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1411.
by opan 8y ago
Not being able to run all the proprietary software is a given, although I believe Skype is natively supported for the record. I don't run into hardware issue support, though. Especially with something as basic as sound or a second moni
1412.
by opan 8y ago
I think Nix and Guix are going to solve this problem better than snaps and flatpaks. Not only are they really good package managers, but they were made to work on other distros.
1413.
by opan 8y ago
What sort of commercial apps weren't available that you needed? Is it something like Photoshop where you found the alternatives lacking, or something more niche where there was nothing like it at all?
1414.
by opan 8y ago
>If you don't build software, you have pretty much zero incentive to use a linux desktop I've heard this before, but I never really understood why people think it. I've always had an interest in computers, but I think ther
1415.
by opan 8y ago
Tiling WMs really are awesome. After I got the hang of i3wm, I immediately wondered why this whole paradigm had been hidden from me, and why it wasn't integrated more in the bigger desktop environments. Being able to move window focus
1416.
by opan 8y ago
I guess each person's usage would change their view on this, but I actually do think it's better. You've got the rock solid shell that Unix popularized, repositories of software that's just a command away to install, dep
1417.
by opan 8y ago
Rather than hoping for popularity and the attention of companies, I think it makes more sense to help the plethora of free software continue to improve so that people don't have to be tied down to an operating system in the future. Ema
1418.
by opan 8y ago
I heard at some point (maybe in school, maybe not) that if the gender is not known, you just pick one and stick with it. Some people also take the approach of switching back and forth out of fairness. I find this even worse than saying &quo
1419.
by opan 8y ago
My parents never locked the doors growing up, but I still lock the door of my own house. My parents never gave me a key when I was a kid, so it was probably left unlocked so I could always get back in. I'm not sure why they didn't
1420.
by opan 8y ago
Not a Brit myself, but I've noticed they tend to put an s on the end of a lot of things. e.g. "maths"
1421.
by opan 8y ago
Something about you calling yourself a black "employee" instead of black "person" made me think of how the Japanese refer to "black" companies. The ones that are corrupt and overwork their employees. As soon as
1422.
by opan 8y ago
You could go the other route and only use apps from F-Droid. Speaking from experience, it works quite well.
1423.
by opan 8y ago
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Intellect... https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy
1424.
by opan 8y ago
The search is extremely cool and fun to use. Directories all seem to load very very quickly. It's got vidir integration, giving it bulk-renaming. I wasn't familiar with vidir, but the ":bulkrename" command in ranger was
1425.
by opan 8y ago
Can you explain where you were going with the ear infection question? I had a lot of them as a child, although I've been fine for years now.
1426.
by opan 8y ago
Icecat has less tracking. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/icecat.html
1427.
by opan 8y ago
I've been on one Mastodon instance and one Pleroma instance. Neither really had a set topic, and both pulled in some toots from other instances that were "similar", but my posts are about anything I want, as they would be on
1428.
by opan 8y ago
Wow, yeah. I counted out 16 seconds. I'm using umatrix, so I was starting to think I'd just blocked something needed for the site to load by default, but decided to give it a bit just in case.
1429.
by opan 8y ago
I also tend to have eye strain if I'm computing very late at night , and take it as a signal to go to bed. I've described this to people, and it seems it doesn't affect everyone. It could also just be that there's a diff
1430.
by opan 8y ago
I would argue that if some software is under a free (libre) license, it's worth using over [non-free] first party stuff. This doesn't apply to f.lux, but does to redshift.
1431.
by opan 8y ago
I've had similar experiences. Often Firefox is what's eating all the RAM, and I'm viewing it with htop. I've had cases where the freeze is indefinite and I had to hold in the power button. Couldn't change to another
1432.
by opan 8y ago
I had something like the opposite issue. I've got my permit and not a license yet. Often when I drive, I feel I'm not paying much attention. I'm almost spacing out. I felt a bit guilty about it. I was leaning toward undiagnos
1433.
by opan 8y ago
Bangs are so nice. They're my primary method for searching various sites. I've actually never really looked at a list of them, they just feel intuitive and often exist for sites I want to look at. There are the big ones like !w fo
1434.
by opan 8y ago
Not that either is great, but I definitely still think Microsoft is more evil. At least Google contributes to Coreboot and puts it on all their Chromebooks.
1435.
by opan 8y ago
ZQ is another one. Like ZZ, but doesn't save. I mainly use ZZ and ZQ to quit.
1436.
by opan 8y ago
Not really. You can use Syslinux in place of GRUB (in fact, I was when this bug was first appearing in the news). I also think it's bad practice to generalize things to that point. There is of course the obvious issue of Linux just ref
1437.
by opan 8y ago
This is one reason I'm not a big fan of these sorts of karma systems. It's like when social media sites try to re-order the news instead of just showing it in chronological order. This post was popular, so maybe you'll like i