rav3ndust

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by rav3ndust 2y ago
on nixOS, if something borks, i can do a system rollback right from my bootscreen. easy-peasy. on debian, i can create system backups/snapshots via timeshift and restore them if something breaks.
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
i mentioned the two I thought people moving from windows would be most comfy with. for them, taskbar on bottom + 'start' menu = "neat, i already know how to use this!" personally, i use i3/sway tiling window manager
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
just out of curiosity, what's wrong with the more 'traditional' Linux desktops, such as Plasma or Cinnamon?
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
thanks for the info! i had heard about some drama in nixworld, but hadn't done much reading into it yet. this is a good starting point.
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
i haven't had a chance to have a play with the alpha yet, but there is a project that is working on making nix "easier" for beginners. its called snowflakeOS: https://snowflakeos.org/
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
same. firefox with ubO is my best friend.
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
i 'de-googled' my life quite a bit a long time ago - switched to an android distribution with no G services (lineageOS), moved from gmail to tuta, switched search engines, and like mentioned here, the one i can't fully leave
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
thank you. this was also my first time seeing this post, and it was a very heartwarming read, despite the undertone of melancholy.
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
I'm a current Ting customer for the last ~5 years and have had no issues with them.
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
i still fall asleep to the selected ambient works . aphex twin was truly ahead of his time. If you want another awesome ambient album, i highly suggest BT's If the Starts Are Eternal, So Are You and I for awesome ambience.
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
also a favorite album of mine, and contains one of my favorite guitar solos in history ("Comfortably Numb") the whole album is timeless, but that solo in particular has always stood out to me. David Gilmour almost evokes something
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
Over the last little while, I've fallen down the Nix rabbit hole. I don't currently use it in any serious projects aside from tinkering about with it, but it has been a lot of fun to learn and study. Between the Nix package manage
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by rav3ndust 3y ago
I've been getting back into some work on a text-based adventure game for GNU/linux (current title Dark Nights Rising ) that my wife and I have slowly been building up over the last couple of years as a side project. It has an ori
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by rav3ndust 3y ago
My current mobile setup is simple - a moto z3 play (beckham) running lineageOS 21, zero google services or apps, f-droid as appstore. Minimal apps installed (mostly everything I do on mobile is through the browser, for me fennec/firefo
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by rav3ndust 3y ago
> Countryside roads that normally get very little traffic can quickly get clogged. Truth. I have a piece of land way out in the sticks here in Mena, AR, and on the rare occasion, our little backroads get very clogged up (think hunting se
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by rav3ndust 3y ago
> It creeps women out. It's difficult enough getting them to use an AI tool. Anecdotally, my wife routinely uses chatGPT for workout and recipe ideas. She may be a bit of an outlier though, compared to others - she also runs GNU&#x2
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by rav3ndust 3y ago
nope. hadn't been on all day, but checked when a member of a group chat i'm in on twitter mentioned it. no home feed or posts, but as others here have mentioned, DMs/spaces working fine.
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by rav3ndust 3y ago
true. there are collections of videos on youtube called "Commercials from $DECADE That Would Be Offensive Today" that are an amusing watch.
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by rav3ndust 3y ago
Hahaha! Never thought I'd see BeverlyBot and Sorry I Dinged Your Car mentioned on HN. Been listening to RBCP (The guy who does Snow Plow Show and Phone Losers of America) for a long time now. Great to throw on in the background for som
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by rav3ndust 3y ago
A good number of those companies only provide native applications for mobile, and web applications for desktop (Google Docs/Sheets is a good example). If forced to use only native apps, you'd be locking people using desktops out f
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by rav3ndust 3y ago
They do this because pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) is commonly used in illegal production of methamphetamine. This has been a common practice since the mid 2000s, iirc.
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by rav3ndust 4y ago
> Autism isn't a mental illness. https://www.youngminds.org.uk/young-person/mental-health-con .... Hmmm. Multiple organizations see it as a "mental health disorder." At least in the US. https:/&#
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by rav3ndust 4y ago
> Spitfire Audio. Ableist and transphobic remarks. The ableist remarks are regarding autism. Thanks for the clarification. I'll look into it. > Calling it a "mental state" isn't correct either, it is a neurodevelop
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by rav3ndust 4y ago
I've been using Brave since 2019, and I am unsure what a "Brave Account" is. In fact, I don't know of a desktop browser that requires account signin. Chrome encourages it, but you don't have too to be able to use
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by rav3ndust 4y ago
> If I can help it, I don't buy the products or services from which the proceeds go into supporting outright hate groups. Unless I've missed a post somewhere, I have not heard that anyone inside of Brave shares Mr. Eich's
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by rav3ndust 4y ago
Sure, except your initial post said nothing about profits. It read like: "Mr. Eich has some involvement with Brave, so F Brave." It's a good browser built by a team of people, and you discount it because of one man's inv
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by rav3ndust 4y ago
And what do Brendan Eich's personal views have to do with the software or how it functions? If you refuse to use anything with any connection to Mr. Eich, don't use JavaScript at all - he wrote it. I have never been able to unders
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by rav3ndust 4y ago
thanks for the recommendation! Love f-droid, will download the infinity app in a bit and give it a spin.
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by rav3ndust 4y ago
> IMO the biggest waste of life is wishing that you're elsewhere. You end up wishing for a different present and future, then find that all your present is now the past. A profound statement, and one I wish I could have heard when I
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by rav3ndust 4y ago
Another great example lately is Reddit. Reddit's mobile experience had become awful. Every time someone sends me a reddit link and I click on it, I'm taken to Reddit's mobile site, which should function just fine and dandy, b

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