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by jzb 1y ago
Isn’t “visually challenged” (or similar) a useful term for people who have visual impairments, but aren’t technically blind? Do you have the same objection to, say, “visually impaired” if a person is trying to talk about all people with var
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by jzb 1y ago
The FHS 3.0 doesn’t reflect current practices, such as the /usr merge, nor the /sys directory. There’s other ways it’s either no longer followed or missing developments from the last 10 years.
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by jzb 1y ago
Author here: It was abandoned. I linked to one of the former maintainers who said as much. The current effort is by a few people who asked the LF to take out over, and have (so far) done little after an initial flurry of activity. That, too
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by jzb 1y ago
You don't understand, or don't agree with the complaints. Those are two different things, and I suspect you understand why people are complaining and instead disagree with the complaints. People are complaining because somethi
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by jzb 1y ago
Try to identify companies making heavy use of $thing and use that as leads.
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by jzb 1y ago
Perhaps, but they all have to be exchanged for cash to be of real value to a thief. Unless they just really want a laptop, etc. And all those things are traceable - granted, odds of getting caught when trying to sell those are small, but no
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by jzb 1y ago
I often buy a hard copy and then find an ebook online or check it out from the library on Libby. I’m all for supporting authors, but I don’t want to funnel money into books that I don’t really own.
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by jzb 1y ago
The Johnny Cash song, “One Piece At a Time” along those lines is a classic.
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by jzb 1y ago
Sure, but the motivation was "I want to get out of this place." A job just helped to facilitate that. I mean, I was in that boat too -- though I moved for college, not a job -- and never seriously considered going back. I would&#x
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by jzb 1y ago
I'm not sure Americans wanted to move for jobs so much as we were resigned to the idea. If you wanted to work in specific industries, you had to go where those jobs were -- which is still true if your job depends on being in a specif
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by jzb 1y ago
It's real hard for me to conjure up "good" uses for, say, mustard gas or bioweapons or nuclear warheads. "Technology is neutral" is a cop-out and should be seen as such. People should, at the very least, try to ask
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by jzb 1y ago
I think "tried it on _what_?" is the question -- which distribution, etc.? I've been using Wayland on Fedora for years and don't have any complaints. My primary laptop/desktop has an Intel graphics chipset, but I&#x
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by jzb 1y ago
I've been running niri for months now on my primary desktop, I wrote about it for LWN here: https://lwn.net/Articles/1025866/ "Normal" tiling WMs / compositors just don't work for me, but
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by jzb 1y ago
How’s it frustrating? And, more importantly, how’s it stopping people who prefer the n100 route? The negativity about a $200 Linux computer just baffles me. Nobody’s forcing it on you.
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by jzb 1y ago
So. What you called “Biden’s push” is, in fact, an internal FBI memo from one field office that it’s unlikely Biden even heard of, much less read or endorsed? Misrepresent much?
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by jzb 1y ago
I spoke too soon, I think that IA is having some intermittent problems, but I was finally able to get to Biden's "National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrororism" here: https://web.archive.org/web/2
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by jzb 1y ago
Ah, yes, the old "don't do _that_, then the Republicans will do it too" -- as if this administration has been in any way constrained by the limits of any previous administration. I'd ask for a citation of what Biden&#x2F
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by jzb 1y ago
How’s it too much? I’m baffled. If I had a kid between 10-18ish that needed/wanted a non-gaming computer, I would find this to be nearly perfect. $200 is not a ton of money for a computer, and it seems to be just powerful enough I woul
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by jzb 1y ago
Came here to see if anyone recommended that clip. I watched it just last night, it never fails to crack me up, especially CJ's reaction. "You can't do that!" "Why not?" "Because it's freaking me out!&
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by jzb 1y ago
Immutable systems such as this one and Fedora's Atomics and CoreOS/Flatcar have their uses. Whether they make sense for you or for general desktop OSes is another question, but there are many situations where the approach makes
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by jzb 1y ago
“We use them and don’t contribute anything back.” This is not, strictly speaking, true. The example projects saw contribution in terms of code, testing, documentation, and - most importantly - marketing and evangelism. These projects are no
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by jzb 1y ago
In one case, none -- extrepo carries a PPA for Trinity desktop: https://salsa.debian.org/extrepo-team/extrepo-data/-/blob/ma... Generally, these are repos maintained by the upstreams themselves, e.g. Doc
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by jzb 1y ago
That's odd... I had no problem installing Firefox.
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by jzb 1y ago
I love Codeberg, but they're struggling with growth/scaling -- if folks want to see Codeberg succeed, they need to open their wallets.
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by jzb 1y ago
If you didn't laugh, I would say "not funny". I didn't find it funny, myself, but I did find it to be a pretty good takedown. It's not funny (to me, anyway) because "humor equals tragedy plus time". It&#x2
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by jzb 1y ago
You've added two conditions not present in the original comment. Some people may "abuse" such things, but I'd say most people legit have days when they're under the weather and feel fine the next day. Also, if you h
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by jzb 1y ago
Um, why? The other day I had a killer headache. Just couldn’t shake it. I did everything I needed to that was time sensitive, then went AFK. I don’t see any reason to be suspicious of others if they do similarly—we all have days when we’re
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by jzb 1y ago
The population of NC has grown about 30% in the last 20 years, but staffing has been capped. Wait times to get a license are ridiculous. https://www.wral.com/consumer/5onyourside/ncdmv-long-waits-d...
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by jzb 1y ago
Citation sorely needed. Take the both sidesism somewhere else.
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by jzb 1y ago
It is worth making the point: a lot of people simply don’t see it (yet?) for what it is and still support the people doing it.

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