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by veidr 3y ago
I solved that problem myself by just referring to it as "Pop OS" during the 3-4 years I used it. ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯
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by veidr 3y ago
They announced[1] it specifically as a Rust-based, iced-based desktop environment. [1]: https://blog.system76.com/post/november-at-system76-products...
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by veidr 3y ago
Exactly, so: fuck them. Everyone is not only completely within their rights, but doing what they are supposed to do. Red Hat is saying "we don't care about people who use a rebadged clone of our OS and pay us" (hard to find f
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by veidr 3y ago
I don't think you two are disagreeing. op00to is just pointing out that being a public company (like taking VC money) has consequences that can't be avoided. Those consequences include being acquired, if the offer is good enough.
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by veidr 3y ago
I don't think OP means running VM from within containers (although, who knows, I mean I guess you could). LXD provides a management layer that treats containers and VMs (libvirt/KVM/QEMU VMs) mostly the same. So commands like
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by veidr 3y ago
Exactly, we migrated to LXD from Proxmox for stateful containers for various servers (DNS, Zulip, Mastodon) as well as user desktops (e.g. Ubuntu Desktop, Fedora, etc). LXD is nice because it has a nice management layer. It is really easy t
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by veidr 3y ago
Woah I notice that the signatures on that include Stéphane Graber. It's rather hard to imagine LXD continuing as a going concern without him. Does this mean he regrets the decision, but is going to keep working on LXD, or... does this
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by veidr 3y ago
No, HDMI 2.1 doesn't matter (yet) because there are no 8K desktop monitors (meaning 32-inch size or similar) on the market that use HDMI. The only 8K monitor has for years been the Dell UP3218K, which uses DisplayPort -- and requires
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by veidr 3y ago
Sorry, I meant about the same resolution. But in that case I'd expect the Dell 6K to fare even worse than the Apple 6K in a head-to-head comparison with the Dell 8K.
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by veidr 3y ago
No, I found it really surprising myself. With my glasses on, though, the 6K (or 27" 5K) look less crisp but somehow not fuzzy. Like I can see the antialiasing at the edges, but this doesn't look blurry to me. (It just looks more l
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by veidr 3y ago
That's a good question, but yes, I am very sure. I have compared them with magnifying glasses, and really tried to get into why such a (seemingly, at first) small increase in resolution made such a huge difference. I've compared s
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by veidr 3y ago
Absolutely, hell no, if you are talking about the screen itself. The difference in crispness between the Dell UP321K (~280ppi at 7680x64280 at 31.5 inches) and this new U3224KBA (~220ppi at 6144 x 3456 at 32") is dramatic . The new De
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by veidr 3y ago
I mean... sure, it outcompeted Tide detergent. But the illegal drug trade has historically used all kinds of currencies. I'd say "disrupted" is hugely overstating the case.
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by veidr 3y ago
right, but now a great tulip is $15
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by veidr 3y ago
You might be onto something (or not, I'm not sure), but its extremely well-documented that both dogs and monkeys can speak. They can't speak English like a human, but they both can understand a good deal of English, and they bot
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by veidr 3y ago
True. But they also aren't $30,000.00.
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by veidr 3y ago
He's also doing this thing we need a name for, something like "fallacious pithiness". I've noticed that when people reduce some random thesis to a level of brevity beyond the minimum to actually express it coherently --
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by veidr 3y ago
Well isn't that pretty obvious from interacting with e.g. chatGPT and Bard? Or maybe the issue is a lot of people don't understand how smart dogs are? They have an ability to recombine text they've ingested into coherent-soun
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by veidr 3y ago
I really enjoyed this back-and-forth -- so much that I agreed with all of the comments on both sides, as I read them! (Not an intellectually consistent position, I admit.)
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by veidr 3y ago
Well, I mean, I think you are absolutely wrong. So... Who's right? (Hint: not you)
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by veidr 3y ago
The "pinstripes" were totally there, and celebrated by many. Note that they are slightly translucent, too, just like the pinstriped housings of the plastic Macs of that era. They really didn't look bad, though. I think if you
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by veidr 3y ago
On Linux, I use keyd[1] and while I understand that keyd itelf could never run on the Mac, I'd love something that could take my keyd conf and make it work (even approximately) on the Mac. [1]: https://github.com/rvaiya
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by veidr 3y ago
I guess that makes perfect sense, actually, now that I see they are making such a big push to make Unity games work. Presumably some of those existing Unity games can't work without such controllers. Good news!
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by veidr 3y ago
That's usually the (supposed) quote that is brought up when somebody questions this "don't give the user what they want, figure out what they need" notion. And it sounds great, and makes you laugh the first time you hear
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by veidr 3y ago
In pixels, yes, but that's not trivial to convert to character width...
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by veidr 3y ago
> (Not 'How can we give them what they’re asking for?' because that isn’t the right question to answer.) We say some very similar variant of this where I currently work, and also at previous places. Personally, I've never
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by veidr 3y ago
Yep that counts, thanks! Super interesting. Although I’ve come full circle now, to like “if only a handful of people have to be wrong, or corrupt, then… why hasn’t this happened more often?”
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by veidr 3y ago
Swift wasn't initially open-source either. I remember this because I was like, nope fuck that shit until it's open source so I never touched Swift until Swift 2.0 when they open sourced it. (Actually IIRC I started learning it w
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by veidr 3y ago
I click these headlines with fascination, but I don't know anything about it. Has any US skyscraper actually just like, fallen over of its own accord?
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by veidr 3y ago
The web puts the user in control; apps (on all significant platforms currently existing) put the company in control. Yes, Google and (especially) Apple may force Reddit to comply with this or that, but Google and (especially) Apple also pre

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