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by aruggirello 9mo ago
Not really equivalent to Lightroom, and not remotely a replacement, but there's Corel AfterShot Pro [1] (source: about 15 years ago, I was one of the (1?) proud Linux users of Bibble 5, its predecessor) [1] https://en.wikipe
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by aruggirello 10mo ago
Right, but it's a minor annoyance, get rid of it with: sudo apt-get remove --purge unattended-upgrades (doesn't trigger removal of anything else, and you'll enjoy 420kb of additional disk space). OTOH the real issue
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by aruggirello 10mo ago
Microsoft had to move their local headquarters to Munich to have their municipality revert the change... Now, if two or more municipalities managed to migrate to Linux at the same time...
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by aruggirello 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure you can do the same with Windows apps in Linux, since you can basically do the same with VirtualBox seamless mode too. It only requires installing the "guest additions" drivers - there's no container invo
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by aruggirello 10mo ago
> Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU. Switzerland is not part of the EU in this timeline... But their rant sounds very much like an excuse, the WEEE is in effect at least since 2021: "All EU Member States a
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by aruggirello 11mo ago
It seems things are improving for Christians in Indonesia in 2025 - or is the data missing? https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/
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by aruggirello 11mo ago
> it oversaturate reds out of the box on Linux, which I corrected using hyprshade Another option would be Redshift, which has a nice widget (Redshift Control plasmoid) for KDE Plasma. It doesn't affect grabbed screenshots or stuff l
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by aruggirello 1y ago
This. Where are "Linux evangelists" in 2025? GNU/Linux as a whole has never been in better shape to catch users fleeing from Windows, it surely looks like a much easier task than it was 15 years ago (even despite UEFI's
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by aruggirello 1y ago
This dodgy GenAI calculator is funny... You can only add, multiply and divide. No subtractions allowed!
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by aruggirello 1y ago
I was somewhat suspicious that a probe could perform such a feat, but the article mentioned Avi Loeb, an award winning Harvard scientist [1], the author of the proposal, even went as far as computing required trajectory, ignition etc. so I
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by aruggirello 1y ago
Aren't NASA considering the proposal to rendez-vous with 3I/ATLAS (aka C/2025 N1 ATLAS)??? [1] 1: https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-probe-could-intercept-inte...
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by aruggirello 1y ago
I used a Neem based shampoo for a short period, but my wife complained that it had an atrocious smell. Guess Neem based oral hygiene would take this to the next level...
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by aruggirello 1y ago
Who knows? Deprecate manual code writing someday? 'You're trying to commit some code, sir, but Microsoft Defender©, Git Edition™ has determined it wasn't generated by any of our tools, as reported by telemetry, so changes hav
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by aruggirello 1y ago
In other hands, I have seen Excel spreadsheet hundred-products pricelists become a freaking tangle of merged cells, multiple rows for products, spelling mistakes, multiple spaces everywhere, and price cells hand-formatted. And I had to expo
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by aruggirello 1y ago
IE6 forced us to do crazy stupid stuff, like <div> </div> - and don't even start talking about
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by aruggirello 1y ago
See also: "Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515125
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by aruggirello 1y ago
Based on Debian, but does not use apt. I'm impressed by the effort, but not fully convinced.
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by aruggirello 1y ago
Maybe the famous Chronovisor by Father Ernetti? https://archive.org/details/fatherernettisch0000kras
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by aruggirello 1y ago
You're right, it was probably summer 1987.
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by aruggirello 1y ago
My experience mirrors yours, I got my first Amiga 500 in 1986, and besides gaming, it was my home programming rig until 1994. I was studying informatics and while everybody was stuck on monochrome 640Kb MS-DOS equipped PS/2 programming
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by aruggirello 1y ago
This thread is looking more and more as if it were written by Douglas Adams.
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by aruggirello 1y ago
> This is an unfortunate piece of propaganda popularized by foes of the Church As is/was at least in part, with the Inquisition's tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_maiden
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by aruggirello 1y ago
BTW beware of snoozing or coughing while you're holding yourself.
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by aruggirello 1y ago
This is hat speech and should be prosecuted! Only tinfoil hats are allowed here.
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by aruggirello 2y ago
Google Pixel 4 or 5 was (and still is!!!) peak Android, it seems. It's becoming more and more difficult to get your hands on a refurbished one, though. The only other brand still producing reasonably sized phones is Samsung - but moder
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by aruggirello 2y ago
Or replace bone with glass, ending up like those famous crystal skulls from Mexico. But algae might then bloom and grow in uncontrolled fashion. You'd need plancton then, and maybe krill or even fish too - enter skull aquariums.
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by aruggirello 2y ago
Perhaps we have unrealistic expectations. There may be just no definitive solution for space radiation - only limited mitigation. And yet Mars is the next logical step - not the Moon. The Moon's total lack of atmosphere, lower gravity
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by aruggirello 2y ago
You forgot a fourth LLM will be the one using the site.
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by aruggirello 2y ago
Oops, you're right. I forgot stuff like `MOVE.L #0,Dn` is restricted to data registers. So this must be the way to go, every time a NULL pointer is needed...
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by aruggirello 2y ago
I miss the assembly. It was so clear and logical, like great engineering should always be. You could browse through it and comprehend at a glance what was happening. By contrast x86 assembly looks like pure rubbish, with stuff that most of

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