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As a Python dev, I think I may understand your desire to get away from Windows. I have often encountered Python tools and frameworks that don't work on Windows but do on Unix (Linux and MacOS), like Flask, but can't recall seeing the other way around.

If:

• Your laptop is still receiving security updates from Apple and is performing well,
• And your main focus now is to learn Python

I would not mess with it and just stick with MacOS.

If your laptop is no longer supported or it is getting too slow, or if you want to play around with Linux, that would be a good reason to move away from MacOS.

I agree that Konsole are Kitty are both lovely terminals that are very configurable. Kitty for text file people vim enthusiasts and Konsole for GUI lovers.

By "questionable update policy", do you mean that it is updated by the package manager when installed from official repositories but it has an auto-updater functionality for users installing it manually?

IIRC someone who compiled from source but didn't set the flag/config to disable the auto-updater was surprised about that.

I don't see the big deal of it to be honest. The vast majority of users will be installing through the package manager. If you compile from source, you can decide yourself whether you want it to auto-update. The whole point of compiling from source is the extra control, not the defaults, I'd guess. Unless you don't know what you are doing and the package was not available for your distro and in that case, enabling auto-update by default even serves that user group.

Nice! I missed that.

So Lemmy communities have a third form:

1. The URL format for non-Lemmings: https://instan.ce/c/community
2. The Lemmy format for Lemmy clients: !community@instan.ce
3. The Mastodon "tag" format: @community@instan.ce

That's a Mastodon thread. This is Lemmy.

While Mastodon users can subscribe to Lemmy communities (such as this one: !linux@lemmy.ml or lemmy.ml/c/linux ) and see Lemmy posts in their feed, Lemmy users cannot normally comment on Mastodon threads.

It is really running on a router. This particular router unit had a specific weird architecture that includes PCIE and thus makes it possible to plug in a graphics card. But the game is running on the actual router CPU, RAM and storage.

I was trying to do this, didn't find the directory, figured out that mkinitcpio wasn't installed. Turns out EndeavourOS set up dracut which means I don't even have to do this. (Hides behind purple SDDM theme)

This is crazy!

What surprised me especially is that it was seemingly so simple to compile and boot a modern Linux kernel and graphics drivers for this obscure >10yo CPU.

I know what they mean, but: I run an immutable Linux distro on my phone that is maintained by Google. I'm sure more than 0.01% of Europe does the same.

I guess "FLOSS phone" doesn't have the same ring to it as "Linux phone"

Looks great! I've been using a similar setup (Sway + Waybar + neovim) but on Arch.

I can live without animations but the lack of a blur option for transparent windows has me ogling SwayFX. I love my terminal semi-transparent. I use kitty for a terminal and have been playing with the extremely responsive and minimal tofi. Check it out, seems to match your vibe.

Waybar is styled using CSS. I just googled CSS character spacing and found this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/letter-spacing

Let me know if you need any more specific pointers.

NS made a loss

I am annoyed how this concept is so normalised that no one wonders anymore.

Should public rail be self-sufficient or is it a public good?

And how much was the loss of highways this year, compared to rail?

Never mind that highways encourage modes of transport that kill more people, both directly and indirectly.

Someone showing off their uniquely styled desktop. Usually showing multiple panes, one of which is an empty desktop and some apps in another to show the background and window styles. If you are used to things close to the Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon default looks and are confused, they did a good job!

River is a tiling window manager FYI.

The "dotfiles" contain all the relevant config. Most of it is in ~/.config usually

Thank you for your service! Great material. You could have posted it here too.. or attach a license :P

That is awesome! Keeping the Reverb G2 alive amd enabling the move to Linux at the same time.

That's awesome! Well you won't need to expect WMR updates for Windows anymore, firmware or otherwise. I didn't know WMR worked with Monado. Does it do 6 degrees of freedom tracking?

Valve actively maintains SteamVR and put in a lot of work for Linux compatibility. Doing that while open sourcing the software is hard. It adds work.

However, open sourcing an abandoned piece of software costs virtually nothing, and can be a big image boost.

Same here, on a Reverb. The only "upgrade path" that could take me to Linux is the announced Bigscreen Beyond at about €2k for a set. Pure SteamVR means it works great on Linux. Every other headset is a sidegrade at best. Even the Valve Index doesn't have the sheer pixels the Reverb G2 has. I neeed the pixels for flight sims

Then just sign it as a middle finger to Microsoft. The more people sign it, the worse they look

Then just sign it as a middle finger to Microsoft. The more people sign it, the worse they look

(Disclaimer: I am not really neurodivergent, though I am closer to ADHD and autism than most people)

I would tell the boss about the problems with the green cheese strategy. Maybe not in a large group, depending on the setting. In a 1-on-1 meeting I wpuld tell for sure. But I would also get really miserable if I had to pretend it's all great with the rest of the team while it clearly isn't. I think most people in my profession (software engineering) would run away from bosses who are like that.

Maybe this kind of office politics is ok on a management level, between managers. But good managers shield their team from this kind of cattle manure. At least in software, they do. Otherwise they'll watch the talent leave.