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brenticus

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  • Sometimes a good way to 'learn Linux' is to use a WM

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  • Uh, I kind of assume you're trolling at this point since a) you got notably more unpleasant in a hurry, and b) if you think exes work the same way every time you have lived a weirdly blessed life.

    I hope you sort out your package management problems sometime but this has clearly gotten unproductive. Cheers!

  • Sometimes a good way to 'learn Linux' is to use a WM

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  • The discover store comes with KDE nowadays. GNOME has a similar store. Most recommended distros will preinstall one of those two. Ubuntu has a similar snap store, I think.

    I guess the steam flatpak is unofficial. Works, though. Very simple, lazy solution. Could have gone through the fedora repos, too, where they've gone through the effort of repacking the deb for their users.

    Dunno what your package manager problem is. Don't even know what you're running. Mine works fine, and certainly better than the windows store 🤷

    Appimages sure aren't recognized as system apps. They're basically like an exe on windows. I'd rather manually add my rare appimage to the menu than go through the installer hell windows has.

    Your point seems a little silly because, honestly, my experience is that developers have largely made the Linux desktop experience so simple and stable that it works better than any windows machine I've used in the past decade. I'm sorry this hasn't been your experience, but in the last couple of years I've pretty much only needed to open the terminal because I want to, not because I need to.

  • Sometimes a good way to 'learn Linux' is to use a WM

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  • I installed steam by going into my discover app, searching for steam, and clicking install. This is how I get most things, excepting a few appimages I downloaded that just work. I change my settings via GUIs that came with KDE. The only extra configuration GUIs I installed were pavucontrol (just like it for some reason) and protontricks (for doing weird stuff with games most people never need to do).

    I don't know what distro/de/wm you're using right now but what you're saying doesn't need to be the case. Linux desktop is honestly working better than windows for me lately.

  • Newsmast brings curated 'communities' to the open source Twitter/X alternative Mastodon | TechCrunch

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  • Have you ever followed a group account?

    It's basically that, but with what sounds like some functionality to make them easier to create and find for users of their app/server/API.

    The couple I've seen boost my posts in the wild seemed more like bot accounts that just boosted what they saw in the hashtags I used, but it sounds like some of them are probably a bit more curated.

  • Remaking Podcasts For Text - Podcasts are far and away the great example of how RSS can empower creators. Today’s thought experiment: How can we bring these benefits to written content?

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  • I think this article starts with an interesting premise (basically: RSS works to support podcast content creators, how can we make it work for written content creators?) and... misses the point.

    Podcasts can make a lot of money off of sponsors and advertising that listeners are less likely to skip over. Maybe you're busy doing something else when the ad comes on, maybe you don't clue in that it's an ad right away, maybe you just don't know how long it is so as you skip around you hear enough anyways. Advertising works in an audio format.

    Text content can't advertise as effectively. Your eyes can just skip over to the next part you care about. Adblockers work pretty well. A reader is way less likely to engage with advertisement, so it's going to pay less, so written content creators are going to make less. Usually to the point that they can't support themselves with it.

    None of the author's points really address that. The problem isn't with the RSS standard, it's with the format and how it can make money.

  • Tasteful biscuits

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  • Yep, not usually safe to reuse your prints or put them in heat or get them wet, but for a single batch of cookies the risk of a 3d printed cookie cutter is pretty minimal.

  • Little gay people in my PC, tell me about your own weird goals

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  • You can't fool me, that's just being a normal girl with a dope hat and sword!