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SDesk OS, and frowned on open sourced? (sh.itjust.works)

I recently spent some time browsing my favorite website, Distrowatch.com, where they provide weekly news updates on the latest developments in the world of Linux distributions. This week, I noticed that a new distro had been added to their list: SDesk. Given its intriguing name, I decided to take a closer look and discovered...

turbowafflz ,

I like how the “wiki” on their website is just a bunch of uneditable premade articles so pretty much the exact opposite of a real wiki (also the articles are terrible, the “introduction to linux” looks like a perfect way to make someone give up on evem trying linux)

turbowafflz ,

I stopped watching when he got that one rare IBM workstation and sloppily dremeled in all the the screws to open it because he was too lazy to go to the store to buy a screwdriver. That was before I even heard about this and the stupid gun stuff. I know it’s like a minor thing and he only damaged screws and sheet metal parts that could in theory be replaced with a medium amount of difficulty, but I just can’t imagine intentionally damaging something very uncommon because you’re too lazy to buy a screwdriver

turbowafflz ,

I think it was a security torx screw if I remember correctly so it makes sense he wouldn’t necessarily have an appropriate bit, but it would have been so little effort to just order one or go to a store

Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)

It’s disappointing that copyright infringement could cause these people to spend time in prison, but the predatory practices of the companies they where competing with are punished with no more then fines. A “cost of doing business” for the corporate aristocrats. This is the threat the upper class uses on the rest of us,...

turbowafflz ,

I like how a big part of the headline just explains exactly why people pirate things instead of obtaining legal access to them. No one wants to subscribe to netflix, hulu, vudu, and prime video, people just want one platform to watch everything

turbowafflz ,

Or… Just maybe… It’s a joke and it’s just trying to be an even more absurd take on the original gnu+linux copypasta

turbowafflz ,

Yeah they were just trying to help tesla by demonstrating the concept of painting vehicles since tesla doesn’t seem to understand it very well

turbowafflz ,

It’s a dumb workaround but this script lets you add custom locations gitlab.com/…/add-location-to-gnome-weather.sh

turbowafflz ,

The weather isn’t openweather’s fault. It’s a limitation in libgweather (a gnome project). They have to manually approve locations for them to work.

turbowafflz ,

The really awful part is that there’s not really any regulation that can stop this. If you ban taking away games people bought then they’ll just switch to a subscription which is even worse

turbowafflz ,

Perhaps openbsd or netbsd? They’re probably less likely to drop hardware support for your device in the near future than any linux distribution

Freebsd is also an option but you would have to compile it yourself as the prebuilt binaries are currently 686 despite it having support back to 486

turbowafflz ,

I’ve never noticed BSDs being much slower, and if you’re already used to minimal linux distros like arch it’s not that hard to set them up unless you like need linux-only software.

turbowafflz ,

You definitely can install a graphical desktop on whichever BSD, you’ll just have to follow instructions online somewhere instead of running a premade script.

If you want something really easy to use graphically right out of the box there’s also Haiku, it’s a completely independent OS that’s sort of an open source clone of BeOS but a lot more unixy than BeOS was. It’s really lightweight and has maybe my favorite desktop GUI out of every operating system I’ve used. The only real downside to it is that there isn’t an amazing web browser for it yet, the built in WebPositive is a little lacking in support for modern sites and GNOME Web, which you can install from HaikuDepot was a little unstable last time I tried it. If you don’t need to use the web a ton though (which is probably the more pleasant option on your particular system regardless of browser), it’s really nice.

turbowafflz ,

That would definitely be valid for a smaller community supported distro like mint, but canonical is a big company that already has kind of a bad reputation for things like that so I think it was reasonable for people to complain

turbowafflz ,

In my opinion the title of best desktop is a tie between Plasma, GNOME, and NsCDE. They are all amazing in their own ways and I switch between them all the time.

(Hyprland would be in there if the developer wasn’t a jerk but I’m not willing to use it anymore because he is stupid)

turbowafflz ,

Assuming you mean the hyprland guy, he was just being a transphobic jerk to people in his discord server

turbowafflz ,

The cursed but arguably better way is cp image.img /dev/whatever

turbowafflz ,

That’s a lot of fins for a whale to have. Is this a biblically accurate whale?

turbowafflz ,

I feel like bodycam footage should all get released after some period of time by default unless they like file paperwork explaining how it would interfere with an ongoing investigation (and even then only allow the release to be delayed not stopped)

Summer is the worst season of the year, isn't?

