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Estudante de Engenharia Informática apaixonado pela área; algures em Portugal.

Administrador da instância lemmy.pt.

Computer Science student, passionate about the field; somewhere in Portugal.

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https://tmpod.dev/

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    What are some good software suggestions for windows?

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  • Even though I rarely setup Windows machines nowadays, here's my usual Ninite package: https://ninite.com/7zip-everything-firefox-gimp-greenshot-inkscape-libreoffice-notepadplusplus-putty-qbittorrent-revo-steam-sumatrapdf-teracopy-thunderbird-vlc-winscp-wiztree

    • 7zip is just the best archive tool on Windows
    • Everything is insanely useful, specially if you get into the habit of triggering through a hotkey every time you need something.
    • Revo Uninstaller used to be a must for properly uninstalling programs, not sure how useful it still is with Windows 10 and 11.
    • Sumatra is an excellent and very fast PDF reader.
    • TeraCopy has a bunch of nice utilities, though it's copying/move graph is no longer relevant afaik.
    • WizTree is a faster and nicer version of the old venerable WinDirStat, also very very useful to manage disk space.

  • What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?

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  • Definitely! Need more diversity on all aspects

  • Why do so many people use NGINX?

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  • I think security is a fair point, given caddy's younger age compared to nginx, but I wouldn't say it tried to do too much.

  • Why do so many people use NGINX?

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  • Why do you say that?

    I've used both plenty and only once I thought Caddy was harder: caching. It requires you to install a plugin that also doesn't have the easiest of configs. I think there's a new and simpler one nowadays, but haven't tried it yet.

    I now use Caddy by default for everything new I make/host.

  • What things would you standardize globally if you were the Supreme Leader? All violations punishable by death.

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  • Yeah, Typist is great and has potential for much more still! The big issue is something like the network effect, LaTeX has everything you could possibly want, pretty much, and people will continue to primarily support it because it's the biggest tool. It will be hard to break that cycle, but in the long run it may be possible.

  • What are some good TV series crime/drama/thriller?

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  • I'll add a pretty good classic that I haven't seen mentioned yet: The Mentalist

    Excelent performance by Simon Baker, of course, as well as from the supporting cast. First seasons are really good, with some great finales. Quality drops a bit past season 4/5 imo, but it's still enjoyable.

  • Backing up photos and videos from an Android phone?

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  • This. I don't even need real "scripts", I just plug my big drive into my laptop, start dropbear and use the shell (fish) history to get the right command. Takes about 15s to do everything :p

    If you want a more continuous thing, you can look into Syncthing or something like that.

  • Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images

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  • The web font would also be cached, and it wouldn't be that big of a resource in the first place. I think being able to copy a comment's content is more important, but whatever.

  • Firefox enables user tracking

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  • LibreWolf is little more than a custom config for Firefox, they don't do actual development on the engine, which is the important and very technically laborious part.

  • Donald Trump Does Not Get Post-Shooting Poll Boost

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  • Not really, 2k is enough to have a result with a pretty low error %.

    You're totally right, my statistics is very rusty, good lord. For the ~240M eligible voters in the US, you can get roughly 2% margin of error, for the usual 95% confidence level.

    My comment was a bit daft, in retrospective. Surely the polling people know what they're doing, better than I do for sure x)I guess it goes to show how non intuitive some statistical methods can be at first?

  • Donald Trump Does Not Get Post-Shooting Poll Boost

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  • Isn't 2k voters a comically small sample to draw any results from? I hope it is true, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

  • Privacy.com in Europe?

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  • I'm not familiar with any service that works at the international level, but over in Portugal, the biggest ATM network, Multibanco, has had a service called MB NET (now integrated with the newer MB WAY app), which allows you to create temporary cards with 3 different behaviours: one-time, monthly, multiple uses. The first one always has 1 month of validity, while the others only expire after a year, and you can define a maximum capacity.

    It works perfectly well in foreign online services, but you have to have a card from one of the associated banks (presumably from their Portuguese branch?).

  • Privacy.com in Europe?

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  • Can't use cash online, (nearly*) anywhere.

    • Mullvad is the only service I know that accepts payment through mailed cash.

  • RFC: Cross Platform Password Manager

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  • Another commenter said goldwarden implements that through the Remote Desktop XDG Portal, which only GNOME and KDE support at the moment (wlroots doesn't implement it yet).

  • RFC: Cross Platform Password Manager

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  • Oooh, that looks very neat, thank you!

  • RFC: Cross Platform Password Manager

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  • BitWarden is really good. Has (nearly*) everything I want, works well across all platforms and the free plan is very featurefull. Even though I don't really use any of the premium features, I still pay for the plan, to help fund development, it's only 10€ a year.

    • I say nearly because I'd love to have some form of autocomplete in Linux Wayland, outside of the browser extension. I believe one of KeePass apps does this (but only for X?)

  • what does this mean for Flatpak?

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  • Make sure to check the return policy for Wacom or whichever reseller you end up going with. Some allow you to return electronic devices (if in good state, of course) up to 30 days or so after the purchase. If that isn't possible, you can always try to resell it in the second-hand market and make most of your money back, there are plenty of websites for that (from global ones like ebay to regional platforms; I tend to prefer the latter). But if your friend has one of these (or similar) give it a try!

    And yeah, feel free to reach out to me via Matrix or e-mail! You can also try other platforms listed in my website, but I don't check those as often.

  • Before your change to Linux

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  • Windows 7, but newer versions were already a thing. If I recall correctly, I made the final switch around the time Windows 10 started becoming available to the general public, but I had been dual booting for a while then.

    Started with Mint, btw.

  • What email client are you guys using?

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  • Interesting extension, didn't know about it, thanks!