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by sombragris 10mo ago
> But the UX is just a lot worse, and it isn't easy to go from one application to another because they're slightly different enough that your productivity takes a hit from all the small papercuts. Speak for yourself. I see that
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by sombragris 10mo ago
This. Some people just don't realize how pervasive and essential WhatsApp is in some countries, mine included. I'd much rather use Signal but that's not realistic.
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by sombragris 10mo ago
Someone studied in the US under a F1 visa and a scholarship. No other substantial income other than that. This person while in the U.S. had to file tax forms, although there was no tax to be paid because this person had no income outside th
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by sombragris 11mo ago
"yeah, there's no way spending in those data centers will pay off. However, let me show you this little trinket which runs z/OS and which is exactly what you need for these kinds of workloads. You can subscribe to it for the
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by sombragris 11mo ago
For an office suite, I use LibreOffice. The fact that it has a normal/standard WIMP interface instead of the ribbon is a plus for me.
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by sombragris 11mo ago
In 1999-2000, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) started something similar in my country (Paraguay) trying to fight "piracy", but with real teeth. They had access to judges and the whole law enforcement system. They targeted a c
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by sombragris 11mo ago
In my country, last Sunday there were extraordinary city elections in a major city, and the ruling party lost. Almost all major newspapers carried headlines, all of them speaking that the ruling party suffered a "beating" (paliza)
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by sombragris 11mo ago
Slackware offers bsd-games as part of the base distribution: https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/... In addition, SBo (Slackware equivalent to BSD's port system with 3rd party software
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by sombragris 1y ago
In my case, it's my distro since always. I'm not at all one of those h4xx0r types, I'm just a lawyer, translator and theologian (and professor) doing my job with Linux. I started using Linux in May 2000 with a boxed version o
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by sombragris 1y ago
The stable distribution might be a little dated, but the -current development branch is really solid. In my very subjective impression, it is more stable than many distros' stable releases. If you're not afraid of doing some hand-
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by sombragris 1y ago
Instead of Jobs I would have liked to have Dennis Ritchie in that coin.
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by sombragris 1y ago
Also supported in Slackware 15.0 (stable) and Slackware -current, where it is still the default desktop environment and the planned desktop for the upcoming 15.1 release. (I'm using Plasma 6.5 beta now btw but the official support stil
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by sombragris 1y ago
20 years ago, my late dad (then aged 69) had a desktop PC that couldn't run Windows anymore in his store business. Problem solved: Installed the latest Slackware stable (with yours truly as root for essential maintenance) equipped with
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by sombragris 1y ago
I second this. Once and once again I saw new distros being created, some with quite ambitious goals for the desktop, and then crippling themselves by choosing Gnome. I have nothing against it, but it seems to me clearly inferior in function
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by sombragris 1y ago
At least in my use case (as link between Android devices and both Linux/Win PCs) KDE Connect is a real killer app. It enabled seamless integration and saved me lots of hassle and time. It really should get more exposure. I see reports
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by sombragris 1y ago
Obviously the whole point is to make AI overreach avoidance as painful as possible. Of course, that's also the reason why Lens was deprecated despite being a good, useful app, forcing one to deal with the bload of Copilot 365.
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by sombragris 1y ago
Good, but it is still a discrete GPU. My point is that games should be made at least playable on integrated GPUs.
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by sombragris 1y ago
I'm replying to this comment as well to its parent. You're both right as for colloquial speech. But we are talking about movies. Actors used to study elocution and diction techniques to polish their speech. As I said in my comment
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by sombragris 1y ago
English is not my native language, and whenever I can watch TV or movies, I'll always try to watch it with English subtitles. This is because: - As I said, English is not my first language. Thus I'm not that proficient in listenin
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by sombragris 1y ago
I doubt it would come to completely replace LaTeX. The momentum behind LaTeX is enormous. Having said that, if it manages to simplify language handling, fonts, and bibliographhies it would be great. But, especially, it would be good to see
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by sombragris 1y ago
If you had s/minimum/recommended I would agree. But no, we are talking about minimum requirements. I submit that a game should be playable even on 10-year old hardware. Of course, the devs can blow the ceiling in their highest s
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by sombragris 1y ago
> In parallel I don't understand gamers with 15 years old hardware leaving bad reviews or whining when a game chokes above 720p with minimum settings. I won't leave a bad review or whine on BG3, and my (otherwise very capable l
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by sombragris 1y ago
Many Linux distros have Firefox's JavaScript (SpiderMonkey?) runtime independently packaged and available. Can it be used for this?
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by sombragris 1y ago
There's an aspect that the article managed to imply but I think it warrants more thinking because it directly affects a lot of people, myself including: that people cannot afford to pay for a "gaming PC". Well, I thankfully
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by sombragris 1y ago
I have been a KDE user since KDE 1.x in Red Hat Linux 6.2, back in 2000, and used KDE almost exclusively for my Linux desktop since KDE 2.2. Right now using Plasma 6.4.5. In all that time, I was quite disappointed to see major distro after
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by sombragris 1y ago
Of course. I have no issues with that but I acknowledge that it could be funny.
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by sombragris 1y ago
"tender love making" and then the specific URL mention photos and corruption... it could look really bad!
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by sombragris 1y ago
> But in the end I lost my friends, my colleagues, my job, my career and my family. As a Plasma user and a part of a KDE team for 10 years at some time (in the past), reading this really breaks my heart. I hope Jonathan can find peace an
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by sombragris 1y ago
From the title, I thought the lady had switched to Android. It turned out she wrote about ditching smartphones, not just iPhones.
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by sombragris 1y ago
Well, it's a reference book, not a tutorial. You "let it rot on a shelve" until that moment when you need to achieve a specific outcome in your LaTeX code and then check out the book.

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