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Young humanoid in the UK. Proudly LGBT. Slava Ukraini! | they/them

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(This is from cohost)

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

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I have a few machines, which run:

  • Raspbian Bookworm (arm64) with IceWM - Raspbian is the only desktop RPi distro that works out-of-the-box. I chose IceWM because it's fast, light, customisable, and I can make it look like it's 2004.
  • openSUSE Tumbleweed with Xfce+Bspwm - I keep going back to openSUSE. It just works. As for the desktop, I wanted Xfce but with tiling.
  • Mageia 9 with LXQt - I just needed something lighter than Fedora Xfce, as this machine only has 4GB of RAM.
  • FreeBSD with i3 - Thought I'd give BSD a try. I was pleasantly surprised.
  • Gentoo (WIP) - I'm just throwing random distros at my MacBook until something sticks. Gentoo is fast and can control the fan without me having to git clone and compile the drivers (ironically).
  • crunchbang++ (i386) with Openbox - This is a mid-2000s MacBook, running one of the few Linux distros that actually boots on it.

Some distros I tried but did not like were Pop!_OS, Slackware, Zenwalk, Freespire, Redcore, Fedora Atomic, ArchBang, and antiX.

Sone distros I'd like to try are Qubes OS, Clear Linux, CRUX, Kwort, Paldo, Exherbo, NuTyX, T2, Chimera, Adélie, Frugalware (no new ISOs since 2016, but the packages are still updated), Dragora, Parabola, Hyperbola, PLD, KANOTIX, Calculate, ALT, ROSA, and AUSTRUMI.

The reasons I have not yet tried these are mostly down to my limited hardware and the complexity of some of the distros. With others, it's often down to WiFi drivers not existing for my proprietary cards. And then there are also a couple of distros from Russia, which I feel I can't trust at the moment.

hellfire103 ,
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Last I heard, the CCP did a bit of social engineering and got a load of TikTokkers to post videos in juggalo makeup in order to retrain their facial recognition software.

I don't recall if it was successful, but it happened.

hellfire103 ,
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goddamn...

hellfire103 ,
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Use Smidge. It's the best repellant.

Also, get some citronella. You can get it as oil (for burning), as tealights, as rope (also for burning), as incense... It does the trick in Northumberland, though I'm not so sure about Loch Latrine. Those midges might be a bit tougher.

hellfire103 ,
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You could try running the .deb through alien(1p), although it can be hit-and-miss if the package has a lot of scripts or dependencies.

hellfire103 ,
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It's an old program that converts between .deb (Debian), .rpm (RedHat), .tgz (Slackware), .slp (Stampede), .pkg (Solaris), and LSB packages.

I don't use it much, but it can be handy in a pinch for installing software that isn't packaged for your distribution. Just don't use it for anything low-level or that's already packaged natively, or you'll break stuff.

hellfire103 OP ,
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(This is from diaspora*, btw)

hellfire103 ,
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Where would The Runaway Bride go? It's set in 2006, but they also travel to shortly before Earth is formed.

Also, what about episodes that are set outside of time or entirely within the TARDIS (e.g. Time Crash)? Or when all of time sort of happens at once (e.g. The Big Bang, The Wedding of River Song)?

What about false realities (e.g. Amy's Choice, Extremis)? Bubble universes (e.g. The Doctor's Wife, Hide)?

And then there's the matter of the Doctor and River. Do we go in the Doctor's order, or in River's order?

What about cliffhangers and cyclic stories?

Absolutely I'd do this, but I'd need a very large corkboard and about a mile of red yarn to figure out the order.

hellfire103 ,
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I think I just heard the collective facepalm of every lemmy user who clicked on this.

Best Android spreadsheet editor?

I tried Collabora on a Galaxy Droid and it was such a massively buggy disappointment: in a .ODS file, I couldn't backspace more than once; I could only delete one character at a time. I had to enter another character or move the cursor or do something else before it would take another backspace. I don't understand how this app...

hellfire103 , (edited )
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You could give ONLYOFFICE a try. It defaults to Office Open XML formats, but it can read and edit OpenDocument files just fine.

EDIT: electro1 has just told me that ONLYOFFICE has trackers. One look on Exodus and, sure enough, they're right. Sorry!

hellfire103 ,
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Wait, WHAT‽

hellfire103 ,
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A user by the name of electro1 has just told me that apparently it now contains trackers. I had no idea. Sorry.

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.onlyoffice.documents/latest

I'll keep an eye out to see if anything else turns up that's FOSS, but doesn't spy.

hellfire103 ,
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Here's a non-paywalled version: https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uyghur-women-fighting-china-surveillance/

hellfire103 ,
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ONLYOFFICE Personal should have you covered.

hellfire103 ,
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Alternate Title: Instagram, the series

/j

hellfire103 ,
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I want to see this.

hellfire103 OP ,
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I coded that homepage myself, so absolutely! I'll send you a copy with the bookmarks anonymised.

I have the file saved as ~/homepage.html, but you can put it anywhere.

hellfire103 OP , (edited )
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Here you go: https://send.vis.ee/download/2d46f89736b9030f/#aHY7G94XDxE_t9IT09Ez0Q

The download has expired.

hellfire103 OP ,
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Here's another link: https://send.vis.ee/download/025f39a333cc89c8/#PGnMTaC-uy39XXt-H0PYNA

hellfire103 OP ,
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Wherever you like! It's just an HTML document.

You'll then need to tell your browser to use it as the startpage. For example, if the file is stored under:

/home/user/homepage.html

then set your startpage, homepage, or new tab page to:

file:///home/user/homepage.html

If your browser is installed as a Flatpak, you may need to change some settings in Flatseal to get it to work.

hellfire103 ,
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This is literally the only reason I'm considering a PhD: I can put "Dr." on official documents and it'll be accepted.

Shoelace: Alternative frontend for Instagram's Threads ( sr.ht )

Hello Lemmy! Yesterday I released the first version of an alternative frontend for Threads: Shoelace. It allows for fetching posts and profiles from Threads without the need of any browser-side JavaScript. It's written in Rust, and powered by the spools library, which was co-developed between me and my girlfriend. Here's a quick...

hellfire103 ,
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Great work! This will be so useful!

Let's just hope ⓜⓔⓣⓐ don't completely kill this project, like they did with Bibliogram.

hellfire103 ,
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Is that LinkedIn?

hellfire103 ,
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Well, I mean you can probably blame Earth for a lot of issues; although I suppose it's the population and not the planet itself.

hellfire103 ,
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I swear it's being trained on Tumblr shitposts. These are too ridiculous to be hallucinations.

More AI dumbfuckery

hellfire103 ,
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Could you please share your dotfiles?

hellfire103 ,
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The best feature Microsoft ever introduced in Windows was Linux. If you are able to, give WSL a go.

hellfire103 ,
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Looks like the RPi 5 I got a month ago will be my last...

hellfire103 ,
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Its blue relative is less dangerous, but still best avoided.

hellfire103 ,
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I can't decide if I want to die or emigrate.

hellfire103 ,
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I really needed to here this. Thank you.

hellfire103 ,
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"Aw, you wanna piece of me?!"

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