Godless heathen here.

Yeah, but what’s more feasible? Uniting a complacent society and not knowing when or where your next meal will be, or taking a hot check home and living comfortably? Especially when kids come into the mix. Why do you think they want to push the “have kids” and anti-abortion agenda? Because you’re only going to think about the best for your family and the best is stability and peace when it comes to children.

I don’t disagree with you, but I don’t condemn the little people trying to survive, either.

Big corp exploiting the wage workers? Who’da thunk it…

Imagine if we all stopped doing the “little jobs”.

Yeah, I was just thinking this needs a lot more upfront info. I mean, kudos for the site that harkens back to the 90’s infomercial era and keeping it comfortable for those generations, but a page with some specs and actual info would go nicely with that.

I mean, I just plug the drive in once every week or so, move any new personal, irreplaceable files to the drive via whichever file manager I fancy at the time, and then set it aside for next backup.

There’s no replacement for physically backing up your data. Automation can even be the cause of file loss. Take it from someone who has spent days recovering their files via disk recovery tools.

External drives are camping kits for PCs. If you have one, then it doesn’t matter if you lose your system, just reinstall or install something new, open your camping kit and make camp. Make a dotfiles repository if you want to save your home and app configs.

Windows and Mac is like a long term home ownership with a car, kids, partner, and too many bills to be free again. Linux is a nomad life. Nothing is for certain and you could lose your tent in a thunderstorm if you don’t stake it down properly.

Also, Timeshift is a very rudimentary and first-layer protection. Something that got configured wrong could have been configured wrong months ago and you may not have caught it at the time and all the restore points you’ve kept could have the same problem.

Yeah, it really speaks volumes about the devs. It means that no matter how innocent the package may be or how long its been there, they still pick through it all multiple times to make sure their users are safe and happy.

But RIP Deepin users. Tbh though, I’ve been hanging around Linux forums a while and still have yet to see someone who actually daily drives Deepin, lol.

There really wasn’t a lot of ramp up to it but there were Discord screenshots of his toxic personality being put down in r/feedthebeast at the time and (iirc) one of the devs that actually did do work on the project quoted the whole “poly” thing. Dunno if there was a screen of it, though.

But even before that, there was apparently some horrible stuff that MultiMC did that resulted in PolyMC and other forks in the first place. That whole application has a shady past, tbh.

I’m just trying to say, use Hyprland if you like Hyprland. There WILL be a fork of it someday. That is always guaranteed to happen when a dev becomes a piece of shit. Its all about when it is going to happen, but by all means move over to the fork when it does.

As long as its open source and money does not change hands, you are in no way directly supporting a fascist dev. Once that software is on your PC that software is yours to do what you want with it, not the dev’s. By all means, design your Hyprland as pro-trans with trans flag colors. I endorse that wholeheartedly, in fact. 🏳️‍⚧️

I just don’t like when people get auto-labeled for something they use or do. Its basic stereotyping and it drives me nuts. A lot of people just don’t want to give the benefit of the doubt to others before even getting to know them. Getting branded because of a piece of software you enjoy is just… its up there, at any rate. I really can’t put words to how frustrated it makes me. I don’t even use Hyprland (I did try it, though). I run KDE because I’m a dirty mouse user. I’m much too smoothbrain for a tiling WM.

Absolutely this. Too many people think that because you use some open source software from some fascist dev that “obviously you’re fascist, too”.

Bigotry: obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

Hating on Hyprland users that know what’s going on but still really like the software fits this definition. Plus, isn’t the biggest kick in the face having the exact people you hate use and enjoy your software?

This is exactly why I switched from PolyMC to Prism Launcher. The PolyMC dev was a fascist prick and an anti-gay/trans activist. His fear was that PolyMC was “going to get taken over by the gays due to the name having Poly in it (as in polysexual)”, so he started banning all the devs who disagreed with him or even made a joke about it.

