rarsamx

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[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's not being argumentative. That's being responsible before spreading it. I'm sure the person you replied to confirmed and has the credible sources handy. Right? right?

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The timing of this post is almost comical.

Maybe a bunch of lemmytors read it and went to try, resulting in an unexpected volume.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Why does it need to go on mass production? OP explained they want to get to a point where they share their design.

I keep repeating the same about Linux and other free software projects. The main goal is freedom, not market share.

OPs project seems to follow the same goals. And I find it awesome.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I'd send them to the builder if my beach house to finally finish, but in sure he'll still ask for more.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

For me:

  • Better auto complete.
  • Better scripting language
  • Easier to create built in functions
  • Nicer prompt configuration

There may be some others but I find Bash clumsy (or maybe I'm just clumsy in bash) when I need to use it.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 week ago (64 children)

The reason of the confusion is clear.

The US propaganda has always equated Communism and totalitarianism.

It is bonkers that people in the USA cannot distinguish between an economic system and a political system.

Those two are distinct things. True communism is very democratic. But reading the Communist manifesto is heretic in the US and you are left with what your leaders tell you.

The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.

Right wing totalitarian dictators also use starvation of their own people as means of control.

What you are experiencing in the US is totalitarianism and while it hasn't gotten to USSR levels, it is going on that direction.

Food for thought: study the political system in China, you'd be surprised how it's actually more democratic than the current USA. Yes, the CCP controls the nominations. Now, tell me if there is true plurality in the US, two right wing parties selecting their candidates without any real popular input.

Really you've been bamboozled to think there is real democracy in the US.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

What i did in my last road trip (19 months) was:

  • Configure the camera to record in 1 minute segments
  • I wrote a script to use ffmpeg concatenate all the videos for a particular day while accelerating them e.g. 8x

It's still a large amount of data but I can remember my trip day by day throughout 49,000 Km. (Well, less than that because I wrote the script half way)

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People compare gnome to Desktops with a 30 year old interface which is painfully cumbersome but that they are used to.

I was on the no Gnome camp after Gnome 2 but came back around Gnome 40 (2022) and I was surprised at how simple and stable it is. I agree that many things that are extensions should be built in, but I also agree with the filosophy of not spreading resources to thin and if people want a feature, they can build it.

I only use two or three extensions but mostly need only one: Forge.

I still use Niri as my primary environment but I think that Gnome is good.

I grind my teeth every time I need to use an environment with an old style menu and cumbersome tiling.

C'mon. End users haven't used drop down menues to start apps for a long time. The iOS/Android drawer style is more comfortable and can adapt to the user's organizational preferences.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Become "so bad" is different than "I don't like it"

A lot of people use gnome without any issues. It's stable, it has one of the simplest workflows and it's generally out of the way.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

No machine is faster and more stable. There are open source implementations too.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not only commercial software.

We've come to expect more from our computers and as our processors gain more power we find ways to use it. I'm running things on a laptop that before would have required a workstation. I wanted to run an LLM on an old desktop, and 8GB RAM wasn't enough.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

We know totalitarian aren't above starving their own people. History has many examples.

 

There have been several occasions where I've wished I knew how to weld.

Now that I have the time and want to replace/fix the rocker panels in my van I found a 3 hour course to learn to weld. https://www.les-affutes.ca/en/workshops/welding/the-fundamentals-of-electrode-welding/

Do you have any particular recommendations other than the broad "practice, practice"?

(By the way I see that there has been much activity in this sub but I also know that the only way of having activity is posting)

 

I see so many people claiming that windows is crap and that's why they moved to Linux.

That got me thinking: I can no longer have an opinion in the matter. I haven't used Windows at home since 2004. I used it at work until the beginning of 2019 but someone else maintained it, since then, I haven't had the need to touch windows.

Whether good or bad, I feel I'm not as knowledgeable as I was.

Well, actually, two years ago I cleaned up and "revived" my dad's desktop which was taking two minutes to boot and about the same time to open the first app. After installing an SSD and a couple of hours of clean-up, it was as fast as new. I guess with proper maintenance it can be good enough. However, isn't it the main criticism about Linux? That you "need to know" to use it?

People complain about Linux drivers, but as far as I remember, it was quite common that new versions of Windows dropped old drivers and your perfectly good printer/scanner/video card/etc. became a paperweight. Is that still the case?

 

It seems that CK message got to me. Somehow, I don't feel empathy.

Have you reflected on that? The less empathy you feel, the more you are honouring his memory.

And the more you celebrate the way he died, the more his message stays true.

Weird. This started as a shitpost and then got serious.

I chose to try to feel empathy for his children and still denounce gun violence and lack of action to stop it.

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