatically attracted then heated onto the page, not vaporized.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7413220/
Abstract quote:
In particular, laser printers are a primary source of particle emission that increases the concentrations of particulate matter in indoor atmosphere by releasing substantial quantities of electrostatic fine particles, at rates comparable with tobacco smoking and incense burning.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected more than 14 million people globally.PubMed Central (PMC)
I see nobody else is touching the flatbed scanner requirement.
Instead of one device that's a mediocre scanner and a mediocre printer, get a decent printer, and a separate decent scanner. It will also be far easier to find two separate devices with good Linux driver support vs. a more obscure MFC.
Get an old color laser printer, that is not aimed at the home market. Get whatever boring printer box your local library has. Toner stores very well, and it takes almost a decade for a normal person to print an office sized amount of toner.
To do that you will need a separate scanner. Most desktop printer/scanners are aimed at home users where they do much more of the, "cannot scan low magenta."
I can't think of any brand that's going to be connected to Wi-Fi that eventually isn't going to cut off your ability to scan when you run out of a certain color of ink.
I bought a last generation flatbed scanner for like $15 and a Canon printer that will never be connected to the internet
I think the options may be either:
An ecotank, the problem with them is that it doesnt respect the last point, since if it's not used in a while the ink it's going to dry and clog the print head, but i've seen some pretty good prints coming out of them+ on aliexpress you can get ink + other bits for cheap
A brother mfc, if i remember correctly there where color laser variants, the problem with them is cost and size, if i remember correctly they are office printers, space was not taken in cosideration when they where desined, so they are huge compared to standard printers + the ink cartriges are expensive, but last forever, i'm not sure if you can find cartiges on aliexpress, toner refills are more likely, but can be very messy and requiring cutting a hole in the cartriges, and i've found out that for the b/w toner printers it's the most economical way of getting ink for them
Sorry for the length of the comment.
I have a brother b&w laser printer with scanner (hl-l2390dw) that I got after years of grief from an awful canon inkjet that would clog after 2 weeks of no use. Went through so many ink cartridges on that thing.
I love the brother now. It can sit around for weeks and when I do occasionally need to print something it comes out great. Sure I do miss printing color but I can always send a print job over to Walgreen or Staples and they'll have it printed out in an hour with better quality than a consumer inkjet printer can put out
Mine works with Linux so no issues there
People are saying no to Brother in this thread but at the end of the day it just works super well.
https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine
The best printer to buy is the one that works without you needing to think about it or subscribe to some nonsense ink refill thing. For most people, that’s the Brother HL-L2305W or something like the MFC-L2750DW that adds a scanner.Nilay Patel (The Verge)
After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.Nilay Patel (The Verge)
Brother laser, any model. Make sure it's not just b&w though I guess, mine is, which I don't care for mine but you listed it as a requirement.
No matter what, "bimonthly print job" means you need a laser printer, brother or not. Ink'll dry between prints, toner never will, and it lasts longer in general.
Carefully, but I probably don't have to tell you that.
I hear people just go ahead and use Grindr, but there's been some stings on it in places like Saudi.
Kind of unfitting advice, but you might want to travel and visit places where it isn't a problem.
Either that or a lot of luck to run into someone. Or an online place, and also have the luck or running into someone there from your local area.
Without knowing where you live, I'm kinda scared Lemmy users will give you dangerous advice. I'd be wary of any suggestions that don't come from people in your country.
Maybe using a VPN would make it safer to search for queer discussions specific to your area. But also, you know, be wary of my suggestion! I don't know your situation.
knowing a queer kuwaiti, russian, chinese and mexican plus my own experience in the united states have taught me that there's atleast a bi-model reality for queers everywhere.
anecdotally: the well connected; rich; and/or attractive queers usually don't see much of a problem with living a queer-phobic country, citing that they can usually find a queer friendly community in their home country without much trouble.
also anecdotally: the other queers that don't fit into the shapes i mentioned have a bad time in their home country and their existence in the western world isn't much different than anyone else there.
I finally have the budget to build my first NAS and upgrade my desktop PC. I have used Linux for quite some time, but am far from an expert.
One of the steps is to move my M.2 NVME system drive (1TB) from my desktop to my NAS. I want to replace it with a bigger NVME drive (2TB). My current motherboard only has a single M.2 slot, that's why I bought a M.2 enclosure.
My goal is to put my new drive into the enclosure, clone my whole system disk onto it and then replace the old drive. At first I found several posts about using clonezilla to clone the whole drive, but some posts mentioned it not working well with btrfs (/ and /home subvolume), which is the bulk of my drive.
I have some ideas how I might to pull it off. My preliminary idea is:
1. clone my boot partition with clonezilla
2. use btrfs-clone or moving my butter to transfer the btrfs partition
3. resize the partitions with gparted (and add swap?)
The two aspects I'm uncertain about are:
1. UUIDs
2. fstab
I plan to replace the old drive, so the system will not have two drives with the same UUID. If the method results in a new UUID I need to edit fstab.
As you can see I'm not sure how to proceed. Maybe I can just use clonezilla or dd to clone my whole drive?
If someone has experience with such a switch or is just a lot for familiar with the procedures, I would love some tips and insight.
Thanks for reading.
EDIT: Thinking about how to do it, might have actually taken longer than the procedure itself.
For anyone in a similar situation, I was able to replace the drive with these steps:
sudo btrfs filesystem resize max /With two NVME drives (even though one was in a USB M.2 enclosure) everything took about 30 minutes. About 300 gigs of data were transferred. I haven't found any problems with the btrfs partition thus far. Using dd like others recommended might work as well, but I didn't try that option.
A tool for copying a btrfs file system with all its subvolumes to another btrfs file system - mwilck/btrfs-cloneGitHub
Is your system drive really that: just a system drive? Then you'd better install it from scratch and have a clean, shiny and new system.
Backup a few settings maybe. Or maybe not.
Then you’d better install it from scratch and have a clean, shiny and new system.
You know how it is, I just got my system right. Of course lots of settings can just be duplicated, but I would prefer not to set up some systemd services, cron jobs, etc. again.
When you say system drive this will also have your efi system partition (usually FAT-formated as that's the only standard all UEFI implementations support), maybe also a swap partition (if not using a swap file instead) etc... so it's not just copiying the btrfs partition your system sits on.
Yes clonezilla will keep the same UUID when cloning (and I assume your fstab properly uses UUIDs to identify drivees). In fact clonezilla uses different tools depending on filesystem and data... on the lowest level (so for example on unlocked encrypted data it can't handle otherwise) clonezilla is really just using dd to clone everything. So cloning your disk with clonezilla, then later expanding the btrfs partition to use up the free space works is an option
But on the other hand just creating a few new partitions, then copying all data might be faster. And editing /etc/fstab with the new UUIDs while keeping everything else is no rocket science either.
The best thing: Just pick a method and do it. It's not like you can screw up it up as long if your are not stupid and accidently clone your empty new drive to your old one instead...
I would recommend using this as an opportunity to build out and use a backups system. Whenever I get a new laptop, for example, I just make a(nother) backup on the old laptop and restore whatever I want to the new one. If there are any files I want that are normally excluded from backups, I either tweak my rules to include those files/put them in a different directory and repeat the process or just make a new manual external backup copy temporarily.
If you have good backups then your new drive can be populated from them after creating new partitions. Optionally, you can also take this opportunity to reinstall the OS, which I personally prefer to do because it tends to clean up cruft.
Also, if you go this route, your data on your old drive is 100% intact throughout the process. You can verify and re-verify that all the files you want are backed up + restored properly before finally formatting the old drive for use in the NAS.
Personally, if the NAS is up and running, I'd migrate the home directory and anything else important from the desktop to that, and intend to network host those folders; set aside the 1TB, install the 2 TB, and do a fresh install and see if I can still get to everything happily.
Alternatively--if you want to preserve stuff locally--new drive in an enclosure, attach to desktop, boot from an install USB, fresh install to 2TB, reboot from 2TB, mount 1TB, migrate data, install 2TB. I don't think there should be a UUID problem doing that, but even if there was you could still boot from the install stick and try manually fix it
rsync to copy everything over. Updating /etc/fstab with the new UUIDs isn't a big deal (though you can also manually specify the partition UUIDs at time of format - mkfs.btrfs --uuid ...) (you didn't say what file system your /boot partition was using, so I don't want to guess).
you didn’t say what file system your /boot partition was using, so I don’t want to guess
It's actually easy to guess. There is exactly one filesystem UEFI has to support by its specification, everything else is optional... so unless you produce for Apple -because they demand apfs support for their hardware- no vendor actually cares to implement anything but FAT.
Do you have pci-e slots?
