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by esarbe 5y ago
What is the worth of getting "conservative opinions" published if they are based on a make-believe fantasy that has nothing to do whatsoever with the actual reality at hand, disregards scientific consensus and whose primary purpos
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by esarbe 5y ago
> But if someone wants to be euthanized, this requires other people to be present Came here to write this, but since you've already done it, there's nothing left for me to do but to tell you; well done. (Tangentially; who even
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by esarbe 5y ago
Hot shower in the morning. Think about it; how many of your ancestors did have the option of having a hot shower every morning . Think about the labor involved!
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by esarbe 5y ago
Yeah, it's poor messaging.
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by esarbe 5y ago
The functionality as been subsumed into Firefox.
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Java is a language that basically outsourced memory management entirely to its garbage collector. This turned out to be a big mistake. Given that Java is not far behind C and C++ for many kinds of workload and in quite some scenarios c
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by esarbe 5y ago
Try this to manage application permissions: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal
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by esarbe 5y ago
Flatpaks (and Snaps) do require more space. However; when compared to other operating systems - like Windows - these space requirements are negligible: a full installation of Window 11 takes north of 30GB, so even with five years of accum
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by esarbe 5y ago
And then you want to run it on Alpine which isn't even compiled with glib and everything falls apart. I think I know what you want to say (please correct me if I'm wrong); you can always provide more formats or reduce dependenci
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Yes it does, because you end up loading multiple versions of the shared libraries. Given that not all applications necessarily use the same libraries and versions, that's an issue you cannot avoid even with shared libraries. So, y
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by esarbe 5y ago
> There is an actual third party involved in this explicit review step. With flatpak the developer has a direct route to the user without any intermediary or checks. I think your reading of the author's argument is correct. To that
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by esarbe 5y ago
Don't know what to think about this blog post; it's not a very coherent critique, since it throws together various issues of user-packaging-formats that mostly specific to only one of the formats. And these don't seem to be &
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by esarbe 5y ago
Since at this point 99.9% [0] of all studies come to the conclusion that climate change is real and man made, can we just use the phrase 'reputable scientist' instead of 'climate change circles'? [0] https://n
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by esarbe 5y ago
What are "climate change circles" supposed to be? You mean the people not willfully blind of the facts? Sure, must be propaganda.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Maybe visualizations like these will finally get the message through to the last bastions of ignorance. Or maybe not. If at this point you are still pretend to be skeptical about the data, it's probably more to do with willful blindnes
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by esarbe 5y ago
Good choice! Working 80% means 50% more free time and 20% less pay. (If - as in your case - this comes with a raise, even better.) I'm pretty sure most people (at least around here on HN) could do with 20% less income and still get out
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by esarbe 5y ago
Yeah, this. People don't realize and don't want to realize how much of their success in life is based on pure, sheer luck. I'm not going to say that hard work is irrelevant, but it's very much overrated. Because you can
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by esarbe 5y ago
I'm not sure of this. This seems to be very specific for tooling and for 'meta' stuff (error reporting, logging, ..) I much more prefer Scala's approach here[0]. It's not quite so in-your-face. [0] https:/&#x2
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WFP's plan to support 42M people on the brink of famine(wfp.org)
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by esarbe 5y ago
The consequences of our predatory ecosystem exploitation have long been hidden in the astounding resilience that biological system often exhibit. But too much damage has accumulated and now the fault lines are opening up.
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by esarbe 5y ago
I certainly doubt that this is evidence that linux is not ready for non-technical user prime time. Why? Because that kind of shit also happens on Windows. With administrative access, you can always kill your machine. What Linux lacks and wh
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by esarbe 5y ago
No worries! Communication is hard. We misunderstand each other, even if we talk face to face. Text is even harder to parse and it's way easier to make mistakes, both when sending as well as receiving. Thanks for your kindness and under
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by esarbe 5y ago
> So why is this a problem ? It's not a problem at all. It just demonstrates that they didn't "fight" for the feature. Not using a service that's offered to you gratis is not a problem at all. Spreading FUD and s
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Pray tell me, how does one contribute to GNOME? The same way you contribute to all other Free/Open Source project: 1) Make yourself useful and demonstrate that you are able. Start by fixing [Newcomers] bugs, participate in the Mat
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by esarbe 5y ago
and dancing to the rhythm, the voices were chiming and the bodies - wet with sweat - moving in harmony as the beats filled the emptiness in their lonely hearts and for a moment - a fleeting moment - they felt the joy and freedom they all ha
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by esarbe 5y ago
I guess the reason that they don't just post the justifying data is that ... they actually posted the justifying data[0]. google: gnome ux research [0] https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/15/sh
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by esarbe 5y ago
I cope by not taking my hands off the keyboard and launching apps by hitting <Meta> followed by the application name. You can switch apps by <Alt>+<Tab> and <Alt><Shift>+<Tab>.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Gnome does regular UX testing[0]. There's no 'feedback' channel (other than, you know, the regular feedback channels of matrix, gitlab. They exist.) because that tends to skew the data because of self-selection. A/B test
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by esarbe 5y ago
> my take is that System76 had to fight for years to get an option added to fwupd, to avoid their users from getting tracked when downloading system76 firmware through the tool. Well, no. They didn't 'fight' for that, they
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by esarbe 5y ago
I think they make a fairly good point about when and how communication between the developers broke down. That exactly did you find 'self righteous' about it?

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