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mazzilius_marsti

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  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • Would a pixel phone running GOS be future proofed, or one day Google can just push out some hidden updates that prevent you from running it at all?

  • yes

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  • alias downloads='Downloads'

    alias Downloads='downloads'

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • i'd recommend trying things out first. You are still in the beginning phrase, so try different distros. When you do, look for stuff like

    • forum support. Is it popular ? Ubuntu Studio may not be as popular as vanilla Ubuntu and even when theyre from the same family, you can expect minor differences.
    • i know this is not Windows. But say your OS is corrupted, how fast and easy it is for you to reinstall?

    Example: Pop OS has a dedicated partition to reinstall the OS right in the grub menu - you dont need a separate USB drive for this. On the other hand, Archlinux requires you to mount the partitions correctly (yout home, root....etc), then you can go and fix your systems.

    • do you like how the package manager work? I dont like Ubuntu because it has these different sources that can get convoluted. Arch's AUR can be very messy. Fedora for me is the way because I like DNF. Plus, its syntax is easy to remember.

  • Where do you ask for TV Show suggestion on Lemy?

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  • thanks for your suggestions. I figured it out lol: Wire in the Blood, Ep 1. Maybe thats why it got stuck in my head lmao. Very shocking 1st episode.

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  • well folks, I figured it out: It is "Wire in the Blood" episode 1 "The Mermaids Sing".

    • It was episode 1 so maybe thats why it got stuck in my head
    • Main MC didnt save anyone, he got saved instead.
    • Yes the suspect likes to cross dress.

    Robson Green played this series really well. He is more of a detective / psychologist.

  • Where do you ask for TV Show suggestion on Lemy?

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  • So I am rewatching old detective shows like WhiteChapel, early Sherlock, Ripper Street...etc. You know the usual police/detective chasing killers and solving strange cases.

    Anyway, I remember I used to watch a show similar to the ones above around 2010ish. But the only thing I could recall is that the killer (of that specific story arc) likes to cross dress or maybe homosexual? Before I go further, let me say I have nothing against trans people. You guys are cool. It is just coincident that the one thing I remember is this one lol.

    So in this one episode, the killer comes face to face with our main character. It is their only confrontation and it is the final episode of that arc. I think the MC caught him before he kills another one. I also think the killer dies in this episode so we close this story arc. There is a lot of "I think", I understand but my memories are so hazy lol. Another thing I could recall is that the killer is a male, and he dresses like one of those dominatrixes. This scene was so fucked up that the only thing I remember was this killer. I think our victim was being tortured with BDSM stuff and before he got killed, our MC saved him.

    Very hazy, I know. I also checked the following with no luck:

    • Sherlock: definitely not. Sherlock only comes in like 3 episodes per season, and I dont recall any scene like that. .
    • Whitechapel: I just finished watching the entire show and there was no such scene.
    • The Alienist: I watched these a long time ago. I can try again but from Wikipedia's description of the episode, there was no such scene.
    • Ripper Street: I am watching it now from Ep 1 and I dont want to read up the episodes because the show is good. I want to enjoy watching it w/o spoilers. Maybe this is the one? I dont know.

    Several thing I am 100% sure:

    • Show is produced post 2000.
    • I definitely watched this in 2010ish, exactly 2011. Reason for this is that I remember showing this show to my HS roommate and even he went "that is fucked up". Again, no discrimination against trans, it is just the episode.
    • It is definitely a detective style show. In fact, our MC caught the wrong killer and hence the reveal in this episode is so shocking.

    That is all I could remember...... Appreciate any help

  • Where do you ask for TV Show suggestion on Lemy?

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  • oh thanks, i'll post the info shortly. Thought Lemy has a dedicated instance for this.

  • How I use virtual desktops

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  • i use wm so workspaces. I have them as:

    1. WEB: to spawn all web browsers. Clicking a link in a terminal or a pdf will open a tab or a new browser here.
    2. TERM: to spawn all terminal applications and processes: Htop, ssh, vim windows to edit stuff...etc.
    3. CODE: for GUI code editors like CodeBlocks, VSCode, Emacs. Yes I do use Vim but I prefer the full functions from these.
    4. FILE: any file managers, e.g. pcmanfm, thunar, ranger...etc. I mostly use only one (pcmanfm) and use this workspace when I need to view complicate folder structures.
    5. PDF: I read a lot of papers so usually qpdfview owns this worlspace. I used to have Mendeley here as well.
    6. MEDIA: so any VLC, mplayer will spawn here
    7. TODO: usually some notes I put down on a text editor will show here.
    8. OTHER: the rest.

  • how is linux for gamers?

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  • If you just want to play the game, then gaming works surprisingly well on Linux. Very well.

