If anyone is wondering why I have an extra reboot/shutdown window, it’s because the menu I use for apps doesn’t have it and I don’t like the menus which do. :D...
I use Plasma with a similar concept as yours, with two bars serving the same purposes.
My vertical icons-only bar goes in the lower-left, has chunkier, more glance-able icons (since pixels on the x-axis are plentiful) and this bar reserves its space from maximized windows. Think part WindowMaker/NextStep and part Unity.
Then a fully-opaque longer horizontal bar in the top-right with tray icons, a clock and a few hardware toggle widgets. Critically, like yours this toolbar stays on top of all windows (to make better use of my y-axis pixels), and my window decorations have left-aligned buttons and titles so max-height windows rarely have their titles cut off by the bar.
Just a question. We see it supports X or Y new games, or improve Z or A games. But does those change are made specifically for those games, or do they improve the code in general and it affects older and ancients games ?
Exactly. Vending machines have never needed complex ways of detecting when a customer is ready to buy something, because there’s really no need for anything beyond having a button available for customers to communicate to the machine “I’d like to buy something”. What it sounds like to me is they’re using the facial recognition technology to track the demographics of who buys what and how often. Do men like X snack more than Y? Do women buy more in the morning or afternoon? Stuff like that.
Really? I use the Google Homes and they say “today it’ll be cloudy, with a high of x and a low of y”.
Sometimes it also starts going off about “by the way, if you want a summary of your day, just say ‘good morning’” or some shit like that which is annoying but not quite annoying enough to figure out how to turn off.
Can I partition /home directory in a different drive and still function?
Yes, easily done.
Open KDE partition manager
Create your new partition in whatever filesystem you like. NTFS can be problematic.
Now copy the contents of /home to the new partition.
Once it’s transferred you can delete the contents of /home, or it will interfere with mounting from the new partition.
Now open KDE partition manager again to set the mountpoint of that partition to /home and check “automatically mount on boot”
You can easily repeat this process to move everything to your new new drive later.
In future if you install linux again, you can do this in the installer by simply telling it to mount X partition as Y mountpoint, even saving all your user files across installs!
We all love FOSS. Lately, many of us have expressed their disarray at hearing stories of maintainers quitting due to a variety of factors. One of these is financial....
What about an approach where there’s a website to facilitate people donating to FOSS project, and all that website needs is a list of possible recipients of the FOSS project (e.g., app developers, libraries it uses). When I want to donate I go to this website and say “I want to donate to Lemmy”, and it shows me “Lemmy has these possible recipients: X, Y, …”. When I say “I want to donate $10” the website asks “should we distribute this evenly among all Lemmy recipients?” (which might be the default) or I have the option of unchecking some recipients or or assigning some recipients a higher percentage of my donation.
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”::Tyler Perry is raising the alarm about the impact of OpenAI’s Sora on Hollywood.
Now say you made that animation with Sora. You have no manipulatable assets, just a set of generated frames that made the furry guy look in the wrong direction.
“Sora, regenerate $Scene153 with $Character looking at $OtherCharacter. Same Style.”
Or “Sora, regenerate $Scene153 from time mark X to time mark Y with $Character looking at $OtherCharcter. Same Style”.
It’s a new model, you won’t work with frames anymore you’ll work with scenes and when the tools get a bit smarter you’ll be working with scene layers.
“Sora, regenerate $Scene153 with $Character in Layer1 looking at $OtherCharacter in Layer2. Same Style, both layers.”
I give it 36 months or less before that’s the norm.
Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more....
It’s an unpopular opinion but we need to give credit and support to people who recognize their desires are fucked up and abstain.
Normal heteros and homos don’t arbitrarily pick to be turned on by X or Y, I don’t get why it’s so hard to understand that natural urge being jacked up.
Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.
I think you can charge per article on substack. Not entirely sure though.
Some newspaper charge X$ for Y articles, I think the NYTimes do it or used to. It’s usually a horrible deal compared to monthly subscription, but I think that’s the point.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that’s exactly what I meant by letting politics dominate one’s life.
I believe that a person’s morals and values can be assessed and expressed in a more meaningful way through their actions and words in day-to-day life than by looking at their political beliefs. In other words seeing how a person treats the people around them, how they handle adversity, and how they enjoy life matters more than making sure they agree with you on issues X,Y, and Z.
Sometimes political beliefs do indicate core differences in values. A great example is differences in opinion on welfare policies. This indicates different ideas about the role personal responsibility vs the role outside forces play on people’s lives.
