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by edg5000 10mo ago
> It’s like saying calculators replaced accountants. Calculators automated arithmetic, but arithmetic was never the job. The job was understanding financials, advising clients, making judgment calls, etc. The calculator just made account
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by edg5000 10mo ago
Well said
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by edg5000 10mo ago
If you are on Nvidia hardware, make sure to use a distro that makes it easy to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers. In Ubuntu, just open the Additional Drivers tab and the rest will be self-explanatory. For other platforms, ask an AI.
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by edg5000 10mo ago
Very relatable. It was so scary when I jumped ship in 2021. It was simply no longer acceptable to stay on such a hostile platform. I was willing to accept a huge downgrade in terms of usability and functionality. It turned out to actually b
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by edg5000 10mo ago
Ubuntu. Pay close attention; the normal Ubuntu is what I consider beta. The Long-Term-Support (LTS) variants of Ubuntu is what I consider the normal Ubuntu, which should always be used except maybe when working on Ubuntu components as a dev
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by edg5000 10mo ago
> absolutely relies on Office You mean "absolutely relies on being able to work with Office formats". Which most Linux distros do well out of the box. I'm not aware of any feature that LO doesn't support, although adm
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by edg5000 10mo ago
Yes. It's a slow boiling frog thing. Kinda like a bad relation ship. You get used to the toxicity. But when you get out of it, it's soooo refreshing. Thank you everybody who made Linux on the desktop possible.
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by edg5000 10mo ago
To be honest I think she can handle LibreOffice. Double-click to open file (can be docx), start typing and click save when done. Open any MS Office file. I really don't get the religuous attachment to MS Office. I do worry sometimes ab
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by edg5000 10mo ago
Can you provide some details on the reasons for needing MS Offfice? I'm genuinely curious. What does LibreOffice do differently that makes it a problem for you to use? Personally my only complaint is the performance of LO, which could
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by edg5000 10mo ago
Which MCPs do you use for banking? I was thinking to try Playwright so it can test apps more easily. So far I've restrained claude to unbouded CLI; browsers have been a real barrier. I used a janky solution where it would write a nodej
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by edg5000 10mo ago
I'm at the mercy of Claude at this point. It has full access. Does all my work. Anthropic knows everything. What a year! Got a LOT more done. But at what cost? (Not referring to the 100 EUR/m, haha)
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by edg5000 10mo ago
> comprehensive ROFL
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by edg5000 10mo ago
The analogy I use is going from hand-farming or farm animals to large combines overnight. You still need all the knowledge abouw farming, but it amplifies and multiplies your ability.
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by edg5000 1y ago
They are efficient but do not have as high of an energy output as a smaller and cheaper gas furnaice. Apart from that, the water temperature is lower, so you need much larger radiators. Due to the lower energy output, you also need better i
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by edg5000 1y ago
I think he still has a dayjob actually, or at least until recently. So I'm not sure wether he has staff.
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by edg5000 1y ago
But without password, anybody can physically access the device and exfiltrate data. That is even easier than regular password protection, where the storage medium would have to be removed or a live OS would have to be booted. The risk is da
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by edg5000 1y ago
By default an Arial clone is present, ideally Arial is specified as a valid replacement font in the PDF if the user does not have the Arial clone present (Arial itself is a clone, but that is another story). It would require deeper investig
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by edg5000 1y ago
Generally nobody should exchange Office docs anyway, I find it much more professional to exchange PDFs. I use MS arial so my PDFs made with LibreOffice look immaculate on any device. I think people are really shit for being so attached to t
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by edg5000 1y ago
The Snap store on Ubuntu is quite good. Has Spotify, VS code, Blender, Chromium. LibreOffice has a tabbed UI setting that mimics Office (easy to enable). Personally I love LibreOffice, something about it resonates with me. Everybody who lik
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by edg5000 1y ago
> if you want to store secrets that don't need a user password to unlock and can't be stolen by taking apart the computer, you need a TPM I had a Win 7 system and just entered a password on boot, this decrypted the disk. It was
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by edg5000 1y ago
The biggest bank in the Netherlands at least requires the app to confirm payments. Although they do still have these paper slips (maybe) for transfers but that cannot be used for ecommerce
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by edg5000 1y ago
This. Email and text is one of those things were you are not stuck to a single provider. Anything closed and proprietary is a problem. I'd say this is also the case for banking. Banks often require Google Play or iOS, severely constrai
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by edg5000 1y ago
How can you dismiss the value of the tech so blatantly? Have you used Opus for general questions and coding? > no idea whether it's actually benefiting someone "on the ground" I really don't get it. Before, we were fa
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by edg5000 1y ago
I do agree that it would be nice if no external device would be needed. It does make me wonder if the Pi is truly needed. I'll be looking into this myself as well, I also have power hungry servers that are mostly idling and would benef
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by edg5000 1y ago
I do think there is growing discontent with MS and Google, and you see Linux sentiment changing and the userbase growing. But it's still a small fraction of the populus even though it's grown a lot in the last decade probably
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by edg5000 1y ago
Well said!
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by edg5000 1y ago
For making UIs, web or not, I always go for HTML+CSS. It can be a bit awkward to interact with native code (e.g. C++), since you'll have to generally do message passing which involves serialisation/deserialisation. Given that HTML
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by edg5000 1y ago
It could work simmilar to Claude Code right? Where it won't ingest the entire codebase, rather search for certain strings or start looking at a directed location and follow references from there. Indeed it seems infeasible to ingest th
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by edg5000 1y ago
If you think about it, the only thing that keeps this OS vendor in this duopolistic position is the fact that people rely on a certain proprietary apps. We need ways to do things like messaging and banking in a universal way, just like we c
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by edg5000 1y ago
Agreed!

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