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vettnerk

@ vettnerk @lemmy.ml

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  • Sell Me on Linux

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  • I have exactly zero experience in what work a law office does, but I would think it's mostly paperwork and email? If so you can do that at no startup costs.

    Pick a distro (pop, mint, whatever), and install libreoffice or one of its many variants for offfice integration.

    A common misconception is that linux involves a lot of coding. Sure, it can if you want to - all the hooks for programatical access are there, for example if you want to build shell scripts for automation. But you don't need to. It's just an option many linux users, myself included, like to take advantage of.

    When it comes to convincing you, all I can say is this: It costs you nothing to try.

  • An idea worth fighting for

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  • Look, it's the funny numbers from reddit!

  • Rockstar is selling the same Red Dead Redemption 2 pass for the third year in a row

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  • Probably a stupid question, but what does a game pass do? I'm old and crusty, and the games I like doesn't involve them..

  • YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan - The Verge

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  • One word: reVanced

    More words: No need to thank me. Thank the developers instead.

  • NSFW

    What is something crazy that happened at work?

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  • I trained a serial killer. Hang on, I'll link to another comment I made regarding that...

    EDIT, found it: https://lemmy.ml/comment/3725228

    Another edit, just to clarify: I trained him at the job, not the killing part

  • LISP is ugly

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  • I'll let Randall Munroe decide that himself, considering the fact that he provides URLs for hotlinking below the comics

  • LISP is ugly

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  • Kadyrov, head of Chechnya, in critical condition

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  • Oh no, I hope it's nothing minor

  • Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

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  • looks at self:

    • 40
    • nerd
    • chief amongst my nerddoms being tech

    I feel both insulted and understood at the same time

  • Would you agree?

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  • If windows didn't exist, linux would dominate with the problems you describe, and we'd still see this meme, but advocating for FreeBSD instead.

    That being said, I like them both. It's been a while since I last used bsd, so I think it's about time I give it another spin.

  • I just started using Linux... any great tips?

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  • Not very practical, but good for understanding the OS: Everything is a file. Even your filesystem and harddrive is represented by a file (devicenode).

    Back in the day, before things such as pulseaudio and equivalents became the norm, there was also such a file (it might still exist, idk) for your soundcard. By shoving the contents of a wav file directly into /dev/dsp, you could hear it as if it was played normally.

    Unrelates to the above, in a terminal context it's very handy to learn the concepts of STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and how to manipulate these. I won't go into it here, but whenever you see a bunch of commands strung together with redirects, < > | >>, that's usually for sending the output (STDOUT) of one command somewhere else, such as to the input STDIN to another command.

  • which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?

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  • I've always been intrigued by that one. I want to test it out, but finding an image has proven difficult.

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • [Insert trolley problem here]

  • which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?

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  • I miss /usr/ports. I could spend days just exploring its contents.

    I miss an /etc structure that wasn't a complete mess.

    I miss UFS and its soft updates.

    I miss the stability of fBSD 3 and 4.

    I miss the ease of which you tweaked, compiled, and installed a new kernel.

    And just because of the hilarious legacy that was obsolete 20 years beforw I started with it, I miss the concept of font-servers.

    The main reason for my migration was the bigger userbase of linux where it was easier to find people who has resolved whatever issue I was having, plus nvidia drivers. Plus I've only needed to use fBSD once professionally.

  • which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?

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  • I actually like Gentoo for the same reason you hate it. But I was a FreeBSD guy for around 10 years before migrating to linux, and I probably some long lasting damage still lingering from that era.

  • which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?

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  • One word: snapd

    If you like the idea of ubuntu, but wish to avoid ubuntu, you might want to check out Linux Mint.

  • which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?

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  • Same reason but different vibe with Kali for me. I'm sure it's good for its intended purpose, but I get the feeling that there are many who install it in an attempt at being a kewl h4x0r. I used used Parrotsec for work for a while, and it's a lot less flamboyant about it.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    vettnerk @lemmy.ml

    which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?

  • Pointers

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  • It is my firm opinion that void* should be named "disappointer"

  • Project Management 101

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  • Nine women can create a baby in 1 month.