I had to decide between a M.2 enclosure and a PCIe card. Since I plan to build a new system (with more M.2 slots) I will have more slots in the future. And maybe I will not like the M.2 enclosure and return it. wink
Clonezilla can clone BTRFS without issues
Afterwards on the system use sudo btrfs filesystem resize max / to make it use that space. Maybe add a balance.
sudo dd if=/dev/olddisk0n1 of=/dev/newdisksda bs=128Msudo pv /dev/olddisk0n1 > /dev/newdisksdaNot that this is the recommended method, but it's totally viable if you have limited tools or area comfortable on the command prompt.
Unless you're using three new disk on the same system, you don't have to worry about UUIDS, though they will be identical on both systems.
Your system is likely using UUIDs in fstab. If so, you don't have to worry about fstab. If not, there's still a damned good chance you won't have to worry about fstab.
To be sure, check fstab and make sure it's using UUIDs. If it's not, follow a tutorial for switching fstab over to using UUIDs.
I had a similar case.
My minipc has a microSD card slot and I figured if it could be done for a RPI, why not for a mini PC? 😛
After a few months I bought a new m2nvme but I didn't want to start from scratch (maybe I should've looked into nix?)
So what I did was sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=1024k status=progress
And that worked perfectly!
Things to note:
- both drives need to be unmounted, so you need a live OS or another machine.
- The new drive will have the same exact partitions, which means the same size, so you need to expand them after the copy.
- PS: this was for a drovr with ext4 partitions, but in theory dd works with the bytes so it shouldn't be an issue what fs you use.
Hello! I'm a small time vtuber who moved to MX Linux a while back. I use a 3d model, and while I was able to get my model working, with the help of my husband (even better than windows actually,) we cannot get my hand tracking to work.
I've used the ultra leap on Windows with no issues. On the same PC, I tried to get it working on Linux. I use MX Linux (xfce), and the system is up to date. I know that the "Gemini" software only officially supports Ubuntu 22.04, but Ubuntu is Debian based and so is MX. So, I gave it a try. The program installed fine, and it seems to work normally. The device seems to be connected, and I can view its output through the web cam viewer.
However, the ultra leap Gemini program can't find the device. I'm far from a Linux expert, but I tried all the program's terminal commands that I could. I think what I need is to point the program to the device ID or something, maybe. Does anybody have any experience with something like this?
We also tried the older version of the program and that didn't work either. But I remember less about that. It was all terminal based I think.
I use OpenSeeFace and VSeeFace as my tracking software.
Any tips or trick I could try? If all else fails, I could migrate to Ubuntu, but I really enjoy my MX setup.
P.S. If this isnt the place to ask these sorts of questions, could someone direct me to where I might be able to get help?
I wanna thank everyone who helped and offered advice! My husband came up with a solution to use Xubuntu, as its very similar visually to my current OS, and most, if not all console commands I use will work properly. We attempted getting it to work in MX Linux, using the rather limited documentation available, but in the end, I am no Linux expert and changing to a new OS is not a big deal. Anyway, again, thank you everyone.
I'm going to guess this has something to do with permissions to the device. I obviously can't see into your environment, but I would get some output by running your software from the CLI first, and see what it says when you're trying to use it and try to catch and error related to it not being able to talk to the device. You could also try running your software as sudo as a test, but that may just get messy.
Check your groups and see if the device software made a dedicated group for itself, and add your use to it, then see if anything changes.
Also couldn't hurt to review their docs, or post a link here so people could also review them and see if any steps may be missing.
One other thing to remember is that Debian != Ubuntu. Ubuntu is based on Debian, but wildly different under the hood in some very specific ways, especially when taking a desktop environment into consideration. This software may only work in Gnome, for example.
Does this ultra leap Gemini program have permissions to access to your device?
Does it have any documentation? Like where you could point in it's setting to your tracker hardware (which is probably just a file in /dev/)
Before you migrate to Ubuntu, you could check if your hardware and software setup works in its Live Environment.
plugdev group, which gives your user USB controls. To do this, run sudo usermod -aG plugdev $USER and then restart the software.
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Follow up to: “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
SBAT was developed collaboratively between the Linux community and Microsoft, and Microsoft chose to push a Windows update that told systems not to trust versions of grub with a security generation below a certain level. This was because those versions of grub had genuine security vulnerabilities that would allow an attacker to compromise the Windows secure boot chain, and we've seen real world examples of malware wanting to do that (Black Lotus did so using a vulnerability in the Windows bootloader, but a vulnerability in grub would be just as viable for this). Viewed purely from a security perspective, this was a legitimate thing to want to do.
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The problem we've ended up in is that several Linux distributions had not shipped versions of grub with a newer security generation, and so those versions of grub are assumed to be insecure (it's worth noting that grub is signed by individual distributions, not Microsoft, so there's no externally introduced lag here). Microsoft's stated intention was that Windows Update would only apply the SBAT update to systems that were Windows-only, and any dual-boot setups would instead be left vulnerable to attack until the installed distro updated its grub and shipped an SBAT update itself. Unfortunately, as is now obvious, that didn't work as intended and at least some dual-boot setups applied the update and that distribution's Shim refused to boot that distribution's grub.
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The outcome is that some people can't boot their systems. I think there's plenty of blame here. Microsoft should have done more testing to ensure that dual-boot setups could be identified accurately. But also distributions shipping signed bootloaders should make sure that they're updating those and updating the security generation to match, because otherwise they're shipping a vector that can be used to attack other operating systems and that's kind of a violation of the social contract around all of this.
So they claimed it wasn't supposed to affect dual boots, yet it was specifically to patch a vulnerability in GRUB, something a Windows-only user has no reason of ever using (that I'm aware of)?
So how could this have affected anyone but people who dual boot? Sketchy.
And I do, generally. But like I said, I did not read it carefully because I had no reason to.
So if they addressed what I said, I didn't read that part. 🤷🏻
From one of the comments:
Security settings, for them to have any power at all to block malware, have to be default on and unable to be bypassed by the end user (because the end user will bypass them if they get in the way of whatever task/job they have to do right now).
Emphasis mine.
Are people that cucked now that they're like "yes, please daddy, lock me out of my own machine"?
The only charitable read of this is the end-user bypassing controls on company-supplied computers.
Of course that doesn't mean that they won't also shove secure boot, hw lockouts, DRM, etc on regular consumer laptops as well.
You can't trust users to make informed decisions about cybersecurity as most users don't have the necessary background knowledge, so won't think beyond this popup is annoying me and has a button to make it go away and I am smart and therefore immune to malware. Microsoft don't want Windows to have the reputation for being infested with malware like it used to have, and users don't want their bank details stolen. If something's potentially going to be a bad idea, it's better to only give the decision to people capable of making it an informed decision. That's why we don't let children opt into surgery or decide whether to have ice cream for dinner, and have their parents decide instead.
The comment you're quoting was replying to someone suggesting a warning popup, and saying it would be a bad idea, rather than suggesting the secure boot UEFI option should be taken away. You need at least a little bit more awareness of the problem to know to toggle that setting.
I have secure boot and tpm disabled on my rig. I’ve been called a fool for this. But I don’t understand how it works, and this is an example.
If I was smart enough to code a new OS or a new boot loader (which I’m not) - how does it become different than a virus? Who approves my code is “safe” to run?
Clearly in this case Microsoft said “those versions of grub are not safe.” So what does that mean? I’m not allowed to run them now because Microsoft decided? That’s all it takes? The whole “what’s safe to run” thing baffles me.
Am I supposed to believe that a govt agency like the nsa could NEVER put malicious backdoors into Microsoft’s products, that Microsoft would NEVER allow that to happen, and that code would NEVER be flagged as safe?
I get it…. It helps with obvious viruses and whatnot. But in my experience, all secure boot has ever done for me is cause problems and lock me out of my computer.
Microsoft, by default, decides which code is safe to run, yes.
However, that's not the only way to use Secure Boot; I enroll my own certificates in addition to Microsoft's, allowing code that I sign to be booted into. This requires some UEFI setup once.
For most machines, Secure Boot should never lock you out completely; you can always disable it, fix your boot chain and reenable.
I think it's actually sensible technology, but as every security feature, it usually comes at the cost of some convenience.
It's to protect the user against malware that would insert itself in the boot chain and run at higher privilege than the kernel. Just booting a malicious ISO can insert malware in the boot chain without your knowledge. Once you're in the boot chain, you boot before the kernel, so you can inject whatever drivers you want.
That's particularly important on corporate computers where they don't want users to bypass IT policies, but also important for the average Windows user that won't stop loading malware on their computers. Without secure boot there's nothing stopping you from forcing yourself local admin privileges or even silently exfiltrate data.
That's been a thing forever: DOS boot sector malware for example. By only booting signed bootloaders and kernels, you can ensure this doesn't happen.
I have a friend that abused an insufficiently locked down GRUB to root his workstation at work by using the init=/bin/sh trick to patch a SUID binary to make his own sudo.
