morganvachon

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by morganvachon 5y ago
Agreed, I was a huge BeOS evangelist back when Be, Inc. was still around and a while after they were bought out. I ran it as my main OS for several years and to this day I prefer its interface, multimedia back-end, and file system to anythi
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I'm sure I could. I actually tried to donate it to an OpenBSD developer but never heard back from them for the address to send it to, so it went back in the closet.
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I've had a good experience with the latest versions of Manjaro and video acceleration, but I've also had the same boot issues since I bought mine (around May 2020). Right now it sits unused and neglected because I can't trust
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Nice setup, thanks! Just to note, the network-manager-* packages are now networkmanager-*, and the xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse are no longer available (nor needed, I believe). Also, I see packages in your list for running under
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by morganvachon 5y ago
It's not quite one or two floppies, but today you can get a full Linux desktop in 12MB via Tiny Core Linux. http://www.tinycorelinux.net
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Alpine might be a better choice for you, its intended use is in VMs and containers, it's actively maintained and supported, and it gets better with each release. https://alpinelinux.org
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I will only buy a Lenovo laptop if it comes with a BSD and Linux friendly WiFi chipset. Most of their laptops are whitelist-only when it comes to WiFi cards, and tracking down the correct brand and revision of a specific compatible module i
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Not all of it. > Of the three layers, only the UI layer is closed-source. This means that roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open-source coming from Chromium, 3% is open-source coming from us and only 5% is our UI closed-source code.
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Vivaldi is not open source so that's an immediate "no" from me. I'm fine with using closed source tools from time to time, but a web browser is just too important and intertwined in my life to trust a closed source offer
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Not OP but I've avoided Brave from the beginning because of its reliance on an ad-fueled crypto scam to generate revenue. If you're trying to avoid Mozilla's new ad-based revenue scheme, moving to a browser that is wholly fun
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Sounds like Mastodon is for you. https://joinmastodon.org/
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Agreed, I have a M1 mini sitting around doing mostly nothing and I'd love to use it to contribute to the project but I'm not a developer so I don't know where to start. I am definitely looking forward to the mentioned install
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I'm guessing you're running it on Ubuntu or Debian, or a derivative. The packaged .debs are sorely outdated and buggy. If you're on Ubuntu or similar, you can add a ppa[1] for the daily builds which in my experience are much
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Of course it's trivially solved...with a dongle for your dongle! Or you could avoid dongle-ception by using a modular laptop like the Framework, or even a standard laptop with an HDMI port; even current-gen models from Dell, Lenovo, an
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I would argue that a USB-C to VGA or HDMI cable is just a longer dongle. What if you take your USB-C-only laptop to a remote office to do a presentation, but your six foot USB-C to HDMI cable isn't long enough to reach the port because
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by morganvachon 5y ago
The Treo 650 was my first smartphone, followed by the OG iPhone, the Blackberry Pearl, and the Nokia N900. At the time, the iPhone was actually a step down from the Treo but my Palm phone had died a watery death and they weren't availa
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Agreed, Leah is a great person and has been a boon to the Void community. In fact the entire Void team is full of amazing individuals, which is a big reason why it's (in my opinion) the best Linux distro overall.
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by morganvachon 5y ago
My journey with weather mapping sites went in reverse order from this thread: Years ago when I ran a local weather blog I discovered the Nullschool site, then a few years later VentuSky, then Windy. I don't do the blog anymore but I st
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I’m sure you’re correct, and I know how to use a search bar, but my issue is that their main feed is full of garbage and hate, something I don’t want to see every time I go to the service. I get the need for a censorship free service, I jus
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by morganvachon 5y ago
The difference is that Netflix isn’t promoting and profiting off of hate speech and disinformation. Odysee apparently is. I’m sure there is content on the service that I would enjoy, but having to wade through the garbage to find the gold d
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by morganvachon 5y ago
This was exactly my point, thank you. Unfortunately it seems like expressing my desire not to see hate speech is an unpopular position here. I expect better from the HN crowd, but there it is.
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I just scrolled through their main feed and every other video was some kind of alt-right misinformation rant (COVID is fake, Joe Biden is dead/dying/has dementia, Antifa is killing kids, etc.). Just based on that alone I want no p
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Correct, it's one of the few good things (in my opinion) to come out of systemd as a whole. It's a valiant effort, and I also use it in Void.
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by morganvachon 5y ago
HN tends to have waves of (for lack of a better term) "troll hunters" who come here with an attitude that everyone here is commenting in bad faith and must be called out for it. They will do it to commenters from all sides of an a
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Recognizing a somewhat similar incident from one's own country's history is not at all "whataboutism", especially when there was no obvious intent to diminish the impact of the original subject or otherwise distract from
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by morganvachon 5y ago
elogind has been successfully used as a drop-in replacement for logind on systemd-less distros as well. https://github.com/elogind/elogind
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I've never seen The Room so my opinion may change if I ever do, but there is another movie that I have seen (though only by proxy of MST3K) called Manos: The Hands of Fate that also has been referred to as the worst movie ever made
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I get that, and as I said Fastmail has the best tools for managing email, so since none of the other major email providers have the features I want it wouldn’t do me any good to move my own domains to any of them. I’m sorry if that wasn’t c
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I own several domains, and I have two valid email addresses at two personal domains hosted with a small US hosting provider, but I don't want those to end up in spammer lists so I use them sparingly. For a main email address I'm b
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I'm not trying to answer your question as I don't know the full extent of this new law, but based purely on the article it's not hard to imagine the AU government can construct a case against a politically subversive but othe

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