My argument is that that sort of difference in ideals would become apparent very quickly without relying on political ideology to define it. Doing so shuts out any possibility of nuance and immediately turns slight differences of ideals and values into a larger, more hostile “us against them” issue. You’re not dealing with a person with a slightly different perspective anymore, you’re dealing with “the enemy”.
There is legal standing, IMO. You can’t take something without consideration, and access to the website was granted free of charge while the data collection was squirrelled away in the fine print. That isn’t a lawful contract, the fine print is for technicalities about the main transaction of X in exchange for Y. You can’t say "we’ll give you X for free!!!” then sneak into the fine print “(((you also give us Y for free)))”. The structure is clearly deceptive in a manner that is designed to prevent a fair assessment of the value being exchanged.
Insurers have to provide a “key facts page” where they summarise in plain English what you’re paying for. The fine print gives the detail, but the front page is still “we give you X in exchange for Y”.
You can’t build a car without paying for the nuts and bolts. Tech companies have placed themselves amongst the wealthiest businesses in the world without paying for the nuts and bolts we provide.
Hell, even Microsoft is in on it now, even though you pay for Windows and Office 365!
I’ve heard today that #autistic people don’t form habits, they create routines.
I thought of my ‘useful habits’ - and yeah, right, they are routines.
But then I thought: well, what’s the difference then? What is a habit if NOT a routine?
Can anyone help me with examples of what may be a habit, but not a routine?
@olena@actuallyautistic To my mind, the difference is that a routine has a schedule, even if it's a vague one - such as 'I must do x before I do y', or 'I must do z at some point before I try to sleep'.
A habit, on the other hand, happens not within a schedule but whenever you feel it is required. For example, 'I go for a run every day after work' is a routine; 'I go for a run every time I feel like I've been sitting still for too long' is a habit.
That's how I see it, anyway. Other opinions are available.
My biggest issue with most strong women characters in action movies is they seem to be swappable with a male and nothing changes.
They’re strong characters who are portrayed as a woman.
Take Ellen Ripley for example: strong woman. Can’t be played by a man as the character no longer makes sense. Has to be a woman. Someone else would get it wrong.
Also I’m getting tired of the “I had X amount of brothers” or “dad taught me Y” as justification. Why can’t a woman be strong on her own? Why does it have to be a man making her strong?
It’s not about having FANG in your job history. It’s about switching companies three times in three years.
Where I work, we tend to lose money on new hires for an average of the first six months. That’s time where not only the new engineer isn’t very productive, but other engineers on the same team aren’t very productive. They’re sinking time into difficult conversations like “yeah you need to go back and redo the last two weeks of work — it’s perfectly good code, but you used library X, and we decided four years ago to is use library Y because X has this rare edge case issue when combined with library Z which we also use…”.
If someone only works with us for a year… we haven’t made enough of a profit to cover the losses in the first half of their employment with us. If you want to work for us, we’re not going to force you into a multi-year contract but we do want to be as confident as possible that you’re going to stay here long term.
I wouldn’t turn someone down for changing jobs three times in three years… but I would definitely ask what happened. And they better answer with something that will happen at my company.
I’m trying to imagine a scenario where having needed to hire 500 people, personally
It takes, what, 10 minutes to read a resume? 30 minutes interview someone? Lets round that up to one hour to cover discussing two promising candidates with a colleague… it’s still only 500 hours of work. Or 12 weeks. Obviously you also need to read all the resumes and do interviews with people who were turned down but over an entire career working in HR for a large company… 500 people isn’t that many at all.
You’ve summed up the key take-aways I got from my youthful protests of days gone by. 1) Teach the newbies about the current protest issue and possibly related issues. 2) Recruit. 3) Make contacts. 4) ORGANIZE. Not everyone can lead or organize for an issue, but everyone can be a helper. Your local government officials don’t care about your single voice, but they DO care if you represent a block of voters that are going to vote based on policy X. A petition with a bunch of signatures means more than a single letter, but an organized group with many letters and petitions and phone calls all identifying as voting members of Anti-Fraking-Club (or whatever), which meets every Y days and wants new regulation Z … that will get more attention. It might not be enough to combat the deep pockets on the other side, but enumerating the members of an organized voting block is better than noting some rabble rousers in the streets.
Question: Which one of the thousands of steps contributed to his death?
Answer: Every one of them.