However, that’s not the only way to use Secure Boot; I enroll my own certificates in addition to Microsoft’s, allowing code that I sign to be booted into. This requires some UEFI setup once.
Do you by chance have a guide or documentation you followed to do this that you could link?
Don't know how much this would help you; I did this on NixOS, however the steps for creating the key pair and enrolling is the same on all distributions, while your UEFI steps can vary depending on the manufacturer.
https://github.com/nix-community/lanzaboote/blob/master/docs/QUICK_START.md
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot for Arch
Secure Boot for NixOS [maintainers=@blitz @raitobezarius @nikstur] - nix-community/lanzabooteGitHub
I don't think Microsoft cares that much anymore. The OS wars are over.
Every Windows now ships with a one-button Linux installer.
Microsoft is one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel.
They provide documentation on how to install Linux.
Powershell has default aliases so you can use bash commands for basic stuff.
They have published a Linux distro.
They don't care cause that's not where they make their money. Their focus is on keeping their market dominance in Office, Exchange and AD (all of which can be accessed from Linux). With those products, they can basically demand a tax from every business in the world.
Download and install Linux in this tutorial that covers how to choose a distribution, how to use the install command with Windows Subsystem for Linux, create a bootable USB for Bare-metal, or set up a Virtual Machine.learn.microsoft.com
that's kind of a violation of the social contract around all of this.
What an interesting journey to the conclusion that it's not the fucking around with non-Microsoft bootloaders that's wrong, it's the installing of bootloaders that aren't approved by Microsoft. That must be somewhere in the Microsoft social EULA you automatically agreed to when you chose to live in a society.
Somebody please tell me which specific CVEs Debian failed to account for in their many grub security updates.
It's upstream GRUB that's decided the older GRUB versions are insecure and not to be trusted. Microsoft just propagated that to machines running distros that weren't shipping patched GRUB builds yet. Up-to-date Debian wouldn't be affected provided that they downstreamed fixes quickly.
https://fedia.io/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/1111595/-/comment/6916699 says that Debian's GRUB wasn't affected, but another part of the boot sequence was.
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Update: According to various indications around the net it turns out that the problem (for Debian users at least) is not grub at all, it's shim itself. They did update the grub SBAT level in a way that should satisfy Microsoft's demands when they patched the CVE that everyone seems to be pointing to as the one Microsoft was aiming for.
What they didn't do in time is update shim (possibly related to CVE-2022-28737, I'm not sure.) There is a new version which has the required change but it has not yet made it to Debian stable. Microsoft added an SBAT for shim as well (which gets checked by shim, so if it's broken... uh... anyway, it's probably fine) and it's the one causing the problems.
(Edited to reflect that I don't really know if it was the fix for CVE-2022-28737 that was needed, the SBAT variable update related to that, or something else. Whichever it is, the shim update currently in the bookworm proposed updates queue should have it.)
(I mean, it is in their charter)
pretty sure it's no longer in their charter.
Also why do you keep calling it an army. Gaza doesn't have an army.
Lol. Where was this post when Russia drafted citizens to continue the invasion?
The Ukrainian "invasion" is to force Russia to withdraw from the war Russia started.
Just to throw my two cents in: This user isn’t a genuinely curious ponderer, rather they are a Russian troll trying to fish for arguments they could further use in bad faith to lick Putin’s boot.
You sound like a victim of propaganda. Arguments to convince people that a forced draft is bad does not benefit the russian government or any other. I encourage you to read other people posts better and to think with your own brain.
Because we're better than that.
A state is just a legal entity. The nation and its residents are infinitely more important.
The "invasion" of Russia isn't an invasion though. They have no desire (and no capability) to actually take land.
It's a war Russia started by invading Ukraine. Of fucking course it's reasonable to expect Ukraine to counterattack.
You can't simply hit someone unprovoked and then get mad when they hit back.
Or course drafting is controversial but it's much less so when the purpose is to protect your country and home compared to what Russia is doing with their drafts where the only purpose is to kill and invade Ukraine.
If Russia surrendered with reasonable terms, Ukraine would obviously exit Russia. They have no desire to keep it.
Do you think the people of Ukraine want to be invaded by Russia?
You know the same Russia that is constantly killing loads of civilians and is repressing their own people.
It doesn’t matter who did what beforethis didn’t start on February 22, 2022, but in 2014
History starts and stops exactly when it best suits my argument
My reading comprehension is just fine, your lack of capability to understand context and tendency to deal in absolutes and binaries in a world made of wide spectrums, shades of gray and unpredictability, on the other hand, does not seem to pass the smell test.
Either you argue in bad faith, are intentionally a shifting contrarian or just not competent enough to either understand the world or at the very least discuss it with others in a way that makes sense.
They need to drag it down to personal attacks and othering because all liberals can do is justify why x and y group deserve genocide and solitary confinement for life.
The distinction between liberals is which groups there form of orthodoxy allows the military and the prisons to be directed at, they can agree on a few things though, mainly the ongoing enslavement of black americans and the genocide of palestine.
The fact that ukrainians are still fighting to this day shows they want to be independent.
This is a post about conscription, where people who do not want to fight are forced to
I’m sure many eastern Ukrainians who were getting killed and repressed by their own people for a decade did. Some of them explicitly requested Russian intervention.
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2022: Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
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The post-2014 coup annexation of Crimea want as smoothly as it did because many of the residents wanted it.
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Why didn't they just move to Russia if they liked Russia more?
Either way that does in no way justify the Russian total invasion attempt and the murder of thousands of innocents.
a lesser of two evils justufies it
Again, no it doesnt.
the government already dictates what you need to do
what? no?
is the command act of killing people that you think takes it too far?
any forced labor takes it too far.
The “invasion” of Russia isn’t an invasion though. They have no desire (and no capability) to actually take land.
Russia propaganda be saying the same thing, for them it's a "special operation" and not an invasion. The conversation you are replying to makes reference to another thread in which "orders to invade russia" were mentioned.
Or course drafting is controversial but it’s much less so when the purpose is to protect your country and home compared to what Russia is doing with their drafts where the only purpose is to kill and invade Ukraine.
So let me ask you something: if you were born in russia and kazakistan declares war to russia would you be fine with you and your friends be drafted by force and sent to the front fighting under the command of putin and its mobsters? Perhaps not everyone is willing to die burned alive in a trench, be it for the russian or ukrainian government.
If Russia surrendered with reasonable terms, Ukraine would obviously exit Russia. They have no desire to keep it.
Ukrainian people perhaps no. Worldwide governments seem to have an interest in this war because they are doing everything to fuel it.
Russia's invasion is totally unjustified.
I think starting a war is very rarely justified. The evil prevented by attacking would need to be much larger than the inherent evil of the war. That's pretty close to Justinian just war theory, but I'd weight present known evils much more highly than theoretically reduced future evils to account for uncertainty. For example, I think an allied invasion into Nazi Europe was justified.
The difference is that the need for a jury of your peers is in the constitution.
Traffic laws are not forced labor. Nor is jail time, that's a punishment.
I'm starting to think you have no idea what you're talking about.
I mean you can look at Russia as an example for how much of the economy was hurt by forcing people out of normal occupation and into service. You also have too look at their abysmal attrition rate to see its unsubstainable and if used primarily leads to worse and worse outcomes on the battle field as they less and less qualified personnel.
Appealing to morality is probably a lost cause for someone supporting a draft, they have already bought into war as a solution. Like moral arguments that Russia is choosing to sacrifice millions and set back their region is something they are already choosing to ignore, forcing people to do it minor in comparison.
This is a militant group, with actual guns and drones or explosive and uniform (that they don't always wear), not a bunch of kids with sticks. This either an army or a terror organisation.
Hamas's new charter (2017l is sort of accepting Israel (I don't recall the exact wording, but something along the lines of "if all/most Palestinians accept it"). But the 1988 (in particular article 7, but also 28) charter was never cancelled and the 2017 was never officially approved
First paragraph: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/leading-hamas-official-says-no-softened-stance-toward-israel-idUSKBN1862O4/
I mean, you have that many hostages, who would not be released without strong military force on Hamas/Gaza. There's a reason that the soldiers are there. I agree that a deal should be made, should have been made 8months ago, but this is not the soldiers' fault, but rather the politicians (Bibi and Sinwar). If you break into someone's house, and take their son away, don't be surprised if that someone is coming back to get them back, hurting your own kids in the way if your refuse to do so.
The thing is that while Israeli left is openly demanding that the settlers will be punished for their crimes, the world left is giving Hamas "a free pass" to do whatever they want, including holding their own civilians hostages. Same for the IDF, Hamas constantly, and purposely shoots rockets on cities and towns in Israel. Again purposely from within civil location. Should Israel just "accept?" Pay the absurd cost of every iron dome rocket while waiting for Hamas to learn how to outperform it?
