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namingthingsiseasy

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  • Why is Debian always left out of the distro recommendations?

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  • I haven't read through the other responses in the thread, but I don't think it's the slightly old software that's the problem. I think it has more to do with using older kernels, meaning that the latest hardware won't always be supported (on the stable branch at least - there's always testing and unstable too of course which may have better hardware support).

    That may have changed with recent releases though - I haven't used Debian for several years now. But if your hardware is supported then it's a pretty solid choice.

    Some other people sometimes mention that Debian isn't as beginner friendly as Ubuntu or Mint, but my experiences have been similar to yours - I found Debian to more user-friendly than Ubuntu for example. Assuming that the hardware works of course - if it doesn't then it obviously is a worse choice.

  • Do it for your country's debt!

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  • It's so hard to understand why so many people don't want to have kids

  • Politics 101

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  • I also don’t get why they seem to be popular with people who like to act scientific, because they seem very unscientific to me.

    They absolutely are. And it's very aggravating to see people immediately invoking it without a second thought. They just assume it to be some absolute universal truth that should be accepted without question. But why?? How is that any different from religion at that point?

  • Pick European Chocolate

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  • Somehow, I already knew something like this would be happening.... We simply cannot have nice things in this world.

  • Pick European Chocolate

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  • Phew! If Nutella ever goes evil, I am so utterly fucked.

  • Pick European Chocolate

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  • Butyric acid in case anyone is wondering. Literally a product of digestion, so you taste it when you throw up:

    Highly-fermentable fiber residues, such as those from resistant starch, oat bran, pectin, and guar are transformed by colonic bacteria into short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) including butyrate, producing more SCFA than less fermentable fibers such as celluloses.[13][21] One study found that resistant starch consistently produces more butyrate than other types of dietary fiber.[22] The production of SCFA from fibers in ruminant animals such as cattle is responsible for the butyrate content of milk and butter.[23]

    They literally put vomit flavor in their chocolate!!!

  • Politics 101

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  • I utterly loathe Hanlon's razor. It's peak naivete, especially when it's applied to groups of people that have ulterior motives - like business interests. It essentially gives companies a carte blanche to do evil shit, and when they get caught, all they have to do is blush and say "oops, how could that have possibly happened???!" But in reality, they were just doing some sort of self-serving behavior and hoping they could get away with it. And of course, they'll just end up doing it again a few months or years later on when the attention has died away.

    Moral of the story: Hanlon's razor does not apply to corporations or other business interests. If it's your neighbors, well maybe give them the benefit of the doubt. If it's a multinational conglomerate, hell no, fuck that. Assume guilt 100% of the time.

  • View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU

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  • I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that, under the terms of EU membership, this would require Canada to adopt proportional representation.

    Of course today, it looks like a long shot, but the more this gets talked about, the more likely it could happen. So keep up the conversation, and maybe it will someday!

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • It's a publicly traded company, isn't it? Most likely there is some investor in the CEO's ear asking him to push this down on all staff... so they come up with bright ideas like putting silly "requirements" like this in their job descriptions as well. And in any case, AI investors are so desperate these days, chances are that they're doing everything they can to create general LLM FOMO in a similarly desperate push to increase adoption.

    That's what I'm guessing at least. Even to me it sounds a little like a conspiracy theory, but then again these people have a lot of influence.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • It means that the parent company has major investors in the LLM space.

  • So, why should GNOME support server side decorations?

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  • The whole notion of CSDs is a blueprint example of what happens when UI designers try to think things through too hard. They come up with grand solutions to trivial problems that are so poorly thought through that they create even bigger problems.

    Realistically, nobody is going rewrite their entire application just because of what a tiny cabal of Gnome developers think. Just read this post that was linked elsewhere in this thread. At the end, Tobias is basically arguing that people should go out there and harass the developers of all Linux desktop applications (including the entire KDE project!) to follow through on this ridiculous idea:

    Thus, our goal is for as many apps as possible to have the following properites [sic]

    • No title bar
    • Native-looking close/maximize/minimize icons
    • Respects the setting for showing/hiding minimize and maximize
    • Respects the setting for buttons to be on the left/right side of the window

    Which apps are affected? Basically, all applications not using GTK3 (and a few that do use GTK3). That includes GTK2, Qt, and Electron apps.

    If that alone doesn't alert people of how out-of-touch the Gnome developers are, then I don't know what would.

  • Rich people are a threat for democracy, Oxfam finds

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  • Your post is a succinct summary of the "study" of economics. It's just supporting a conclusion in exchange for taking a bunch of bribes and cherry-picking data to support your argument.

  • Developer appreciation time!

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  • I know what you mean, just beware: in lots of cases it’s not as universal (as in distro-independent) as some still think it is.

    This is especially true when we start talking about BSDs and other non-GNU platforms.

  • I Hate Github Actions with Passion

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  • Interesting. Were you using a Jenkinsfile? I'm not sure I completely understand your use case, but using a Jenkinsfile would mean that your entire pipeline would be defined in a file in source control, so you could roll it back if you made a change that didn't work quite right. Seems to be what your looking for if I'm understanding what you're looking for.

    https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/jenkinsfile/

  • Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

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  • I looked at it for 5 seconds. The UI looked pretty hideous. Even new reddit looks better than it.

  • I Hate Github Actions with Passion

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  • I've found the edit/test/debug loop in Jenkins to be much faster than Github Actions. It was quite a refreshing change when I made that transition.

  • I Hate Github Actions with Passion

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  • The best way I found to do this is by commenting out the portions of the build that take the longest.

    Which is stupid, but that's what you get with Microsoft products.

    (I get that there may be ways to test this locally, but I found this method to be the easiest.)

  • Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot

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  • I thought they renamed their entire product line to "Copilot" by now, didn't they?

    Uninstalling it at this point would leave absolutely nothing left!

  • it's just the worst

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  • It's called tivoization and started with a device called "Tivo" which was the first of its kind to attempt this procedure.

    There are probably lots of hardware devices in your house that use GPL software but prevent you from actually modifying it because the hardware will refuse to run modified copies. If a piece of software is licensed GPLv3, it would violate the license terms to do something like this.

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    Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?

    blog.jetbrains.com /pycharm/2025/09/why-is-python-so-popular/
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    How to get started as a freelancer?

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    Modern C++ — RAII

    green7ea.github.io /modern/modern.html
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Are Western double standards undermining the global order?

    www.dw.com /en/are-western-double-standards-undermining-the-global-order/a-70289453
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    NL seems to have lost faith in the market, says finance minister

    www.dutchnews.nl /2024/09/nl-seems-to-have-lost-faith-in-the-market-says-finance-minister/
  • science @lemmy.world
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    Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains — study

    www.dw.com /en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399
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    Do any of you program on non-US keyboard layouts?