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You hate Corporate Memphis eh? I actually don’t particularly care about either one, but some people who hated corporate memphis must be seething at how it got replaced.

I’m doing thousands of calculations per second and they’re all wrong

I mean, why are they not using these resources to tackle child poverty, prosecute the epstein list or the panama papers if they want to help children so fucking badly?

I took over a project recently. I asked for updating instructions… as in “once I make changes, how do I push to prod?” They gave me instructions on how to update angular and dotnet packages. Mother FUCKERS. I spent time digging around the code, setting up my dev env, and then I noticed dev and prod had a slight difference. “yeah, we gave you the wrong branch” Fuck. I had to dig around and find out how they started the docker on prod and then I could replace the .dll and restart the container. It was not fun.

No can do. It’s for someone who I owe big to, and the company that created the software has gone out of business. Unless you have a position open for a full stack dev/SDET.

Human used tool!

I’d recommend LMDE over Ubuntu Mint. There isn’t much point to ubuntu mint anymore to be honest

ubuntu makes controversial choices. Mint is explicitly user friendly, and its debian edition is like a bike with training wheels, getting you debian with extra “niceties”. LMDE (Linux mint debian edition) is, from my POV, the gold standard for noob distros. Ubuntu is explicitly like a tricycle but LMDE is like a bike with training wheels. You can eventually take them off for debian next time you change OS with less problems, if you want. I don’t think going from LMDE + Cinnamon to Debian + KDE shouldn’t be an issue.

What’s the OS? Also, good work finding the one place I think gnome fits

Bias : I use debian for my own machine. I have two machines on Mint I am responsible for; one craptop with LMDE and one tower for my Mrs with Ubuntu Mint. I hate fucking about with the tower more than the craptop. The laptop is just as easy to use and was just as easy to install and everything. The only thing I needed to do was to replace cinnamon with XFCE in an attempt to make it run faster since the craptop has like 2gb ram.

you can have KDE on LMDE. Cinnamon’s default login manager has an icon to change the DE you’re going to log into.

It’s basically the Windows of Linux distros. I recommend Zorin to new users. … which is basically the self declared windows and not only is it corporate, it’s also paid

Congrats, you get my long ass rant. You are in the minority. The fucking idiot in the OP is right; shit’s over. You know how I know? People are already not getting paid to make music. The best composers of our era work a day job in addition to their band life. There’s very few that scrape together a living despite their enormous talent. It’s been fucking over due to pop music saturation for a while. The the vast majority of people already don’t give a shit about the music they listen to or who made it. They just want mood music and don’t care what context it comes from. That’s why spotify has been pushing the “summer hits” playlists and the like. This technology isn’t aimed at YOU. The technology is aimed at the “average person”, and the people that are stupider than that. Is everything in your home artisan made? No; because you don’t know enough about everything, nor have the resources to be able to get it from quality, artisan sources. Well, the average person when it comes to music, they don’t have the capacity to “spend” mental or monetary resources to really pay attention to things. AI isn’t perfect, but for average and below average people, it’s good enough and cheap enough.

I’d say that if you’re using such up to date hardware that you need the latest kernels and drivers, you probably don’t need the handholding of mint, so you might want to prefer fedora or arch or smth, and not Mint/Ubuntu.

Thanks for sharing . You gotta show off the onscreen keyboard and a *fetch to make the show complete

That’s the fine details of personal situation and preference. I think we have a disagreement on perspective, and I’m glad you pointed out that specific detail, so that others reading our discussion can make a well informed decision. I still disagree, but not because of a technical level, from my perspective, it’s still roughly the same, we just see “most recent hardware” as being applicable to different people. And I hope you can feel that you can agree with the idea that it’s a social disagreement and not a technical one.

But isn’t this the beauty of Linux? There is an option for everyone. Like you very well put it: you do you. Yep. I fucking hate current gnome but I’m glad it exists for someone who is into it, and that they are marching to the beat of their own drum. I just don’t want to hear it. I literally made a post on this. I am curious to find out more about Bunsen Labs.

You do you but… god I hate Mate. The fucking config preferences never worked properly across “profiles/saves/whatever” for me. I like LXQT most. I tried out basically every DE under the sun in a VM (and KDE and Gnome on bare metal. Gnome as part of Nyarch to rescue my wife’s old tower and to see wtf it was like. It crashed and fucked up. Not sure if it was due to Ny or arch, but obv not a good fit) Yes, even Sugar. Please do not try Sugar.

either do linux mint or ironically arch (as a starting off point!) linux mint is a simple to follow gui from a liveusb. arch is trickier, but I actually find archinstall is really straightforward and fast.

