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DEADMINCE
3y ago
> I feel like I’m missing something here. Maybe just overcomplicating things. Being 'conscious' really just means being sentient, having some sort of awareness and ability to sense and react to things. Then there is having a &#
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DEADMINCE
3y ago
> Unfortunately, I don’t really see how you could make a standalone GUI app of meaningful scope on Linux, given the platform that “standalone” is usually defined with respect to doesn’t include a widget toolkit or even a font handling li
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3y ago
Very true, very important!
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3y ago
> I can't use my fucking keyboard the way it is supposed to be used (which is a far superior design to the "normal" setup) Surely this is just your preference and the setup isn't objectively better. I can see see some
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3y ago
As much as I love npp, really all I need is sessions, tabs and spellcheck. Maybe a few other minor features. I've been wanting/meaning to make a new text editor using SciTE as a base, just adding in that core functionality that I
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3y ago
Instead of sudoing to the root account, you would sudo to the network account that could only do network admin, or sudo to the software-install account that could only install packages, etc.
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3y ago
It's a great mechanism in practice, it just has a bad rep because too many were scared by the complexity.
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3y ago
Using something like sudo. Parent is not saying remove root entirely but that it should be super locked down and maybe broken up into different accounts.
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3y ago
Why not setup your system the way you like it and take regular Clonezilla snapshots, so you can just restore from a known good ISO with all your programs and settings?
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3y ago
The Android UI allows complete customization, you can even make it like iPhone if you want.