sombragris

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by sombragris 6d ago
A big letdown for me is the lack of a headphone jack.
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by sombragris 9d ago
I guess this is not exactly "cost", but also lifetime spans. A nuclear reactor can sustain a ship for about 20+ years, and that lifetime is too long for many ships, who would be headed out to the scrap yard in less time than that.
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by sombragris 12d ago
I'm 55, about to turn 56, and I did hobby programming back in the 80s, mainly in a C64 and C128, so I fit the bill, although I'm no developer and right now all my programming is reduced to some shell scripts aimed to automate repe
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by sombragris 15d ago
I'm an user; I have zero or near zero development and programming knowledge, so this take of mine might be complete nonsense. But I think this is perhaps one of the first AI developments I actually like. Transitioning an app from React
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by sombragris 27d ago
Right. I should have said "comply with copyleft licenses".
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by sombragris 29d ago
The convenience (?) of not having to comply with GPL terms. Some people really hate copyleft.
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by sombragris 1mo ago
Thanks!
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by sombragris 2mo ago
The link is paywalled and the site requires me a subscription to keep reading TFA. This happens even after using the link with the Wayback Machine.
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by sombragris 2mo ago
TL;DR version so I can save you the mental expense of sifting through several paragraph of AI slop: If LA repairs a whole street, they also need to add wheelchair ramps because of ADA. This is expensive for them and they don't want to
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by sombragris 2mo ago
I have both CDE and NsCDE installed on my system (Slackware64-current). Both run well and, surprisingly, good ol' CDE behaves better in some respects. You can download the original CDE here: https://sourceforge.net/pro
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by sombragris 2mo ago
A C-64 was my second computer. The first one, which didn't last too much, was a Timex-Sinclair 1000 (a clone of Sinclair ZX81). The Commodore gave a lasting impact for various reasons. It had color, graphics at good resolutions, fant
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by sombragris 2mo ago
Yeah, I thought that. Too bad, you just hit one of the (very few) disadvantages of immutable systems.
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by sombragris 3mo ago
or perhaps, some Plasma bug was fixed in Plasma 6.7x. Who knows... EDIT: Now I see you installed it via flatpak. That is also a source of endless inconsistencies and instabilities. So you should maybe try the native fedora rpm.
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by sombragris 3mo ago
There are some very important wars missing. For example, I see nothing about Spain's Civil War (1936-1939)
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by sombragris 3mo ago
No issues here on Linux, using Firefox 140.12.0esr under Slackware and Plasma 6.7.2 / Wayland
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by sombragris 3mo ago
Still today, the posts below the title are all gibberish.
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by sombragris 3mo ago
Slackware-current upgraded xsnow to the latest version in June 20th but applied a patch from ALT Linux that removed the protestware bits just because of this reason. I support this.
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by sombragris 3mo ago
Nice to see Knoppix featured here. This is basically the distro that pioneered the "Live CD" Linux where you can play with the full system without the need to commit to a full install. This was huge at a time where it was quite di
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by sombragris 3mo ago
That was not the question. The point is, elvis is still around. This is relevant because is a required, essential part (not at all optional) for an actively developed Linux distribution, which coincidentally is the oldest Linux distributi
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by sombragris 3mo ago
> I had to do "write code on paper" stuff as part of french engineering school entrance exams. Interesting. This reminds me of COBOL and FORTRAN "code sheets" that were used back in the day...
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by sombragris 3mo ago
I was born in 1970. My teenage years were in the 1980s, in coincidence with the emergence of the home computer. I had a Timex-Sinclair 1000, then a C64, then a C128. One of my main forces that drove myself to learn computers was (besides ga
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by sombragris 3mo ago
Thank you, AI. /s
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by sombragris 3mo ago
> you can only install it via the AUR or nixpkgs on linux I just said that it comes already installed (because is a required, essential part of the system) in Slackware. Slackware is a Linux distribution, just as Arch or NixOS. So, insta
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by sombragris 3mo ago
Is still around, at least for some values of "around". Elvis, at its latest release (2.2.0) is a required part of Slackware, part of the A (essential system) package series. I have it installed on my system, alongside Plasma 6.7
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by sombragris 3mo ago
More than the Blackberry... I'd say, the N900 form factor, complete with camera lens lid.
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by sombragris 3mo ago
No, no and no. Last year I paid money to upgrade my laptop's RAM from 16 to 32 GB. I didn't pay it so apps could just be more bloated without offering any significant benefit. Developers should respect and be efficient using hardw
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by sombragris 3mo ago
An IBM 1130 system was installed in my country (Paraguay), at the National Computing Center (CNC) of the National University of Asunción (UNA), around 1969-1970. At the time it was, if not the very first, one of the first computers ever ins
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by sombragris 4mo ago
> I never bought into the recent vinyl hype. This. I'm 55. My teenage years were in the 1980s, where CDs started to appear but vinyl was still mainstream. I remember Dad having a significant vinyl library and I also got my own colle
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by sombragris 4mo ago
To be honest, I'm not "anti-AI", that is, anti-LLM/agents, etc., at all. LLMs and their ilk are just a tool. You can use it, or not. And you can use it well, or not. That's it. The tool has its good uses and some be
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by sombragris 4mo ago
My perspective is that of an user, not a developer. I use Deno since yt-dlp required a JS engine and recommended it. So while I don't use it for development, I have to build it for my system. This software is a beast to build and packa

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