    I have the same game on Steam running on 2 separate computers, Fedora and Win 11. On the Fedora one, everything is just rock solid. Heck, even when I am rendering some very intensive 3D stuff on another workspace for work and use 50% of the RAM, the game is still running. On the Win 11 laptop, random issues happen where my cursor dissapears and the entire desktop freezes.

    OTOH, if you need the gaming accessories to work properly then I'm not sure, could be a 50/50. For eg, if your laptop has some proprietary sound card, then Linux might not be able to take advantage of that. On Windows, these should work OOTB.

  • How it feels to use Debian

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  • true but only if you dont use the latest hardware. IMO, if you already have a computer then Debian is 100% crash proof, minus user errors. Using the latest computer spec on Debian is just a nightmare.

  • So I tried windows tiling...

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  • Pop OS tiling is awesome. What I always try to do on tiling WM: set workspaces and spawn specific applications on specific workspaces. Not sure if Pop OS can do it, but on i3/dwm/sway...etc. you can freely spawn your applications wherever you like.

    Try to play around with those DIY tiling environment. You will have a lot of fun if you like tinkering with stuff. Maybe one day you will run EXWM

  • Personally I'm grateful to not need 3rd party packages

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  • does the upgrade pacman -Syu also upgrade Flatpak packages? Or you have to do them separately?

  • I finally made the switch

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  • 1st Linux? congrat. Whats your partition layout?

  • I finally made the switch

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  • dual boot or single boot? and is this on your main device?

  • [PSA] Malware distributed on the AUR

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  • Heard OpenSuse has OpenQA - apparently it is like an automatic test tool for packages.

  • [PSA] Malware distributed on the AUR

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  • the firefox, zen browser and libre wolf packages are concerning. The ttf ms font too. Those are very normal apps and unless you pay attention to the package name when doing "pacman -Syu", you would fall for the malware.

    If only we can compartmentalize all AUR packages. The download AUR sources iirc are already in something like $HOME/.paru. Installing is a different story, because these packages can put their executable all over the places: /usr/local/bin, $HOME/local/bin.

  • Some TODO app called Emacs?

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  • oh dear another victim falls to the church of emacs....

    Anyway.....

    Be prepared to invest at least 3 months to do all the research (i.e find working code snippets online) and tweak to your likings. This is assuming you dont know elisp. If you do then it will be faster. Think now with AI, you can write these codes even faster

    Org mode is the best. It is just a text file when open with other text editor: very lightweight and very easy for version control. The magic happens when you are in emacs, you can:

    1. Create a list of task and subtask and susubtask. This is easy
    2. Create a fully working latex document with all the stuffs required like the include packages. You can then compile that latex and view WiTHIN emacs. You can even configure so code on left, pdf on right and a keystroke will compile and refresh the pdf .
    3. The notes are not only text notes. You can create programming notes. So something like this, excuse my wrong syntax it has been a while:

    • Your header with text

    ** your subheader with text

    *** your subsubheader, instead of text, you now have a code block. It looks like this, again syntax maybe wrong

    #+begin_python

    print("Hello")

    #+end_python

    AND you can run that code above and have it output to WITHIN emacs. But that is not all, you can have the codeblocks communicate with each other:

    Say you have a block A that does some computations and generate a vector. Say it is complex calculations and you need the block in C++ for speed.

    Then you have block B which is a Python block that uses Matplotlib to plot. You can feed result of A into B so B can plot.

    1. Last but not least, you can CREATE A BASIC TABLE LIKE EXCEL AND HAVE IT DOES THE CALCULATIONS ON ROWS/COLUMNS. sorry caps... this feature blows my mind everytime. So in a text file, you can very quickly create

    |--dates----|-----Spending---|

    | Monday | 40 |

    | Tuesday| 100 |

    emacs can format the table very nicely and very quicky. Much nicer than I have above, 100%.

    Then, you can tell it to sort, add, subtract, multiply or whatever to the table. You can swap rows, swap columns with just a keystroke.

    If you want to go even further, you can create an Agenda table where one of the columns is a due date. Then I believe you can schedule the tasks and sync them with Google Calendar. So your phone gets the reminders too.... There is an app on Android that allows you to edit the Org mode file directly too..

    FUCK now I need to get back to emacs. Havent used it for months but this post shows up. I blame you (jk).

  • Thumbs up to people dying.

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  • given how many idiots are in that photo AND how many Republicans are in the line of succession (99% + 1 RFK Jr), we might as well beg for a Red Wedding a la GoT style.

  • New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

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    1. Create X account
    2. Follow DJT
    3. Retweet/Favorite our lord's tweet.
    4. Write some random shit and praise our lord.
    5. Repeat 2 and 3 everyday