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  • Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government

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  • I mean this is ludicrous, but he's not suggesting overthrowing the government. He's suggesting Charles does what he has the power to do which is dissolve Parliament, forcing an election. To do so would cause a constitutional crisis in the UK and likely the revocation of that power. But it's clearly nothing more than stupid provocative hyperbole. Musk is a fucking clown but this is some pretty intense spin.

  • Configuring Transmission and OpenVPN on Linux

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  • Not at all. It allows you to install and use whole suites of tools and libraries without any pollution of or dependencies on your host system. It also allows you to define the whole setup in a file so it's trivial to recreate on another machine

  • Novel 2-chain bike aims at rock-solid ride and rugged redundancy

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  • Presumable complexity and therefore cost and reliability, but given the simplicity and mature robustness of 2 and 3 speed hubs I'm a little surprised this is truly superior and worthwhile.

  • Distro suggestions for a dumb-dumb who only knows linux through meme osmosis

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  • Is it though? I've found it rock solid for years on end - been using it for 14 years, and Debian before that.

  • Distro suggestions for a dumb-dumb who only knows linux through meme osmosis

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  • I don't recognize this myself. I've never had trouble with incompatibilities or degradation etc.,

    Especially these days my OS can remain very vanilla, as many complex things can be containerized. E.g. I run syncthing and an nfs server and sometimes torrenting over vpn, through docker-compose; I'd never install all that on the host with all the extensive dependencies. Same with some heavyweight apps like darktable - spin them up from Flatpak.

    Ubuntu does it very well with minimal fuss. I see little to dislike.

  • Distro suggestions for a dumb-dumb who only knows linux through meme osmosis

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  • It's hilarious how uncool it is to suggest Ubuntu but it often just works, including very recent hardware if it's from Canonical partners like Lenovo or Dell. And the kerfuffle about things like snaps are way overblown.

  • Hyprland v0.46.0 released

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  • Different usage model isn't it? Sway's mostly manual while hyprland is more dynamic with a focus on eye candy.

  • What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you?

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  • Well aerosols are tiny particles, but often created and propelled using pressurized glasses.

  • What pieces of software can you recommend that's free, efficient and does not bullshit around?

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  • Funniest is when a vim user says that, since emacs includes a vim.

  • What pieces of software can you recommend that's free, efficient and does not bullshit around?

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  • All that is not in a text editor. A text editor is in all that. A few text editors actually.

  • Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux.

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  • Our just run sync, which isn't as completely foolproof, but is easy.

  • Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

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  • Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

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  • should be proportional to the weight of the system

    It's that really true? Wear to the roads is proportional to the fourth power of axle weight so I would never have predicted a linear relationship.

  • Does anyone else use Regolith Desktop?

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  • Yes of course that's exactly what it is. A DE is just a collection of daemons and tools. None of it's rocket science but a lot of it is unclear unless you dig in deeper. And it's work that someone has already done.

    (BTW... Intents and purposes)

  • Does anyone else use Regolith Desktop?

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  • Gnome-flashback by default is an old-school Gnome DE (Desktop Environment) that comes with a simple, conventional WM but allows you to swap in any WM you like while it operates in the background. Mainstream Gnome Shell DE is inextricably tied to its WM so you can't swap into that. So with Gnome-flashback you can swap in i3 and get a curated Gnome DE with your own (i3) WM.

    It means you don't have to reinvent everything that makes a DE just to use i3 WM. You get things like the Gnome settings GUI including monitor configuration and restoration on hotplug; clipboard manager; theming; audio/brightness hotkeys just work; USB drives automount, and more. Lots of convenience and utility you want and need but otherwise have to identify, install, configure and set up manually. Without using an already curated DE you have to reinvent one, or at least reinvent the parts of one you can't live without.

    Gnome-flashback is not the only DE that allows swapping in a different WM. My own experience has found it a bit of a PITA every time I try to use it on an OS with an updated Gnome version, requiring poking around, searching and debugging. Sadly, there seem to be limited options for low effort, well polished, curated i3/sway DE.

  • Does anyone else use Regolith Desktop?

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  • I like to use i3 in a desktop environment so I don't have to reinvent the wheel of sundry support details like hotkeys and monitor behavior, automounting USB drives.

    I've used gnome flashback with i3, just like regolith, and decided to try using regolith to get the full curated environment but I found their obfuscation of what's going on impossible to deal with. Just working out how to change configuration was a huge pain in the ass and had to be done the regolith way.

    But every new OS release with a new version of flashback etc. doesn't seem to work right, so I am contemplating giving up and just going direct window manager and accumulating all those sundry details of a DE manually.

  • Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air

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  • And yet wasn't it central to the last ipcc report, that we could hold to 1.5C of we stopped all carbon emissions dead and came up with as yet not invented ways for carbon capture. And everyone said "sounds great someone should totally get on that"

  • What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for?

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  • But most of the world did not have the US education system. I'd say only some Americans have heard of Oregon City, and very few non Americans.

  • We were supposed to hit peak emissions. Why won’t they stop rising?

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  • It's hilarious how fracking is not seen as the junkie desperation it plainly is, hunting round their body to get the needle into a usable vein. Pumping in shit to eke out another hit even though it poisons the land.