noughtnaut

noughtnaut, 6 months ago

It’s a DUST short, but check out Iteration One on YouTube.

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

Seconded.

Without a single word on replacements for email, calendar, phone, etc… this post is pretty much useless to everyone else than the OP.

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

Great, thanks!

How does Thunderbird work for you wrt to sharing calendars with others (eg. family) and syncing with eg. an Outlook calendar?

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

I heartily commend you for asking, and was happy to see you get a good response.

“What is the most common distro” is not straightforward to shat because of the breadth of users. Arch is one of the more… esoteric… distributions, it will allow you very, very fine grained control of everything - but it also requires you to be able to make those choices. At the other end of the scale we might find Ubuntu and Mint which are far less customizable* but “just work” out of the box and, as such, are obvious choices for users new to Linux or unwilling to invest in “tinkering”.

Really, the freedom of choice is overwhelming to many newcomers, and at the same time the strength of the whole system.

*Any distro is very customizable. You can make nearly the same changes to Ubuntu and Arch, it’s just that Ubuntu is not designed to make that easy for you.

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

Non-ethical is not “as opposed to unethical”, I’m sure. Rather, it’s a word play on enm, ethical non-monogamy.

That’s how I read it, anyhow. I’m not the author.

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

I just love your very apt (although likely accidental) usage of distro hoping.

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

Pic? I’ve never heard of this.

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

Oh, the D! Now I get it.

Thank you so much!

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

I loved win XP, but it’s been steeply down hill since then, to this unbearable toddler ui. So I’m with you on that one. I’ve been on *nix for 20+ years now.

If you want to do basic window manager things, like press the meta key (also referred to as the winows key on non-macbooks) + direction arrow to have a window snap to a quadrant of your screen, you have to install a 3rd party application with Homebrew.

you don’t need brew to install a window manager, although the fact that brew lets you treat it like a linux box is great.

Please tell me more.

My new job gave me a Mac. First one I’ve used … that has a colour screen, and boy have things (and myself) changed in the interim. I spent the entire first day figuring out what the buttons even do. Am I really expected to use the mouse (well, trackpad) this much? The first port replicator I bought only did one screen, I’m hoping the one now in the mail does better…

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

🍃

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

I haven’t seen it - any relation to the Swedish artist Stålenhag?

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

Upvote - but dude, don’t link to twitter posts that link to youtube videos…

Link 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9V0Wq3TKTY

Link 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-kRsZfpxZw

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I’m sorry, I should not have been so harsh. Basically I’m still thankful that you shared the links.

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

Awesome. That’s the code table book I have and love. Those old Volvo’s and Saab’s parked by COOP stores just take me back to my preschool years. Ah, when summers were long and warm and I didn’t at all mind having sand in my pockets and shoes…

noughtnaut, 7 months ago

*circadian

noughtnaut, 8 months ago

Look into rooting it and putting a different Android rom on it, I’m sure there’s something for your phone to extend its life quite a bit.

…unless you’re tired of that phone.

noughtnaut, 8 months ago

So you are the one who killed YouTube.

Never let it be said that a single person can’t make a mark on this world.

😉 No really, I just wish you success with your endeavour.

noughtnaut, 8 months ago

Longitude is the film that, for me, made him stand out as an actor.

noughtnaut, 9 months ago

3.11 is Python for Workgroups, right? Feels like it came out ages ago…

noughtnaut, 9 months ago

Inclement weather, just FYI. Although, your spelling also makes a lot of sense in the current times…

Not bashing your point though, that’s a good one.

noughtnaut, 9 months ago

I’m grateful you folks are doing something to combat the rising water levels.

^(/s just in case)^

noughtnaut, 10 months ago

“Good bot human”

I’ve seen you around on occasion. I wanted to thank you for doing this probably menial task but also ask, out of curiosity, why you’re doing it?

noughtnaut, 10 months ago

Good bot.

I am so happy to see some of the useful bots make a reappearance here. And you got yourself quite the nifty name, too.

noughtnaut, 10 months ago

Hey umm so … homeopathy. There is a case to be made --hear me out here please-- that it might have been effective once, but now we’ve got millions of “practitioners” doing things that clearly do not work.

The reasoning is obvious.

The concentration of practitioners within the population is too damn high (insert meme here). To show how effective it can truly be, all we need to do is to dilute the ratio … by a lot.

Don’t you agree that this is worth looking into?

(/s in case anyone is in doubt)

noughtnaut, 10 months ago

Yes. My previous job used Linux (and OpenVPN), but I started a new job recently, which involves Windows 10 (and three separate VPN apps) on my workstation, and it’s driving me insane! I can’t even find half the settings in looking for, the start menu is a mess (until I found OpenShell which introduces an XP like start menu!), and the eternal requests to restart the damn thing. It drives me nuts.

noughtnaut, 11 months ago

I quite disagree, it is very hard. Sure, switching search engine takes all of two seconds, and email can be had from many vendors free and commercial.

But calendaring! A calendar that is at least somewhat integrated with am email client, supports more than one actual calendar, and has real-world capability to share them with others - “if you succeed in this, two me how.”

(not sure this worked as intended. I meant to reply to lemmy.world/comment/1748023)

noughtnaut, 11 months ago

I quite disagree, it is very hard. Sure, switching search engine takes all of two seconds, and email can be had from many vendors free and commercial.

But calendaring! A calendar that is at least somewhat integrated with am email client, supports more than one actual calendar, and has real-world capability to share them with others - “if you succeed in this, two me how.”

noughtnaut, 10 months ago

Fastmail

Ohh, this does indeed look quite fantastic. I am certainly going to look more into this. Thank you!

_Edit: Ah, but $50/user/year. For the whole family that adds up real fast. Still, nice tip.

noughtnaut, 11 months ago

For just a fraction of a second I considered showing you, by taking a screen shot… 🤦 I’m my defence, I’m suppressed to be asleep now.

Many phones used to have - some still have - a separate LED facing you that could light up to notify you of, uh, notifications. The first generation android phones just had green LEDs, eventually they all supported colour as well. Some OS’es or apps enabled you to set up per-app colour, blink/fade, and pattern configurations. Super neat, I was a huge fan.

On most modern phones [such apps] (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ragecon…) rarely work anymore, but on my OnePlus 5 I still have different colours for different notifications.

noughtnaut, 11 months ago

Mission fucking accomplished