This lack of global pressure on Hamas of disarming itself brings down the legitimacy of the claims of the left in Israel. People here can't and won't rely on foreign forces to protect the Israeli border. I myself don't rely on that (technically the UN holds the border between israel and Lebanon and we see how useless this is).
So, again, both parties are absolutely sure that they are protecting their home, they don't, in effect, but they have no way out of it due to politics and corruption (of both sides' leaders).
Worldwide governments seem to have an interest in this war because they are doing everything to fuel it.
Bingo. This nullifies your credibility. Either you're a troll or an idiot.
I would never be fine with fighting for a tyrannical country like Russia. I would absolutely fight Russia if they invaded my home and we somehow managed to counterattack on Russian territory.
Ukraine is a way better country than Russia, of course the majority of its people want to stay Ukrainian. And no I'm not saying Ukraine is perfect, it's just better than Russia.
Sure. But it might be useful for someone to know this before dedicating time responding genuinely. If it’s still irrelevant, great. If it might change someone’s mind about spending their time, then also great.
Only giving context here. Might be relevant to some.
First, as I said before, I'm against the war, against the occupation, and in favor of two states solution (ideally, a democratic one Jewish-palestinian state should exist, but this is not going to happen).
Now, I'm sorry, if you ignore the hostages, and the fact that October 7th happened as an offensive act by Hammas, you are painting only a partial picture.
Hamas had 10m to stop the the offensive by Israel, release the hostages. It was that easy 8 months ago, even 5 month ago. Today, I'm not sure. If you ignore this card in hamas's hands then you are again, painting a partial picture.
And as I said countless times in this thread, directing our anger at the armed forces, rather than politicians (on both sides) only aggravate the war.
Bingo. This nullifies your credibility. Either you’re a troll or an idiot.
That's simply what is happening look around you. Rulers and politicians profits in war, the military industry is booming, the cash is flowing. You think the really same people aiding israel in its genocide gives a fuck about peasants dying in a war?
Despite sanctions Russia continues to buy 4WD tactical Italian-made Iveco LMVs (Light Multirole Vehicle). They are currently being used in the conflict in Syria.Alexander Korolkov (Russia Beyond)
Really? You really think that Russian politicians (aka Putin since Russia isn't a democracy) are comparable to western nations?
Russia is one of the worst places to live in when it comes to rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of press. Western nations aren't perfect but they aren't Russia bad.
Look at pretty much any metric except land area, and you will see that Russia fucking sucks to live in.
"Ukraine is wrong and they shouldn't actually have any military at all btw, also I'm not a Russian troll"
— You
It's like watching a middle-schooler pick a fight, lose, then go crying to an adult that he's being bullied. You're pathetic.
I'm Finnish and have done my conscription and it was one of the best years of my life. I wouldn't want to go into war, but I would definitely go and fight Russia if they had invaded Finland.
Like Ukraine has done, defending their country from the Russian "#+special military operation."
Go cry into your limited access to the global community, Ruski. Slava Ukraini.
Really? You really think that Russian politicians (aka Putin since Russia isn’t a democracy) are comparable to western nations?
Yes don't you?
former pm of italy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi
former pm of usa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Russia is one of the worst places to live in when it comes to rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of press.
I would say saudi arabia it's worst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_arms_deal
“Ukraine is wrong and they shouldn’t actually have any military at all btw, also I’m not a Russian troll”
never said such thing, that's actually you saying it
"Are you trying to say U̶k̶r̶a̶i̶n̶e̶ the government of ukraine who is drafting against their will disabled men with heart disease, spinal injuries, epilepsy, autism, and other illnesses and disorders is wrong in ordering its soldier to invade Russia?"
This doesn't sound good to me, nodoby should do this or have the power to do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilization_in_Ukraine#2024
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukrainian-soldiers-thought-order-to-invade-russia-was-joke-2024-8
"We joked that it wasn't April 1st," a Ukrainian soldier identified only by his first name, Serhiy, told The Economist.Kwan Wei Kevin Tan (Insider)
Going into Russia has been a huge tactical success for them, we will see if it's a strategic success, but chances are looking good. Drafting people against their will is kinda the definition of a draft. I haven't looked into the exceptions or lack thereof specifically though.
Do you have a problem with Ukraine invading Russia at all after Russia is trying to annihilate them as a country? Do you have a problem with their conscription policies? Or a problem with using conscripts in the attack into Russia? Or a combination of those three?
Sorry, I don't mean to say that it killed more people in every case. I agree there are could be cases where the outcome was certain, and maintaining strength for gorilla resistance and saving population centers was likely prudent.
I was primarily referring to appeasement, where countries in Europe, mostly England, gave the Nazis land to avoid war.
I am angry at the politicians in the US etc for their continued support of the mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
I'm also angry at the Israeli head of state and political machine, who controls the IDF. When I say 'the IDF' I mean of course the military arm of the state of Israel. The Likud charta explicitly states the aim of one Israel 'from the sea to the river' - oh, the irony!
What Hamas has done on Oct 7, even if all stories are to be believed, pales in comparison to what Israel has done to innocent Palestinians - schools, universities, hospitals, aid workers, journalists, etc -before and since. And it was clearly provoked by years of being occupied in an open-air prison. So I'm sorry if I'm not interested in the 'we're only defending our own' shtick.
A two-state solution is only possible if Israel withdraws, stops occupying Palestine and allows it to exercise full sovereignty of its borders, governancet, and defence.
Is only the combination of drafting and going into another country that is unacceptable? Is Ukraine even using conscripts on that front?
The goal of the invasion into Russia (in my estimation) is to take territory to trade back to Russia in exchange for parts of Ukraine that Russia has captured. Do you think that's not okay? Why?
Do I need to link the Wikipedia page for Putin or do you get my point anyways?
I would say saudi arabia it's worst
I'm not sure who I think is the worst but I would never want to live in either country but I'm not sure why you linked to some arms deal when Saudi Arabia has done way worse things than buying some weapons. I'm leaning towards Russia being the worst though.
Is only the combination of drafting and going into another country that is unacceptable?
Forced draft alone is bad, ordering soldiers to invade another country it's even worst.
Is Ukraine even using conscripts on that front?
Good question, are they? I think more people should be concerned about it especially these who are supporting their own government in sending weapons to the government of ukraine.
The goal of the invasion into Russia (in my estimation) is to take territory to trade back to Russia in exchange for parts of Ukraine that Russia has captured. Do you think that’s not okay? Why?
This isn't a video game, what we are talking about is potentially forced conscript being ordered to invade russia and dying there a miserable way so that governments can trade pieces of land.
never said such thing
No, it's what is implied. Perhaps you don't know the word?
So you think Ukraine is wrong to defend itself from Russian military aggression. You've admitted that.
The only people who think Russia is in the right about this are propaganda trolls and brainwashed Russian iidjits.
I don’t really know what Russia ought to have done, but the US knowingly put Russia between a rock and a hard place. How would the US have reacted if Russia was creeping a “defensive” alliance toward the US’ border and orchestrated a Mexican coup?
- NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
- The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
- Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
- The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine In May of [2022] Ukrainian media reported that then-British prime minister Boris Johnson had flown to Kiev the previous month to pass on the message on behalf of the western empire that “Putin is a war criminal, he should be pressured, not negotiated with,” and that “even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they are not.”
More than ever, NATO represents by far the biggest threat to peace in the world todayThomas Fazi
So you refuse to answer the question of whether you think Russia broke international law with a war of aggression by invading Ukraine?
Huh. Seems weird. Almost as if you're avoiding taking a stance. I wonder what would make you be avoidant of that particular question and motivate you to question the legitimacy of the conflict Russia started but is currently losing?
Companies mentioned in an article you linked aren't getting the cash flow enough to warrant any improvement in related economies. I see Russian politicians profiting off various things during war but they were doing the same before.
So, short effects of the war on economies are not worth the long term effects of deaths of many consumers anywhere. Using the "war helps economy" argument while forgetting how the deaths and active aggression affect the world and lives, is a manipulation, which is also heavily used by those aggressors (Russia).
Telling Israel is doing a genocide without mentioning what hamas were doing to Israel is also a manipulation.
"We"? Yes, I know you're a mod. I'm shaking. That makes this avoidance of your way worse.
Disagreeing with someone isn't against the rules, is it?
You should know I disapprove of people who refuse to acknowledge Russia broke international law with a war of aggression when they invade Ukraine.
I proudly went through conscription in Finland, because we know what Russia was capable of.
So who are these Nazis you speak of?
Downvoting things you disagree with is one thing, pettily downvoting everything someone posts regardless of content is quite another: it’s harassment, and it’s not a good look.
Whether Russia broke international laws by invading isn’t even a point of debate: I’ve yet to encounter a single person who thinks otherwise. If that’s the point you’re trying to make then congratulations Captain Obvious.
