macallik

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macallik,

I think part of the reason is that because phones are now in the 'matured' part of the marketing cycle. There's a smaller and smaller noticeable difference in performance between a $200 phone and a $1000 phone, and so companies need to compete on smaller and smaller profit margins, and against very inexpensive import brands.

"It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin (kbin.social)

Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow...

macallik,

My counter-argument is a small minority create content and a much smaller minority of them actually create interesting/engaging content.

I'm not opposed to a 'blogs' magazine where people share their own content, but from my personal perspective, self-promotion often skews the OP's ability gauge's the outside world's interest in their musings about the world.

macallik,

Very good point. I understand the desire to give all communities equal opportunity to be promoted, but if the promotions are towards dead-ends, it really does a disservice to the fediverse as a whole

macallik, (edited )

Yeah. I created a thread recently that had over a hundred replies, but over time, each notification became a frustration because the notification link doesn't take me to the actual comment, just the first page. I'm not sifting through 10 pages to read an entire comment and see if it warrants a reply.

Experiencing the same "amazing UI but frustration experience that makes me check out" UX w/ firefish (fka calckey) as well.

macallik,

Good find

macallik,

Methinks you might want to give it space to breathe from the child porn scandal before you attempt a positive spin on truth becoming irrelevant in the future.

macallik,

How's it compare to gitea?

macallik,

Installed Gogs but will switch the this FOSS version tomorrow. Thanks for sharing!

macallik,

There are no easy answers, but Adams still finds a way to always pick the wrong one. He will stoke the racial tensions if it gives him a point or two bump in favorability smh

macallik,

This is nonsensically funny.

macallik, (edited )

(Bash-Specific)

App-Specific

alias battery='upower -i $(upower -e | grep 'BAT') | grep -E "state|to full|percentage"' # Get the battery level of my laptop server when I ssh into it

alias audio="yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3" # Download the audio version of a youtube video

alias wttr="curl wttr.in/Chicago" # Get the weather of my city in the terminal

Terminal Navigation

alias ba2sy="cp ~/.bash_aliases ~/Sync/" # copy my current iteration of my aliases to my shared syncthing folder so that it's accessible across devices

alias sy2ba="cp ~/Sync/.bash_aliases ~/" # replace the current iteration of my aliases w/ the synced version from my syncthing folder

alias mba='micro .bash_aliases' # open my aliases file in the modernized version of 'nano'

alias reload="source ~/.bashrc" # Quickly refresh my system so that the latest alias file is loaded

alias l='exa --group-directories-first -hlras modified --no-user --icons' # exa is a prettier version of ls. Options toggled: Human-readable, long format, reverse output, show hidden files/folders, sort by modified, hide the 'user' column since I'm the only one that uses the computer, and show the icons to make it look fancy```

Replaced Commands

alias cat='batcat --theme=ansi ' # Replace generic output of cat w/ a formatted version. This is bat (batcat in Debian)

alias rm='trash ' # Instead of auto-deleting files, put them in the 'trash' bin for 30 days, then delete.

Server & Docker-related

alias lazy='/home/macallik/.local/bin/lazydocker' # Run Docker

alias pad='ssh MyPad20334' # shorthand to ssh into my server
macallik,

Good to see another exa user. Care to break down what yay does btw?

macallik,

Ahhh I was wondering what that was as a fellow kbin-er. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out I could create threads across the fediverse today as a consolation.

Edit: Click the 'more' button on the comment and get the fediverse link to view the formatted post

macallik,

Digging the systemctl ones. I added myself to the group so that I wouldn't have to write sudo each time, but I might as well alias the entire prompt for restart and status to make it even shorter

macallik,

When I switched to KDE I started using kate, but I used to have code as my vscodium alias as well. One interesting thing is seeing how similar people think. No wonder standard password guesses are so easy lol.

On a related note, I tried to make my SSH port based on the letters turned into numbers and realized that had been done before and was google-able also lol

macallik,

Thanks for sharing, likely will implement this!

macallik,

Care to share the lofi mpv one? I use both lol

macallik,

Good to see someone else using trash & bat. Kudos for the clean alias file w/ commented headers too! I just started doing it recently and it makes edits/additions so much easier

macallik,

Care to elaborate?

For me, it once caused an issue once when I thought I was deleting files to make space for /boot/efi/ being at capacity (dual booting issues at the time) when in actuality I was just moving files to an impromptu trash can created on /boot/efi (so the lack of space remained the same lol), but on numerous occasions, it has actually saved my ass and allowed me to retrieve documents that I realized I needed to look at again.

