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by crispinb 7y ago
Maybe I should have quoted more of the gp: > .. that resulted in much of the world's electricity being produced by fossil fuels My point isn't that 'leftists' (a decreasingly useful categorisation in any case) aren&#
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> the left’s irrational opposition to nuclear power This is nonsense. In nations where opposition to nuclear power is strong (like mine, Aus), there is not a left-right divide amongst the general population. People just don't want
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by crispinb 7y ago
Then write an alternative using different technologies. Those writing electron apps now are not obliged to do this for you.
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by crispinb 7y ago
This is really nice, but I find whenever I try one of these types of apps to type or edit real text for more than a few minutes, I find myself wanting pote (plain old text editor) features. The first thing I miss is generally line-moving, b
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by crispinb 7y ago
> opens the very real risk Exploring the risks and benefits of practices is the very point of subjecting them to scientific studies. 'Religious' Buddhists may quite understandably take their traditions and texts to have settle
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by crispinb 7y ago
Executive powers in Aus aren't that strong - they'd have to pass a law to give themselves that specific power. I don't think there's one to permit this now, though I'm no expert and there are many obscure laws. That
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by crispinb 7y ago
Contrary to my comments about wasting time distro-hopping, I was tempted enough by some of pop_os's claims (good hdpi support etc) to give it a try on a spare partition. Probably my worst Linux installer experience yet - it was a mess
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by crispinb 7y ago
> It's time to focus our efforts on planning and preparing for a warmer earth and all the problems that come from that. Who is the 'we' in your 'our' though? Essentially just the wealthy for whose false short-ter
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by crispinb 7y ago
BS there's no methane fountain - it's all a Chinese/lefty/Exxon/Pentagon/academic hoax. OK there is a methane fountain, but it's nothing to do with human activity. Alright, the methane fountain might be in
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by crispinb 7y ago
You've probably made a smart choice with the Thinkpad, as by all accounts it has good Linux h/w compatibility. I'd consider something similar next time I'm up for a replacement. Others have recommended pop_os to me, and
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> I'm going to call bullshit, Will people please consider a moment's thought before using this adolescent phrase? People throwing it around are probably not using it with its most precise and defensible meaning (a la Harry Fran
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Quite. It's only a cultural production. We certainly can make it go away. It's an critical part of an ecocidal system of production that is incompatible with a living planet. It's also incompatible with healthy, clear-seeing
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> I need a stable OS that allows me to be productive without having to waste hours looking for workarounds and setup and doesn’t break my config every upgrade. You won't get that in my experience. I've used MacOS, Windows 10, a
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by crispinb 7y ago
Quelle horreur - clearly web tech is the future of UI, and electron is a reasonable choice until a better solution comes along, but the ecosystem is a foul mess for developers. `npm [anything]` fills your hard drive with an astronomical tan
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That would have been me 18 months ago. But since dropping macOS I've become indifferent to platform conventions. I will never become hostage to a single platform again. Which (admittedly by a very different route) puts me more in touch
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by crispinb 7y ago
Agree on OneDrive - I was on Windows when I tried it, and found it a terrible mess of a service: at once highly invasive and yet lacking in capabilities. Dropbox is out of the question for me for political/ethical reasons. I've ha
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by crispinb 7y ago
True on CL (which I wouldn't quite recommend for normal use though its performance is really tempting for developers). But I found the same with Fedora earlier this year. And Ubuntu in the more distant past. It's more-or-less wort
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by crispinb 7y ago
I have no doubt it can be done, but that route pursued for every little issue leads to a nightmare of computer-fiddling that is not how I personally wish to spend my life. For OS hobbyists only.
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by crispinb 7y ago
With WSL2, the filesystem is faster than 'native' windows (as long as you stay within the ext4-formatted image), which obviates one of the big Windows irritants for developers. The one downside of WSL from my perspective is all th
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by crispinb 7y ago
It was a lighthearted remark, but primarily thinking of WSL. Let's face it, tiling window manager enthusiasts aside, relatively few people use Linux because of the glories of its GUI. WSL gives most people all the "desktop linux&q
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Microsoft seems to think so.
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I tried it on both the distros I've used lately (Fedora & Clear Linux). In both cases it popped up without any scaling on my hdpi laptop screen. Not being able to even see enough to be able to research what to do about this, I gave
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by crispinb 7y ago
He points out it's more work, and it surely is. I've shifted in the last 18 months from MacOS to Windows 10, to Linux (Fedora), back to Windows 10, and now back again to Linux (Clear). The Windows/Linux oscillation demonstrat
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Only Apple has the numbers, but reports I've heard from fellow devs don't encourage me to think I made a mistake moving away from MacOS last year.
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I'm wondering what an 'objective take' on such a complex topic would be. My guess (& I'm happy to admit it's no more than that) is that subjective takes is all we've got.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm relatively new to recent desktop Linux, having been on macs for past decade or so. As Gnome is my distro's default, I've stayed with it for simplicity and am having a hard time finding what so many people dislike about it
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by crispinb 7y ago
Thanks - that's new to me. I'll check it out (though on the face of it I'm not entirely keen to start paying Google again for a service they treat this badly).
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Well it's tied in one direction: poorer populations will suffer for the material benefit of richer ones. My nation is quite explicit about this - our government is on record as being happy for Pacific nations to lose their land as long
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Oh yes and no I guess. A certain Schadenfreude would ensue for sure. But as I'm pretty sure it's too late to save our civilisation now, it'll be a lot of chaos & suffering for not much.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Personally I'm rooting for the economic solution. An impossibility because so called 'economic growth' (which is no more than global entropy increase) is coming to an end as degraded ecosystems worldwide fall into collap

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