ProgrammingSocks

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Hello! My name is Cobalt Swiftpaw. I’m here for memes and art.

Previously /u/PirandelloKruger723 on Reddit.

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ProgrammingSocks,

Clickbait title, no thanks. GTK is alive and doing very well, considering all the major distributions use GNOME or a fork of it.

KDE has major Windows syndrome. No amount of polishing that turd will make me ignore the fundamental user unfriendliness that is nested text drop-downs.

ProgrammingSocks,

Yes. If you install Graphene and no play services your phone is de-googled unless you use Google services through a web browser or install another app that contacts them. Google does not have magical hardware level telemetry.

ProgrammingSocks,

They don’t care. It doesn’t impact them economically in any noticeable way because the user base of these ROMs is too small for it to matter.

Also, you can see all traffic on your local network using Wireshark. Reiterating that computers aren’t magic.

ProgrammingSocks,

Because OP is 17 lmao

ProgrammingSocks,

Too late. It’s all SSDs already. They’re more robust long term.

ProgrammingSocks,

We still have it at my location in Canada

ProgrammingSocks,

Just get a Kobo and never connect it to the internet. They take epubs just fine.

ProgrammingSocks,

If it says something meaningful about the human condition

Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?

Title. “lmao internet points” and all, but what is the point of participating in a community that sees assumptions and other commonly non-harmful commentaries/posts as “bad” this easily? Do folks in here are really that needy of self-validation, even if it means seeking such from something completely insignificant like...

ProgrammingSocks,

I downvote posts that are arrogantly wrong. Really not much else unless it’s not relevant to the group at all.

ProgrammingSocks,

Humans are inherently hypocritical.

DontMindMe, to fuck_cars
@DontMindMe@zirk.us avatar

Driving 8 hours round trip today to pick up one person, and I'll never understand why Americans think this is more convenient than my colleague taking a train.

@fuck_cars

ProgrammingSocks,

Bruh it’s that bad here. Eastern Canadians are lucky, in Western Canada within cities it’s barely acceptable in some cases and as bad as the average US city in many others. You will not find an inter city train in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba that actually connects you to where you want to go. Via Rail is an absolute JOKE and I’m literally hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest station.

ProgrammingSocks,

255 = 255 times

ProgrammingSocks,

Worst part is, that’s not even the Corruption. It’s the Crimson.

ProgrammingSocks,

I don’t get it? What’s reddit?

ProgrammingSocks,

Default? Top left. It should be visually appealing to most people, and it would honestly just be odd to have the default wallpaper be cartoon styled. And the bottom left looks too much like W11. But I think they should all be included as options.

ProgrammingSocks,

Gee I wonder what that site could be

ProgrammingSocks,

SUVs and trucks are UNIMAGINABLY worse. I’m not a fan of e-scooters, they need a little bit of training to use safely and are still dangerous compared to an ebike. I would rather have ebikes replacing e-scooters everywhere they are now.

However, they are comparatively a nuisance compared to the menace of SUVs and light trucks killing pedestrians every single day.

ProgrammingSocks,

No, I would argue that e-scooters simply exposed the existing problems in our infrastructure today. As I said in another comment I prefer ebikes to e-scooters by A LOT but people should not be forced to ride 80 fucking km/h SCOOTERS just to get where they are going. It doesn’t happen when there is accessible and affordable transit.

And in cities, pedestrians and bikes (sure scooters too) need to be separated as well. Cities have haphazardly thrown e scooter rentals out there, not thinking about the fact that there is absolutely no infrastructure to support it, and so people are claiming it’s the scooters fault for the city failing to build anything that actually supports these services, and more broadly, failing to build anything that supports alternative modes of transport.

ProgrammingSocks,

Cars are a tax burden. Car infrastructure generates debt, not revenue.

ProgrammingSocks,

If you’re sitting its a motorbike. If you’re pedaling and it’s under a certain wattage it’s an ebikes. If you’re standing and throttling it’s an e-scooter. I’m not talking about electric mopeds/moyorcycles. E scooters are only acceptable when they’re limited to ~25km/h IMO, but ebikes are still preferable. I’m not saying people should be going 100km/h on a scooter, you’re misconstruing it. I’m arguing that the fact that those people are resorting to using 100km/h death machines signals a problem in infrastructure and alternate modes of transport.

ProgrammingSocks,

No issues to report here. Audio sucked when I had an old shitty laptop with a BT4.0 chip but after I upgraded to a Thinkpad X280 Bluetooth just worked out of the box. Been using pipewire but before that I used pulseaudio with bluetooth audio extensions that you can find on the AUR. Pulseaudio was far less stable, pipewire just werks.

ProgrammingSocks,

Vouching for FairEmail. It’s by far my favourite mail client. It’s material design and very safe cause it strips out all images by default or only tracking images if you choose.

