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  • the Internet and the Web are fine – Web 2.0 was where things started going wrong – the cancer that begat the parasites of Web 3.0, crypto coin, and LLMs feeding off the twitching remains

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    How do we feel about Lemmy communities that ban others based on a protected characteristics e.g. gender, sexuality, etc?

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    How do we feel about Lemmy communities that ban others based on a protected characteristics e.g. gender, sexuality, etc?

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  • c/womensstuff is punching up, you’re punching down

  • Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

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  • now … how many of those were by Linus?

  • Is there a song in a foreign language you like the melody to but didnt know the lyrics?

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  • historical example: Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto – released in Japan in 1961 under “Ue o Muite Arukō” – released in US in 1963 under “Sukiyaki” because that was about the only Japanese word Americans knew …

  • Why do some people hate drinking water?

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  • Guix users here?

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  • Linux Users Switching Back to Linux

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  • after trying a tiling manager

    I like the idea of tiling window managers – I just find it so much less hassle to use tiling keybinds on a stacking window manager …

  • Help Figuring Out Storage (Noob Question)

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  • just a quick bit of background (terminology below is “close enough”):

    • Windows treats the drives as primary and the filesystem as secondary
      • so all the drives get their letters A:\, C:\, D:\, etc.
      • then you move your folders the drive, ex. C:\Windows\Fonts
    • Linux treats the filesystem as primary and the drives as secondary
      • / as the base point, binaries in /bin, users in /home, fonts in /usr/share/fonts, etc.
      • then the drives get mapped to mount points in the filesystem (you can see the mounts in /etc/fstab)
        • on my system, / is on the drive /dev/nvme0n1p1, /home on the drive /dev/sda2, and so on (everyone’s setup will be a little different)
      • this way the filesystem can be spread across multiple drives but appear to the user as a cohesive whole

  • Any window manager suggestion

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    • main thing to keep in mind is that a window manager is normally just one component of a desktop environment – full desktop environments like Gnome go to great lengths to assemble a whole fleet of apps to work together to make a cohesive experience
    • if you’re going to forego the full desktop environment, then expect to have to fill in on the various missing pieces to suit your needs (file manager, terminal, text editor, clipboard manager, bar/panel/dock)
    • if you just want lighter weight but maintain a cohesive experience, then Xfce or LXQt
    • otherwise, there are a LOT of choices (both for X11 and for Wayland)
    • tiling window managers
      • i3 on X or Sway on Wayland are probably the most popular
        • special mention: Regolith – pairs Sway on the front end with Gnome components underneath
      • dwm for the full do-it-yourself experience
      • awesome if you like Lua, xmonad if you like Haskell, exwm if you live in Emacs, Qtile if you like Python
    • stacking window managers
      • Openbox for the old school feel, LabWC as the Wayland successor
      • IceWM and JWM for a minimal experience (both show up regularly on Raspberry Pi)
      • Motif for the retro enthusiast

  • Scientists of Lemmy, how would you standardize or improve cooking recipes?

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    • examples from professional recipes – measurements are given as weights (in grams) – no worrying about how much brown sugar in a “packed cup” or if your cup of flour has been sifted enough or what exactly is meant by a “cup of spinach”
    • examples from baking recipes – measurements are given as percentages – allows easy scaling up and down

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • search for information when Google intentionally lies to you and hides results to keep you on their site looking at ads longer …

  • Cheapest new device that can run linux?

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  • along those same lines, used Chromebooks – Google ends support after only a couple years so school districts all over the place are generally stuck with palettes of e-waste

  • Corporations Rule

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  • Brutalist Meets Minimalist: The Cleaver Aluminum Keyboard

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  • trying to imitate the SLK keycap profile?

  • Selfhost offline software

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  • Selfhost offline software

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  • (one of the older tropes in Linux-land is giving new life to old hardware just by replacing Windows with Linux)

  • Selfhost offline software

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  • (one advantage of Flatpaks over AppImage is Flatpaks bundle their libraries – most AppImages won’t run on musl libc systems)

  • Selfhost offline software

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  • (there’s also an older, but still working, protocol called packet radio – does require a bit more technical expertise though)

  • Selfhost offline software

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