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elucubra

@ elucubra @sopuli.xyz

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  • For my mom the year of the Linux desktop it's already over

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  • I used to recommend Mint with Timeshift. Timeshift has saved my ass (or has made fixing stuff way easier) a couple of times. Now my go to is Aurora.

    I believe that immutable distros are a game changer (god I hate this expression) for nebws.

  • What are the current best ways to learn languages online?

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  • I'm tri-lingual, and can make myself understood for basic stuff and can generally get the gist in 3 more. I learned English by immersion in my teens, probably the ideal age. When I arrived in America, beginning of summer, I joined all youth summer activities available in town; baseball, archery, joined a Scout group, etc. I made friends and was interacting in English constantly. By School start, I was placed in regular classes. My sister didn't do these things and was placed in many English for learners classes, with foreign students. I speak much better than her.

    Also, I watched Sesame Street, Mr Roger's, and other children's shows

    My kids have not lived in an English speaking country, but game in English, watch all media in English, with subtitles in English, and attended bi-lingual schools. I spoke in English with them a lot while they were growing up. They speak very good English, with my daughter having EU C2 level, the highest official level in a foreign language.

    Watching foreign media, with subtitles in that language, including children's shows, reading foreign news and stuff, etc. helps a lot.

    Also, in many areas there are foreign language oriented Meetups.

  • question about gaming distros

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  • A bit reckless giving advice, aren't we?

    We don't know if OP has personal data in the windows drive, or copies thereof, and yet, you write:

    If you plan to switch over all at once, during the install, tell Linux to use the entire drive (ie, do a full format). That will completely remove Windows during the install.

    Also:

    If you are going to dual boot, don't dual boot on a single drive. Windows likes to fuck with other things on the same drive as it, including other Windows installs.

    Would you please enlighten me about why you shouldn't dual boot on a single drive? I, and millions of others have been happily doing it for decades. As a matter of fact I'm willing to bet some money that that's precisely the most common desktop setup in the world for Linux. The major caveat is that sometimes Windows upgrades/updates won't respect your dual boot setup, which is usually trivial to fix.

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  • In Europe we are paying restocking fees, just not overtly. I have been in the ecommerce business, and know others who have. You just mark up the goods taking into account your returned goods cost.

    It's like physical stores adding a the spread cost of shoplifting into the prices.

  • Public transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳

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  • Sure. I simply point out that developing above ground rails much cheaper. I'm not criticizing. I'm all for nay kind of public transport, and electric car and moto sharing.

  • Public transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳

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  • You mean that that is all the public transport in Toronto, combined?!

  • Public transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳

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  • Kind of misleading. That's metro+light rail. Above ground light rail is massively cheaper to build than subways.

  • Public transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳

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  • Why do people switch from chrome to Brave browser and not to Firefox?

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  • Try vivaldi. Much less fuckery than Brave

  • Why do people switch from chrome to Brave browser and not to Firefox?

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  • Vivaldi is nice. Created by the Opera creators. Cookie removal, antitracking, etc out of the box.

  • What's the REAL minimum power supply needed for a RTX 5060 Ti?

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  • 12 jigawatts

  • Recommend a simple, small cheap laptop < 15" I can chuck in my bag for use in coffee shops!

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  • A problem with macbooks is that most have soldered ram, and even hard disks, which negates the possibility to upgrade to modern capacities. Many older non apple laptops can be upgraded to a larger SSD and ram, and be given a new lease on life.

  • Ancient food are absurdly complicated.

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  • What really blows my mind is the dude that mixed oil and eggs and decided to beat the bejesus out of the mix for half an hour by hand and got mayonnaise.

  • IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)

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  • Thanks. I'll look into it. Right now I have mainly lights and sockets, through a Lidl zigbee hub, a rebranded Tuya, I believe, but I'm looking into going a bit deeper.

  • IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)

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  • So, if I'm invested in zigbee, but want to future proof, I should consider threads/matter, and a hub that talks to both?

    Can home assistant do that?

  • Does anyone know what this part is called?

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  • That's almost certainly a 7FA

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • For rollbacks, I've been using Timeshift in Mint, and it has worked brilliantly.

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • I wonder why nobody has created a simple gui for Nixconfig.

  • Please for gods sake dont use CasaOS

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  • I don't use CasaOS, I don't know the use case, or anything else, but the only right answer to "will try to limit data collection" is Fuck you.