This is a two day old thread buried under “View all comments,” which no one is going to read, so your debate-me-bro-ing is a waste of exactly two people’s time.
I don't, but apparently you do.
So who exactly are you calling nazis?
Whether Russia broke international laws by invading isn’t even a point of debate: I’ve yet to encounter a single person who thinks otherwise. If that’s the point you’re trying to make then congratulations Captain Obvious
Then you're an absolute dogshit mod, either not looking or not recognising Russian trolls who are plentiful even on Lemmy.
Whether Russia broke international laws by invading isn’t even a point of debate
So you're still refusing to answer the question?
Then you’re an absolute dogshit mod, either not looking or not recognising Russian trolls who are plentiful even on Lemmy.
There are approximately zero Russian trolls, but there are plenty of conspiracy theorists who think there are.
- IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
- Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
- Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
- Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
- Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
- Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
- Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
- Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
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- Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor's Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
- Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA "Cooked The Intelligence" To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
- Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away
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Whether Russia broke international laws by invading isn’t even a point of debateSo you’re still refusing to answer the question?
You are being utterly ridiculous, so no. Maybe you should go back to Reddit so you don’t have to suffer opinions different from your own.
Literal nazis who wear nazi symbols on their persons and anyone who positively associates with them or supports them
I don’t, but apparently you do.
Fucking moron. Your trash talk is incoherent. You don't have to ask but I do? My dimwitted child, you are the one asking.
You're the one who said "you chickenhawk nazi lovers."
It's not unreasonable to ask for elaboration for such an incoherent attempt at an insult.
There are approximately zero Russian trolls
Good one, mate. Are you trying to say bad actors who are literally employed by Russia, but ignoring all the people who've bought into the propaganda enough to propagate them despite not getting financially compensated by the state of Russia?
Are you seriously trying to say the existence of Russian propaganda on Lemmy is zero percent? I sincerely doubt that, because I'm sure you're aware of just how ridiculous of a statement that is.
"You're being utterly ridiculous by asking one simple question, to which I would avoid the answer were I on the side of Russian rhetoric."
You're making a mountain out of a molehill. I asked a simple question; do you agree that Russia has broken international law with a war of aggression by invading Ukraine?
It really doesn't necessitate getting upset nor all the equicovation. What's more ridiculous: listing a bunch of links trying to imply there's no such thing as Russian propaganda when asked if you think it was wrong of Russia to invade Ukraine... or... asking someone a simple yes or no question?
Just because it went over your head (how???) doesn't make it incoherent.
Do you even know what that word means or are you just mad I used it on you appropriately?
Since I very clearly expressed I've gone through conscription, enjoyed it, and am currently a NCO in the Finnish reserves, very willing to defend my country militarily, but you assert you're "using the term appropriately", I have to deduce that you're probably using the gay slang term "chicken hawk", meaning you're assuming I'm gay, I'm an "older male", and into twinks?
Also, then you agree that nazis are either actual neonazis, or possibly the current horrid fascists like Putler and Netanyahu.
I'm pro-Palestine and pro-Ukrainian, mostly straight, not even in my 40's and in the Finnish reserves, and I'm definitely not an actual bird, so... in what was your asinine babbling "appropriate"?
Are you seriously trying to say the existence of Russian propaganda on Lemmy is zero percent?
Approximately so, yes, certainly not enough to merit concern. Virtually no one in the world knows that Lemmy exists, it is new, it has no marketing/advertising, and it has under 100K active users. Do you really think we’re on the Russian state’s radar?
Maybe you should go back to Reddit, where you won’t be exposed to genuine opinions from real people that differ from yours, back to the AlwaysTheSameMap corporate social media bubble.
The force, which has been using a swastika in its emblem since 1918, said it had caused misunderstandings.By Claudia Allen (BBC News)
Approximately so
"Do you really think we're on the Russian state's radar"?
So again you're pretending propaganda only exists in the form of people who are financially compensated or mandated by the Russian state. That's insanely childish of a take. You either have really bad reading comprehension, or you're engaging with me in bad faith. Latter is against the rules, I believe?
It's weird how you can pretend to have asserted that you have implicitly agreed with the fact that Russia has broken international laws with an illegal war of aggression by invading Ukraine. If you're not pro-Russian, then it should be rather easy to say "Yes, Russia has broken international law."
Even with your notion of propaganda being spread purely by paid actors, you admit that there's a non-zero chance of that happening on Lemmy. Now, IF there was such an actor here, would they have a problem with admitting that Russia has broken international law with a war of aggression by invading Ukraine? I believe they would. Wouldn't you?
Since you're very fond of listing links and sources, I'll show you how argumenting is actually done. (Since your link lists were nothing but "I hope you never read any of these because they're not actually even related and I can't come up with an actual argument.)
You misuse the word "symbology".
Likeness in symbols representing different things aren't two different things using the same symbology, they're the same symbol which represents a different thing.
We've been using the Swastika since the Iron Age. When did they form the Nazi party again?
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakaristi_Suomessa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in_the_early_20th_century
Awkward how you pretend to be so knowledgable, yet make these cringe "arguments", because I made you upset by asking you whether you're pro-Russian or not. Something which you absolutely refuse to answer. Weird, huh?
Oh I see, I missed this part: “ignoring all the people who’ve bought into the propaganda,” probably because I’ve stopped paying attention.
Like I said, some people are going to have different opinions from you. You can engage with them, downvote them, or leave.
Now, IF there was such an actor here, would they have a problem with admitting that Russia has broken international law with a war of aggression by invading Ukraine?
To recap, you — a mod — proudly admit you don't have the attention span to read the things on the forum you're a mod on, even the ones you're actively taking part in?
Hey, you're free to disagree with me.
Ofc I'm going to judge you for being pro-Russian, as that's just shameful. However, I assume that you won't be able to answer whether you are or aren't, despite pretending that you already have, even though people who have the attention spans to actually read the thread can clearly see you haven't — you've spent a lot of energy avoiding it. This reminds of the time I was in an elevator with a drunk guy who loudly shat his pants and then proclaimed "it wasn't me!" (And it was very clearly just the two of us in there.)
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Why do you think it is a phishing link? Gumroad is a well known platform to sell digital goods.
I mention it is free up to some date because it will go back to being a paid product after that.
I don't. I thought the emoji would have made that clear.
I have been doing cybersecurity awareness lately. We are starting to get over the furst hurdle: make people see the signatures of phishing message.
But now we are starting with the 2nd hurdle: make people understand that when they write a genuine post, they should avoid these signatures of phishing, in this case, the "time pressure" argument.
The problem is that the more genuine messages have phising signatures, to more difficult it becomes for people to distinguish a genuine posts from phishing.
There is also the risk that you genuine posts will get noted as fake (although that is clearly not the case here 😀 )
Dr. Deborah Brosnan, a climate and ocean scientist, predicts that Earth could eventually become uninhabitable for humans given the grave state of the planetThe Mirror US
Scientist piping in with my two cents. Granted my speciality is geophysics and planetary science, and not specifically climate.
In geoscience we tend to talk about things on very long timescales. Like: at what point with the sun's output cause the earth to turn into Venus (250 million years as a lower bound, ish, then all life is doomed on Earth). The rate of change we've applied to our atmosphere is faster than any natural process other than a meteor strike or similar event. There are climate change scenarios where all life on the planet dies (why wait 250 million years!?), but they're mostly improbable unless we have some sort of runaway feedback mechanism we've not accounted for. 2/3 of humans dying is also unlikely. Coastline and ecosystem disruption are almost certain though.
The thing about humans are: we are frighteningly clever. We can build spacecraft that can survive the harsh environment in space and people survive there. As long as climate change doesn't happen "too fast" (values of "too fast" may vary), we will engineer our way around it. On the small scale: air conditioning; and on the larger scale, geo-engineering (after accumulating sufficient political will). We're so clever that, if we (or our descendants or similar) can probably even save the earth in 250 million years when the sun's output passes the threshold where it wants to fry us -- assuming we survive that long.
That doesn't detract from her statement. But it is the Mirror, and the headlight is trying to be incendiary.
Are you actually a scientist?
Air Conditioning to mitigate climate change? That's like dowsing a fire with lighter fluid.
And you think we'll be able to out engineer the sun? In 250million years we will not be here guaranteed, and if somehow we make it it won't be in any form we know as human.
Yes, I even once got a B+ in thermodynamics, decades ago. I was proud of that B+ -- one of the hardest courses I've ever taken.
Yes, AC. It uses energy, adds heat into the total system, and you cannot fight entropy. However, you can mitigate heat gain in other places. You trade local effects for net zero global effects.
Simple example: AC running off of solar. It increases heat by decreasing albedo (solar panels are dark), but if you paint another area white, you can have a neutral effect in terms of total energy captured by the earth. But you can have a net zero heat gain and still have AC.
