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by kkfx 2y ago
Not to be polemic but... Another floating windows manager ? It's about time to came back to free tiling (like Emacs/EXWM where there is no rigid "tiling model"), since we no not need to keep moving windows, we do not nee
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by kkfx 3y ago
I have had a similar path in the past, I've started with some Raspi 1, than suffer their little horsepower, tried a minipc then suffer it's limited expandability than I switch to an assembled desktop rackmounted as a short-depth 5
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by kkfx 3y ago
I've started with org-mode notes managed via a little package: https://github.com/dustinlacewell/linkmarks demo: https://youtu.be/W-E7l-AocGw but maintaining links manually does not scale. Then or
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by kkfx 3y ago
Not an Ubuntu user since many years (NixOS) but... 2. Nautilus expanded folder view for me sounds like a NO THANKS, for start in 2024 dealing with files and folders in manually crafted taxonomies instead of search&narrow it's a non
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by kkfx 3y ago
It's not: so far, at least in EU/the parts of the EU I live most, there are not that much BEVs and there are a sufficient number of chargers on highways, locations with 10 to 20+ 150-300kWp chargers are fairly common and only few
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by kkfx 3y ago
The current situation here (France) is: - ALMOST all highways with a fast charger every $reasonable_amount_of_km - very few accept direct payments BUT with terrible UIs (like you know how much you paid but not how much energy you have charg
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by kkfx 3y ago
https://ge.usembassy.gov/statement-from-ambassador-dunnigan/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20240502143927/https://ge.usemba... should explain anything to you. Or try the classic Lo
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by kkfx 3y ago
> Obviously this can't be applied to essential services like healthcare etc. And that's the reason why you have to engage. Allow things to go that way one time, you'll get them all the time. Protest, politely but effective
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by kkfx 3y ago
I'm one of the few I know off that anytime (almost) I discover a crappy service/UI/* I take time to document and protest. Unfortunately most people protest only with their friends instead of barking at those who made the crap
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by kkfx 3y ago
Honestly? I understand the value for certain vendor, but the run OUT of the cloud, or someone else computer, built like a mainframe, meaning something already surpassed decades ago, is started. We need to get back in control of the bare met
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by kkfx 3y ago
It's years I cry that the sole reasonable usage of p.v. is self consumption and so the sole reasonable dimension for a plant is "how much can I self-consume myself?". The sad state of things is that we have little designed fo
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by kkfx 3y ago
So far nearly all FLOSS projects was built without money from someone, simply the users offer resources, every university offer mirrors, most large companies using some FLOSS project donate resources to the project. At some point in time th
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by kkfx 3y ago
Unfortunately people never learned the power of freedom, so they regularly jump from a cage to another... The is no law to help, only culture.
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by kkfx 3y ago
Because there are some central points, for witch you need or a decentralized system (absent, so far) or big money to build another... That's the "hybrid model issue" I'm talking about. Shared binaries from /nix&#x2F
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by kkfx 3y ago
Now imaging a future with a smart grid, meaning all programmable loads piloted following supply and demand, ah, yup, it's incompatible with a private ownership of the grid....
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by kkfx 3y ago
NixOS generic user here: allow me to be a bit rude, NOT to light fire but to extinguish them: - apparently the current rupture came from a company sponsorship to a Nix Foundation conference, due to the fact this company (Anduril, a heavy Ni
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by kkfx 3y ago
While the article fails to explain why deadly incidents seems to rise in the west, the graph show another interesting point: Russia. They have had, and still have, more deadly accidents than the west, but their rates still drop, while in
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by kkfx 3y ago
I've listening the episode you linked, and well, I disagree: first no, I'm a computer user and I do not use Excel, nor I use SQL much as well, BUT I do not use Windows as well, and that's the key, for the author there is a de
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by kkfx 3y ago
I smile when I read info like that because you imaging to get privacy from a state actors using a device you do not really own. Anything on a smartphone is in the hand of their vendor, if a local cop can't access stuff but have the rig
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by kkfx 3y ago
Having a small domestic p.v. system I've reasoned a bit about agrivotaic, or how to integrate p.v. AND food production not to inject electricity to the grid but to power local machines, like pumps or even a new form of agricultural mac
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by kkfx 3y ago
We have various tools and options, some was a bit lost on the road, some are still active and give very impressive results, some are crap, popular or not. First crap is the WYSIWYG model, it produce not so nice results and demand very compl
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by kkfx 3y ago
Ehm... Do not take me wrong but "break application silos and connect business data to a single platform" mean "escape many jails, just come in our unified jail". To be free we need usable data, so for instance instead of
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by kkfx 3y ago
Try, then report. Yes, on icy compact snow you can ride a bike issueless. Definitively not on partially molten snow, yes you can ride a bike when it rain, no special issues, except you reach your destination very wet. You can do the same
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by kkfx 3y ago
I'm against such devices for few reasons: - the very first issue is weather. Sometimes it rain, sometimes snow, sometimes it's too hot and so on, open-air travel under this very common weather condition is far from being nice, so
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by kkfx 3y ago
Seeing Repology stat on how many projects are in nixpkgs, how fresh they are, you are very largely wrong... Snaps/Flatpack have very few and mostly outdated packages. They are behind ANY other package system. NixOS is the largest set o
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by kkfx 3y ago
I insist that it's absurd trying to beat big tech mimicking their models. A social? Just dress Usenet with some extras (a minimal, readable markup, that render allowing things like video/images embedding in-line for instance) and
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by kkfx 3y ago
Ubuntu is a classic distro, meaning hard-to-automate for deployments with invitation to buy services for that purpose, so offer no advantage in stability and reliability compared to modern declarative distros like NixOS or Guix System with
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by kkfx 3y ago
It's not a distro war. It's a paradigm. Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, OpenSuse, ... are all classic distros meant to be manually handled, some are rolling, some are not, but they share the same '80s style way of work. Declarative dis
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by kkfx 3y ago
The point is totally different: the purpose of both is upstream-managed distribution, consider individual distro like a container ship to be loaded, something not to care about, a commodity. We know the arguments: often distro packagers a
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by kkfx 3y ago
Considering the fact that Snap and Flatpak are both crap interesting to sell commercial crap on GNU/Linux and not anything else...

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