Well, no, not one of them, he left with the plan in place already. He knew what the plan was, "When ‘X’ happens, ‘Y’ is the next step. ‘X’ is reaching Pacific, ‘Y’ is pulling trigger.
So answering your question, I was zero percent at fault for the choices they made. They did not have to choose to pull that trigger. Sure life might suck dirty scab filled balls, but not one person in their life made the choice to pull the trigger but them.
I wouldn’t mind if EU made it mandatory for them to be. I really hate that I have to use Whatsapp because it’s the sole way I can stay in touch with people I must be able to contact....
I closed my Facebook, Instagram, Signal, Skype, Telegram, and WhatsApp accounts, all at once.
That left the following choices for the others around me:
email
SMS
phone calls
meeting up in person
no more contact
or the last option: an account on my newly installed, self-hosted Snikket (XMPP) server.
The vast majority opted for an account on my server, a few chose a 3rd party XMPP provider, and one wanted a Snikket server of his own (the best option for federation!).
The ones I lost contact with are all people I never really communicated with anyway, we just existed in each other’s contact lists on the aforementioned services.
It’s easier to switch people over to a alternative, federated platform than you think. Sure, you may not be able to make them move away from the monolithic platforms, especially WhatsApp, but you sure can get them to follow you to a better platform of your choice.
My argument to support that claim is that the vast majority of people are only on platform X or Y because someone else suggested it to them, not because they discovered it themselves.
My friends and family preferred that to not being able to chat with me anymore. Some of them, who also had/have each other on WhatsApp have started using their Snikket accounts between themselves too, as they started to become aware of the privacy implications of WhatsApp and Meta.
Snikket is very easy to install if you have general Linux knowledge, and their support is excellent. It takes more time to get a Linux machine set up (I use a Raspberry Pi), install Docker, and configure your DNS, than it does to install Snikket itself. They also offer a hosted service if you can’t or don’t want to self-host. What really sells Snikket is the easy invitation based onboarding process, which takes the hassle out of account creation and app installation (an obstacle for many non-technical people).
It is focussed on groups of people who already know each other, e.g. family, a group of friends, clubs, or communities, which removes the need for mutual friend requests. It does this through the concept of circles, which are essentially groups with their own associated contact lists. Anyone added to, say, the Family circle will automatically have the others in that circle in their contact list. This takes a lot of the hassle out of switching to Snikket. Traditional chat groups are also supported. They can be created by the users themselves, and work just like chat groups on other platforms, including manually adding (inviting) other users. Circles are managed by the Snikket administrator.
Another good solution is Quicksy, which, like Snikket, is also based on XMPP and thus lets its users communicate with any other XMPP provider in the world. One downside to Quicksy is that it’s Android only. This is a requirement for account creation only, as the account can in theory be added to any iOS XMPP client, such as Siskin or Monal.
Snikket, on the other hand, provides both Android (based on Conversations) and iOS (based on Siskin) clients.
It has also received EU funding to work on things like account portability and multi-factor authentication for XMPP.
OMEMO end-to-end encryption is enabled by default.
It’s weird how little the news covers Ukraine. I feel like I know very little about what’s going on there, other than daily posts of <x> units of <y> destroyed.
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I have not played the original so I can’t do a comparison. I play on Linux with a Nvidia 3060Ti and fame runs fine, no real issues yet. If you read the forums though, it’s like any other game and does have some bugs for some people. It also being a souls like, means that it’ll never have enough of X or Y or Z for everyone. People complain it’s too hard, some that it’s too easy, some people hate invasions, others think that constant invasions make it better. I would watch a video or two with some game play and you could probably quickly tell if you would want to try it yourself. It also has multiple endings that you can’t do in one run, unlike a lot of the Elden Ring ending where you can then choose at the end.
That was the literal dumbest shit I’ve ever read in regards to your first paragraph. I don’t think any moderate or centrist describes their political leanings as “smack dab in the middle between X and Y”. I for one certainly don’t. But I’m centrist in that I hold viewpoints along the spectrum to both sides some for sure in the extreme ends on some matters, like for instance criminal justice.
Second paragraph you believe that I’m talking in general terms. I’m not dismissing Communism (and whatever we’d define as the opposite extreme) as extreme, I’m saying inside the spectrum of people considering themselves communists there are extreme opinions such as the USSR was a utopia. Or that Mao Zedong was a great leader. Non extreme takes there would be “The USSR did many things right in combatting inequality but ultimately fell short, it however was one of the best attempts we’ve seen so far, maybe we should improve upon that formula instead of the ones currently leading to year over year worse inequality”. For Mao Zedong you could highlight his impressive skill in unifying such a vast country as China and remodel the national identity to one of national Pride without the underpinnings of conquest and domination which has always seemed to follow a strong national identity before.
