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@ Hamartiogonic @sopuli.xyz

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Who reads this anyway? Nobody, that’s…. Oh wait. Some people actually do. I guess I should put something worth reading in here then. Err... Let's go with lorem impsum for the time being.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam eu libero vitae augue pretium sollicitudin.......

  • Snow plowing trams cleared the tracks of Budapest last night

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  • Amazing! Moments like this prove to me that Lemmy is ready to replace Reddit. We even have our own trolley historian too.

    Really wasn't expecting to go this deep into troellys when I wrote that first comment. Thanks for the thoughtful and educational replies! Much appreciated.

  • Snow plowing trams cleared the tracks of Budapest last night

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  • Oh wow! That’s so cool.

    The freight thing raises some questions though. Those things can get really heavy, and the rails should be rated for such weights. If not, the rails can sink into the ground.

  • Snow plowing trams cleared the tracks of Budapest last night

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  • That must be the most satisfying job in town.

  • Is there any way to modify community subscription weight to push up quieter communities you want to hear from?

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  • Sorting by scaled helps a little bit, but some communities just post soooo much that they drown out everything else. In order to fix that you would need “multireddits”, which don’t exist on Lemmy.

    For the time being, I recommend making two accounts and using one exclusively for subscribing to the really busy communities. The other one could be used for everything else. It’s also an opportunity to try out a different instance.

    If you find that one feed is getting dominated by a single community again, you may need to create a third account to manage your subscriptions appropriately.

  • Help me ditch windows?

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  • I’ve been running Fedora on one of my computers fore years. It’s pretty good and stable, but there are lots of updates. I haven’t really bothered to tweak or update that much, which seems to be a bad combination for Fedora. I think this distro requires more maintenance than I’m willing to give it.

    For example, updates used to work for a while, until one day they just didn’t any more. I fixed that, and things were ok for a little while, until another update broke the GUI again. Eventually, I just got tired of troubleshooting a basic thing like the update GUI, and stopped fixing it every year. I just ignored the GUI, and installed updates through the terminal instead. I just can’t be bothered to fix the GUI more often than maybe once every 5 years.

    Eventually, I realized I don’t have the time or energy to do that much admin work for a computer that doesn’t matter that much. Had it been my primary computer, that wouldn’t have been a problem, but in this case it was. Recently, I switched to Debian. Let’s see how well that system handles the level of neglect I’ll be subjecting it to.

    Besides, that computer doesn’t even require the latest versions, so why bother with Fedora. Debian should be new enough for my needs, and installing updates like few times a year should be fine.

  • Is an old raspberry pi useful for anything based on Linux?

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  • Get an external hard drive case and pop an old disk in it. Install Rockstor on the pi, configure it and you have a NAS for backups or whatnot. I've heard it's also possible to upgrade it to a personal cloud storage, but I haven't gone quite that far.

  • PC Gamer: make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

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  • Congratulations! How’s KDE running on Wayland?

    When I got my current laptop, I chose Gnome because Wayland support was decent at the time and virtually no other desktop supported it. Later, a few others began supporting Wayland but I haven’t tried them.

    I used KDE long ago with X11 and I loved it. I think I should give it another go, so that’s why I’m wondering. Is Wayland support ready yet?

  • PC Gamer: make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

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  • Professional use is a whole different story, and I left it out because the previous message was getting a bit too long. 😃

    If your work relies on a specific piece of Windows software, Linux probably won’t be good enough. Even if you can technically use that application through Wine or Proton, the work environment usually requires every feature to work as intended. If there's weird behaviour that interferes with your work, it's pretty clear that you can't tolerate that. This can easily happen when your work involves using a computer to control a machine or to pull data from it. You may also need your computer to talk to other systems that expect you to use a client running on top of Windows.

    However, many people need apps that were designed to run on a browser. That's when you really begin to have options. Even MS Word and Excel kind of sort of work through a browser as long as you don't intend to do anything even remotely advanced with them. Many people just need basic office applications, and in that context, Linux has been a viable option for many years already. Even though the docx->odt conversion is far from perfect, it's usually good enough.

    Many people also require specific functionality, but don’t really care which application actually provides it as long as the job gets done well enough. If that’s the case, Linux can usually provide an alternative. Don't know about professional video production, but hobby videos can definitely be edited on Kdenlive. Same logic applies to Gimp, Krita, and Inkscape.