The only other quirk is it straight up ignores all options, so I've tried to delete interactively (rm -i) and then had to use trash-list to view the deleted files

macallik,

same

macallik,

I appreciate the focus on verbosity. I should probably set more of my defaults to follow the same thought process 🤔

macallik,

More info. Got really big during the thick of covid.

macallik,

Another wttr user 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

macallik,

The best alliases are little inside jokes that are easy to remember imo

macallik,

ahhh a pormanteau lol, I like it

macallik,

Gonna steal/repurpose the shutdown one, use the "sudo docker" = "docker" one and also the grub one. Good lord @ all the configs you edit lol.

macallik,

Some random ones I created over the last week or so:

alias clipboard='xclip -selection clipboard' # Allows me to pipe output directly to my keyboard. good for pwd for example.

Function allows me to get tldr and cheat responses to commands quickly
function cht() {
curl cheat.sh/$1
}

Easy calculator so that I can do math w/o launching a specific app
function calc() {
echo "scale=3; $@" | bc
}

macallik,

I only use it so that I can watch DRM content (Udemy, HBO, etc)

macallik,

Say what you will about the seemingly 'half-pregnant' approach, but I'm running a Debian laptop/desktop/server thanks to being able to dip my toes in via WSL (and truly testing the water via Crostini that did the trick).

Today's WSL user is tomorrow's Linux convert after a few more negative articles and BSODs

macallik,

Thanks for sharing! I think I'll implement the alias in the near future once I get more comfortable w/ Docker

macallik,

The lure of far right themes are globalized admittedly

  • Hates migrants
  • Ravaged by a drug crisis
  • Glorifies the past as a 'simpler' time (even while acknowledging that this time had apartheid)

From MAGA to South Africa to Eastern Europe

macallik,

Good read, provided context that I didn't have before as a newbie

macallik,

Mines too. Glad it's happening tho to circumvent the e-waste from those that aren't as aware/adventurous.

macallik,

Beat me to it. I wouldn't give viewership to Fox News to watch conservatives get 'owned'

macallik,

Way to go Cali!

macallik,

Very similar experience. He did a good job of building to the "Ok but why does this matter" aspect of it all

macallik,

In the video he provides additional use cases outside of crashes. If I'm understanding it correctly, one is the ability to seamlessly transition across and/or run multiple DE's in real-time, and the second is reimagining app loading by being able to restore apps from the disk as if they never left RAM. Someone please correct me if I misinterpreted this

Totalitarianism. What are the good things about it?

(Wikipedia) Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme...

macallik,

I think the issue is that you are hypothesizing what you think you'd like, while ignoring all the real life examples that show things can go astray. For example, you talk about the benefits of not having a million little kings w/o acknowledging that the one kingmaker can make the head of groceries his inept brother-in-law who pockets half of the funds.

Instead of responding to people why you like totalitarianism, how about you show reference a historical example that was beneficial to a society?

macallik,

I took this Udemy course for ~$10. Great lecturer who is passionate about Linux and FOSS

macallik,

GNOME = iOS where they make decisions for you
KDE = Android where it's completely customizable

Based on my (limited) experience, Gnome is especially well suited for people new to Linux or inundated with too much to worry about customizing a DE.

Personally, my desktop runs KDE and I've spent hours researching/customizing it, while my laptop which is a glorified web browser, runs GNOME

Where to find guide on self hosting for a complete beginner?

I am completely new to the realm of self hosting. I don’t know a single thing about how I can self host stuff. Regardless, I have the curiousity to learn it by myself but I don’t know where to start. I cannot find any sort of wiki or FAQ articles, nor do I have the ability to ask the forum for every single problem or doubt I...

macallik,

Definitely look into laptop servers. They have the benefit of having a built-in screen, keyboard and battery in case power goes down. IMO, as a fellow newbie, it's an easy way to dip your toes into hosting using existing/cheap resources

macallik,

I'm 75% finished with the book myself!

macallik,

I'm 75% finished with the book myself!

macallik,

Great book, I'm looking forward to the movie adaptation as well

What are you Reading? (August 2023) (lemmy.world)

I’ve put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It’s mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I’m going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading....

macallik,

I'm 75% finished with the book myself! Going to jump into the Wheel of Time series after I cleanse my palette w/ some non sci-fi books

macallik,

I finished it tonight. I preferred an all or nothing finale and so wasn't quite as enthused but c'est la vie.

I felt the same about some of the Expanse books slowing down in the middle as well fwiw (maybe slowing down isn't the right word, but there were 2-3 books where it felt like you had to read 60% of the book before the real problem emerged that made the storyline more gripping and less misc en scene-esque)

macallik,

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