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  • Why does calorie counting work for weight loss and why are calories interchangeable?

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  • Thanks a lot! Great write up, and the energy-stored view of calories makes a lot of sense and is very intuitive!

  • Why does calorie counting work for weight loss and why are calories interchangeable?

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  • Thank you for your answer!

  • Why does calorie counting work for weight loss and why are calories interchangeable?

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  • Thanks a lot! To the point and on an abstraction level that is very clear!

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    Why does calorie counting work for weight loss and why are calories interchangeable?

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    What is the supposed workflow for vanilla Gnome for keyboard users?

  • Linux distro/setup best at not crashing from sleep/wake?

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  • Not sure if it is applicable, but wouldn't it be an option to use the Fedora Workstation Live CD, mount your swap partition into the live system and send it to sleep via SystemD?

    This should give you feedback with a fairly recent kernel and Gnome has (at least for me) been the desktop option with the least amount of bugs I encountered.

  • Linux distro/setup best at not crashing from sleep/wake?

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  • Before asking for another distro, you should figure out, what is the root cause of the trouble you observe. Usually sleep/wake up under Linux are highly hardware dependent. Even the SteamDeck, which has payed first level hardware support by Valve, has sometimes trouble waking up properly after sleep, at least in desktop mode. Good luck!

  • Solved: Any desktop environment or WM with configurable placing/opening of windows?

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  • Thanks, but could you clarify which extension to move for Gnome? native window placement is AFAIK just for the overview.

  • Solved: Any desktop environment or WM with configurable placing/opening of windows?

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  • Which extensions do I need?

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    Solved: Any desktop environment or WM with configurable placing/opening of windows?

  • New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash

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  • Ah, sorry to read - I like the idea of Bcachefs and would have been happy to have it ready for production eventually.

    OTOH it seems the recent years I read more about the drama about Bcachefs commits to the kernel, than about any technical parts of Bcachefs.

  • How to combat infection of your system?

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  • Welcome to Linux.

    Concerning your questions:

    How to keep your system clean?

    • Subscribe to the security mailing list/blog etc. of your Linux distribution and for software that you use
    • Update your system whenever there are updates available and reboot your system after applying the updates
    • Activate the firewall of your system and block all incoming traffic which was not initiated by your own system
    • Only install software which is distributed with your operating system or which is well known and you download from the official distribution page (for the sake of an example: If you use Google Chrome download the package/binary for your Linux from Googles Chrome page)
    • Use an adblocker for your browser like ublock origin

    What not to do:

    • Never install software found on the internet or a forum
    • Never run arbitrary script from the internet in your shell

    Doing the above and applying some common sense should be fairly secure. As a rule of thump: Less software is always better and well known software will usually be better scrutinized and more secure. (YMMV)

    As a normal desktop user your chances of getting your system infected when applying above rules are very low and they are your best line of defense.

    Securing a Linux system, especially in depth, fills books, and detecting an infection is another topic for specialists. One way to improve your chances of having a non infected system is using an immutable Linux distribution like Fedora Silverblue, which should in theory be more resistant to infections and which should in theory allow to detect infections easily.

    Unless you have a reason to expect being personally targeted (in which case: good luck to you ;-)), the answer to infections and similar is having regular full backups of all your data, so in case of an infection you can wipe your computer and recover everything. You should have regular full backups anyway, in case your SSD fails, your computer gets stolen and similar threats to your data.

  • What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?

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  • Thanks for clarification!

    ... and I think you are point on, by now, the ship has sailed. I could use FreeBSD/OpenBSD on servers, but I'd rather run Debian everywhere. On desktops and for day to day usage, the BSDs are no viable options anymore, they simply lack support for common hardware (Wifi etc.) alone and the BSDs will realistically never be able to catch up the chasm anymore.

  • What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?

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  • Not sure what you want to express. I actually used BSD a long time back, and the quality/documentation/coherence/beauty of the system are/were just on another level... Running Debian for nearly a decade now, because of compatibility (with hardware and software I need)... Linux improved a lot in the last nearly 3 decades and I am happy it exists, still I would be more happy if the BSDs would have stayed at least on an equal footing.

  • What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?

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  • Fair point. :-)

    At the end of the day, the OS has to run the software/applications one needs to get shit done... if it is macOS or Windows, that's okay.

    In my defense, I ran NetBSD for several years a long time back, and it was one of the best OS experiences I ever had. I am just old/pragmatic/flexible enough, to choose setups with less friction, if possible. ;-)

    Still, I think it is a shame that Linux mostly took over the UNIX world and the BDS are left for hardcore nerds/embedding/game consoles and Solaris and co are not viable options anymore. Portable software and its stability benefited a lot from bugs detected on other platforms (OpenBSD was always a forerunner here).

  • What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?

