monovergent 🛠️ @ monovergent @lemmy.ml

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I am just like that and was surprised how few people mention this when I searched it online. The other day, I stared down a group of people standing and chatting behind my seat while I was trying to eat my lunch. Thought it was just some common etiquette or evolutionary instinct and stared until they walked away.

Can't recall if there was any specific thing in my childhood that causes it, but reading this made me realize that I'm not alone in this survival reflex.

I'm more or less forced to, how I wish I could pay it just like another bill rather than some complicated guess-and-file game.

I also want the government to give me an itemized list, to a reasonable extent, of where my taxes are going. As a thought exercise, I added "taxation theft" to my yearly budget, which I currently calculate as over a third of my taxes. That's my best estimate of the taxes I'm paying to bomb innocent civilians halfway across the globe, among other uses I would not approve of.

I wish I lived in a country that takes better care of its taxpayers so I wouldn't have to care about the tax I pay.

How detailed would the memory of past lives be? If it's good enough, school would be very different, if not obsolete.

We would also have a lot more answers, or at least a consensus, on natural and anthropological history.

Everything that was destroyed by leaking alkaline cells or stripping the battery door screws. LR44-powered toys were the worst.

It's good that we don't use mercury in button cells anymore, but it was exactly mercury that inhibited the off-gassing reaction that eventually leads to leakage.

Looks like it's made by a third party: https://www.telemessage.com/tag/tm-sgnl-android-installation-upgrade-guide/

Probably just paranoid, but I can't fall asleep if I leave my devices charging. There's a nagging fear of the battery going up in flames while I'm asleep.

My monitor had a bright blue power LED smack in the middle of the lower bezel. I took it apart on day one and brutally ripped out the LED, only then did I ever connect it to my computer.

Maybe a bit niche, but in higher level math courses, instructional material often seems out-of-touch, written by professionals for professionals. Inconsistent notation between authors and unexplained symbols in equations are also royal pains in the ass.

Chicago95 XFCE on Debian is my daily driver. Having been a Windows 2000 fanboy, it makes me feel right at home.

The Raleigh GTK theme ported to GTK 3 on XFCE is also a quick and dirty way to get a 90s-esque look: https://github.com/thesquash/gtk-theme-raleigh

For an entire distro, there's Hot Dog Linux: https://github.com/arthurchoung/HOTDOG

Many of them are single-issue Linux users and don't concern themselves with FOSS philosophy

Also have been using Debian for the past 3 years. It just works on all of my machines and comes with just enough features to make life easy. Also love the variety of packages and compatibility with pretty much anything I need that isn't in the official repo.

Many would beg to differ but I love how stable and predictable it is. I have a very particular taste in UI and the less work to maintain that cozy look, the better. Having been a holdout on old Windows versions in the years before I moved to Linux, getting new features at all is already very exciting. I had thought for several years that nothing would beat the comfort and reliability of Windows 2000, but Debian proved me wrong.

If just using the Live CD counts, Lubuntu 12.04, to copy files off a broken Windows machine

Then Ubuntu, followed by Deepin (looked cool), UbuntuDDE, Arch, Xubuntu, and finally settled on Debian in 2022.

In my experience, KDE can run just fine, but it is seemingly pickier about drivers and hardware (I've had a loose DisplayPort connection crash it several times) than other desktop environments.

Customizations, especially theming, at the system level. Or just learning to modify system files on an atomic distro, in general.

I'm sure it's doable and I am genuinely interested in moving to atomic/immutable distros. But more for the security aspect than reliability as I've yet to break my install of Linux in a way that takes more than an hour to recover from. I've enjoyed the predictability of Debian and my very particular taste in UI makes for additional baggage just reinstalling, let alone moving to a very different distro.

• 180 MB /efi (if needed)
• 384 MB /boot (for LUKS compatibility)
• Remainder / (usually btrfs)

It is evident from the current top-level comments that more education is needed.

It's certainly doable and something like that was my setup for a few years. There isn't much in the way of distros or software packages that provide such a 'personal multiseat' configuration out of the box.

I'd suggest starting with anything graphically intensive running on bare metal and setting up a VM with virt-manager / Virtualbox / etc. for the NAS part. Get a couple of disks specifically to pass through to the NAS VM, forward its ports to LAN, and connect to them on the host as you would any other machine. For a desk further away, you may be able to get away with a KVM extender, but I can't say I've any experience with them.

If you try to virtualize everything like I did, there's a couple of hurdles:

• Much time and manual configuration in the command line is needed
• Atrocious graphical and input latency on remote connections
• Very high RAM usage
• Input glitches and general slowness on the VM with GPU passthrough, remained unresolved despite scouring tutorials from people who somehow managed to get buttery-smooth gaming in a VM
• Lots of bandwidth used while updating all of the VMs. Probably optimizable, but not out of the box.

Go for AMD if you can, but NVIDIA hasn't given me much trouble either. Make sure to install the driver from your distro's repo, not NVIDIA's website. IMO, this is less of an issue if you decide to pass through the GPU to a VM since any NVIDIA driver shenanigans will be contained to the VM.

Probably eye-ther, but eee-ther on random occasion

Very much the opposite, but probably because what I ended up doing follows their image of success. Become highly educated in a technical field and then make a decent amount of money (on paper, in this economy). Not sure I would have the same approval if I wanted to become, say, a graphic designer.

Debian stable:

• Works on all of my devices, none of which are newer than 2019
• Compatibility with all of the software that I use day to day
• I like my system set up in a very particular way and the stability makes upkeep simple
• I was a holdout on older Windows versions before I moved to Linux, so getting new features at all is already exciting