This is what imposter syndrome is made of

“self employed” here . Finding clients means this is 100x worse

I am totally in the dark here, the last time I did anything programming related was making a batch file in windows 20 years ago. It’s a good thing we’re looking at this from a more “why this tool not other tool” aspect then. To de-abstractify the concepts a little: There are horrible data sources from things like unit 731 or the holocaust, and most of the time, scientists reject using them for various reasons, but the ethics of using that data is murky. A similar idea enters the picture here. Yeah, DHH et al aren’t killing people, but what about when the Omarchy foundation starts being the top sponsor of White Pride Worldwide? basically, nothing is permanently done. It always needs maintenance and updates, because entropy exists. Washing Machines, Guitars, homes, clothes, software, etc. Human culture too. You may have a recording, but to keep the “culture” alive, it needs to be played by someone and listened to someone. The issue with fascist open source is that the people keeping the “culture” alive are fascists, so one is participating in their perpetuation of their works, regardless of if the tools themselves are fascist or not. We are, unwillingly, perpetuating in the public visibility of Omarchy by discussing it. If we install Omarchy and talk about how we’re pleased with it, etc , we are helping others get visibility of Omarchy when we are behaving as OS curators. We are not perpetuating every other operating system that exists. The public awareness of a zillion others disappears, where we could be promoting it. To expand on the last point : Compared to human attention, human creations might as well be infinite. Curation is how we try to limit what we are exposed to, since we can’t start from A and walk our way to Z for everything. I guess it wasn’t that long. I look forward to your response, ephemeral associate. Stay safe and stay sane out there.

Bernie got fucked by the DNC for various reasons

Let’s be fair, he did work in setting up gigantic batteries and EV charging infrastructure to make Tesla succeed. He or Tesla. IDFK. He is defo an asshole now, and probably was before too.

shit time to git commit sudoku

what happens when the next update is the one that puts spyware in it and hands it directly to big brother?

Yeah, it doesn’t vibe with me because I’m constantly moving windows from one place to another, comparing shit side by side and needing one thing as an edit then as a reference, keeping some things smaller and etc. I am starting to be maybe interested in trying out transparancy in my dropdown console and maybe a launcher that’s more central instead of “windows like” coming in from the bottom left. But I like my taskbars, especially with having different ones for different physical monitors.

come the fuck on string bigIfTrue(Boolean size) { string toAssign = ''; if (size == true) { toAssign = 'big'; } else { toAssign = 'small'; } return toAssign; }

thanks? I haven’t read it all, but just to note, I’m looking for LXQT and not LXDE, but maybe I just need to replace the one line that says LXDE with LXQT then I can try something that whittles away everything else you have there.

pet obesity is wrong

fuck no, that’s why “self employed” is in quotes

Turns out if you keep your house barren of food except what you are meant to eat that day, you can lose weight because your fat lazy ass would prefer to stay home and play vidja than go out. Source : Went from 125 kg to 77 kg this way.

Well he’s already broken it. 🤷 Still got those millions. Funny that

RIP to a real one

I’ve worded it like shit before, but : Standalone WMs are basically Gnome3 for neckbeards.

To not have fuck about with it except for special occurrences

yeah, but the problem is that the world isn’t made for people who can use rubber ducks, magic 8 balls, wikipedia and good notes apps. the world is made for the people that need the obnoxious laugh track and a person reacting to an Instagram reel, otherwise they don’t know how to feel.

come on man, it’s “dat ass”

well, here’s the shitposty thread I made last time I tried to voice the opinion and got got by gotchas in terminology : lemmy.world/post/51030053?scrollToComments=true Basically, some people are making interfaces for the operating systems that only have a windows manager, and isn’t a complete desktop environment, so it’s basically one step above a terminal. Things like i3 or dwm, as opposed to more fleshed out things like KDE or Gnome. Gnome3 basically encourages the user to launch their programs as fullscreen things and scroll between them. The WM based UIs also do this, but call it “desktops” and tile the windows you have in each desktop. I went through a craze of shoving different ones into VMs and felt that things like i3 and dwm behave similarly to the way I dislike Gnome3.

