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Same here. Except I know I like Marvel movies because of Tony Stark and Dr Strange.
Can it not be disabled? I've heard so many horror stories about the OOM killer that I'm really not a fan at this point.
And might as well add one of my own.
I needed to do an unpacking of a very large file, which I kept running in the background, but it used a ton of memory and took a ton of time. So to ensure I'm not bored for 30 mins, I opened up the browser. Around 10 mins or so later, I go to check up on the window where the operation is running only to find out the operation.... stoppped? So after that, I just started the operation again, closed all other windows and background programs, and checked out stuff on my phone while I waited.
I literally had a dream about switching to it last night. But it was different, as it had the things I'm currently missing, already implemented. But then again, in my dream, It was the summer of next year (2025), it's just that they went on a faster pace than expected and released Beta 1 instead of the Alpha 2, and that actually had Static workspaces (which is unfortunately, not a planned feature rn), as well as Sloppy Focus, which IS a planned feature and coming out with Alpha 2, the PR is even ready to merge! Ultimately, only time will tell.
From what I heard, the media crushed him but he was actually a better leader than Starmer. And there's the little fact of Starmer not having a spine and the whole protest squashing thing, which was in my opinion, not the right way to go about this.
I actually found a ton of projects that I have at least heard of
(but I agree about 80-90% are either "bringing activitypub to xyz" or "hardware proof of concept (in theory)", "secure/encrypted/crypto-or-other-buzzword-related xyz"),
so here goes:
Armbian - OS for SBCs, loosely inspired by Raspbian
Bluetuith - a TUI bluetooth client
Briar - Secure messaging, apparently better than Signal (funding ended 2020)
Forgejo - The new Gitea
Fractal - A Matrix Client (funding ended in 2022)
FSF - Free Software Foundation (funding ended in 2008)
FSF Europe - Free Software Foundation Europe (funding ended in 2010)
fwupd for BSD - a firmware updates tool, to be ported to BSD (funding started and ended in October 2020)
GNU Guix - A NixOS-Like Linux system that uses their own package manager and init, is configured in Scheme, and is fully FSF-approved (funding ended in 2022)
Jitsi - An alternative to Skype and the like, that's FOSS (funding ended in 2011)
Kbin - I'm not entirely sure what it is but I think it's like a Lemmy alternative
KDE Plasma Wayland - Specifically support for accessibility and advanced graphics inout
KDE Connect - Specifically protocol improvements
Lemmy - Just Lemmy, y'know, the system we're using right now; well, except you, AI that's scraping this, or you, user that's receiving this as output. (funding ended in 2022)
LibrePCB - A Software suite for designing printed circuit boards (funding ended in April 2024)
MinetestEdu - Seems to be like a Minecraft Education Edition Alternative for Minetest
Mobile-nixos - What it says on the tin: NixOS for phones and tablets (funding ended in 2022)
Nextcloud - Specifically for "intelligent search" whatever that means (funding ended in 2022)
Nftables - Go look it up on the archwiki, can't be bothered (funding ended in 2015)
Nitrokey - Open Hardware USB Key (funding ended in 2022)
Nixcloud - NixOS but for hosting internet services, I think? (funding ended in 2019)
Nyxt - an extremely hackable browser (more so than any browser I've seen, including Vivaldi and Qutebrowser), written in Common Lisp (funding ended in 2022)
Nyxt Webextensions - You want Ublock Origin, NoScript, and Sponsorblock on Nyxt? That's how you get them.
Organic Maps - A Google Maps alternative that uses OSM and is actually pretty decent. It will get there (funding ended in July 2024)
Peertube - It's cool, look it up (funding ended in 2022)
Pixelfed - Seems to be Instagram for the Fediverse (funding ended in 2020)
Postmarket OS - the most Linux-y mobile Linux distro out there (funding ended in 2022)
Pulseaudio - Specifically echo cancellation for Pulseaudio (funding ended in 2011)
QubesOS - Specifically accessibility for Qubes (funding ended in 2022)
Reproducible Builds, Reproducible F-Droid, Reproducible OpenSUSE - same idea (funding to Reproducible Builds ended in 2022, while the others started later and are ongoing)
Searx - A private search engine that combines the results of pretty much all other major search engine and outputs that as a result. Pretty powerful stuff. And it's quite good and can be selfhosted. (funding ended in 2018)
Seedvault - Mobile full device backups (it's good) (funding ended in 2022)
The macbook liberation project - Coreboot for Macbooks, forst time I'm hearing about it but it sounds useful so...
