I don’t like so called smartphones (flashy devices to mine your data and other reasons) but my regular no touchscreen phone’s microphone is no longer working as it should, making conversations difficult....
And then install your main Apps from F-Droid (all Open Source and reviewed) and put eventual proprietary apps (get them from Aurora instead of Play) in a Shelter/Insular profile.
apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...
First of all: Please don’t tell me how impractically this might be or confusing or whatever. This is like a thought experiment and let’s be honest: We don’t JUST want efficiency when modding our desktops – we also want it to look sick and individual and have people watch in admiration – or something like that. So keep...
You mean, like you can zoom out and back in, move around in the larger desktop? For that part, there’s an xrandr hack with panning and scale.
edit: it’s literally –panning 4000x2000 and –scale for zooming. 0x0 and scale 1 to reset. Mouse on border moves the window. Make a script and bind that to keys and done.
For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected.
Convenient libraries/frameworks are fat. Because they are fat, they need frequent updates/security fixes, breaking codebase more often. With flatpack, developers can freeze lib versions at a convenient point, without caring for system dependencies.
I honestly feel defeated right now, it feels like currently it’s impossible to truly stay private online unless one is willing to move to a cabin in the woods with no internet and you stop using tech all together and truly become a ghost and stay offline. Can someone help me feel like everything I am currently doing is...
In theory. But how it is implemented in current systems, reserved memory can not be used by other processes and those other processes can not just ask the hog to give some space. Eventually, the hog gets OOM-killed or the system freezes.
Alt TextA screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
ZAP (slrpnk.net)
Question about phones: Am I overreacting?
I don’t like so called smartphones (flashy devices to mine your data and other reasons) but my regular no touchscreen phone’s microphone is no longer working as it should, making conversations difficult....
Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police (www.businessinsider.com)
Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe (www.theguardian.com)
Figured you guys would like this (lemmy.wtf)
Medieval 'curse tablet' summoning Satan discovered at the bottom of a latrine in Germany (www.livescience.com)
Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)
apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...
Magic school bus. What have they done to you... (lemmy.world)
Does anyone else resent the links to Reddit?
I keep seeing communities which seem to consist of nothing but a bot that reposts stuff from Reddit....
Idea / Question about tiling window managers (discuss.tchncs.de)
First of all: Please don’t tell me how impractically this might be or confusing or whatever. This is like a thought experiment and let’s be honest: We don’t JUST want efficiency when modding our desktops – we also want it to look sick and individual and have people watch in admiration – or something like that. So keep...
How to run command or code in parallel in bash shell under Linux or Unix (www.cyberciti.biz)
From nixCraft
Things You Didn't Know About GNU Readline (twobithistory.org)
openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected (www.phoronix.com)
For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected.
Flatpak can look daunting... (feddit.de)
Disclaimer...
Tea Party (lemmy.zip)
Switched my Parents to Linux
I’m visiting my parents for the holidays and convinced them to let me switch them to Linux....
The Names of Thousands of Neo-Nazi Music Fans Just Got Leaked (www.vice.com)
Thousands of purveyors of neo-Nazi tunes just had their day ruined by a crew of enterprising Scandinavian anti-fascists.
Why Even Your Local Grocery Store Wants Your Digital Data (www.youtube.com)
I honestly feel defeated right now, it feels like currently it’s impossible to truly stay private online unless one is willing to move to a cabin in the woods with no internet and you stop using tech all together and truly become a ghost and stay offline. Can someone help me feel like everything I am currently doing is...
Space whale (sh.itjust.works)
Source: poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/space-whale/
Too much detail in this error message from EA (lemmy.ml)
No! No! I don't want to conduct performance reviews! You can't make me! (slrpnk.net)
GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge" (www.phoronix.com)
What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?
You know, ZFS, ButterFS (btrfs…its actually “better” right?), and I’m sure more....
systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems (www.phoronix.com)
Governments spying on Apple and Google users through phone notifications, U.S. senator says (www.cnbc.com)
Muoöe (lemmy.world)
Names (lemmy.ca)
Shout-out-to-mods-posting (programming.dev)
They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are (lemmy.world)
Me Too, me too... (lemmy.ca)
Juniors vs Seniors (media.mas.to)
Street Mime - Last Place Comics (lastplacecomics.com)
Source: Street Mime - Last Place Comics...
Take it back! (lemmy.world)
Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then (lemmy.world)
Alt TextA screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
One of these 6 will become Plasma 6. Wallpaper Which one do you prefer? (lemmy.world)
"Introvert friends" by Sarah Andersen (lemmy.world)
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My first year using Linux: My experience
In the end of November 2022 (1 year ago), I switched from MacOs to Linux (Debian with KDE Plasma) on my MacBook....