An australian on bread?

yes but it’s an antique meme that was called “dat ass”

I want to try out Guix in a way that’s easy. I have very little time, but when I have time that I am mentally well enough to do something technical , but not confident enough to do something important, I fuck around with different OSes in VMs. Guix has been a bastard to play with. I can get an XFCE/Ratpoison env set up. Rebuilding Guix over wifi is such a fucking massive pain that my only sense of balance is that I keep hammering their services for gigabytes , so they’re suffering as much as me. So, if I want to try using LXQT, the entire fucking thing doesn’t compile, and what’s worse, it downloads fucking EVERYTHING before trying to build properly, then crashing out, or , finishing building everything again and then having LXQT not launch on login. I just get a black screen. I get that I should learn how to setup x whatever to make it run properly and understand what it is I’m doing. But like, I can learn a few things at a time, and I learn by doing and iterating. My feelings on the documentation is that GNUdocs are written by people who make a fuckload of assumptions on existing user knowledge, and even their ability to understand paradigms with no indicators. What I mean by this, is that it is akin to a map with no key or legend. There are different sections highlighted in different colours , but not explanation to what those colours are. And there is text that says “avoid the hinterlands, as they have hostile bandits. go for the blinterlands, they have fine ales and buxom wenches” BUT NOTHING TELLS ME WHICH COLOUR REFERS TO EITHER PLACE. Compare and contrast the Mozilla documentation on web standards : developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/…/Array www.gnu.org/software/…/rm-invocation.html The Mozilla docs show examples of the things in action, the GNU ones (the bad ones, anyway) don’t have concrete examples or things to avoid. Just abstractions only. Changing or installing different DEs was really easy on Fedora; docs.fedoraproject.org/…/switching-desktop-enviro… sudo dnf install @kde-desktop-environment Trying to do the same for a repeatable config.scm , WHICH IS THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT OF GUIX, is a nightmare. Here’s the focused in part of the info : guix.gnu.org/manual/…/Desktop-Services.html I remove xfce-desktop-service-type and add in lxqt-desktop-service-type , then run sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm , after waiting for somewhere between 45 mins to an hour, the rebuild ends and I get a non-working option to select LXQT in login and have no fucking idea wtf to do. Fucking great. Or, it makes me wait 45mins before saying the SCM needed --allow-downgrades, or for me to waste gigabytes of space downloading the entire earth using guix pull. I really want to go for GUIX for a few reasons : sensible, systemd free reproducible builds, a repo that seems an appropriate size with appropriate support, and not going for right wing software. I can’t fucking do that if there is no looseness and “playability” factor to learn by doing. I don’t want to, and shouldn’t fucking read a book length manual to learn everything before I can do a few things that are very basic tasks or doing the central point of your software. It’s like 1 hour before I go to bed when I’m fucking about with it. I don’t have the brainpower to bother doing that shit, and if I did, I wouldn’t be wasting it investigating alternate operating systems.

I think Blahaj fans might go wild with either enthusiasm or rage, unsure which eitherway, somehow they will increase their posting … somehow

hey, this is for fun and pseudocode.

Why did they date him in the first place?

But I WANT it to be part of the system config. There is no point to what I want to maybe use this for if I have to do it per user.

Yes, but also, you can wake up at some stupid hour like 4am, bathe, play videogames for like 2 hours, eat a nice breakfast, and then go to work cheery

no, you’re making a salient argument. I don’t want to dump a book length (/s) idea I’ve had brewing in my head about this, so we can have a little chat. I’ll just throw the broadest strokes to you. What do you do with unethical scientific advances? Eg : Data on human limits on heat/cold/sleep deprivation obtained through torture? Can you use them in ethical projects after? How does a culture perpetuate? What are permanently completed projects? If an untrustworthy party is working on a project that for now seems fair, can you rely on it while its still being worked on and have faith that you can use that to go forward and build new things without getting stabbed in the back after? Curation. By choosing something curated by a “bad person ^TM^” you are not giving opportunities of propagation to a project maintained and created by a “good person ^TM^”.

Get your own meme lemmy.world/post/35736041?scrollToComments=true

www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte The Debian Project nevertheless expects that all contributions submitted to Debian, regardless of how and with which tools they were produced, satisfy the same standards of quality, correctness, maintainability, and legal compliance. The use of a generative AI tool does not diminish the contributor’s responsibility for the work they submit. Contributors are expected to understand, review, test, and, where appropriate, modify AI-assisted output before incorporating it into Debian. Blindly accepting or uploading AI-generated material without appropriate human review is inconsistent with Debian’s established development practices. We enourage [sic] our contributors to disclose whether a contribution was made with AI assitance[sic], but do not require them to do so.