Genrawir

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If your setup allows you to be a productive member of society, you're golden mental health wise. /s

You may want to get your eyes checked if watching HD video on a tiny screen seems preferable unless all your content fits your displays native resolution; I am fairly certain my eyes are terrible. Maybe that's why I love that dark themes are becoming more popular.

Transparency is nice, but Windows Vista is partially what converted me to Linux. I dislike rounded corners too, since content is always rectangular.

I don't know why no mainstream desktop OS really has a good mouse driven tiling setup out of the box. I have a dual screen setup, so I mostly just full screen apps and alt tab if needed which reduces distraction. If I'm trying to focus on a single thing, the second screen gets turned off.

I find myself becoming more minimalist over time as well. Society seems to be more distraction driven by the day, so having an OS that stays out of the way is a boon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

The only option I can think of would be to use a vm. Unless all your apps support restoring sessions, I don't think there's any mechanism to do so globally. Getting stuff to start automatically or as a group using a script is easy enough, but that's less than half your problem as you've described it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Do tell. a quick search didn't return anything too salacious.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have little interest in being a mod, but I see the issues you're describing as a user and I've given them some thought.

You can create a community with a similar name or switch instances if you cant get your instance admin to help. For me, the frustration isn't so much with unmoderated communities but abandoned ones, especially on larger instances.

Fixing that seems simpler, as adding a toggle to hide inactive communities should hopefully not be controversial and it could be implemented by the client. Please?

It will be interesting to see how things evolve, as a solution is clearly needed but federation poses some interesting challenges especially since deleting posts should be discouraged.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Then the slavery would be a much bigger piece though, so this meme really makes no sense at all

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

That's just how research works most of the time. The experimental setup required to build a working prototype and prove the initial hypothesis is always going to be larger and more complex than a mass market appliance. If that appliance ever gets built depends on a huge number of factors too. If the process scales as expected, how complex the device is to produce and if a company thinks that it can make money on it. The researchers, meanwhile, are probably more worried about their next grant funding.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Debian netinst. The network installable iso is much smaller than the full image as you only download stuff you actually want to install. Ubuntu used to have a mini.iso but sadly they got rid of it AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

That, and it would be in portrait mode, with a video playing. And ads taking up a third or the screen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I actually mostly agree and was being a bit sarcastic. Training on newer systems is prohibitive anyway as you mentioned. Sending personell is clearly provocative and should be avoided. I just find the argument that the military industrial complex ran out of the bullets to help is laughable.

Obviously, production increases with demand and lags it causing stockpiles to decrease until output increases. Hopefully the quoted assessment is talking about that dip and not a more serious problem.

Really though, Russia knows the US is obligated to help. They signed the memorandum too, after all. It's hard to argue with someone that does so in bad faith, but continuing aid is hardly a provocative act.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

2022? Russia and the US have been starting or supporting wars of aggression for decades. Opposing crimes against humanity, by force if necessary, should not be controversial even for a pacifist. History shows clearly what happens when such aggression is met with appeasement.

What solution am I too stupid to think of?

Providing military aid is a last resort and a terrible solution. The only worse solution is to give up and hand over a sovereign nation we promised to protect to a tyrant.

Would I prefer the world get their act together and sanction them until they can't function, obviously yes. I don't think that's very likely though, same as most other proposals for ending the conflict as fundamentally only Putin can end it.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (26 children)

Pretty sure the US is sending old surplus stock, and I'm sure the military industrial complex is salivating at the chance to resupply. Maybe if they send slightly newer stuff it might be over quicker.

At any rate, US support for exactly this type of situation was agreed on in the Budapest memorandum as part of Ukrainian nuclear disarmament. Russia broke their end of the bargain and started a war under false pretenses. It is up to them to end it, exactly like it is up to the US to do so when doing the same thing.

If the world can not unite to stand up to countries starting such conflicts, we shall never know peace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If I was in his shoes I'd frame the email of Linus apologizing because he wasn't aware it wasn't in linux-next already. Everything else is just process crap that should be expected dealing with large organizations.

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