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by cyphax 7y ago
If you want the most BSD-like distro, it's probably gotta be Slackware. It changes little between releases (just newer versions of the software it ships with mostly).
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by cyphax 7y ago
I think maybe there are different "kinds" of vegans. As in: maybe not all vegans are vegan because of the same ideology. One vegan explained his motivations like this: he's against slavery, using animals is like a form of sla
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by cyphax 7y ago
I don't miss facebook, either. I deactivated/closed my account some 6 years ago (if not longer ago) and never missed it, ever. It was a good decision. :)
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by cyphax 8y ago
My gaming PC is in the attic, but sometimes it can be nice to play something on the TV in the living room, or maybe even the one in the bedroom. Instead of having to move the PC in some manner, the Steam Link instead streams the game over m
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by cyphax 8y ago
I have been using it for years, I've never had any reason to use Chrome on Android at all. :)
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by cyphax 8y ago
Out of the box, you do have to install dependencies manually, but you don't have to track them, which is the part I would dislike about dependency resolution. Assuming you have a full installation (where all dependencies will be met),
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by cyphax 8y ago
Concrete advantages, I'm not sure there are any, unless it'd be its relative simplicity. It's my preferred Linux-based OS, and has been for 18 years (I also ran Ubuntu for a few years for a desktop, but went back to Slack). I
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by cyphax 8y ago
Congratulations to Patrick and all the package maintainers and contributors! I've been a happy Slackware user for like 18 years or so, and eagerly awaiting Slackware 15!
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by cyphax 8y ago
Checked on archive.org, it goes back to 2013 and it was already taken down back then, so I dare guess it's been down since the date you mentioned. https://web.archive.org/web/20130609133414/https://g
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by cyphax 9y ago
The article suggests that as well, the way I read it: "Actually, the purpose of the software is to recognize whether a special key has been pressed or released. Instead, however, the developer has introduced a number of diagnostic and
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by cyphax 10y ago
I know right?! Either that, or they know something I don't. They could probably make a lot more from selling these. It's like they don't need it and want to keep it limited in numbers, which doesn't rhyme with how many o
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by cyphax 10y ago
> I cannot describe to you how much more effective it was than the opioids. The pain wasn't gone, but it was just an interesting sensation now I had that experience too when I dropped something heavy on my toe, which sounds a lot fu
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by cyphax 10y ago
It's super objective for me, and hard to explain, if not impossible. I do recognize KFE's qualities and I have no real criticism of it, frankly, it's this difference between qt and gtk that I can't properly explain. :)
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by cyphax 10y ago
> Only XFCE has given me back the joy of using Linux on the desktop that I used to feel with Gnome 2.x I feel exactly the same way! I never really got used to KDE's looks; I've always had a preference for the look Gnome 2.x had
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by cyphax 10y ago
I genuinely just like it better than Chrome or Edge. I think Chrome is an excellent browser, and for about a year I used Chrome instead of Firefox (due to Firefox really not working anymore, having to restart the thing several times a day -
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by cyphax 10y ago
> 2. To provide a way for people with better information than the general public to choose the President [0]. Heheh, so the people chose Clinton, but the "people with better information" chose Trump? That just doesn't soun
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by cyphax 10y ago
Miranda was my go-to-client for quite a while, on Windows. I like it better Pidgin due to how lean it was. Thanks for writing it!
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by cyphax 10y ago
I don't understand why you've started throwing in words like "vitriol". See, I'm not an American, nor do I live there. I don't really watch American news, and what I say about Trump is based on his own words. I
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by cyphax 10y ago
> Such as? Well, I'm thinking mostly same sex marriage, maybe the freedom of religion (which seems to be OK for most, unless you're a muslim). Trump promises a conservative SCOTUS nomination, so everything that comes out of tha
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by cyphax 10y ago
> Thankfully, freedom of speech is such an integral part of the US, that there is not one side trying to control what the other can say, and the other doing the same back. Let's hope _other_ people's freedoms aren't being
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by cyphax 10y ago
This might give some insight as to where the 40% comes from (the image shows numbers up to 40%, interestingly) but it's an aggregate number, not violent crimes per se (it's in Dutch but the infographic is about the numbers anyway)
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by cyphax 10y ago
I think it's more about uneducated votes (which you could argue are unqualified), but I wouldn't want to impose voter suppression laws to fix this. Hopefully they can come up with a way to educate people enough that it raises the
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by cyphax 10y ago
I was very surprised to see Android lacking support for CalDav out-of-the-box. Seemed like an obvious feature for a calendar app, yet no provider. So while it might not be much; there are CardDav/CalDav-adapters on f-droid.org, they ar
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by cyphax 10y ago
To test your USB-ports. For consumers, this isn't overly useful. This is what they write: "Hardware designers of public machines should have a USB Kill to test their products: photo booths, copy machines, airline entertainment sys
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by cyphax 10y ago
Usually F12 opens these tools in most browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox at least) on Linux and Windows, but I do not have a Mac to test Os X. Your tip also applies to Firefox, but I don't know about IE or Edge. :) I've never really ha
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by cyphax 10y ago
Congrats to the Slackware team! I've been following the change logs so I was eager to see this release! Still my favorite operating system after many years. :)
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by cyphax 10y ago
I wonder what strength the radios broadcast on. I do have a 2.4GHz wifi-router both downstairs and in the attic so you would expect no signal at all, given the situation. I'll admit that by this point it's extremely sensitive to s
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by cyphax 10y ago
I have a Slackware server, I have tried a few times to get started with .net core but I've given up every time because it's just so unclear what I have to do and where to find everything. Maybe if I have Debian or Fedora it's
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by cyphax 10y ago
Is the bluetooth spec the limit though, or maybe the implementation? I can leave my phone on the table downstairs and my headphones still work fine in the attic, which is through 2 floors of reinforced concrete. I was very surprised to be a
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by cyphax 10y ago
The way I read it is, if the one takes 10 seconds to start and the other takes 6 seconds to boot, halfway is some 8 seconds. Something like that. :)

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