The sun sucks, being forced to shower like every 4 hours just to not feeling sweaty, the fucking mosquitoes, the fact you can’t wear anything that you want anymore due the heat, the people outside… The fucking beach. I try to avoid it… The fucking sand, not a fan of it. Is scratchy, harsh, annoying and it infiltrates in...

turbowafflz , (edited )

Yes, it’s so awful. In the winter if you’re cold you can just put on a coat but in the summer if you’re hot there’s nothing you can do about it. Also it’s still light really late which I hate and it’s just overall a miserable season. It’s one of the biggest reasons I would like to move somewhere other than where I live now

turbowafflz ,

Honestly I feel like Google Voice isn’t going to be around long enough for that. It really doesn’t feel like something Google would make today and most of the Google products like that get discontinued eventually

turbowafflz , (edited )

Unless you were advocating for a legally equivalent alternative to marriage just with a different name for people who do not fit your incredibly narrow requirements for marriage, how exactly can you claim you weren’t trying to discriminate against people?

turbowafflz ,

What’s

turbowafflz ,

Perhaps Jim has died and she used to have 4 sons.

turbowafflz ,

Meanwhile there is no specific demonym for people from the united states, you can say american buy that would also include every other north and south american country

turbowafflz ,

Honestly I think it’s just because people are mean and want someone to bully and trans people aren’t quite as protected by society as other marginalized groups yet so they’re the easiest target. Plus probably from some people it’s fear that if other people are allowed to be who they are then they themselves might realize they aren’t the perfect little cis straight christian they want to be seen as.

turbowafflz ,

For operating systems winworldpc.com/library is easier to find things in and has way faster download speeds

turbowafflz ,

My windows vm runs Cairo shell as the desktop and I’ve replaced the file manager with Dolphin and the command prompt with Konsole and notepad with Kate and it almost feels like a usable operating system

turbowafflz ,

I interpreted that as meaning he broke his nose while typing at first and I was very confused

turbowafflz , (edited )

Ubuntu -> OpenSuse -> Arch -> OpenSuse

I used ubuntu from when I got my first computer until like 2021 and then I realized I had no idea why I was using it because I didn’t like it

turbowafflz ,

He was born in South Africa, his family ran emerald mines there which is where all his money came from

turbowafflz ,

Looks like opensuse which means it makes a snapshot before every upgrade automatically so if anything breaks you just roll back and everything’s back to how it was

turbowafflz ,

Honestly kiwi is a pretty good name for a dog

Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho (ktvz.com)

On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.

turbowafflz ,

You should see the UVA area, it’s a big university next to incredibly rural areas so it has both nearby

turbowafflz ,

I really like my oneplus 9, after owning samsung, motorola, and sony devices it’s definitely my favorite by far

turbowafflz ,

I had been wondering about that too so I looked it up and apparently it’s just what discover displays whenever there’s an update that doesn’t change the version number which is things like rebuilds with a newer compiler. Very confusing wording, I feel like just “update of version [version]” would be less confusing

turbowafflz ,

I’ve always thought GUIs felt more like doing things by hand and CLIs felt more like having the computer do it for you. Like if you want to do some complicated task that requires multiple programs and lots of menus using a GUI, it’s easy the first time, but once you need to do it a second time you have to do it all over again by hand. But if you do it from the command line, while it might be harder the first time, subsequent times are zero effort because you can just run the exact same commands again from your history or combine them into one or a script to make it even easier.

anders , to memes

Data storage vs backup storage

@memes

turbowafflz ,

Well yeah but something like this shouldn’t be on a public road, the visibility would be terrible and it would be so easy to run over people or animals or small vehicles

turbowafflz ,

Honestly I feel like it doesn’t really matter either way, it adds a little complexity for the people maintaining qt and gtk and things like that, but most actual application developers aren’t interacting directly with the display server so it doesn’t make much difference for them

US Lemmys what could Biden do in the next 6 months to EARN your vote? (other than just not being Trump)

Sorry this is kinda political. Is there an asklemmypolitics group this would be better for? I’m hoping not to get into the libs vs progressives political debate we see everywhere on here… Just want to know what people are actually looking for.

turbowafflz ,

Right, you instead let the other candidate who is just as likely to fund genocide win and pretend to be superior somehow for “not encouraging it”. I’m sure everyone who suffers as a result of project 2025 will appreciate your stance.

turbowafflz , (edited )

I agree that the government is not going to stop causing harm and will probably continue to cause more harm. I agree that biden is a terrible candidate. But we have a choice between him and trump and I am 100% sure trump would cause more harm than biden. Trump wants to be a dictator, biden does not. Unless you somehow genuinely think trump is no worse than biden, you need to vote for biden. (And if you do think trump is no worse, you need to read the republican project 2025 plan)

Just a quick list of a few things the republicans want to do if trump wins:

  • Abolish the department of education
  • Further restrict abortion
  • Remove laws preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender
  • Increase use of the death penalty
  • Make the president a “unitary executive”
turbowafflz ,

Hmm, what happens if there’s a power outage? Or is dark the default state and it needs power to be clear?

turbowafflz ,

Notes

turbowafflz ,

I have on multiple occasions done a much more verbose variant of that: “I genuinely cannot remember what I changed”

turbowafflz ,

This still runs Linux, or whatever else you want to run, it just has a RISC-V CPU instead of an x86 or ARM one

turbowafflz ,

I feel like an important thing he forgot to mention though is that it lets you allow multiple users to have root privileges without having to share passwords or SSH keys

turbowafflz ,

Oh true yeah I always forget about that

turbowafflz ,

It’s so weird how they’re just insisting it isn’t an android app even though people have proven it is. Who do they expect to believe them?

turbowafflz ,

I mean wheatley’s still pretty evil

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