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Jólabókaflóð – forget gifts, exchange books and sit around a fire drinking hot chocolate

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oh hey, look, we’re sitting at 28 vacant homes per unhoused person …

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  • a big feature of tiling window managers is the auto-placement / auto-adjustment / auto-sizing of windows to fit available space
    • their main focus is always having everything visible (nothing hidden behind overlaps)
    • and most of them take advantage of having a good set of keybinds so everything can be keyboard driven rather than half-and-half with a mouse
  • before jumping feet first into tiling window managers, get an easy introduction with
    • Pop Shell – an extension that adds tiling features to Gnome
    • PaperWM adds linear tiling to Gnome
    • Material Shell – focusing on a more grid based workspace model
  • DistroTube argued that the killer feature of tiling window managers is the workspaces, not the tiling
  • check through the hotkeys of your current window manager – you won’t get the full dynamic features of a tiling window manager, but most of them have keys for snapping windows to top-half, bottom-half, left-half, right-half (as well as sometimes offering by quarter as well)
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the explanation I got a long time ago is that when something gets so bad that nothing you can do will change it is the time you sit back, crack a beer, and admit “no worries”

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✅ Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed

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capitalism removed the “I want to make a living” option and forced everyone into “I need every ounce of money I can get just to survive”

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lemmygrad.ml is really quite nice

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… and yet gun control laws in the US were written by fascists to keep guns out of the hands of people who weren’t “white enough” …

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“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”

—Karl Marx, Address to the Communist League (1850-03)

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(throw in blond-haired melanesians)

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they determine your racial makeup, not your race

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joke going around about silicon valley during height of dot com, something like 1:10 female to male ratio – “The odds are good but the goods are odd.”

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...

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PaperWM extension for Gnome

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I think there might be some aspects of this in Material Shell extension for Gnome – but it still maintains the discrete workspaces rather than joining everything into one seamless space

What are the keys with tactile bumps called? (kbin.social)

I use a different layout to type, but I'd like to be able to have my physical layout reflect what I'm actually typing. The problem is that moving the F and J keys to where they should be means the home row would be missing the tactile bumps, and I use those to recenter my hands when I'm not looking. I'd like to add keycaps for...

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usually “homing keys” (ie. allows your fingers to find the home row)

usually custom keycap sets will have a “typist” set of some sort with extra keys in the right row profile and homing keys for at least Dvorak (but that also means buying extra keys on top of the main set)

and useless trivia – old Apple keyboards had D and K as the homing keys instead of F and J …

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(other than posting too early for Americans to get the joke)

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Greenwich Mean Time (because everything revolved around the British Empire)

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is that fast SI seconds or slow SI seconds? (alt text)

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when your entire system is already controlled by daemons …

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least they recorded it in landscape mode …

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the kernel that lives across the street

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calligraphy has a patron demon, not a patron saint

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from the Pirate Party platform: “Copyright should protect the creator, not the publisher.”

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founding / current

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Startpage was bought out by advertising company System1

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  • Qwant seems decent
  • a lot of claims Duckduckgo has morphed into being a frontend for Bing
  • SearXNG (updated replacement for SearX) gets good reviews, but have to be prepared to hop instances as Google blocks them
  • Kagi is a subscription service that people seem to love
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UwUntu needs some competition

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UwUntu

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bring back the Feast of Fools, callithumpian parades, and the Lord of Misrule!

how similar are other North American countries to USA??

I mean the other 2 countries, Canada and Mexico, how similar are both of them to United States?? Both countries have a similar economy and democracy etc, and I think those two countries share things like supermarkets, stores, etc. I suppose the cultural differences are not a lot, that is very nice.

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more similarity between Western Canada and Western US than between Western US and Eastern US …

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(Alberta and Texas are central plains / central prairies / “midwest” – calling Texas western is a bit of a misnomer, the US decided that anything west of the Mississippi is the “Great West”)

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we can have civilization that isn’t self-destructive – instead of breaking apart into tribal groups, one factor that would have a bigger impact is to re-separate the direct connection we have between wealth and power

Switching to Debian on my gaming pc

Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my...

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“not the greatest at gaming” is still perfectly fine – the main argument against Debian stable (at least for gamers) is that, since Debian’s focus is on stability, they’re not riding the bleeding edge of updates and features

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prefer Salmorejo myself

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go messy – share a big bowl of Cioppino with your date

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return a and a or b → return a or b

correction from @murtaza64

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it’s just return a and b or c is the closest Lua has to a ternary operator, but yes, for the above you could shorten it to return a or b (“or returns the first argument if true, otherwise second argument is returned”)

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  • Linux Mint is pretty much the stock recommendation for newcomers to Linux – straight forward, no big surprises
  • and Steam for your games – with Proton, there’s very little that won’t run under Linux in one way or another nowadays
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  • don’t know enough about LXLE itself as a distro
  • but LXDE should effectively be considered “end of life”, the developer is in the process of porting everything over to Qt and working on releases of LXQt
  • with that, for a full DE – Xfce if you like GTK, LXQt if you like Qt
  • or a minimal setup with a WM plus utilities (like Openbox or one of the large selection of tiling window managers)
  • along those lines though, there are still a LOT of lightweight Linux distros to choose from
    • Crunchbangplusplus or BunsenLabs – successors to Crunchbang Linux – usually just Openbox WM and a few utils rather than a full DE
    • plain old Debian stable – proprietary drivers are now part of the installer, no more hunting for a special ISO – can choose your DE or WM during install
    • Alpine Linux – popular for server and container installs, but has its fans for desktop
    • DistroWatch’s selection for Old Computers – LXLE is still on the list
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the “any landing you walk away from is a good landing” defense?

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It’s like when you’re a kid. The first time they tell you that the world’s turning and you just can’t quite believe it because everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it. That’s who I am.

—The Doctor, “Rose”, Doctor Who (S01E01) (2005-03-26)

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I preferred the “I can feel it” quote because it lined up with simplex/complex/multiplex from Samuel R. Delany’s Empire Star

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1.99382 … oh wait, that was Intel …

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considering Israel has no problem killing Palestinian Jews, where does that put them on the anti-semitic spectrum?

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one of the better ideas I’ve heard recently is that commute time should be included in clocked hours

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well, other than no one can afford to live near the workplace

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