UnfortunateShort

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UnfortunateShort,

Was heißt “möglichst lange”? Ab nem gewissen Punkt würde ich mir über nen kleinen Kredit oder Hilfsangebote Gedanken machen. Ich denke bei “von 6,50€ leben” ist dieser Punkt (unter normalen Umständen) deutlich überschritten. Das kannste ja an einem Tag mehr als verdoppeln, wenn du dich mit nem Becher in die Fußgängerzone setzt…

Ansonsten ist glaube ich Containern auch nicht mehr verboten? Man kann natürlich auch einfach mal in Geschäften nett fragen, ob die irgendwas haben, was nicht mehr verkauft werden kann, aber noch essbar ist.

UnfortunateShort,

You should ask yourself the following question: If I dare to open it outside of the Tor Browser, is it even worth my time?

UnfortunateShort,

There was so much drama in WoW when I still played. Ranged from entertaining to toxic bs

UnfortunateShort,

Town of Salem is great, but at some point you realise screaming the loudest often wins lol

Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching (themarkup.org)

These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.

UnfortunateShort,

I’m pretty sure my Android TV powered by Google™ knows more than what I’m watching. It could probably give me therapy if I threw a LLM on there.

Good to know I’m not paranoid enough tho.

UnfortunateShort,

I have zero problems criticising the shitty Israeli government. There were mass protests by their own people for a lot of the same reasons as I have, so why would I?

I have to say tho, it’s also not easy to ignore their point that they are not the ones using civilians as meat-shields and hospitals as military bases, which has been confirmed at least in one, very significant case.

The hard truth is that the situation is way past the point of a peaceful resolution. It’s both parties fault and it’s bad, but that’s how it is. My only hope is that with international pressure (including Germany’s btw.) the two-states solution will finally be seen through. Israel already stated they do not want to permanently occupy Gaza, so I guess that’s a start.

I do judge them for not giving civilians more time to evacuate and not providing them with more supplies tho. With the amount of soldiers at their disposal this should totally be a possibility. If it isn’t, they can ask others to help with that or something else.

UnfortunateShort,

Probably won’t, at least not because of the integration. Interactions between CPU and GPU are very generic, because obviously every CPU should work with every GPU. You can do optimizations in driver, but as far as I’m aware AMD does not implement any tech to make specifically their GPUs work better with their CPUs. At least not anything noteworthy.

Graphics workloads are GPU bound. The only thing that matters is your GPU. You might be able to use the iGPU if you have one. Should already help a whole lot.

UnfortunateShort, (edited )

Humans even drink human milk. Crazy how that works

UnfortunateShort,

Shotcut is great, especially because ffmpeg, GPU acceleration and very easy to learn workflows (although admittedly not so intuitive that you get them right away).

I don’t know about Kdenlive, but I tried Openshot and found it to be much slower and lacking functionality, although it’s even easier to use for the basics.

UnfortunateShort,

I like the thought that the first contact might be with people living in exile, because they were fed up with their society killing itself and their planets.

Space hippies. I’m sure they’d have memes.

UnfortunateShort,

Besides the points made - using their own repos. It kind of defeats an important point of using Arch, if you don’t use the official repos as your main source of packages imo.

It’s a rolling release. You have to let it roll. Arch already has testing repos, there is zero need to test outside of them.

UnfortunateShort,

Because they don’t push updates as quickly, which reduces the chances of something slipping through, be it their merit or not. This comes at the expense that it sometimes breaks dependencies and still has close to zero real benefits:

  1. You are better off simply using snapshots. Then you don’t depend on the testing of either party.
  2. Even if the Manjaro devs do to find bugs, they could have found them in Arch Testing as well, which benefits everyone.

I stand by my point that the update strategy is not a feature.

UnfortunateShort,

If I’d have to choose I’d go with Window or Tree, I’m not fully convinced of either tho… I like Konqi in the Window one.

Made the switch to KDE

I’ve been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and have been loving it. Very soon after I jumped into this community (among other Linux communities) and started laughing at all the people saying “KDE rules, GNOME drools,” and “GNOME is better, KDE is for babies.” But then I thought, “Why not give KDE a try? The...

UnfortunateShort,

I can respect GNOME, it’s just not for me. There are a lot of other DE’s I really don’t get, for example: Xfce, Mate, Budgie, LXQt, any pure WM desktop in existence, the list goes on… But if people still develop them, I guess there is a market.

UnfortunateShort,

It is actually very easy:

  1. You setup auto-snapshots (almost trivial)
  2. You update
  3. Evaluate
    3.1) Repeat goto 2
    3.2) Rollback goto 2

The only problem here is that snapshots (and btrfs for that matter) are not the default behaviour. I would really appreciate Endeavour having this as the default setup. It is very likely what you’d want.

UnfortunateShort,

Yes, Garuda does, even with bootable snapshots, but it’s otherwise not as clean as Endeavour. As far as I can tell, mkinitcpio/GRUB2 or their setup thereof causes more problems than it solves. My system was bricked multiple times until I switched to a dracut/systemd-boot setup, which works flawlessly since quite a while.

As for the user experience, there are 0 distros you should perform a (major) upgrade on without taking a snapshot first. I had broken systems after apt upgrade. From my point of view rolling vs versioned release are basically occasional mild vs scheduled huge headaches.

UnfortunateShort,

I respect your optimism

UnfortunateShort,

Gotta be expensive, you probably have to pay licensing fees to anime

UnfortunateShort,

Closest to where I live because ping

UnfortunateShort,

So accurate. I too fell for the explosive clowns trap that is Ubuntu, before ascending and witnessing more glorious distributions.