As for climate scientists the extreme take / opinion I often see is that the world is overpopulated and we need a drastic reduction, which is hardly what climate scientists propose but people read in all the time. That and eco terrorism.
Further we don’t have a perfect theory of civilization in terms of how to optimally structure society to maximize life quality for everyone. And even if we did there is no guarantee we could get literally everybody onboard. This is where politics come in and surprise surprise but there is no perfect solution to be had. Only the one we can agree on collectively or the one we can force through by virtue of the power we hold. And any agreement in a group larger than one is going to be a compromise and we need to be much better at trying to reach those. And not entrench ourselves in positions from which we cannot move without conflict of identity or morals. I.e. we can’t tie our political positions so tightly with neither identity nor morals such that we cannot reach a compromise to move further towards our desired state, if not directly towards it but diagonally.
This question is social/political, and meant to trigger a nice debate on the negatives of imbalanced infinite progressivism we seem to be heading in social and technological spheres, ignoring science, practicality and reason....
Hey all! Yesterday, I’ve made following post: How to choose your first distro - A guide for beginners (flowchart + text post) and need some input and critique from you....
Your response is proving my point. Go and read Debian’s philosophy and mission statements. It’s not a desktop-first distro, so why even mention it if your guide is for newcomers who probably want a desktop (that’s what you focus on).
So this is a good tip for technical writing in general, but try writing FOR the topic at hand in comparison to the feature being discussed, and don’t repeat previous comparisons unless a new idea is being introduced. What this means is: don’t mention “X isn’t Y” five times in the span of the topic at hand. It doesn’t convey any new or useful information, and it’s not a constructive structure to your document.
In your case, you don’t need to constantly hammer that “this distro doesn’t do this thing”. It’s not constructive for the reader to grasp what you’re trying to convey.
“This distro has this unique feature” on the other hand is constructive, and conveys useful information to the reader.
Your writing is just trying to move the reader to your point of view.
Anyone else using short toolbars and/or more than 1 toolbar? [KDE] (lemmygrad.ml)
If anyone is wondering why I have an extra reboot/shutdown window, it’s because the menu I use for apps doesn’t have it and I don’t like the menus which do. :D...
Release Proton 9.0 (Beta11) · ValveSoftware/Proton (github.com)
Note: This is a public beta release and will be updated more regularly with regression fixes prior to the Proton 9.0-1 release....
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students (arstechnica.com)
From the “no matter how bad you think it is, it’s worse” department.
Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default (www.androidauthority.com)
This means:...
I finally installed Linux, but I'm having a mixed experience
Hello I’m Doctor_Rex after 2 posts asking multiple questions I have finally installed Fedora KDE 39 on my desktop....
Love FOSS and want to donate? Here's how we can do it
We all love FOSS. Lately, many of us have expressed their disarray at hearing stories of maintainers quitting due to a variety of factors. One of these is financial....
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Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”::Tyler Perry is raising the alarm about the impact of OpenAI’s Sora on Hollywood.
A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men (www.nytimes.com)
Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more....
Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)
Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.
True to life (lemmy.world)
Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data (techcrunch.com)
There's way more than these two (i.imgur.com)
How many on-screen badass women can you name?...
‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral (www.geekwire.com)
‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral::undefined
Do protests actually do anything?
Tons of protests going on everywhere against Israel, but not a single government has changed their stance
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I wish messaging apps of same type were federated.
I wouldn’t mind if EU made it mandatory for them to be. I really hate that I have to use Whatsapp because it’s the sole way I can stay in touch with people I must be able to contact....
Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Claims Six Russian Jets Downed In Three Days (www.twz.com)
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ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? (www.thewrap.com)
China Vows to Centralize Tech Development Under Communist Party (www.bloomberg.com)
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Often we say infinite growth (capitalism) is not sustainable and reasonable. Can we also say infinite progressivism is also not sustainable and reasonable?
This question is social/political, and meant to trigger a nice debate on the negatives of imbalanced infinite progressivism we seem to be heading in social and technological spheres, ignoring science, practicality and reason....
Debian for newcomers? Follow-up for my distro-recommendation post, need some opinions
Hey all! Yesterday, I’ve made following post: How to choose your first distro - A guide for beginners (flowchart + text post) and need some input and critique from you....