Those devs forked the project and, to rub salt in the wound, made the icon rainbow. But guess what? Its the same software. They forked it because they still liked it and wanted to use it. The software itself had absolutely nothing to do with the dev.

I love list launchers, but I just can’t stop using Kvaesitso. It has a list mode for apps and one optional dock for your first x amount of favorites. But it really shines when it comes to widgets. Swipe up to go through a widget list.

I need to have my two coffee timers and one tea timer widget as well as my step counter and audiobook player, so I need something with widgets and Kvaesitso does it so well.

Same, but rather than not wanting to pay its more like I can’t afford to pay.

That is quite a while, lol. To be fair though, there are an insane amount of lines in most packages. Quietly adding a brief line in a seemingly innocent features package is like hiding a needle in a haystack.

Its easy to overlook things when you have a pile of packages to review during every routine. Its especially true if they missed it the first time, since its easier to review changes in a package rather than go through the whole thing again.

Wow, nothing is sacred anymore. Luckily the only people I ever play with these days are my nephew, his girlfriend and my girlfriend.

We’re all local so we just play modded java on LAN and I host the server straight from PC. His girlfriend’s family lives downstairs from us so they can jump on even if we’re not home.

I do have a friend a couple hundred miles away who wants to play, so I might have to look into just getting a secured Bisect server running instead of hosting.

Yup. It was THE app to use way back in the day. Before that was Ventrilo, but setting up a Vent server was a pain in the ass. I got it working once, but it was a lot of port tinkering and giving out my IP to trusted friends.

Skype made it so easy to just click and call or else make rooms for your guild in whatever game you played at the time (my poison of choice was Ragnarok Online).

Then Skype changed hands, started monetizing, pushing Windows pre-installs, and would even watch conversations to make sure no one was using the app for sexual purposes.

It was an installation to two different PCs. I don’t think it has to do with NixOS rather than the installer software.

When I looked around on the web for solutions I found these tricks on a bug report, so at the time it had already been reported.

If it fails again, try these two tricks:

1. Install without swap and create a swap manually later.
2. When the installer gets to creating the swap, which iirc is about 49%, spam swapoff in your terminal.

I installed last October and had to do this, so it could be fixed now. For some reason NixOS mounts the swap immediately after creating it, which bugs the install process.

You have to be prepared to dive deep into configs and set a lot up yourself if you want to get into any tiling WM, but the payoff is crazy customization with nearly every shortcut designed by you to fit your needs. Its something you do if you want to be keyboard-centric. If you know how to touch type, it’d be well worth the time invested.

I went as far as making my own waybar in CSS on NixOS using home-manager. Crazy stuff, but its not too hard once you can understand what you’re looking at. Which honestly doesn’t take long at all. Bare minimum a couple weeks, really (unless you go NixOS and want to learn Nixlang and home-manager, then I’d say a month or so learning time).

This is very true, but iirc Obsidian has a community plugin that solves this. Just checked and its called Relay and even has offline editing. Not sure how its set up, because I know that Obsidian sync is a paid service.

I’d love to move off of Obsidian to a MD editor that’s completely open source, but I’ve tried them all and nothing tickles my fancy. I just love the plugin community for Obsidian. But that’s why I’m working on Neovim, because the plugin community there is HUGE.

Curious, I checked for Neovim collaboration solutions and found this.

Its a shame, I used to love OpenOffice and used it a lot. That was years ago. Now I use LibreOffice solely for Excel or else my resumes. Book writing I use novelWriter; notes I use Obsidian. What can I say, I love my markdown editors. I’m currently setting up Neovim to handle all my MD writing needs, though. I’m happy with my MD editors, but it gives me something to do and I like the idea of having one application handle it all.

Fedora is still good for now, but that’s the same for any distro. Any dev can pull shady shit. I really want to check out Nobara, which is Fedora based and designed for gaming. I believe it’s developed and maintained by GloriousEggroll, who we all know from GE-Proton.

But I’m too happy with vanilla Arch and NixOS.