UnfortunateShort,

The UI of Windows 11 is fine, at least visually. Windows 8-10 were mostly just ugly. When it comes to configuration options, they lose even against Plasma from a couple years ago.

I have a Mac like UI btw., there is no chance of confusing my Plasma with any Windows :P

UnfortunateShort,

It just so happens that I also use Arch x)

UnfortunateShort,

Look at that fancy people on the upper floors having AC and the only nice balcony

UnfortunateShort,

ChatGPT was never made for programming and is horrible at generating code. It is nice for a peer-programming kinda setup tho, because it can quickly point you towards tools, libraries, APIs etc. to use

UnfortunateShort,

Why the hell would you even have this photo. 100% just the photographer trying how far they can go before the model says something lol

UnfortunateShort,

They had their ups and downs.

There was that thing where some domains where whitelisted from blocking, don’t know whether it was cookies or something else. Not great, but easily explained by not wanting to break stuff for unexpecting users, maybe bad communication. Shouldn’t happen when you go privacy first, but that was resolved quickly after being discovered at least.

There was the time when they injected affiliate links when visiting some sites, to generate some revenue of course. They overdid it and replaced affiliate links of other people I think, but again they changed it after the community complained. I don’t know whether that’s optional now or completely gone. In any case, no harm was done to the users in this instance.

One thing you can definitely hold against them to this day is their CEO. He supported anti-queer legislature in the past and was dismissed as Firefox CEO (CTO? Something very high up at least) for that reason. He did apologize for it and afaik didn’t continue supporting that kinda stuff, but you never know.

Imo the browser as it is right now is pretty good and unique in what it has to offer. The biggest issue really is a lack of trust by the community.

UnfortunateShort,

Plasma is very lightweight, so no complains here. Although they could implement some convenience-stuff, like Kwallet as default keyring + autostart via dbus. Or a keyfile, so you don’t have to enter your password twice, in case you use full-disk encryption and a swap partition. Small things, but I see little reason not to do it like that. It’s stuff that’s trivial for powerusers but scary for the less experienced.

UnfortunateShort,

I love how you casually ignored the existence of English speaking countries in Europe. I think at least Ireland deserves better lol

UnfortunateShort,

I’ve been wondering this, but never really looked into the matter: Is spaying/neutering really an ethical thing to do? Doesn’t it affect cats in some negative way, besides taking away their ability to reproduce?

I’ve been thinking about adopting cats, which would be sterile anyway, but it doesn’t exactly seem like a nice thing to do if you can avoid it : \

UnfortunateShort,

And, you know, it being one of the most invasive spywares around.

UnfortunateShort,

We don’t have this kind of weakness on Arch. Apes together strong. Porting magic language to our world.

UnfortunateShort,

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UnfortunateShort,

Chromebooks use some custom tailored coreboot variant, right? Not surprising that they’ve locked it down while they were at it.

UnfortunateShort,

I was gonna say, next to C++ you better don’t shame other languages for their errors. Otherwise I wish you some “fuck you: error in library used in library used in template of template:: some template object is not correct type of template obejct”-type bullshit.

Ecosia.org updates its Privacy Policy (www.ecosia.org)

From September 2023, we will be gradually rolling out our new unique search offer. This will happen over several months and won’t apply to everyone at the same time. This means that when you search through Ecosia, we work with either Microsoft Bing or, with your consent, Google to provide you with search results and ads. In...

UnfortunateShort,

They are very transparent with their financials. Pretty much everything they don’t need for upkeep and salaries does directly to legitimate environmental projects.

UnfortunateShort,

And DDG while you’re at it. At least if you wanna be concerned about CEOs.

UnfortunateShort,

That guy created and then sold a social network. He’s being criticized as being in privacy-tech only for the money, although besides the aforementioned fact there seems to be little evidence for this claim.

What is true however is that DDG had some privacy whoopsies in the past, whereas they always claimed those were accidents or not abused (by them). Again, benefit of doubt, but their trackrecord is not clean.

I don’t see a better alternative for search tho.

UnfortunateShort,

Plus the bugginess of the new features. Create a group with topics? You’ll have a great time…

And a lot of quality of life improvements are still missing. Use more than one client? You don’t expect proper sync, do you? True E2EE (secret chats)? Well, no more than one client to begin with. Plus you lose a lot of features. Auto-delte messages? Well, you can, but others can just turn it off. Plus you can’t enable or disable it for all chats at once.

What really weirds me out tho is how aggressively they try to make you sync your contacts…

UnfortunateShort,

Lucky you, for me they basically ruined group chats completely. I get notifications for the wrong topic. Reply to a notification, you might end up posting in a couple ones. The client will sometimes jump to the very beginning of the chat history. Sometimes I don’t get notifications for a topic, sometimes old messages appear as new ones.

It has become next to unusable for me.

UnfortunateShort,

“The patient died due to complications.”

“What complications?”

“Work-sleep balance.”

UnfortunateShort,

God I love this meme format.

UnfortunateShort,

There is also Mercury, which claims to combine quite a lot of the nice stuff from different FF forks. I personally stick to the original, but it might be worth checking out.

UnfortunateShort,

Ist das…? Kann es sein…? Es ist Mittwoch meine Kerle 😮

UnfortunateShort,

Dude the two best kinds of beer are free and cold. Anything beyond that is luxury

UnfortunateShort,

kurzgesagt, I want it to make me feel tiny and insignificant.

UnfortunateShort,

This is the best idea he’s had so far. I bet that place will actually be tolerable once everyone has left.

UnfortunateShort,

Wasn’t this a thing forever ago and didn’t Nintendo just laugh at them? They just had a super successful console and now have more successful IPs than ever, they would be straight up insane to sell a business that runs this good.

UnfortunateShort,

Let’s go to the old mill anyway, get some cider.

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