Obviously you'll have a harder time balancing this equation if you're using non-renewable energy sources.
But the fun thing is that once we reach a critical point, it will go from having a positive carbon impact to a negative carbon impact. But we can never get there if we never start
It's all about scale and infrastructure.
I don't see your point.
Building fossil fuel power infrastructure does nothing to move the needle, but building renewables does.
What are you actually proposing? Because it reads as "we shouldn't try because any benefits or impacts are long-term"
I was wondering what the controversy was with my comment lol. I was just saying that relying solely on renewable energy and current technology to be widely developed and implemented to reach net-zero carbon will be a slow-meticulous crawl while we continue to pollute the earth with our current infrastructure (fossil fuels). We need to also continue to push for policies like more use of public transportation and stop subsidizing the oil and gas industry so people actually feel the cost associated so more. People see things like bike lanes and busses/rails as a more viable option when it actually effects them. You'll see more people walking to nearby locations or doing "greener" activity when the actual price of 8$ or more a gallon becomes a reality.
If you start telling people, "oh, well just get more panels and use AC." They'll take it as nothing needs to change in their habits and all the other industries are fine as they are. Much like the "recycling" program in the 80's and 90's was used to manipulate the public that they are responsible for all the garbage and toxins being produced.
I use 2 different computers in 2 different locations both running Universal Blue.
I was wondering if there is any way to create a backup system where i could backup Computer1 over the internet to Computer2 and continue work like nothing happened with all the user data and installed applications being there. The goal is to only need to transfer the user data/applications and no system data (that should be the same for both because of Ublue, right?), to keep the backup size small.
To be clear, i need help figuring out the backup part, not the transfering over the internet part.
If I were to backup the directories on Computer1, which store user data, with for example borgbackup, could I restore them on Computer2 and have a working system? Or would there be conflicts because of more low level stuff missing like applications and configs? Which directories would I need and which could be excluded?
Is there a better option? Any advice is appreciated!
I also came across btrfs snapshot capabilities and thought they could possibly used for this. But as far as I understand it, that would mean transferring the whole system and not only the data and applications. Am i missing something?
Universal Blue is a diverse set of images using Fedora Atomic's OCI support as a delivery mechanism. That's nerdspeak for the ultimate Linux client!universal-blue.org
As a sysadmin I would try making the PC’s hypervisors and syncing a VM? Might be over engineered but I think it would work.
Regardless of what technical solution you decide to rely on, e.g borgbackup, Synchting or rsync, the biggest question is "what" do you actually need. You indeed do not need system files, you probably also applications (which can fetch back anyway) so what left is actually data. You might want to then save your ~ directory but that might still conflict with some things, e.g ~/.bashrc or ~/.local so instead you might want to start with individual applications, e.g Blender, and see where it implicitly or you explicitly save the .blend files and all their dependency.
How I would do it :
- over the course of a day, write down each application I'm using, probably a dozen at most (excluding CLI tools)
- identify for each where data is stored and possibly simplify that, e.g all my Blender files in a single directory with subdirectory
- using whatever solution I have chosen, synchronize those directories
- test on the other device while being on the same network (should be much faster and with a change of fixing problems)
then I would iterate over time. If I were to often have to move and can't really iterate, I would make the entire ~ directory available even though it's overkill, and only pick from it on a per needed basis. I would also insure to exclude some directories that could be large, maybe ~/Downloads
Thank you for the detailed response!
Yes, the what data and how to not create conflicts has been troubling me the most.
I think I might first narrow it down with test VMs first, to skip the transfer part, before I actually use it “in production“.
Honestly a very imperfect alternatives but that's been sufficient for me for years is... NextCloud of documents.
There are few dozen documents I need regardless of the device, e.g national ID, billing template, but the vast VAST majority of my files I can get on my desktop... which is why I replied to you in depth rather than actually doing it. I even wrote some software for a "broader" view on resuming across devices including offline, namely https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/offline-octopus as a network of NodeJS HTTP servers but ... same, that's more for the intellectual curiosity than a pragmatic need. So yes explore with VMs if you prefer but I'd argue remain pragmatic, i.e what you genuinely do need versus an "idealized" system that you don't actually use yet makes your workflow and setup more complex and less secure.
I could list a bunch of movies but it's easier to say anything scored by John Williams. Superman, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws. I never caught Close Encounters of the Third Kind but I'll go out on a limb and say it's good just on faith.
He scored some other things, but that's what I remember off the top of my head.
My pick is Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss will forever be one of cinema's greatest opening themes. And combined with the opening credits of the movie with the sun rising slowly over the Earth was absolutely groundbreaking and legendary. It is truly one of the greatest opening credits sequences of all time.
I'll pull out an obscure old one just for novelty's sake: The Black Hole. The opening theme captures the entire movie perfectly.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
One of the best movies intros I've ever seen. Too bad the rest of the movie sucked.
My God, I have not been more bored watching an action movie. I actually turned it off because it was putting me to sleep and I just thought the whole thing was dumb.
And I like marvel movies.
John Powell's opening for How to Train your Dragon deserves a shoutout for including every major Leitmotiv of the movie.
I'll let someone smarter go into 18 minutes of more detail here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UUJQH7GLms
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.m.youtube.com
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Star Wars episode 4 - A New Hope
You can use email aliases or even go as far as a phone alias as well.
Been using Mozilla relay for a while and the phone number option is nice to mask your real number for some things.
It does report as a VOIP number so some services can't use it.
The scariest threat in the event you're affected by the data breach is if someone has enough information to open credit in your name. There's a website you can look yourself up on. I have it in my pc I think, but not my phone. They have my name and ssn, but an old address that's not valid any more. Maybe someone can link it. I'll see if I can find it in the morning if no one does.
2FA is good to use when available.
That's mainly it. It could be the most likely threat is to email you scary things to try to get you to click on the wrong thing. Or calling you up with the classic threat that the sheriff is on his way to arrest you now for some speed outstanding debt. I know wtf I'm doing with security and I've still fallen for a phishing scheme (caught it before any harm was some, but still clocked the damn email). My wife fell for the sheriff thing—sucks when they do find a blemish on your credit to really sell you on they are a real debt collector.
There are plenty of companies that will sell your name, email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, marital status, and relative's names. They obtain the information from publicly sold databases. I had access to one that had all that, plus the registration info for the car I drive, my estimated income, my military record, my driving record, my political party preference, and pictures of my home that had been on the realtor's website.
The scary one was when a phone center employee in the Philippines stole my wife's debit card number and then did two big Western Union MoneyGram transfers to a couple of Filipino men. That means bad actors have access to the credit companies' databases from which Western Union draws their proof of identity questions, like who holds your mortgage, where you lived when you were 10, and the make/model of your first vehicle.
If you're well-off enough to be a financial fraud target, paying a company for identity theft protection is probably well worth it. Put fraud alerts in with all the major credit bureaus too. That usually stops identity thieves from accessing your credit. If you use 2FA with your phone, make sure your telecom provider will not transfer your number to a new device without in-person authorization and authentication.
Microsoft has issued a security update that has broken dual-boot Linux and Windows machines. The update wasn’t supposed to reach dual-boot PCs.Tom Warren (The Verge)
This means that it is impossible for them to make a patch or PR because it would conflict with the projects licence and fact its open source.
That's not how it works. It just means the company owns the code for all intents and purposes, which also means that if they tell you that you can release it under a FOSS license / contribute to someone else's project, you can absolutely do that (they effectively grant you the license to use "their" code that you wrote under a FOSS license somewhere else).
They can forbid you to work on opensource stuff while being in free time? I mean, I understand that you are not allowed to generate open code that utilises private know how of the company you work for. But not working on Linux in free time seems very strange to me 😮
Edit: There is a way: https://lemmy.world/comment/11915181
I keep Linux and windows on separate disks, grub or windows boot manager don't know about each other.
I have the Linux disk as the primary boot, if I need to boot into windows i use the bios boot selection screen.
It's a bit of a pain at times(have to mash F12 to get the bios boot menu) bit it's less of a headache than trying to fix grub
Your assessment of probability is speculation
It is, but anecdote is insufficient to counter it.
No. You can have more than one EFI system partition with separate bootloaders on each drive and set their boot order in the BIOS, just like booting from USB or anything else.
This is also possible with just one drive. The efi boot entries for each OS are stored separately in the efi system partition.
Legit have never had an issue with multi boot and windows like ever, tbf I don't go into windows that frequently anymore but it's never given me grief in at least a decade. I know my experience isn't universal though, so sorry to anyone who does have boot issues after windows updates.
In the worst case, could use bcdedit and use the windows boot loader (tbh I have no idea if that works here, but could be worth a try)
Reference article for the bcdedit command, which creates new stores, modify existing stores, and add boot menu parameters.learn.microsoft.com
even if you have two drives, you still have only one bootloader, not?