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  • Forced to use macOS at work, and for me it sucks (only slightly less than Windows):

    • Slow UI (have to wait several seconds after login before spotlight is able to execute custom scripts)
    • Finder is a PITA and one of the dumbest file managers I was ever forced to use
    • No easy way to provision the system
    • Annoying nagging to use all the Apple services/login with Apple ID
    • Shitty software management (instead of a descent package manager, every fucking application has a popup for its own updates after opening, which breaks my flow)
    • macOS only interacts decently with other Apple devices (iPhone etc.) and has its own 'standards', taking away my freedom to choose what I want to use.

    Of course, your needs are your needs and if macOS fits your needs the best, all power to you.

  • What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?

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  • Since you asked for OS and not Linux: OpenBSD and FreeBSD are beautiful systems w/o systemd. I would switch in a heartbeat if I wouldn't need Linux for work reasons.

  • PSA: if you use gnome do not get "[email protected]" it will fuck up your pc.

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  • Sorry, but this post is really, really bad.

    State clearly which distro and which versions of Gnome and dash-to-dock and perhaps what other extensions you are running, and there might be a chance someone is able to help you. (Also state clearly the source of your Gnome extensions).

    Most of the hints/solutions in answer to this post are also not good. If dash-to-dock triggered the malfunction of the gnome-shell on your system, just login to a terminal and use dconf or gsettings to set org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions to an empty array or to an array w/o dash-to-dock.

    I am happily running [email protected] on multiple physical and virtual machines w/o any trouble, using the dash-to-dock provided by my package manager on different CPU architectures YMMV.

  • What would make you change distro?

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  • Using Debian for probably a decade now (before that, various Linux distributions).

    IMHO only community driven distributions with great (in size as in quality) communities are worth investing time/energy and learning.

    One reason to ditch Debian would be that the software I need to run would not run anymore on it or that there would be a too strong commercial influence on the project. Another reason is for play/entertainment where better options exist (SteamOS) or if I need up to date hardware support (Fedora).

    After more than two decades with Linux, I will not play around with non mainstream distributions anymore. Have seen too many come and go, and in the end I would rather do something interesting with my computer than playing around with the Linux distribution of the week.

  • Have you ever cared how much tax you pay?

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  • I care how much taxes I pay for several reasons (Germany):

    • Rich people are taxed less than working people
    • Given that we have one of the highest tax rates in the world, a big part of my taxes go into corruption, incompetence or the pensions of civil servants (pensions for civil servants are way higher than for normal people, especially for some pencil pushing)
    • It gets even more fun, when I think about how many big companies are getting subsidized by my taxes with billions (speaking about companies which are making billions for their stake holders)
    • In our system, costs for health care system and workers pensions are also mandatory deducted from my income (they don't call it tax)... Given, what an average worker pays, we get not enough out of it, neither from health care nor when thinking about the pensions
    • A final tax, which is not called tax, is for public TV/state propaganda. There were more scandals about that money recently than anything else: The higher ups in that system earn more money than the president of Germany (no kidding), people get special pensions for the rest of their life which are obscenely high (after working like a few months, again, no kidding)

    Don't get me wrong: I would happily pay taxes if the biggest parts would go towards services, infrastructure, public transport, health care, people in need and smart/strategic investments of the economy.

    As it is right now, my taxes are siphoned into the pockets of the so called elite instead , so I care.

    If you don't care about paying taxes, you are either mostly happy about were the money goes or have too much money to care.

  • What are your desert island video games?

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    • Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
    • Slay the Spire
    • Tetris Effect, Connected
    • OpenXCom
    • Olli Olli

  • How to deploy Docker images to Raspberry Pi w/o using a image registry

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  • Thanks a lot!

    Yeah, if I go down that road, I'll probably just add a git commit hook on the repo for the Raspberry Pi, so that I'll have a 'push to deploy' workflow!

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    How to deploy Docker images to Raspberry Pi w/o using a image registry

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    Solved: ~/bin vs. ~/.local/bin for user bash scripts?

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    Stability problems with a Raspberry Pi ZeroW2

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    Multi-Gen LRU is a game changer on my low memory netbook

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    Why is there no yearly refreshed covid vaccination recommendation for adults (like from the WHO)?

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    Debian 12 / Gnome / How to shutdown laptop after battery percentage crossed

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    Method of loci/memory palaces for memorizing professional knowledge or whole languages

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    Books about the elite / modern nepotism

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    ZRAM configuration and other tweaks for potatoes running Linux

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    Firefox enables user tracking

    mstdn.social /@Lokjo/112772496939724214
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    How I manage my KDE email

    pointieststick.com /2024/07/09/how-i-manage-my-kde-email/
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    How I manage my KDE email

    pointieststick.com /2024/07/09/how-i-manage-my-kde-email/
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    Leap Micro 6.0 reaches Beta

    news.opensuse.org /2024/06/19/os-leap-micro-reaches-beta/
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    Solved: Problems viewing files with JPEG extension on Linux

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    Solved: View images with JPEG extensions which are not JPEG files from DCIM folder of phone

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    Why are there so many different AMD/Intel CPUs?

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    CPU Design: Fetch/Store vs. operating on memory