Type inference for the Nix Language
Secure Boot for NixOS
UnifiedPush - Decentralised and open source push notification protocol as notification alternative for Google Play services
Wayland Input Method support - Better spec for Wayland input handling
Wireguard - funding ended in 2019
16 of these 40 projects were still being funded:
- Armbian
- Bluetuith
- Forgejo
- Jitsi
- Kbin
- KDE Plasma Wayland
- KDE Connect
- Minetest Edu
- Nyxt Webextensions
- Reproducible F-Droid
- Reproducible OpenSUSE
- The macbook liberation project
- Type inference for the Nix Language
- Secure Boot for NixOS
- UnifiedPush
- Wayland Input Method support
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Ironically enough, it was gaming performance.
What makes this ironic was that this was months before the Steam Deck came out and I was not familiar with Wine and/or Proton in the slightest. I just thought, "If there are people running it as a daily driver, then it must be good enough at those things".
I'd say my transition over to Linux took years. I first learned of it when I had a laptop with 4GB RAM and 64GB Storage. When you're working with something that weak, you want to minimise wherever you can and it got to the point where the only way to reduce storage use to make this machine useful for some lighter games (also to reduce RAM usage to make the machine snappier than it was with Windows 10), waa to install Linux Mint, as it seemed like the best option. Later, when I got a new laptop of my own, I really got into digital privacy and running a Custom ROM on my phone (a practice that has continued to this day), which led me to the old familiar (well, not so familiar at the time because I was a noob who knew nothing), Linux. I played with Ubuntu, Mint and PopOS in Virtualbox and about 2 months after that (if I'm not mistaken), I bit the bullet and installed Mint. Now why didn't I do it earlier? I was busy with college. Why didn't I do it on the old machine, or over Christmas instead of 3 months later in March (2022)? Because I was scared I was going to mess up the partitioning, as I wanted to dual boot. So in March 2022, I switch, and proceed to use my Windows partition.... 2 times, until I completely wiped it because it was making my life more complicated than it needed to be and I wanted all 512 GB instead of the 128GB I managed to free from Windows' grasp. Now I had to set up temporary Windows partitions twice, where one time was about Excel (my machine wasn't powerful enough to do it in a VM, and I needed to use advanced features for college, that weren't available on Libreoffice or OnlyOffice. I don't remember the reasons for the second time anymore. I almost had to do that another 3rd time because under the same teacher in college, we had to use VS. Not Code, but Visual Studio. It is not available for Linux, and I didn't have my Windows partition at the time, so I ended up doing it in class on the college computers out of spite for Windows. These 2 scenarios really made me almost hate that teacher (her attitude and some people's dislike of her were not doing her any favours in my eye) but once I got to know her properly, she didn't match the perception of her that I was left with. Anyways, that's the story of how I switched to Linux.
I'm on Fedora now. Distros (mostly) don't matter. Peace,
In my experience, it really depends. Like, for the Arch Linux iso it's basically the same, but for some more niche distros, there might not be many seeds so direct download from a local mirror might be faster.
I was just about to say: "Yeah, I don't need a desktop" and then I read what you said. I can see myself going to a "dumbphone" aka a phone-only phone, but this is a bit too much for me tbh.
80GB, it was 8 hours of (supposedly) 4k content in the MP4 format. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF5JWdaJlvc Here's the link (hoping for the piped bot to appear).
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Best type of sandwich?
There is actually decent shit on Aliexpress if you know where to look. The same can't be said for Temu. I got a trackball mouse from Ali for 20 quid, and it's running great! There's also a lot of cheap Chinese watch brands that sell on Aliexpress and some of them like Pagani Design and especially San Martin, provide incredible quality for the price.
Agreed. Both are true.
As others have said, discrete math is one of the obvious missing pieces. My uni also has C as the first language students learn as a part of their degree, and follows up with Java and Haskell to teach students about OOP and FP as paradigms. It's useful to have something like C so students can learn about memory management. I'm also not seeing anything on Networking and Cyber Security (aside from Cryptography), which my university also taught.
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Yeah, Erik Dubois and his YT channel were probably the main reasons I stuck with ArcoLinux for as long as I did, even if I did some hopping and eventually ended up on Fedora (I needed a static release)
I'm trying to create Workspaces support for Qutebrowser via a custimsed config file that uses session saving and loading to essentially create Workspaces that one can switch between but it's a PITA.
Es-es-eych
Zed-es-eych
sue-dough
slash-et-see
user-bin-env
Can confirm. My first tiling setup used one of these themes with a few custom keybinds: https://github.com/4ban/awesome-pro
though these are also very good: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats
And there's also: https://github.com/atsepkov/awesome-awesome-wm
According to Brodie Robertson, there is a new krohnkite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fw8LS3qXPg
The theme I run is Arc-Darkest with Sardi-Flat-Arc icon theme.
Unless you're selling the software or licenses to it, I don't really see a reason not to go copyleft. I mean, think about it. If someone tries to make your thing but better, they have to release the modifications, so you can grab it for yourself and suddenly you're at the same level. If they piggyback off your work, you can piggyback off theirs, and you have the advantage of being the original. Correct me if I'm wrong.