The idea is to have completely separate boot and OS drives. You select which one you want to boot through the BIOS boot selection (ie. pressing F10 or F11 at the BIOS screen).
This functionally makes each OS "unaware" of the other one.
I'm not saying you're lying, but you said
do not allow software developers to send a patch or PR to open source projects.
But this sentence in particular was misleading. Maybe you specifically did not have the right to do so, but in the Linux and BSD codebases there are a lot of @microsoft @netflix @oracle contributions, so at least there is someone in those companies authorized to do so
Yeah if you write proprietary code and then work on a similar project in your spare time, your company might sue you because you're likely reusing code you've seen or written at work.
For example Windows developers are forbidden from working on ReactOS
Fair, and ill edit my post accordingly!
There are teams that are allowed, and within those companies are teams that are directly related to foss projects because those companies are in the foundation or supports of the foundation. However, thats doesnt mean every (product) team in the company is allowed to or that they can do or change whatever they like. Its a complex mess
Unfortunately it really doesn’t. And it’s actually Linux that’s the bigger problem: whenever it decides to updates GRUB it looks for OSes on all of your drives to make grub entries for them. It also doesn’t necessarily modify the version of grub on the booted drive.
Yes I’m sure there’s a way to manually configure everything perfectly but my goal is a setup where I don’t have to constantly manually fix things.
EFI can also live in firmware memory.
You can pull the linux drive, boot from the windows drive, and if one of the firmware updates was for efi, windows will trash the entry for your Linux disk.
This has happened for me many times, I had to use a grub rescue disk to rebuild the efi table.
Oh you sweet sweet summer boy....
We're talking Microsoft here, they'll make sure they're aware and they'll make sure to f you over because Microsoft
Remove your Microsoft installation, done.
Yes but...
But what? This is Microsoft, they fucked it up so many times that it's either incompetence or sabotage, and knowing Microsoft, it's probably both.
This is the same company that invented millions to sabotage Linux through the legal system (hello sco), and the same company that in purpose left gaping security holes open as to not lose any money, causing China to hack the US government through said holes.
Then we decide that just that money isn't enough so we'll spy on you at every step of the way, we will force feed you ads, and we'll use you to train our shitty AI
Frack Microsoft, frack any and all of their software.
Really depends on the virtualization technology, hardware, configuration and game. Not a gamer myself.
Gaming on linux has come a long way in recent years though, in no small part thanks to Steam.
While I generally agree with that, that's not what seems to be happening here. What seems to be happening is that anyone who boots Windows via grub is getting grub itself overwritten.
When you install Linux, boot loaders like grub generally are smart and try to be helpful by scanning all available OSes and provide a boot menu entry for those. This is generally to help new users who install a dual-boot system and help them not think that "Linux erased Windows" when they see the new grub boot loader.
When you boot Windows from grub, Windows treats the drive with grub (where it booted from) as the boot drive. But if you tell your BIOS to boot the Windows drive, then grub won't be invoked and Windows will boot seeing it's own drive as the boot drive.
This is mostly an assumption as this hasn't happened to me and details are still a bit scarce.
If you install each OS with it's own drive as the boot device, then you won't see this issue.
Unless you boot Windows via the grub boot menu. If you do that then Windows will see that drive as the boot device.
If you select the OS by using the BIOS boot selection then you won't see this issue.
I was bitten by Windows doing exactly this almost 15 years ago. Since that day if I ever had a need for dual-boot (even if running different distros) each OS will get it's own dedicated drive, and I select what I want to boot through the BBS (BIOS Boot Selection). It's usually invoked with F10 or F11 (but could be a different key combo.
I did that and a Windows update nuked Linux from the BIOS boot loader a few weeks ago.
The only safe option is to have completely separate machines. Thankfully with the rise of ridiculously powerful minipcs that's easier than ever.
My install does not seem to do this. I removed the windows drive when installing Linux on a new drive. Put both drives in and select which one to boot in the bios. Its been that way for about a year and, so far, grub updates have never noticed the windows install nor added to grub.
That's with bazzite, can't speak for any other distro as that is the only dual-boot machine I own. Bazzite does mention they do not recommend traditional dual boot with the boot loader and recommend the bios method so maybe they have something changed to avoid that?
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I recently discovered that Rufus has an option to set up a Windows ISO as "Windows on the go" so I dug out an old 500Gb SSD that had a USB adapter with it and installed Windows on that. So now instead of dual booting I can just hit F12 and boot from USB on the rare occasions when I need to run something in Windows.
It's also quite satisfying to be able to physically remove Windows and shove it into a drawer when it goes full Windows too lol.
Rufus: Create bootable USB drives the easy wayrufus.ie
I pretty much did just go full office space on it lol. Here's a fun thing I just learned:
Windows 11 apparently defaults to a tiny fraction of space for system restore points, and if it runs out of space it just deletes the old ones without asking or telling you. Because it defaults to a tiny amount of space, it apparently only ever keeps one system restore point on hand.
This means I made a manual one on a clean install when I'd got my settings sorted, so I can hop back to that when Windows inevitably fucks up. But because it's Windows, what it did was apply a big update, fuck it up, then save that fuck up as the only restore point.
I restored it anyway just to see what would happen, and that broke even more stuff. Back in the drawer!
I should have been more clear,
Assuming dev/sda is Linux and dev/sdb is Windows, I have grub on sda and Windows bootloader on sdb. I use a hotkey at boot to tell the bios which drive to boot from.
Theoretically windows thinks it's the only OS unless it's scoping out that second hard disk.
If you've recently updated Windows and found your system no longer dual boots, here's why and what you can do about it.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
So, excusing my ignorance as a fairly recent Linux convert, what does this mean for my dual boot system?
I haven’t booted windows for weeks and am pretty sure there have been no updates since it was freshly reinstalled (maybe 6 months ago) as a dual boot with Debian.
Is this only a problem if I allow Windows to update?
Are Microsoft likely to fix the issue in a subsequent release?
Yes, you don't have to worry as long as you don't boot up windows and let it install the update.
This is not the first time they break dual boots by touching the partitions, but this is the first time they deliberately break it (that I know of).
I always had windows on its own drive because of that. If you don't use windows a lot then I would suggest to do the same. You have to change to windows through bios but it isn't that much more work.
Thanks for the reply, and good to know!
I think I’ll blow away the windows install on this machine completely.
I still have another pc for some audio tools that don’t run under Linux, but this machine is my daily driver now and I couldn’t be happier.
Not saying youre wrong, but you took the wrong project as an example hehe.
Visual code is not open source. Its core is, but visual code isnt.
The difference is what visual code ships with, on top of its core.
Its like saying chrome == chromium ( it isnt ).
Visual code comes with a lot of features, addins and other stuff that isnt in the core.
.net debugger for example, is not found in vscodium ( build of the vscode core ). And there is more stuff i cant think of now but have come across.
Source: been using vscodium for a few months instead of vscode
Somewhat. One, a system can be bootable without the entries, so even if windows does the stupid and deletes them it isn’t the end of the world. It does depend on your specific firmware though.
Also two, you can write them again with a single line in efibootmgr.
This is very different than the old world where windows would delete your bootloader entirely. They live in the efi system partition instead - or at least the shim does- and typically every OS leaves the other ones alone (even Windows, except in this case).
It could take that long. I was wondering if Ubuntu is 24.10 /25.04, 25.10, and 26.04 if pop will align their alpha2, beta, and official release with the Ubuntu release schedule.
I know they said something about a yearly release cadence for cosmic but I'm sure that's once it's officially in production.
That said, as far as an alpha goes, it's much more polished than a typical alpha. The path from here to beta might be faster than we think.
Pop devs never shied away from releasing with non LTS releases though and since one of their main pain points with releases was always gnome + cosmic plugins I'm not sure how their dependency on Ubuntu releases is affected.
I was super nervous for cosmic because I love pop. I didn't want them to bungle it and force me to distro hop. The alpha made me way less nervous and much more excited.
Whatever they do, whenever they release, I just hope they get it right! Small bugs are fine but major crashes would make me very sad.
Yep. I stupidly thought I could use it on my work laptop. Big nope, I had to go back after 2 hours.
It has great potential, but it's still far from being ready.. 😔
For me it is the language it's written in: Rust. Now I can participate, fix bugs and implement new apps with the language I know the best.
Some people might also say less crashes, less vulnerabilities and all that, but for me the first part is the most important.
Yep, but QT's object model and its being written in C++ makes it super cumbersome to use in Rust. GTK is better here due to it being written in C, but the direction it's taking in GTK4 is not really great, and having a safe Rust UI toolkit is a huge win for the community.
Cosmic being fully Rust means I can just take one project from them, and immediately start working on it with cargo and all the familiar tools. It's not as easy with C or C++ projects in Gnome and KDE.
