NostraDavid

Nix! Just being able to run nix-env -i git and get a newer, isolated, git installation on an older Debian is very nice. Makes it easy to remove.

I can also do nix-shell -p <application I want to try out> if I want to test stuff out.

I’ve been able to ignore the Nix language pretty well so far, so no incredibly steep learning curve quite yet. Nix OS is still too spoopy for me.

This is why we have journalists - worst case, take this information to some newspaper, who will likely LOVE to poke the bear.

OK, maybe that’s a little idealistic, but at least you can try, eh?

Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they’re going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn’t.

Just ask whether they can provide a phone as well.

Not very RHELAIable, you say?

I hope you can install Firefox, because The Googs is pushing for Manifest v3, which means no more functional adblock.

Linux or bust, babyyyyyy

I remember seeing a video of how painfully outdated the IRS is, so they should invest instead…

edit: found it - it’s by LGR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL5ut8o5pfs

Better how? I can’t message people when they’re offline, everything is completely boring text, no images, it’s not clear how I can easily setup my own server, everything feels archaic.

I tried using it before Discord was even a thing, and I already thought it quite sucked. If you think it’s great, then good on you for knowing everything inside and out, but the discoverability with any IRC client tends to be in the negatives. It feels awful to use.

General tip: https://web.archive.org/save/<url goes here> (including http://) to save a page. We used to be able to spam save, but they’ve implemented some throttling there, so you can’t save the entirety of your personal website all at once, but oh well.

I don’t, mostly because I watched Asmongold talk about it, and now I feel weird playing with a female character online.

Though singleplayer I don’t feel any problems: Lara Croft, Rynn, Chell, Rayne, Jade - it’s all fine.

Maybe it’s just for customizable characters?

If a duct that transfers water is an Aquaduct, then a duct that transfers nature is an Ecoduct

Outer Wilds

I will always shill for Outer Wilds, simply because it’s such a niche that only 2 games have come out in its unnamed genre: Majora’s Mask and Outer Wilds.

Yes, Outer Wilds is a spiritual successor to Majora’s Mask.

And the worst part is that talking about the game would probably spoil half of it. All I can say that it’s an adventure like Majora’s Mask.

If you ever were to trust an internet stranger to buy a game blind, now is the time. If you loved MM, you’ll at least like OW.

Happy adventuring, stranger ;)

That includes lemmy, right?

Right?

As someone who had to develop on a super-restricted, underpowered laptop: Speed meant a LOT to me. Being able to think faster than my laptop, because I was using vscode’s terminal (which is Electron based), was excruciatingly painful - Wezterm FTW! I used Alacritty, but due to windows versions pasting indented text made Alacritty indent more and more, which was a frustration for me. But I would agree that beyond a certain point speed won’t matter, because when your machine can be powerful enough to run vscode smoothly, that (Electron) won’t matter any more.

Anyway, I fully agree with you; I just wanted to note that depending on the situation, speed may matter a LOT more than some may think :)

I don’t. I just use Debian, because it’s the oldest, most popular, most (API) stable distro out there. I have zero needs to switch. I’m sick of OS’ (i.e. Windows) that keep moving/switching/changing things around in massive ways, just for the sake of change. I know they do it to stay fresh in the market, but that’s simply not it for me anymore.

Can’t have Google kill Firefox, if Firefox does it first. Every few years they (IMO) fuck something up that makes me want to move away, but there’s no real alternative :/

Because Edge broke JSON files - I couldn’t search through an open JSON file anymore, because Edge decided to only partially load the file.

That’s nice and all, but stop fucking with my plain text. If I want to fuck with it, I can use my extensions, WHICH THEY DISABLED/BLOCKED…

So yeah, back to Firefox, and it’s been fine.

Same - I just track my accounts in my KeePass, so it’s not too bad. I have way too many accounts anyway, and I don’t trust Google/Microsoft to keep them safe in the long term, so KeePass it is.

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