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One of the few remaining browsers in 2024 that does not support profile switching (and no, a debug about:profiles page does not count as supporting profile switching), and sure, AI is absolutely what it needs right now to become relevant. /s

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Unfortunately not, that doesn’t meet the needs for either a different user, or a completely different use case. For example, I want to completely separate my work profile with a set of extensions, and my personal profile with a completely different theme and set of extensions. In most other browsers you simply click on your profile picture and choose “Switch Profiles” or something. Not Firefox nor its derivatives.

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Its a lost cause, I’ve wasted several weeks in August and September trying to make Nvidia and Wayland and hardware video decoding work on every distro imaginable, GNOME or KDE. I would have bought a card from Team Red outright if I knew how deep the rabbit hole went.

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Fuck ads, don’t normalize this. I left Reddit because of enshittification, and putting ads on lemmy is just another first step towards that inevitable end. I’ll just spin my own instance back up. I had one running but I took it down to avoid the influx of CSAM on some instances.

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I’m a simple man. I do simple things. I replace df, ls and top with more modern alternatives. Courtesy of this list.


<span style="color:#323232;">alias df="duf"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ls="eza --group-directories-first --long --group --sort=ext --icons --all"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias top="btm"
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I had to scroll way too far down to find this.

milkjug ,
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Another vote for LFS. I like that it is really at the right level of depth (assuming that you already have a basic grasp of computing in general). Even if you end up going with a distro, reading through LFS gave me insights as to why certain things were done in certain ways. Alot of “quick-start” style guides tell you what command to type in, but for brevity reasons, they don’t explain what the command does. For example, you may come across many guides tell you to type sudo or sed or echo or | or >>. It may seem daunting at first, but gradually as you become more at ease with the CLI, all these will start to make sense.

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One more tip, if you already have a Windows environment, spin up VMs with Hyper-V and start from there. Anytime you mess up, just nuke the VM and spin up another one. I must have burnt through hundreds of VMs (hyperbole) while testing out distros that I like.

Linux can be used at your workplaces (lemmy.ml)

I’m just tired. On the last post about having Linux at our work, many people that seems to be an IT worker said there have been several issues with Linux that was not easy to manipulate or control like they do with Windows, but I think they just are lazy to find out ways to provide this support. Because Google forces all their...

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Seconded, this looks like it was written by a high school edgelord that just got into linux, and has zero understanding of how corporate systems are actually built, and how diverse the IT landscape is.

milkjug ,
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At my previous job in a Fortune 500, circumventing the IT security policy is ground for instant dismissal. Like literally marched right out of the office kind of dismissal. We had an IT breach before and it cost the company US$300m to fix, and IT security was locked down HARD after. At best, OP is not wise.

milkjug ,
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Random stranger here but genuinely sorry for your loss. Hope he/she is in a much better place.

[Advice Needed] Wayland on GTR7 Pro 7940HS/Radeon 780M?

Hey, beautiful people of Linux, I need some advice. I’ve been tinkering for the past several weeks on flavours of Plasma DE on Arch and Tumbleweed on my Nvidia/Alder Lake setup. Suffice to say the experience was nothing short of getting waterboarded in Guantanamo by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity high-fiving each other while...

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You sir are a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you for the inputs! Just to confirm if you don’t mind a stupid question, I understand VAAPI works for you, does it also work for browsers with YouTube? I’m asking this specifically because I could get hwdec working with MPV with Nvidia but YouTube refuses to use hwdec regardless of browser for me. How about yours in Firefox at least with YouTube specifically?

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Excellent, much thanks!

milkjug OP ,
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Yeah! Thanks for the input too, the 3080Ti I’ve been struggling with getting Arch or Tumbleweed to work without compromise but it’s always little gotchas like Wayland visual-glitching or VAAPI not working in browsers or graphical.target refusing to start if i915 is not blacklisted. The overall experience is just slightly more pleasant than gouging my eyes out with a rusty spoon.

milkjug ,
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Devs: “it works fine on my machine”. At this point games should just come with their own OSes. Or hardware. Hell, ship 'em like arcade boxes.

milkjug ,
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I know all the best words, okay, people are saying that I know the most beautiful words, okay, no one knows more about words than I do, big beautiful words, the WORDIST even.

"The West turned its gaze away from Iran, but the cruelties continued" - rights activist reminds the world on a regime still torturing its citizens (www.euronews.com)

“Prisoners have been tortured into confessing, and if physical torture didn’t work, interrogators would threaten their families. Many women have reported being raped whilst in prison,” writes civil rights activist Nasrin Parvaz.

milkjug ,
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Indeed. There’s just no positives to be taken from getting involved with Iran. They chose their own destiny after the whole Iran hostage situation, there’s no coming back from that.

I am no expert in geopolitics, but didn’t they get exactly what they wanted? Carter out of office, the Shah deposed, the US humiliated, and religious fundamentalism as a preferred way of life.

Happy to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable than I am.

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At some point some creditor should be desperate enough to do a margin call, since the loan collateral is next to worthless.

milkjug ,
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Fuck it, screw the quantum computers and get rid of the blackjack!

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