I think it's great we have some competition in this space, everybody wins.
This is a weird take. Rust is very popular and is the current heir apparent to C for systems level stuff. It's a great choice to start a new DE/toolkit.
As for the rest, you're right the end user doesn't care about the language their graphical app is in, but the developers fielding their bug reports and making fixes/features sure do.
TIOBE is weighted toward languages that have existed for a long time by virtue of counting lines written / skilled engineers etc. but the speed at which Rust is climbing that list is a better indicator. Also, a lot of the languages above it wouldn't be appropriate for anything like a DE.
But you're right, it's hyped, I just think the hype is real.
Yep, windows kernel has a ton of Rust code already, even some of its syscalls are made in Rust. Linux kernel is getting a new GPU driver for NVIDIA written in Rust, and GPU driver for removed M-series also written in Rust. removed is hiring Rust devs, so is Amazon, Meta, Google...
In the startup space it's been quite good with Rust for some time. I've been writing production code with it for almost a decade. It is not a fad anymore.
A productive, safe, fast and fun language to write with excellent tooling, and we are just getting started.
misconfigured
Unless you did something really stupid and deleted system libraries or something like that, no configuration should cause crashes. Please make a bug report about it at bugs.kde.org. You might not be able to fix it yourself, but crashes are often relatively easy to diagnose and fix for a developer.
I'm very curious how buggy it's going to be. (Obviously very during alpha, but I'm talking release.) They seem to be betting big on customisability, and a myriad of different setups is like a fly trap for bugs, in my experience.
But at the same time, a modern language like Rust provides lots of help to prevent a bunch of them, and they might be very talented programmers, so who knows!
Maybe I don't keep my finger on the pulse of this stuff the way I should, but what's the main benefit of 24.04? Pop updates the kernel and packages already. The main benefit we would get is newer gnome which... obviously isnt a development priority for them since it's going away.
What are we missing out on?
I feel like I am the only person not super-jazzed about Cosmic.
If people are excited or want to use it, fine.
But I don't know what it could possibly add to the mix besides offering mote DE choice, and Linux already has a lot of that.
I'm not really invested in Cosmic, I'm happy with Hyprland and will continue to use it.
I do think they did a REALLY nice job with the tiling. I don't think you can find a more intuitive and user friendly tiling window manager. Something that's not absolute barebones out of box and can be configured entirely with a GUI. In that regard it does bring something to the mix and is very very welcome.
I like it as an alternative to GNOME that's not quite so GNOME-ish, if that makes sense. I do like GNOME but I find it a bit idiosyncratic sometimes, IE they seem very "my way or the highway" about some design things, and it often feels to me like you have to hunt down and keep updating endless plugins to do basic things that feel like they should be included.
If they can land in a spot where COSMIC looks as nice as GNOME but is also a bit less of a hassle to get set up the way you want it, I feel like they could occupy a nice middle-ground between GNOME and KDE possibly.
What is the big difference between Cosmic and Gnome?
I know System76 are developing it so I would imagine they have a problem with Gnome and their hardware business.
I used popOS! for a year and did get annoyed that Gnome required extensions that were not necessarily maintained in order to allow for what I considered to be basic customisation.
On OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE now, but interested to see what the philosophical difference is between Gnome and Cosmic.
There are basically two different versions of Cosmic. The current one which is basically just an extension for Gnome. This is what has shipped with PopOS and currently still done.
But system76 had a vision for what they wanted and they did not feel building that as an extension was sustainable long term. They had a bunch of stability issues (ie gnome breaking things in newer versions they were using). So they decided to write a new desktop environment from scratch in rust that they had full control over.
I believe that the new Cosmic sits somewhere in between KDE and Gnome in terms of customization - or at least what they are aiming for. No where near the level of settings as KDE but not trying to remove every option like Gnome.
And being a new project written from scratch it is forward focused - and only support wayland.
You can read more about their decisions in a recent blog post: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-team-interview-byoux
I'm guessing that's the onboard AMD graphics then?
If you do an lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' what does it return? Are you able to find anything in dmsg (journalctl -xb-1 for last error before it rebooted itself on the previous boot log) that would give an error message to investigate?
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mendocino (rev c2) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 380e Kernel driver in use: amdgpu Kernel modules: amdgpu
Aug 22 22:23:19 Archdaemon kernel: ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20240322/psobject-220) Aug 22 22:23:19 Archdaemon kernel: hub 6-0:1.rentry.org
Might have to get the full log, and it should be from immediately after one of those unexpected reboots. The flag b-1 indicates journalctl to export the logs from the previous boot (-1) instead of the current log. So if you do sudo journalctl -xb-1 > log.txt after one of these reboots and paste that file to look at, we might get something useful.
I'm fairly confident that's a problem that can be fixed with having an AMD graphics driver running. If it were nVidia, I'd be less confident.
I can't wait to see what they can do, considering what System76 did with just GNOME.
I don't think anything's going to pry me from XFCE, though, except maybe if 4.20 hasn't made much progress on Wayland.
Hello, GNOME 47.beta is now available. It also marks the start of the UI, feature and API freezes (collectively known as The Freeze).GNOME Discourse
I'm really surprised this post's been up for 6 hours and there are no GNOME haters commenting all kinds of terrible stuff yet.
Anyways good job, GNOME team.
They don't actually "break". Extensions have to report themselves what Gnome version they support. If they aren't patched to reflect this, they will be marked as unsupported on that version of Gnome.
This makes sense from the perspective of making sure the extensions are actually tested on new versions of Gnome by the devs.
Gnome only really has two options here:
People often say they should just have an extension API, but that would mean hindering the usefulness of extensions – they'd only be able to do what the API lets them, rather than having free rein over your system, which is currently what makes the extension system so powerful.
No, there is a third option: you freeze the API for the extensions. That way, nothing breaks. And if an app uses private APIs (or public APIs that are not meant for extensions' use), then and only then you treat it as unsupported.
And yes, the constant breaking is a big, big problem. I use 6 extensions to make the desktop the way I want it to. In every release, I get at least 4 of them breaking for several weeks each time. The last time, the dock extension I used broke with the new Gnome version, but when it got disabled, the "favorite" icons on its dock did not reflect on the Gnome's default dockbar. All that stuff, are unacceptable for a proper usage in 2024, especially for people coming from Windows that expect stability (no matter what people say, Windows IS stable). I use Linux since 1999, but it's that kind of stuff that i can't stand. I want stability. The days when I was hacking on Gentoo in 2003, are long gone. I'm now in my 50s and i don't have time for that shit.
So, yeah, the third option.
No it isn't.
And practically, they don't break every 6 months. Almost all extensions are patched weeks before the new version is even released.
E: so people actively want extensions to be practically useless and barely be able to change anything?
You actually want extensions to be useless. What's the point of them if they can hardly do anything?
You're fundamentally not understanding how extensions work. They cannot be even nearly as useful as they are now if they have to go through a standardised API. No docks, no window management, etc.
It wouldn't really be an issue if you didn't need an extension for every single basic functionality...
Because of how stupidly opinionated Gnome is I switched to KDE a year or so ago and have been extremely happy with it. And what do you know I don't even need any extensions, because sane stuff like tray icons are builtin.
I do use an extension for distributing windows in custom areas though, and it didn't even break throughout the (I believe) 2 large updates there were since I started using it.
I may understand "opinionated" differently from you, but the main issue is that when you do want to change something, you can't. Or it's some unsupported hack, or (best case) you flip some hidden configuration variable (that will probably break with the next release).
KDE is well configured from the get go as well, you don't have to change anything and it will work well. But if you do decide that you don't like some of their defaults, you can tweak many aspects of it.
I'm surprised too tbh. Many in the Linux community are absolutely insufferable when it comes to Gnome (and a few other projects).
It's pretty funny.
A: "Linux is about choice."
B: *"Ok cool. I choose to use Gnome, Wayland, and Flatpaks."
A: "NO NOT LIKE THAT! THAT'S NOT WHAT I USE!!!"
Just dismiss them as the lifeless loser neckbeards they are.
- integrate Gnome Tweaks into the settings, maybe behind a "customize" button.
I've noticed they've done that with a few of the settings, but overall I don't think there's much appetite to do this.
- add system tray support.
I remember Gnome wanting to make a cross-desktop standard for this (the currently most popular AppIndicator system is a bit of a mess for multiple reasons, including UX, security, and some Wayland-related quirks). It's went pretty much nowhere as it would require not only multiple DE's (and Freedesktop org's) involvement, as well as Dev support. I hope it happens at some point though.
I don't even know how you're supposed to access programs running in the background currently.
It's in the top bar, if you click the section where the part with the quick settings. It's there as a drop-down. It's an extra click though.
That's a cool idea. I'd like that as well.
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