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kurcatovium ,

If we’re talking Android, I can recommend MJ Pdf 100%.

kurcatovium ,

Try Vikunja, it might tick the box for you.

kurcatovium ,

I was buying new (used) car half a year ago. There were two reasons why I ended with ICE again.

  1. Price. EV, even used ones, are so damn expensive it’s just not for normal people. Everyone is saying how they lose value instantly and so on, but when I look at the market, even the cheapest ones (over 10 years old Nissan Leaf that will do less than 80 km on battery at summer) are ridiculously priced compared to ICE of the same age and similar specs. At least that’s what it is in my country.
  2. Chargers. I live in an appartement without garage, parking on the street. No way to charge it with “cheap household electricity” over night. There are I believe 3 chargers in my ~15k town and every single one is ridiculously overpriced. 1 kWh there costs almost as half a litre of gas. Considering fuel/electricity consumption, this is making the cost per km of both options virtually identical for me.

Everyone around me is very EV-skeptical and old fashioned. I’m not and I’m cheering for EVs. So I really wanted to switch, but hell it wasn’t making any sense yet.

A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)

Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....

kurcatovium ,

Tbh Apple Vision pro was probably designed to add more visual spam, not reduce it…

kurcatovium ,

You have quite a big inches in Germany, my friend.

kurcatovium ,

How does tomato sauce differ from ketchup? Isn’t it the same thing with different names in different parts of the world?

kurcatovium ,

Good to know. In that case I’ve never seen tomato sauce where I live, only ketchup.

kurcatovium ,

Yes.

kurcatovium ,

Something like Ventoy?

kurcatovium ,

How does it store images? Does it make one huge pile and sort it by metadata and external db magic?

kurcatovium ,

Ok, thank you.

kurcatovium ,

Thank you, will have to check the docs… I remeber someone told me it can’t import folder structure, but it’s been a while.

kurcatovium ,

Are you me? I used to play some online multiplayer games, but switching to linux (some 3 years ago?) and being less competitive came hand in hand. Now I enjoy single players only (with sprinkle of Path of Exile and World of Tanks (well, not really anymore)) and can’t understand why should I even consider going back to those toxic waters of competitive play… Am I officially old?

kurcatovium ,

… as is Windows Recall /s

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

kurcatovium ,

IIRC: about decade ago Ubuntu (still with its own Unity DE) processed system search in a way it shoveled amazon ads to users in first places. Or something lime that.

kurcatovium OP ,

Glad to hear that. Although I’m not fast reader (not even in my mother tongue) I like reading when it is meaningful. I chewed through Planescape: Torment after all…

As for time, I’m not strictly limited to exactly 1 hour. It’s just I simply can’t play 5 hours straight like a teenager can… so one hour was an estimate. Sometimes it’s an hour, sometimes it’s two.

After all it looks DE should be ok and this short burst shouldn’t spoil it. Thank you.

kurcatovium OP ,

I manage to play usually about 4 nights a week, so about day or two between sessions. This should be okay.

Reading all the comments, it looks like DE might be great pick for this interrupted play through. Glad to hear that, because everyone says it’s a great game.

Even though I have games like Skyrim or Kingdom Come at my account, it’s almost impossible to dig into those with this kind of gaming schedule. LA Noire was really great game for this.

kurcatovium OP ,

Thank you for heads up. Will definitely give it a try.

kurcatovium OP ,

Nice, thank you. This should be very helpful in case I won’t have time to play at all. Which is what sometimes happen, life is life, so you never know…

kurcatovium OP ,

Well, since I’m not native speaker I sometimes tend to miss some words/context without reading “subtitles” during voiceovers. On the other hand I’m glad there’s voiceover because it usually helps with immersion.

Fail to progress reminds me of my playthrough of Fallout 1 with very low INT character. Some conversation were priceless. It was usually things like “Mmmhm, unga bunga, huh” from my character and then sigh from the NPC like “Oh no, another village idiot…” I highly recommend to at least check some of these low int conversations on youtube - hillarious.

kurcatovium OP ,

That is brilliant and that’s shat I love about old Fallouts.

kurcatovium ,

I’m no runner, I was always terrible at it since childhood. Anything above 100 meters was too long and I couldn’t breath through it properly, which was quite a thing at school. I’m ordinary sized person, no (serious) health problem, just lack stamina for running.

