Oh you’re right, no wonder this looked kinda weird but kinda normal.
Oh you’re right, no wonder this looked kinda weird but kinda normal.
ngl I actually really like that. the start button popping out over the taskbar is a nice touch. what’s the setup?
I’ve found yandex to work even better. But yeah bing is way better than Google.
I’ve been reliant on social programs and found them severely lacking. They’re bureaucracy at their worst, and I’m lucky to be able to navigate through it - it seems those who need the help the most are the least able to receive it. They’re wasteful too, I would rather the funds go directly to people who need it rather than feeding the middleman.
I don’t know if he’s running for president, but in case you’re unaware he founded a new political party, the Forward Party. It’s the first time I’ve really believed in anything political; it might not resonate with you but it’s worth looking into if you haven’t.
While this year has been painful for the data preservationist part of me, I also couldn’t be more excited for the rise of the small web and open platforms.
This certainly has been a strange year. The reckoning for these big unprofitable sites was inevitable in retrospect, but it’s wild how much is happening all at once.
This is a cool idea! I’ve seen split keyboards, but never one with the content in the middle. I’m pretty sure the only way of implementing this would be in a custom text editor app as I don’t think it’s possible to have a system keyboard go to the sides of content and squish it like that (on both iOS and Android), but I’d be happy to be wrong.
My smaller-than-average hands combined with how large phones are nowadays makes me have little trouble with the size of typical phone keyboards - I actually use one that lets you ‘shrink’ the typing area a bit as I find it more comfortable - but the comfort factor of holding a phone horizontally is big. I don’t need to do much typing on my phone right now but if I did, I would definitely download an app like this.
Same here, not 100% sure I think it’s because of a lack of hardware H.265 decoding (in my case, at least)
Garuda has a Lite edition that doesn’t include any of the theming, just vanilla KDE Plasma. It’s been my daily driver for a year or two now, I really like it. What sets it apart are the GUI tools for system maintenance and tweaking, in which it’d be easy to mess things up, but they make doing common changes and adjustments easy. I don’t know if that makes it good or bad for beginners, I guess it depends on the person.
You’re underrepresenting the complications of NixOS and overrepresenting the complications of Arch. For example, to install Steam I would run sudo pacman -Syu steam
. On a typical Arch setup that’s all that’s needed.
Another example is how to install Steam. In Arch, the wiki must tell you all the manual steps required to enable multilib, install the steam package, install 32bit dependencies, yada yada.
And that’s why the Arch wiki is so great - it has details and links about everything that goes into making something work. If you want to learn more or if something goes wrong it’s all right there.
But yes, I think you hit the nail on the head at the end there - hackability is Arch’s strength, everything is exposed and flexible to tinkering. It’s easy to make almost anything work, and easy to learn how it works. That’s very different from NixOS’s core philosophy of stability and reproducibility.
There are inherent pros and cons to both approaches - it really comes down to a mix of personal preference and using the right tool for the right job. They’re apples and oranges, and the article framing NixOS as a superior successor to Arch is as silly as the reverse would be.
Click that link there, scroll down to where it says ‘download’
I’ve recently started using Rats Search, basically a p2p torrent indexer. I don’t want to bother with private trackers so this is pretty much perfect.
I’ve never heard of Soulseek before, but it sounds like exactly the sort of thing I’ve been trying to find for years! I’m so sick of Spotify, I want to get back into collecting locally but it’s hard. This looks perfect :)
This is the way. The really top-tier AI art is almost guaranteed to use this, most online tools and other frontends just don’t have the features. Also, here is a link to a fork of that with an improved UI (no other changes).
Fun fact, it can be run on as low as 2gb vram! It works out of the box with the --lowvram parameter, and with some extra fiddling with extensions you can even generate high resolution stuff.
There’s something kind of refreshing about having to go out of your way to find content, rather than going out of your way to avoid it. It reminds me of the earlier days of the web with random geocities sites, forums, webrings.
But yeah even considering that it still feels kinda barren around here. I don’t think Lemmy was used much at all before the Reddit exodus - it’s still pretty new and heavy in development, and I don’t think was even really usable until recently. As many issues as it’s had supporting the massive influx of users, it’s lucky that it’s usable enough as a Reddit alternative with all the stuff going down over there.
Anyway, welcome aboard! Hopefully we can get things going soon enough :) I’ve only been around a few days but everything I’ve posted has gotten more attention and thoughtful responses than they would elsewhere, even with how small the communities are - I think once people see how much more rewarding it is to contribute here activity will start to snowball.
Yeah good point. I think these particular bot instances are being way too obvious to do any major damage - not when it’s as simple as it is to defederate them - but what’ll happen when it’s not 100k bots on one instance, but 1000 instances with 100 bots apiece?
Let’s hope Lemmy gets the tools needed to deal with this. I wonder how Mastodon does it? They’ve been around a while, I’m sure they’ve had similar issues.
I tried to give this video a real chance, but it’s just… really bad.
Their first main point, as best as I can tell through the fluff, is that choice is actually bad because choices have pros and cons - their example being desktop environments. I don’t think I need to explain why this is a bizarre take; that’s the whole point of choice. It’s like saying the whole concept of choosing an ice cream flavor is a joke because you don’t like chocolate ice cream.
Then they start talking about using outdated packages in Linux. Which, of course, isn’t an inherently bad thing in all situations, despite their anecdote about having to use an outdated version of software with a memory leak. Amusingly they say you should keep everything 100% updated all the time because breakage basically never happens (and that updates breaking things is a myth perpetuated by Microsoft) then say Arch Linux is prone to breakage. The real kicker is that this whole point of theirs not only has nothing to do with ‘choice on Linux being a joke’, choice is actually the solution to this problem - being able to choose stability vs cutting edge is a core part of Linux. What’s hilarious is that they actually say if you want stability you should choose a distro focused on stability.
Then they talk about how proprietary software often doesn’t support Linux. Which sucks to be sure, but has little to do with the central thesis of the video (as much as it has one) and is just a pointless snipe at low-hanging fruit.
The video is generic pop clickbait composed from a mix of criticisms everyone has heard and complete nonsense. It’s a meaningless collection of ideas and gripes that neither contribute to the larger conversation nor serve to educate people.