ProgrammingSocks,

Just don’t expect roads and parking spots to be built 2x the size they need to be to accommodate your hobby vehicle.

ProgrammingSocks,

[citation needed]

ProgrammingSocks,

FUCK

ProgrammingSocks,

Not sure what you mean “when”. I’ve been daily driving Linux for 8 years and I still love it.

ProgrammingSocks, (edited )

Incremental steps are not personal EVs. They are diesel and electric buses. EVs eliminate 1 problem (tailpipe emissions) while creating 2 more (battery manufacturing, increased vehicle weight making road and tire wear worse, and making them more deadly - there’s others, take your pick) and not addressing the other hundred problems with car dependence.

Buses use the same infrastructure as cars. Bus stops are stupid cheap in comparison to anything else. And then, bus lanes can be implemented to prioritise buses and keep them from getting stuck in traffic.

ProgrammingSocks,

Legal where I live, and in many states too.

ProgrammingSocks,

I don’t care about getting people into things. That’s a highly individualistic way to look at the problem. Car dependency is a societal problem, and marketing won’t solve societal problems. There needs to be a fundamental change in the way we (specifically the government) view transportation as a whole. (And as an extension to that, there also needs to be a change in regulation to close that loophole for light trucks.)

What’s important to me is getting lawmakers and those advocating to the lawmakers on board with funding public transit and making the streets safer for all people using them. Yes we need people on board too but really only enough to get these ideas in lawmakers heads as a major issue. A minority. The majority of people don’t understand or care and that’s fine, because their minds will start to change once they see it actually working. In the words of NJB, there are not that many car people, bike people, or train people. Most people just want to get to their destinations as quickly and efficiently as possible.

We don’t live in a direct democracy. 51% don’t have to explicitly agree to laws. The government passes laws that are bad for people and the majority disagree with all the time. Not saying the majority of people disagree, I honestly think they couldn’t care less. I’m just saying we don’t actually have to recruit hundreds of millions of people.

Unfortunately, a major part of this plan is going to have to restrict what oil companies are allowed to do and nowadays that’s seemingly impossible. Only seemingly though. Nothing is truly set in stone.

ProgrammingSocks,

I have an electric vehicle. I ride it everywhere in my city and it costs basically nothing. It’s an ebike. I’ve done nothing to it, it’s a normal 350w motor capped at 32 km/h. And damn does it feel so much better than driving in traffic.

ProgrammingSocks,

You called?

ProgrammingSocks,

I was gonna say the same thing. I sense claims of stolen IP soon

ProgrammingSocks,

The best kind of self driving car is one on rails.

ProgrammingSocks,

Anyone who does 5 hour videos is unhinged

Quinton Reviews has left the chat

ProgrammingSocks,

Wow am I glad for my NoScript usage right now. I’m definitely going to be even more restrictive after this.

ProgrammingSocks,

10 years? 3-5 lmao

ProgrammingSocks,

Yep. I’m not even using Wayland. Every other day its “Oops, there was a fucky wucky!” And I have to log out. I’m on Cinnamon for now.

ProgrammingSocks,

Opus is the successor to Vorbis. It’s superior in terms of quality to bitrate for all bitrates, and it’s made by the same organization.

ProgrammingSocks,

Unless the scientific field in question is too Jewish.

ProgrammingSocks,

Nope, but we alive anyways

ProgrammingSocks,

People aren’t political parties though. The OP is referring to followers of a specific belief system, not somebody registered as a D or an R.

ProgrammingSocks,

I know this is going against the circlejerk but that’s not even the same thing. This was specifically done because their batteries were shutting off as their health declined. It is something that ideally should have been off by default, but it isn’t “apple slowing you down to get a new phone” because the issue would go away with a new battery.

Graphene OS on Pixel 6a?

Has anyone used it? What was your experience with install/performance? I’m thinking of getting one because it has decent specs for $250. I don’t need banking apps or anything like that, and the only social media app I need is snapchat (I know that sort of defeats the purpose, but I just want better privacy, not perfect).

ProgrammingSocks,

P6 here. No mobile pay. That’s the literal only flaw. I couldn’t be happier, its exactly what I expected and a little more.

Did we kill Linux's killer feature?

A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s...

ProgrammingSocks,

AppImages are horribly bloated, I personally would never use them on my machines. Snaps I’m also still biased against because Canonical’s shady practices. So for me it’s still just pacman -Syu && flatpak update.

ProgrammingSocks,

I’m moving to BSD!! Seriously though the Linux kernel shouldn’t just continually get more and more bloated… Keep this shit in user space!!

ProgrammingSocks,

2 unrelated things. The first guy is distracting the clerk so their colleague can steal, some guy comes in with a shotgun, and they make a plan to distract him. The person stealing before rolls their skateboard, their colleague goes down another aisle to come up behind the guy, and ends up tackling him and giving the robbers gun to the clerk.

ProgrammingSocks,

The computer is older than me :)

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