But lately I found running to be quite “fun”. Or better world would be “relaxing”. I still suck terribly at it, but as I’m older, long gone from high school, I don’t care. I live right at the edge of town so literally hundred steps to the nature, so once I feel like I need to empty my head, I go running. While I slowly choo choo around I can turn the brain completely off and just relax. And feel like dying later because I still lack the stamina past first kilometre lol.

kurcatovium ,

Although I’m not really terminal-heavy user, I use Yakuake multiple times a day. It’s awesome to have it ready all the time with one on keypress…

kurcatovium ,

Is it even possible to master emacs?

kurcatovium ,

QOwnNotes

Thank you for recommending this. I started using Joplin about week or two ago, but this one seems even better for me.

kurcatovium ,

I’ve read a short story with similar theme from mostly unknown local author. It was called something like “vampire car” and the car did not use fuel, but blood from the driver’s foot instead. Due to this it was unbelievably fast, but deadly.

kurcatovium ,

I’ve heard of it, but did not read it (yet). The story I wrote about was from early 60s, which made it quite unique IMO.

kurcatovium ,

I really like what I’ve read from him, although it wasn’t that much. Book of some short horror stories and The Stand, which was really amazing (to the point I watched that mediocre TV series with Gary Sinise, which was quite let down after the book). I’ve also recently got Under the Dome, so that’ll be my next read I think.

kurcatovium ,

I don’t mind long winded books as long as it’s still interesting read with things happening. I’m really looking forward to reading this.

kurcatovium ,

Most of the remaining space is used by porn obviously…

kurcatovium ,

Well, you rely on third party devs. So there might be conflicts or breakage when something updates and something doesn’t. Not sure how it is in reality, but this gnome stubbornness is quite off putting to me.

kurcatovium ,

I wonder what’s everyone doing with KDE? I’ve been using it for over 3 years on my PC and it was always rock solid for me. It’s openSUSE Tumbleweed with all AMD build.

Truth be told I don’t customize it heavily. Just minor tweaks here and there with the rest being default, which I find good enough.

kurcatovium ,

It depends on what programs and how much do you need them. Some are fine with plain wine, some need more tinkering. There are multiple ways, starting from lutris, through bottles, to steam’s “non-steam game”. But still there are some SW that just won’t work on linux no matter what.

kurcatovium ,

There’s also mojeek.com running their own index. Not perfect, but sometimes usable.

kurcatovium ,

That was unexpected, but welcome message. Thanks for caring.

kurcatovium ,

Schwarzwald!

kurcatovium ,

I’m no big fan of car games (unlike my brother), but I played tons and tons of Porsche Unleashed. Awesome game for sure.

[Solved] Tumbleweed update killed my gaming

Has anyone else had this problem? I updated my openSuse Tumbleweed today (restart required), and now none of my games work. Most are through Steam, so at first I thought it was that. But I have Cyberpunk through GOG launched with Heroic. And even more, Alien Arena has the same problem, so it’s not even a proton issue (I did...

kurcatovium ,

Snapper for the rescue! Again. I still don’t get how everyone else ignores this awesome piece of software?!

kurcatovium ,

It comes preconfigured in openSUSE and requires 0 skill.

kurcatovium OP ,

There are multitude of OS & software in running. Some people still use DOS, but most of those were already upgraded - to windows XP. These machines are currently being replaced with Win10 ones. But due to some specific old SW there still need to be some DOS machines running, at least for couple upcoming years. Linux is sadly not an option for typical office workers, again due to some software in use. There’s at least open source in places where possible with more (Firefox, Thunderbird, tightVNC, …) or less (LibreOffice) success.

kurcatovium OP ,

Thanks for deep reply. I’ll chew through it.

Documentation is non-existent now and that’s what bothers me the most. I, at least, started to put my agenda and acquired how-tos to plain txt files for future, because with so much shit going on I tend to forget stuff. I’d like to extend it and make it system-wide to cover all the IT related stuff in the company with some proper software to do it in (no idea which). But there’s virtually no way this lack of documentation will change dramatically anytime soon. There’s simply no will from higher ups and even if there was, there would be no manpower to do it :-( We’re barely holding things running.

kurcatovium OP ,

It’s small grocery store chain in the middle of European nowhere, with about hundred of stores run mostly in small villages. Some of those ancient software was made in-house decades ago for internal ordering from wholesaler (also run by the company) to individual shops. Everything in wholesale warehouse runs on the same DOS thing too, with stock inventory, invoice, ordering, … There’s already plan to (finally!!) put it to sleep and replace with something newer and more flexible, but given how low on resources and manpower the company is, it’s not going to happen fast.

kurcatovium OP ,

We recently had discussion on this too and 365 is also a possibility. Nobody wants to deal with MS and their licensing though :-D

kurcatovium OP ,

I haven’t tried, but given how quirky it is (in house development decades ago with patches and hotfixes stuck to it over years) I highly doubt it would work. The main problem is that there’s no will to use Linux in office environment…

We’re at least running it on POS machines - about 150 openSUSE installs - where there’s nothing fancy needed.

kurcatovium OP ,

That’s what we’re using now and where quite some problems come from. I don’t have anything against it, it’s awesome suite for personal use, but running it in company we constantly run into problems with compatibility. Every partner we’re dealing with is using MS Office and when they’re exchanging spreadsheets or documents with us it’s often pain in the a*s to make it work. And MS is not helping in this…

kurcatovium ,

What was supposed to be possible for streamers to say then? “Well I can’t criticize, so the game must be great. Ehm, is it? Nobody can say.”

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