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thethirdobject,

I understand where you’re coming from, but you’re expressing your taste and values in a very dismissive way

thethirdobject,

That’s not what you said, you don’t get to lecture me by pretending you said something else.

Anything illegal deserves more yuck than I can count, but expressing your personal taste towards things that are legal and socially accepted (while frown upon) by dismissing a behaviour that you personslly disagree with is… dismissive.

thethirdobject,

it eggs ten state

thethirdobject,

I just had to stop and note how great this comment is, I learned more in two sentences than in several articles relying on my attention for money. Thank’s!

thethirdobject,

At least instant coffee makes sense in an economical way: it saves steps and time. what i don’t get are filter coffee machines, the coffee they make is always horrendous.

thethirdobject,

one suggestion: pocketcasts

thethirdobject,

there was an interesting take about that on the wan show (not ms but steam). the emphasis was on steam’s value, which is unknown but actually very high

Of all the sketchy eCommerse sites (Wish, Aliexpress, Temu), which is the "safest?"

I always hear stories about the dangers of buying from WIsh.com, Aliexpress, and recently Temu. I’ve jokingly called them “buyer beware” sites even. Yet people still use them, and there’s just as many positive results as negative. But I’ve also heard about unexplained card charges, data hacks, pyramid-scheme-like...

thethirdobject, (edited )

you’re mostly being judgy on the internet towards strangers, so there’s that

also, I don’t know where you live (nor do you know where op lives by the way), but as an example I asked the other day in one of the only electronics shop in my town, if they had Thunderbolt 3 cables and they just answered “no”. I have a ton of examples like that: video projectors, canon proprietary cards for their cameras, printer ink for my printer, a case for my phone, a new piece for my turntable, a new battery for my bluetooth speaker, etc.

thethirdobject,

You assumed op were young because that allowed you to display your wisdom, while answering a question they didn’t ask. when someone pointed that out and someone else said that ordering online had advantages because you could find things you otherwise wouldn’t, you got defensive.

thethirdobject,

It’s actually quite hard to buy alcohol in Sweden. You can’t buy it in a regular supermarket you have to go to a special shop, that is open at different times, etc. And it’s expensive.

thethirdobject,

From what I remember it was even 2,5%. Really bad surprise when you take your first sip in the camping and you just wanted to enjoy a beer after 2 weeks in the wilderness.

thethirdobject,

I am really pleased with all the answer I got and surprised by their wholesomeness. You were able to bring some clarifications on important points that have been really obscure for me for a long time. I will take some time to reply and/or ask follow-up questions, but I wanted you to know that your help is appreciated.

thethirdobject,

Thank you for the suggestions, I’ll besure to look into it. I think I had an intuition but completely underestimated the importance of the community around a specific distro. When you’re not actively using Linux, it’s hard to grasp what criteria should be favored and what significance they will have, not just for anybody but for me.

So I should try it, and I must say the more I hear about fedora the more interested I am.

thethirdobject,

I used gnome a long time ago and didn’t really like it, but it might be worth a try. A lot of things change in ten years!

thethirdobject,

The comment about the driver to support retina screens is appreciated, that’s the kind of thing that could make me go around in circle for too long. I’ll check it out thanks!

thethirdobject,

Thank you for taking the time to explain my muddied understanding of linux and its various distros! You’re completely right about the stuff around packages and updates being the important differentiators, and it’s really hard to grasp without using linux and testing different things. Coming from popos and typing apt-get in steamos, but wait I should use pacman and oh what are those AppImage I keep hearing about: that was really confusing because I didn’t know what knowledge I lacked and how to look it up. reason was and some information about it was just contradictory. I think the steamos thing changing from debian to arch actually confused me a lot too, plus contradictory information and command lines, etc.

From what I gather, and thinking back on my short and past, while appreciated, incursion into the linux world:

  • I prefer KDE over gnome (I think that’s what’s bothering me about my install of popos at the moment)
  • Typing command line doesn’t bother me (on the opposite: I feel like I understand what is going on better if I can actually type in commands), but I don’t fully understand the difference and advantages/disadvantages between pacman, apt, yum, etc. I’m more used to apt and I feel like there’s more information available, but that’s it.

Thank you also for the info about nitrux and the others, there is a lot of confusion between prettiness (or eye-candiness ;) ) and actually good ui/ux, and you were on the point.

thethirdobject,

It was a great info dump and I’m thankful for it!

thethirdobject,

on SteamOS you don’t install things to your system (i.e. the equivalent to apt/yum/pacman/portage in other distros) because it’s immutable, but there is a store to install Flatpaks for your user which I’m sure you can install on other distros (or something similar enough)

That’s exactly what I didn’t understand without knowing I didn’t understand it!

SteamOS used to be debian based, it’s now Arch based, not that that should matter to you because 90% of using a Linux for day to day will be through the DE or with commands that are the same for all distros, so anything with Plasma/KDE will look and behave the same as SteamOS.

While that’s true, 10% is a big percentage!Especially when you first discover a distro, you spend a lot of time trying to understand how to install this and why is that not working, at least for me: not being unable to replicate what little knowledge I had about linux (from ubuntu and popos) on steamos really confused me, even though I tried to gather as much information as I could.

I guess steamos being immutable also played a big part in my confusion…

thethirdobject,

Understanding that 1. steamos is arch-based and 2. it means it manages packages differently from debian-based distros just cleared up a lot of confusion

thethirdobject,

pogs too

thethirdobject,

oh ok

thethirdobject,

really? i think i completely ignored that

thethirdobject,

I don’t use windows but I was curious and checked out the website, their proposition looks really interesting

thethirdobject,

the number of comments here who use hard sciences’ criteria as the ones and only defining the validity of knowledge is concerning. Human sciences don’t have the same foundations, methodologies, etc. as harde sciences, they don’t have the same system of validation either, which doesn’t mean it’s less valid.

thethirdobject,

“Light bounces around, getting in the shade does nothing against sunburn because the sunrays are bound to get to your skin from elsewhere than just a straight line”

thethirdobject,

That’s uselessly pedantic. But to answer your question, and to use a comparison more in line with the original comment: I think most people won’t get sunburnt during the night, enough so that it shouldn’t be a concern.

thethirdobject,

I downloaded the app as soon as it came out and I exclusively use Firefox. Are you perhaps logging using your Google account? I don’t know if it could be that.

thethirdobject,

as a Swiss, it is an issue. our glaciers are metling more and more every year and we rely on hydropower a lot, we need all the rain and water we can get, even if it seems like there is a lot.

thethirdobject,

you seem confused

thethirdobject,

It made me think of this video from the rooster teeth podcast, where burnie tells a joke his dad used to tell (and this is the animated version).

thethirdobject,

people seem to forget d2 got updated a lot too, it wasn’t the balanced game people know right from the start, and we had to wait for litteral years after d1

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