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by boogies 6y ago
> Look up how you type: those • characters I used in my post, an m-dash (—), a c-cedilla (ç), a german double-S (ß), basic accented characters for various Western European languages No thanks! I already new how to type — (Compose - - -),
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by boogies 6y ago
> • Nothing available that's as lightweight and good as Apple's "office"-type suite. I personally create markdown documents in vis (a text editor like vim, but lighterweight — < 4 MB including optional syntax highl
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by boogies 6y ago
doesn't look like it: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#installation
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by boogies 6y ago
What's wrong with elementary OS? (pls don't kill me HN — Edit: yup, downvoted for a simple question)
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by boogies 6y ago
You can use Guix on distros with impure repos, not just the GNU Guix system, and use the host distro's packages for proprietary software (if you can't just use Slack's web client, or use a laptop with a freedom-respecting wif
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by boogies 6y ago
I'm curious to try GNU Guix, does it sufffer from the same problems as Nix? (Edit: looking at https://guix.gnu.org/en/videos/everyday-use-of-gnu-guix,-par... from the top of https://guix.gnu.org&#x
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by boogies 6y ago
I largely agree, but however far Mozilla is from the peaks it could theoretically be on, I still wouldn't criticize it like this without qualifying my complaint by adding the fact that it still has much lower to to sink before it'
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by boogies 6y ago
> course Google is spying on you, and won't let you watch Youtube unless you allow them Or circumvent their restrictions with eg. Invidious or youtube-dl
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by boogies 6y ago
[citation needed] My experience directly conflicts with this and IIUC most GNU/Linux users have exactly the opposite impression. Maybe you're thinking of some past situation?
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by boogies 6y ago
> i don’t know if public schools provide laptops for home use either In my area of Maryland they do, and anecdotally I think they also have in at least one part of Utah. But in my area they emphasized that they were for those with the gr
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by boogies 6y ago
Legal ≠ ethical
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by boogies 6y ago
Something like that (USB exploit of Windows zero days, breaching an airgap). (Edit: though not by leaving flash drives outside of the facilities, by infecting some with a virus that spread from Windows PC to Windows PC around the world.)
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by boogies 6y ago
> As it is, it charges fees per creator you patronize, and limits donation to being at least $1 per creator. I'd put $30/month there easily if I could spread it over 100-200 creators with fees of $0.30 + 2.9% on the $30, but th
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by boogies 6y ago
This seems mostly true, but on “a FLOSS alternative to professional software isn't an alternative if it's unable to be used professionally”: Photoshop is not exclusively professional software. Last I knew, it costed $10 a month. T
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by boogies 6y ago
With DuckDuckGo or Searx you can search YT with !yt <search term>
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by boogies 6y ago
Another relatively decentralized alternative, LBRY, pays at least some YouTubers significantly more per view than YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWoZhKGQtzI (this one seems to get payed about ten times as much per vie
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by boogies 6y ago
IUUC the 1.5 million is all from a single rapidly disappearing aquifer, while the 333 million is, as you said, the total of all groundwater usage across the entire state. The use also seems totally unnecessary, as to use an example from the
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by boogies 6y ago
Metasearch engines are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine Here's a nice one with many public instances you can try: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
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by boogies 6y ago
What makes you so confident? SSD tech is experiencing scaling challenges¹. IIRC DNA’s supposed to be incredibly dense and last long, but too expensive for much more than wedding photos². Do you have a more promising emerging tech in mind? 1
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by boogies 6y ago
The aquifer draining article linked is about one in South Carolina, the Ivanpah plant is in California's Mojave Desert, and IIUC is the largest bird incinerator in the world, burning a bird out of the sky every other minute. From the
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by boogies 6y ago
Not as scary as the fact that Alphabet pressures local governments to let them drain aquifers to cool the machines¹, and powers them using vast swaths of bulldozed former habitats of endangered desert tortoises and focused beams of light th
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by boogies 6y ago
> It is not a politically motivated campaign to destroy books, or a witch hunt to root out deviant social or religious teachings. It's a dispute over copyright law. Copyright law was created as a means to root out “scandalous books
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by boogies 6y ago
I agree with the majority of your comment, but > copyright, which is as old as the printing press The idea of copyright was not fabricated until about 200 years after the the printing press was invented, and then it was a tool for censor
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by boogies 6y ago
They removed one type of control. “Uncontrolled” implies that there was no control whatsoever (no time limits, etc.).
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by boogies 6y ago
Not to mention that Chromium is massive and complex and unwanted parts of the code have been found and removed long after they were added https://archive.is/4VijY .
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by boogies 6y ago
If that’s your impression you either can’t understand my comment or won’t / are trolling. I took a high school class taught by a professional graphic designer, using PS and Illustrator. I’m not claiming that’s my career now, but not ev
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by boogies 6y ago
Right, there's not a perfect way to make a donation to open source software, and this proposal seems absolutely worth trying as a way to make it more easy to contribute to more projects that are more valuable to you.
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by boogies 6y ago
(IOW, their idea of supporting the abstract idea of open source software. Although I'm not sure who you're talking about: Stallman I guess fits the description now but wrote his fair share of code in his day.)
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by boogies 6y ago
> That's because there's currently no way to make a donation to the abstract concept of "open source software" This isn't absolutely true, there are the FSF and the Software Freedom Conservancy, who fund many med
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by boogies 6y ago
To double life expectancy so we can retire?

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