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Peasley

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  • Reccommending a Linux distro for a friend

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  • Stability in the sense of: my computer does the thing i expect with the hardware i happen to have, every time, over many years.

    I agree Debian is up there. I only mentioned Arch because of the massive userbase. I think Debian is a little more technical (for a new user with limited time and attention) than Ubuntu or Fedora, but much less so than Arch

    Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Arch are undoubtedly the big 4 Linux distros in terms of long term community, stability, and documentation

  • Reccommending a Linux distro for a friend

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  • Fedora or Ubuntu. No need to overthink it. They are the two biggest distros in popularity by far (except Arch, which probably beats Fedora), so you have access to maximum mindshare and previous troubleshooting.

    Including Arch, these three distros are among the most polished, stable, and well-documented. Arch takes quite a bit more effort, so a beginner without much time on their hands should start with Ubuntu or Fedora.

  • How is Apple on privacy ?

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  • Probably a bit better than Windows but ultimately with Apple you can't know for sure. Their software is proprietary and closed source, so it cant be properly audited by a third party.

    Apple can claim whatever they like about privacy, it comes down to whether you take their word for it or not. Personally, i think Apple has been caught being dishonest about their software more than most tech companies, so i take their claims with a heap of salt.

    If you want something that can actually be proven to be secure, the only real option is an Open-source (and ideally FOSS) platform. Anything that can't be audited can't really be trusted.

    For a laptop or desktop, Ubuntu is a safe, secure, well-audited option. Mint and Fedora are also good options for most hardware. There are good DAWs available on Linux but perhaps not the exact one your friend is used to.

    I would suggest anyone new to Linux to back up or remove their ssd, and install Linux on a second or new ssd to reduce the chance of accidentally wiping your data. A new OS is like getting a new computer, and you need to save your data externally before you start the process.

    Edit: I'm aware that some parts of macOS are technically open-source, but that's almost meaningless from a security perspective when critical parts of the OS aren't open. Darwin being secure doesn't make the whole OS secure when network manager is still a black box (for example)

  • California officials warn against foraging wild mushrooms (during this high-risk season) after deadly poisoning outbreak

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  • haha my bad, idk why i thought i read Amanita

  • California officials warn against foraging wild mushrooms (during this high-risk season) after deadly poisoning outbreak

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  • according to iNat observations A. phalloides is found in that area, though uncommon

  • California officials warn against foraging wild mushrooms (during this high-risk season) after deadly poisoning outbreak

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  • is that right? i thought it was safe to chew up death caps as long as you dont swallow any

    I dont think you can absorb it through your skin regardless. At least, afaik. I've been handling them with bare hands every season for years now, hopefully i'm not doomed

  • Found my first wild edibles this summer in Vermont

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  • A sweet find either way! Both are quite tasty

    Chantrelles grow on soil, oysters grow on rotting wood, but sometimes oysters growing shallowly-buried roots can appear to be sprouting from the soil

  • Found my first wild edibles this summer in Vermont

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  • Are the top ones golden oysters?

    The bottom ones look like chantrelles to me

  • Found colonizing a root wad of a large tree. I would love an ID.

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  • I don't know your area, but in my area the underside of the caps (specifically gill color and how they attach to the stipe) can be very helpful, even sometimes necessary to get a good ID. The type of wood being eaten is also sometimes relevant. Any idea what kind of wood it was?

    Below is my result putting the photo into iNaturalist's robot. I just put the date as today and the location as "North Carolina". It's not my photo so i didnt turn it into an observation.

    I would highly encourage you to actually upload your photo as an observation to iNaturalist with accurate info so that local mycologists can have a look and chime in. (While the robot is good, the experts on iNat are even better) iNaturalist is a nonprofit that shares the data they gather with scientists and universities for free

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    Need help resisting the dark side (using Windows)

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  • I think the problem is the insistence on using a gaming-focused OS. Boutique distros can make certain things easier, but they often make unwitting assumptions about hardware that dont actually work for everyone.

    Fedora has probably 10x or more the user base of Bazzite, so there are effectively +/- 10x the variety of of tested builds. Ubuntu/Debian is probably 10x over Fedora, so probably +/- 100x over Bazzite.

