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  • James Dyson reveals the future of farming

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  • Not saying I disagree, but out of curiosity I looked up the yield of a conventional strawberry field, which is apparently 15-25 tons per hectare, or 11-18% of your threshold.

    I agree that this would likely never be economically viable for strawberries, as I imagine it'd cost way more than £1M for a "hectares worth" of this setup.

    More importantly, I don't consider strawberries vital to our food security, unlike Dyson

  • OpenDylan sheds some parentheses in 2025.1 update

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  • Seems like a pretty fun language with an unfortunate amount of 90s baggage.

    However, I firmly believe that trying to de-parenthesise lisp is a distraction. The main reason being that s-expressions make the beloved code=data concept very obvious.

    A suitable editor makes it really easy to ignore the parens (until they're useful, e.g. for navigation). When reading, the structure of the code is inferred from indentation and line breaks. Just like C.

  • ‘Cleaner, greener and absolute reliability’: trams make UK comeback

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  • I think the article said CVLR would be battery powered to eliminate the need for overhead cables. I'm not saying I believe it is worse than e.g. and electric bus. But even the company producing it seems to struggle to articulate its advantages.

    The reason I care is because I really want more trams in English towns/cities. But not if it's a pared down version that gives the entire concept a bad image

  • ‘Cleaner, greener and absolute reliability’: trams make UK comeback

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  • That's kind of my concern. I'm worried they're cutting so many corners that the competitive edge over busses all but vanishes and, best case scenario, this ends up being a bizarre PR campaign for public transit.

  • ‘Cleaner, greener and absolute reliability’: trams make UK comeback

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  • Whilst this is very cool, I'm a little concerned about how the pros for "very light rail" basically amount to having better vibes than busses. Not that I even disagree with that premise, but I'd want something more concrete...

  • Gnome

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  • Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.

    Or "Green Is My Pepper" if you ask RMS...

  • free and open source street

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  • There's a river Foss that runs through York. Brings a new meaning to sending patches upstream...

  • I just wanted another folder at /

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  • Yeah, I'm leaning toward this option tbh.

    If we got to the point where popular machines had custom images with all the necessary extra drivers etc, it might be a value add. But for now I'm not seeing a huge benefit

  • I just wanted another folder at /

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  • Yeah, thinking I might have to do something similar to start the services after login. Unfortunately they need to run as root, so it'll be tricky to avoid having a second password prompt every time I login

  • I just wanted another folder at /

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  • Some updates after sleeping on it and trying some morning debugging:

    • It's actually either service being enabled that prevents login
    • It's a gnome-shell issue. Logging into a tty is fine, and shows that it's gnome-shell crashing when trying to log-in normally

    Maybe it's time to go back to debian...

  • Linux is too hard

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  • man 1 git-gud

  • Finally fixed my torrent ratio

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  • Keep the files in a dedicated torrents folder then make symlinks to where you actually want them?

  • Anyone here tried Owncloud?

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  • Be aware there are basically two different things called Owncloud. There's still the original php version, which is similar to nextcloud but worse (not open source, smaller plugin ecosystem I think)

    On the other hand is owncloud "infinite scale" (or ocis). This is the thing entirely written in go. But as others have pointed out, it's little more than a file server at this point.

    IMO the self-hosting community is really missing a self-contained "all the DAVs" server (files, calendar, contacts). Baikal etc seem like a great start, but it would be great to have somewhere to get those parts pre-assembled. Until then, nextcloud works for me.

  • Microsoft: "My PC"

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  • Its called "modern standby" or something, and is the main option for suspending windows laptops I believe

  • Thunderbird 136.0 released

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  • Are there any new features in particular you're hoping for?

    For me, those two are the only things I can remember thinking it would be nice to have. Q

  • YSK: Lemmy browsing app Boost is tracking your data for profiling and more! Consider using other trackingless Lemmy apps such as Jerboa or Voyager

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  • For me at least, my objection with YouTube is that Google takes a cut. I'd much rather contribute an equivalent amount to some creators via patreon and adblock the site.

    Also I'm not saying the host doesn't deserve a cut, I just think that corporations like Google are a general pest that should be eradicated

  • Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available

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  • Sounds minor, but I'm excited for right aligned mode-line segments. I've been working on a minimal powerline-esque theme and this will make it soo much cleaner.

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    Moving KDE's styling into the future | Quantum Productions

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  • Maybe it's just me, but I still feel like I don't know what Union is after reading this. Is it a new, intermediate styling specification + code to translate the existing 4 formats to/from it (a la pandoc and its intermediate json)?

  • Emacs and XDG sitting on a tree

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  • To be honest, I find my Emacs config important enough to live at the top level of my home directory.