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A lot of people deride security by obscurity, but I like using Linux simply because the Linux desktop is secure and isn’t as big a target as Windows or MacOS. These “year of the Linux desktop” articles have been coming out for years and I’ve always thought, “I sure hope not!”

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There’s always BSD!

Maybe later... how about never, you fucks?

It is endlessly frustrating that companies have universally decided that they won’t let people say “no” to stuff, ever. There are no longer options to reject stupid-ass new “features”, only postponement until next time you open the app/website/program. They’ll continue pestering you for the rest of your life. I...

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This is why we still need Richard Stallman. That guy never gives up on explaining why manipulative, proprietary software is against our interests.

Use free software – and when you can’t, use ad-blockers, privacy badger, noscript, etc.

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I would love to see this on my ATM!

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Fair. :)

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LXTerminal.

I don’t know if increasing the font size counts as customization. I’ve got old, tired eyes.

Transparency is also turned on, which I think I did with compton. It was a long time ago and seems to persist through Debian’s dist upgrades.

It’s worth adding that the entire LXDE suite is great software. It just works. I hope I don’t have to give it up any time soon.

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I traveled through Oregon in June and didn’t know about this law. I pumped my own gas in Astoria, Portland, and another place and no one stopped me. No one came out to pump my gas either.

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That definitely might be it. We definitely share the plates and I can’t shake the northern BC accent.

[Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.

I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones....

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You seriously haven’t had to provide tech support to relatives with MacOS. Windows is brilliant in comparison.

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I’ve been using LibreOffice at home for years.

My employer’s recent wholesale shift to Office365/Teams/OneDrive convinced me to switch to LibreOffice at work. It’s a good thing that there’s a portable version, because that’s the only way I can use it on their locked-down laptop.

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When I was a kid, I owned a remote control van called the Max Machine. It was sonic, but not ultrasonic. It had a remote with one button that made a loud “clack” when you pressed it. A clack would turn the front wheels left, another would turn them back to the center, another would turn them right, and so on…

The clacking drove my parents crazy. Here’s a link: flashbak.com/powered-fun-thrills-remembering-scha…

I guess you could also include “the clapper” among sonically-controlled items. It also had one of the most annoying jingles ever: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRWtFVFSx5I

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Trout slapping is still a thing! There’s a Hexchat extension for that!

Celebrating A true Canadian hero (lemmy.ca)

40 years ago today Terry Fox, a 21 year old Canadian who lost a leg to cancer, began an east to west cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day and made it to 145 days and 5,373km before he was forced to stop and he lost his battle with cancer.

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I found out because it was on TV. He must have been in Ontario by then, because the early part of the run didn’t get a lot of attention. I was 10. So if I knew, everyone probably knew.

He died on a Sunday. We were at church and the priest said something about it. It felt like everyone there was crushed by the news.

People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit... (www.theverge.com)

People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit…::People are dissatisfied with the technology in their cars, according to a new survey from JD Power. They especially don’t...

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I just took my '91 Mazda off the road (undercarriage rust) and bought a '24 Subaru Crosstrek with an 11" touchscreen that I did not want. The best feature? You can turn it off and it stays off, every time you use the car.

If you put the heat/AC into auto, there are physical buttons to raise and lower the temperature. The screen flashes on for a second to display the temperature change. There are also physical buttons on the steering wheel to skip through the radio stations (which display between the tach and speedometer) and adjust the volume.

Perfect. I’m so glad not to have to leave that screen on.

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There already are: I’ve bought a regular remote start (the car came with subscription cellular remote start) and a little box to make my auto start-stop setting persistent.

I checked into those things before buying. I guess that’s the world we’re in now.

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Depending on your commute, an ebike might also serve the purpose.

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That’s partly because modern cars have really bad sightlines. The old ones (without airbags) had thinner pillars between the windows and way more glass, which meant that you could see around the car much better.

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I hate that. I don’t connect my phone because of it.

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In a classic car with thin pillars between the windows and lots more glass, you don’t need the sensors because you can actually see well.

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I just gave up my 91 Mazda B2200 and bought a Crosstrek and a trailer. What is the point of a four or five foot box? I don’t get it.

The trailer has the length and is nice and low for loading. The crazy thing is that I now see people with $100,000 pickup trucks towing trailers like mine. Insane.

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Thanks. I’ll look to see if my Subaru has the same setting.

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Costco would cover some of that. I live in a small place and try to buy local, then Costco, Best Buy, Staples, etc., before Amazon as a last resort.

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Greenland. The only non-green part of the world.

Whoops. Overlooked Ethiopia.

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As a student or a professor? Just curious.

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It’s only a choice if other options that pay a living wage are available to you.

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You don’t have to know the solution to see the problem.

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Fellowships provide a livable existence in Canada. I don’t know about the U.S.

There are various routes as a professor here. Some are more difficult than others.

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In Canada, it seems that a lot of departments in my field are purposefully limiting the number of PhD spots available, since there are so few positions for graduates. I wonder if that’s the case elsewhere?

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If I was in a department with graduate programs, I would speak and vote against setting limits on that basis. Students should have the freedom to make an informed decision.

As a graduate student, I was advised that there were no jobs and that there wouldn’t be any for the foreseeable future. That turned out to be incorrect.

I would support limits based on departmental finances and capacities, which make a lot of sense. But that’s a different issue.

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Hmm. That might actually make enough heat for a Canadian winter…

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A. yes, that’s me.

B. we can’t force other people to come here, though it would be nice if they did.

How many people here have actually used XMPP?

With all the current discussion about the threat that Instagram Threads has on the Fediverse and that article about how Google Embrace Extend Extinguished XMPP, I was left very confused, since that was the first time I’ve heard that Gchat supported XMPP or what XMPP actually is, and I’ve had my personal Gmail since beta (no,...

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I host the XMPP server for www.circumlunar.space. There are about a dozen users. I can’t speak to the point about e-e-e.

Good dumb TV for my living room media center?

Just had my old dumb LG TV die after 9 years of working just dandy. I lack the desire to root around for a dead capacitor so I am currently in the market for an approximate replacement to act as the display for my Linux media center in my living room. I figure this is the right crowd for finding a non-invasive TV so my Linux...

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I did exactly this with my Sony BRAVIA Eavesdropper Pro ™.

I despise both the privacy violations and the “soap opera effect.”

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Well, it doesn’t have a hammer and sickle on it, so it should be okay, right?

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You do have to subscribe to the CTV sci-fi channel, which is different than CTV.

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Desktop: Alpine

Android: K-9

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This is my favourite theatre anywhere. It’s completely non-profit and the prices are great: salmartheatre.com/prices/

The theatre was built after World War II to raise money for an ice arena, which it did successfully. Since then, it has put all of its profits back into the community: salmartheatre.com/about/

This world truly can be better.

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It was controversial from day one. When it was approved in Canada in 1981, my parents wouldn’t let us touch the stuff.

But it’s shadier than I thought: Donald Rumsfeld (yeah, Iraq invasion Donald Rumsfeld) was the CEO of the company that produced it and immediately after being sworn in, Ronald Reagan cleared the way for approval.

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