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llothar

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  • Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements

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  • Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative

    CAD. Free solutions compared to commercial ones (SolidWorks, Inventor, Fusion360, Onshape) are like comparing Photoshop to an open source Paint clone.

  • Looking for fictional books

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  • I think you may like Expeditionary Force series, there is quite a bit of what you are looking for.

    I guess Asimov Foundation series would also be a good candidate for world building.

  • Biden wants to free you from all those subscriptions you meant to cancel but didn’t

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  • Is this the Lemmy that is said to be less toxic than Reddit? Maybe it wasn't Subway, maybe it was something different. It was 10years ago, I may be misremembering the details.

    Did I remember everything correctly? Dunno. Are you being a dick? That's 100%.

  • Biden wants to free you from all those subscriptions you meant to cancel but didn’t

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  • I remember my first meal on my first visit to the US 10 years ago. It was Subway I think. I see a price advertised, but to my shock I paid almost double that. Fee for dining in, sales tax, too.

  • Can AI even be open source? It's complicated

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  • The architecture can easily be open source - as long as repo is missing just the training data. Just like there are Doom engines that are open source, even though they do not provide WAD files, which are still copyrighted. The code is there, but it is somewhat useless without the data. Analogy is not perfect, but let's assume it compiles to a single binary containing everything, maps included.

    If ID Software gives you a compiled Doom with maps free to use it is freeware. If they open source the engine (they actually did), but do not release the WAD files as open source, the compiled game is not open source - it is still freeware.

    It is not complicated really.

  • Gaming on Linux is great!

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  • Yesterday I've spent an hour to figure out how to make Cities Skylines use my RTX 2070 instead of the integrated one on PopOS. For me this is the main issue I face with games. Is having a dedicated AMD card instead better?

  • Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like.

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  • I remember that in pre-school in around 1990 we made clay ashtrays for father's day. My father did not smoke but they told me to make one anyway...

  • What is happening in Norway, and how do we spread it?

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  • Nothing is happening in Norway. Source: I live in Norway.

    I've met only a handful people that use Linux on their desktop, plus some developers that use it at work.

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  • Not in a million years. The next generation will though, they won’t see any issue with it.

    I guess they will anwser such calls with AI to get a summary anyway...

    Great points overall. I guess previous generations thought that a hand-written letter cant be replaced by a digital one, yet here we are.

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  • Let's say that there is a single player MMO where all the other players are played by AI, but it is done so well that you can't really see the difference from real-human MMO players.

    Would you play this? I would not. The fact that there is a human on the other side is important, even though it does not make any practical difference. Same with birthday wishes - that's way Facebook did not automate "Happy birthday!" even though it could.

    Would you upload your personal data and voice to Open AI for it to make a a birthday wishes call to your mom? So convinient! She won't know the difference, and you get a 5 bulletpoint summary afterwards! Such a hellscape.

  • linux as business/ company pc?

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  • In my previous job I ran my main laptop with Linux. Pain points:

    • MS Teams liked to crash on screen sharing
    • o365 email and calendar works best on Evolution, but still is not perfect
    • meeting rooms often had special usb dongle to connect to the screen. That never worked on Linux.

    Overall it was glorious.

  • Updating BIOS via Linux ?

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  • That's the thing - there is no option to update BIOS on Linux then.

    You must install Windows or maybe use one of those unofficial Windows Live USB images.

  • Updating BIOS via Linux ?

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  • There is no universal solution to this. Some vendors support fwupd (LVFS) on some hardware (Dell, Lenovo), some allow to update via a file on a USB stick (Asus).

    Unless it is a system from Linux first company (Tuxedo, StarLabs, System76, Slimbook) expect to manually check what the specific model you are looking at supports.

  • M1 Macbook Air

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  • Yeah, i am retiring my XPS 13 only due to it having 8GB of RAM. It is quite an old model with i7-8550U - the speed is still perfectly fine as my daily driver, but I filled the memory to the brim way too often.

  • Aeon Desktop Introduces Comprehensive Full Disk Encryption

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  • It is the new name for the desktop variant of the immutable variant of OpenSUSE.

  • Trump World ‘panicking’ as Project 2025 gets on the radar of voters

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  • Exactly this. If the pages listed do not support the claims it helps Trump in the end.

  • Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals

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  • The fund owns 1.5% og the world traded stocks. Madness.

  • Old XKCD, still relevant

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  • tar -xzf stands for tar eXtract Ze Filez

  • CAD Software Suggestion

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  • This is the only correct answer. Onshape is a fantastict, feature complete CAD system that I would be happy to use for any commercial project regardless of size and stakes. Love it.