    If you want to use Linux with minimal headache, the best advice is to use a mainstream distro with well-tested hardware. If you are building a custom PC you will have the least hassle with 1-2 year old hardware (or older) on Mint or Ubuntu

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • RE: use case

    It's really nice to be able to see the whole titles. A vertical panel cuts off most text, so you just have a bunch of icons when you minimize. if multiple windows are from the same app it's confusing.

    If you use a horizontal panel you have a bit more room, but a significant amount of text is still cut off, and the panel fills up quickly.

    Even with as few as 6 windows open (lets say two browser and three file manager, and a terminal) minimizing is a mess. I find it better to just leave the window bar somewhere visible and shade it, since i can read all the text on my window at a glance. Combined with "keep above others", you can get a really nice way to quickly refrence something infrequently while you do most of your work in another window.

    A more typical workflow for me is 1-4 windows of a pdf reader, 1-3 file manager windows, 1 browser window, and 1 terminal window. It's just easier to keep it all organized with window shading.

    I find it much faster than a bunch of alt-tabbing, or playing hide and seek with the panel just to get a specific two PDF windows up side by side for a second

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • Thanks for the link! Heartening to know there are others that love this feature like i do

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • Damn. I guess it's finally goodbye window shade or goodbye Plasma. I really wish they'd figured out a solution.

    I get it though. The edge cases will never be fixed until devs know what they are, and GNOME proved this is an effective way to find out.

  • What are your favourite system sound effects, if you use any?

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  • I miss the Ubuntu bongos

  • Cabbage Rolls

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  • This is a go-to camping dish for me. Very nice on a cold night by a campfire

  • to my expierence

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  • Bing is a better search engine than Google, but both are pale imitations of their former selves. It's amazing how bad search has gotten in the last ~5 years

  • Switch to a Fully free Operating System

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  • I dont agree. Life is a balance. You use proprietary software every day, everybody does. It exists in nearly every aspect of day to day life. You can never truly be free of it, but advocating for and using FOSS where possible is worthwhile anyway. Going fully blob-free would mean significantly more effort for what to me is not that much of an improvement to my life.

    It's the same reason i garden on my apartment balcony, but dont grow all my own food. I could probably just about manage it, but i'd be spending every second of my available time to keep the thing going just to reduce my already infrequent grocery trips (but not to zero since i still need soap and toothpaste).

    I'm happy with the additional features, security, and transparency provided by Fedora over the OS my laptop was designed to run. I go through some level of effort to use Linux, but nothing crazy. If there was some widely available hardware with decent performance, price, and comparable features, made with ethical labor and that worked with Debian with the deblobbed kernel, i'd definitely give it a shot. Currently it's too much work for too little gain for me.

    But if it works for you, that's awesome. I respect the commitment to your ideals.

  • My memorial tattoo for my soul cat Rose, who passed earlier this year

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  • Very sweet to remember her this way.

    My cat is also named after a flower: Thistle. I hope i get to enjoy 15 years with her too.

    I empathize with your sorrow, and i'm happy you got to spend the time with her that you did

  • Guild Wars Reforged, a free 20th anniversary revamp of the original Guild Wars, arrives this December

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  • An unexpected surprise. The game runs fine on Steam/Linux through proton, but it is a bit of a hassle to set up the first time.

    Maybe now i will finally finish "Legendary Defender of Ascalon", since death leveling is no longer the only method.

    For anyone not familiar: this was a title given to players who got to max level (20) in the tutorial area of the first game. All quest XP combined would would get you from 1-8, or if you save up all the quests it's almost enough to get from 19-20. The only other way to get XP was by killing monsters, and for every level above the monster you get, it gives less XP. once you are more than 5 levels over you'd get none. You cannot leave the area, since once you do there is a time jump and you can never return.

    "Death leveling" was a technique where you'd let the highest level monsters (level 13 iirc) kill you repeatedly until they level up, then you kill them for XP once they are high enough to give you some. This would mean you'd have to die potentially over 100 times to get a tiny amount of XP, then you exit and enter the zone to respawn the monster and do it all again.

    In the years since they've added a small few level 17 monsters and a low xp daily quest, so it's still a huge grind but not as insane as before