njordomir @ njordomir @lemmy.world

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I won't help every time, but if someone asks and I'm feeling generous, I usually stop and talk for a few mins and hand them $10-20, no strings attached. I'm not the ethics police and if they buy insulin or liquor doesn't matter to me as much as them getting the impression that they aren't invisible and people want to see them prosper. It's too easy to see myself in their situation for me to be an asshole about it. Most of us are only an accident or bad decision away from homelessness and poverty.

I know it's not a perfect resemblance, but I see it.

Strawberry is great and so was Clementine before it. It's really a step up compared to what the average distro bakes into their default bundle of applications.

Inb4 someone added Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Saw to the training data.

Fair enough. I was in that camp for a decade or more myself. I hope you find a solution!

It's not necessarily a solution, but my Garmin watch can still hold some of my cards, so I don't need the NFC payment on my phone to duplicate that functionality. Do you wear or carry any other devices that can stand-in?

Interesting username. Are you a fellow student of Internet Comment Etiquette?

I know at least some of my containers use Postgres. Glad to know I inadvertently might have made it easier on myself. I'll have to look into the users for the db and db containers. I'm a bit lost on that. I know my db has a username and pass I set in the docker compose file and that the process is running with a particular GID UID or whatever. Is that what your talking about?

I miss this from cloud hosting. It's helpful to be able to save, clone, or do whatever with the current machine state and easily just flash back to where you were if you mess something up. Might be too much to set up for my current homelab though. My server does have btrfs snapshots of everything directly in grub which has let me roll back a few big screwups here and there.

I've replaced the battery on my laptop twice. Didn't recognize the brand (might have been Dentsing or something like that) but it outperformed the stock battery in it's flattening state and maybe even when it was new! I watched it pretty closely for a while though and I'd NEVER buy a battery off temu.

Yeah, I don't care if they invent a paywall that jumps out of the screen and gives me a top notch scalp massage. I don't do paywalls.

I use Linux on desktop and I've been excitedly watching the various projects to bring FOSS Linux to mobile, but for me personally, it can't be a daily driver yet. Hopefully by the time I'm done degoogling and severing other app dependencies mobile Linux devices will be more evolved and have a better cost/feature ratio more on par with mainstream devices.

I'm mostly disappointed because the way Ubuntu teased a phone that docks to become a PC hasn't really come into full fruition yet. I'm not a Ubuntu user, but I do have a strong preference for working on a full sized screen. Being able to dock my phone to a display and get a non-phone UI means I could just carry a folding keyboard instead of a tablet.

If the EU sponsored an open source OS to reduce dependency on US tech, that could be a saving grace.

I'm considering a pixel tablet so I can put Graphene on it, but with the change in how google handles sources, I'm no longer sure.

If there is a donation button and its a project, media item, service, etc that I use enough that I would buy it, I often donate. The amount depends on how badly they need the help. If I they try to steer me to recurring donations I don't donate at all (having the option as an opt-in is okay).

If we're gonna let them on the road, I say that software should get points just like a driver, but when it gets suspended all the cars running that software get shut down.

I'm a Buddhist/Atheist. There is far less to fight about here than between Christians/Atheist. I'm sure I'm a "bad" Buddhist too because I take the philosophical bits that make sense to me and leave all the deities and supernatural stuff alone, but Buddhists don't seem to mind and most atheists don't either.

As a former evangelical Christian, who also dabbled in atheism, antitheism, etc, I settled into something that's probably closest to Zen Buddhism mixed with atheism. I've been on dates with people, many of them I probably never knew their religion, but the gung-ho Christians and the Mormons showed their incompatibility very quickly. Funnily enough, ex-catholics dig me and I like them. :-)

I don't see myself dating someone who is theocratic, doesn't believe abortion should be allowed, or wants me to go to their church with them. I sometimes tell the story of the time I was figuring myself out and ended up going on a date with a girl who didn't believe in dinosaurs. I call her dinosaur girl. I wish her well, but man did I dodge a bullet!

I don't have an answer for you, but I, and probably a lot of the other silent up-voters, will be watching closely for an answer. Tablets haven't gotten as much attention as phones. My own is still on a stock OS, even as I've removed more and more google stuff elsewhere. I'm not sure when/if the leap will come.

Nowadays I run a dual 4k monitor setup with the left centered in my FoV and the right one alternating between portrait and landscape. My laptop usually sits under the primary or to the bottom left. I connect over thunderbolt so I can easily swap out my work and personal laptop on the dock. Effectively I get 3 screens: my main focus, my distraction, and my comms on the built in display. If I'm gaming on the desktop I toggle the left monitor to another input. I used to have more screens but things are a lot more ergonomic now.

I do feel like I could switch to right monitor dominant, bit I think it would not be ideal considering sloppily moving the mouse to the top left on the primary would cause the mouse to jump to the secondary screen whereas on a left monitor dominant layout it would hit the border. You could offset the displays slightly to catch the mouse, but it's not worth it.

I hate how VPN access is the scaffolding holding the building up making things look normal. You can visit all your normal web sites, you can bypass georestrictions, you can be a little less tracked than you might otherwise be. But what happens when they decide to do away with that scaffolding and we all find out they tore down the house behind it while we were enjoying "normalcy". Too much of making the web functional depends on vpns and adblocking. We shouldn't have to do this stuff and Chromes adblocking scandle should impact millions of users all around the world unilaterally removing adblocking from the web. I fear for the day we have a US only internet and a global internet, not just on paper, but in actual practice.

People are surprised that I can jodel a bit. My geeky high-schools self worked hard to build this skill.