Cargon

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I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! sankara-salute

Cargon,

KeePassXC (there’s a Firefox extension too) and Syncthing are the first things I add to a new install.

At what age and how do you tell children about the truth of Christmas?

I’m writing this as someone who has mostly lived in the US and Canada. Personally, I find the whole “lying to children about Christmas” thing just a bit weird (no judgment on those who enjoy this aspect of the holiday). But because it’s completely normalized in our culture, this is something many people have to deal...

Cargon,

Damn, hitting them hard with reality at the end there lol

Cargon,

Their PowerPanel Personal and Business editions both seem to work with all of their UPS models. I used to run PowerPanel Business on a basic tower-style model.

www.cyberpowersystems.com/products/software/

Cargon,

In R:


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Cargon,

The key is focus your time and effort on the ones that are really important to you, and be able to adapt to changes. This way you can make the switch to a less abusive product / platform / tool / whatever it is more easily when it inevitably goes to shit.

This is the user-side responsibility of interoperability.

Cargon,

I’ve been really enjoying the latest Thunderbird.

Cargon,

Oh yep, my bad. Didn’t see the iOS stipulation initially.

Cargon,

This post really shows how old I am, because I immediately thought “does anyone actually compose on a mobile device?” The experience is so bad I limit my own mobile compositions to message responses like “k” and “lol”.

I wrote this comment on my phone and it was an awful experience 🙃. But hey, at least my keyboard app suggested a silly emoji…

I’ll continue to do my “real” writing on my desktop for now. Integration apps like KDEConnect have been enough for me to get by, but they aren’t perfect either.

Cargon,

I tried the F(x)tec Pro^1^x earlier this year in the hopes that it would unlock some writing productivity for me with its built-in keyboard. I managed to get one really cheap, but it (like many other “exotic” phones) had so many cellular network connectivity issues that I gave up. I now have a Samsung Galaxy A54 with GoogleFi. The typing experience sucks but at least I can make / receive calls…

Cargon, 

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Cargon,

It’s being assigned and passed to sum at the same time. One of the many entertaining quirks of R.

Cargon,

Not sure what you mean, they’ve been posting fairly regular updates on software and infrastructure improvements and security audit responses on their blog for the entire time I’ve been a customer (6 years).

Cargon,

Indices vs offsets. A lot of people mistake the two because they took CS 101 and thought it was so cool to say I sTaRt cOuNtInG fRoM zErO.

Cargon,

$1000 for a device with an N5100 CPU seems… mispriced.

Cargon,

I’ve been using Quarto a lot for Data Science work and it uses Pandoc under the hood I recall.

Not sure what you’re envisioning by Pandoc + git, but the RStudio IDE has a git integration and a WYSIWYM Quarto editor.

Cargon,

Amazing, was able to play over ssh on Android using termux!

Cargon,

This is what I used as well (KeePassXC specifically), with Syncthing sharing the .kdbx file across devices.

Cargon,

Yeehaws per McNugget

Cargon,

Any suggestions for where I can read up on the licensing troubles?

Cargon,

Apple is still tracking you, they just aren’t as donkey-brained as Microsoft.

Cargon,

I give them all Warhammered Latin hostnames like TABULARIUM-MAGNUS.

Cargon,

Mostly just different algorithms that can achieve greater compaction under different data circumstances.

There are an infinite number of compression algorithms. The trick is to find ones that result in a smaller file for the data you have, which will have some non-random pattern to it.

The choices we think of today (gz, bz2, zstd, etc.) are fairly general purpose, but sometimes you find a data file that compresses significantly more with a particular algorithm.

Cargon,

There’s no logic being applied. This is just sports mentality in tech. Like spaces vs. tabs, Emacs vs. vim, Python vs. R, or one of countless others.

But could you imagine if you created a digital standard used by billions everyday and then most people refused to pronounce the name you gave it? Same energy given off by the “anti pronoun” crowd.

Cargon,

You know, like the Gavin Belson Signature Box III.

Cargon,

What sort of Linux compatibility can we expect with this generation?

Cargon,

I think it’s usually things like trackpads and WiFi modules that typically have compatibility issues with Linux.

Cargon,

Looks like Framework has a Linux compatibility guide and the fingerprint reader is probably the thing that won’t work out of the box for most distros.

Cargon,

For some of them. The others say “Not officially supported”.

Cargon,

The “nearly half” remark is referring to the previous sentence regarding 42% attrition. The paragraph could have been structured better, and I wouldn’t say “nearly half” until the 46% mark or so, but it isn’t as bad as “29% == half”.

Cargon,

TP-Link Omada WiFi access points, dumb switches, and OPNSense running on a mini PC.

I really like the Omada line up. Affordable, and all their devices can be run in standalone mode if you don’t want to deal with an SDN controller.

Cargon,

Jesus Crispy Creamy Christ, I shit 3 times a day. 3 meals, 3 shits. Where’s all your food going people?!

Cargon,

I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!

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