  • PC Gamer: make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

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  • The role of desktops has changed over the decades, because nowadays so many people use mobile devices instead. What we meant by the phrase “year of the Linux desktop” in 2010s was very different from what it means today.

    At home, people use the desktop for gaming, while most computing activities can now be done on any mobile device. In the past, the desktop was the only computer in the house, and it was used for communication, browsing, photos, videos, and everything else.

    I think we should start using a different term. How about something like “year of the Linux gaming PC”, because that would really tell you what’s happening right now. The rest of the things you can do on a Linux desktop aren’t really that important to most people anymore.

    Personally, I still prefer a laptop over a tablet, and I think many people on Lemmy would agree. However, most people outside this bubble clearly don’t see that much value in an x86 desktop OS.

  • xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here

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  • xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here

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  • It was inevitable.

  • xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here

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  • It’s the ĉ̵̡̡̢͈̖̤͇̺̩̹̘͕̹͎̀͛̋̉͜ͅͅu̸̧̡̦̱͇̙͈̪̘̯̯̭̲̟͙͈̠̪͈̪̜͕̻̦͍͂͌͛̊̐̍̽͑̋̚͜͜ͅ2̷̳̬̰̦̀̈͆̑̎̔̍̈́̊̎͆̾͊́́̓̒̿͘s̸̞͒̋̐̏̎͑́̍̄͌̈́̾͌̆͒͑̆̎̀̇̈́̏̉̿̒̀̕̕͝͝3̶̲̙͈̈́̏̏̃͒̔͐̃͊̍̅̏̈́͆̅͂̂͝͝d̶̢̨̧͈̰̟̲̱̲͎͚͙̖̲̦̩̀̽͂̏̂̕ timeline.

  • Nuts are just bad.

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  • When I saw that post about fruits and chocolate, I immediately thought about chocolate bars that have nuts in them. Brilliant combination IMO, but apparently that’s a reasonably popular opinion.

    Anyway, if you were the emperor of the world and you found the person who invented nut chocolate, what would be their punishment?

  • xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here

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  • Anyone else reading this in 2026?

  • postmarketOS is genuinely amazing on ultra low end PCs (details in the post)

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  • I can see they were aiming for shorter commands. Makes sense if you have to type them using a mobile phone.

  • postmarketOS is genuinely amazing on ultra low end PCs (details in the post)

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  • These low end computers are always a fun challenge. You end up trying a bunch of programs you have never even heard of, and you can also learn something along the way.

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    Scientists build device to harvest electricity from Earth's spin

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  • I think there’s hope as long as we don’t nuke ourselves back into the stone age. If we keep a steady pace of progress and take good care of our only habitable space ship, we should be able to figure out how to thrive pretty much anywhere in space. Self inflicted extinction events are the biggest threats at the moment.

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    Scientists build device to harvest electricity from Earth's spin

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  • Oh… so after billions of years, the Earth will be tidally locked with the Sun. If we start harvesting Earth’s rotational energy one way or another, we’re just speeding up the process. Anyway, that sounds about as bad as burning fossil fuels.

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    Scientists build device to harvest electricity from Earth's spin

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  • Islands, shores and land in general tends to resist the tides. Not just a little bit either. By that logic, the rotation of the earth was never sustainable to begin with.

  • Batteries @sh.itjust.works
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    Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries

    techcrunch.com /2025/09/05/natrons-liquidation-shows-why-the-us-isnt-ready-to-make-its-own-batteries/
  • Tea @lemmy.zip
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    Stacking tins

  • Batteries @sh.itjust.works
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    China completes world’s largest vanadium flow battery plant - Energy Storage

    www.ess-news.com /2025/07/04/china-completes-worlds-largest-vanadium-flow-battery-plant/
  • Batteries @sh.itjust.works
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    Northvolt files for bankruptcy in Sweden

    northvolt.com /articles/northvolt-files-for-bankruptcy-in-sweden/
  • Batteries @sh.itjust.works
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    Yadea released first electric scooters with sodium-ion batteries, starting at 3,299 yuan

  • AssholeDesign @lemmy.world
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    Forced to accept all cookies on gadgethacks

  • Bean @lemmy.world
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    Any news?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    The tiles

  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
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    GPT told me to break my system