nottheengineer @ nottheengineer @feddit.de

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Or everyone hosts it and shares the costs, aka piracy.

Yup, half of it is just "I don't like this person, so no one should use anything they have anything to do with".

The points about the browser itself are clearly just afterthoughts.

Jerboa has an option to not show bot posts at all, maybe connect has that too.

Flatpaks are already my preferred way of installing random crap, but I did run into a few walls with that. VSCodium for example is unusable because it throws random errors about running out of space or not finding files that are definitely there even after giving it all the permissions via flatseal.

Proton has a similar thing where windows apps don't detect the amount of free space properly and see 4GB instead, so I guess it's inherent to containers.

I'll definitely try distrobox on my arch machine, is there anything I need to consider beforehand to not shoot myself in the foot?

Google's swipe typing is pretty damn good, but it isn't magic. It gets a lot better after using it for a while so I'm sure they use reinforcement learning in addition to the dictionary.

They've had it for quite a while and it's good, so I doubt they are putting much work into improving it. And since we have phones with TPUs and multimodal LLMs now, I think it's possible to beat google.

The LLM would only need 3-10 words of context and the swipe data as input to generate a single word, so it can be very small. I don't know much about the power of cellphone TPUs, but I think training an LLM with about 10M parameters on the fly should be possible. If that's the case, we could beat google while doing everything locally on the phone, so no privacy compromises.

Now that I think about it, it sounds doable. But then again I never did anything like this so I'm probably underestimating it by an order of magnitude or two.

People literally made a distro spin that's dedicated to rolling back nvidia drivers.

Classic nvidia moment right there.

But Universal Blue does look very interesting, I need to try and use it with distrobox and see if I can hit any walls that aren't there with a classic setup.

Florisboard is my daily driver and I have unexpected keyboard so I can do proper VNC sessions from my phone.

But it's quite bad, given their care for privacy there's no way they can compete with google who has all the data.

I know a bit of machine learning and I'm pretty confident I could hack something together that's better than what florisboard has right now, but I'd have no idea where to even start integrating it.

The springs are on the cable side for USB-C, which is good because those are always the thing that breaks first.

Apple has them on the port, which isn't ideal because it's hard to replace that port once it fails.

USB-C ports are very hard to damage. I scratch the dirt out of mine with a needle about once a year and since the springs are in the cable, you don't need to be careful.

Seems like you're right, I just remembered trying it a while ago and thinking it was quite decent.

I genuinely felt bad for him after all the bullshit the universe threw at him.

Debian with XFCE or LXDE.

Classic windows moment, you have to reinstall it to change that.

Are you booting in legacy BIOS or UEFI mode?

Legacy only supports one bootloader per drive, which should be grub. If you're in legacy mode, windows was probably thrown out of there so it doesn't show up anymore. Grub can still call the windows bootloader if you configure it accordingly.

The arch wiki page on grub has a section explaining the details.

That would mean they have actually given up, which I highly doubt.

Sounds like a classic EEE scheme. There's no way in hell apple would actually support this without ulterior motives.

What a circlejerk article. While the points made are true, it insults anyone not already using linux so it'll probably push those people away from linux.

How about some context in the readme? Without the title of this post, I'd have no idea what I'm looking at.

The choice of distro isn't too important, you can usually run any software on any distro. The installation process varies a bit by distro because they use different package managers, but they generally all have all the software you need

The most important choice for the start is your desktop environment. I'm partial to KDE and can highly recommend it for linux beginners because it's a lot like windows by default and extremely customizable. There are also XFCE (very light and fast, not too many features), Gnome (some people swear by it but it doesn't let you customize much), cinnamon (no bullshit, fast and windows-like) and a bunch of others.

Then pick a distro based on that. The popular ones are usually also the best ones to start with, with one notable exception (in my opinion): Ubuntu.

It uses snaps, which are an alternative way to install software that's made by canonical (the makers of ubuntu) and generally disliked among the linux community because it slows down application startup and causes very weird issues that are hard to figure out. Ubuntu will install some applications via snap instead of the package manager (which is apt for ubuntu) even if you specifically invoke apt instead of snap.

You can sti use it and probably be fine, but you'll have to endure snap problems or go out of your way to avoid using it. Picking a different distro from the start is easier than that.

I'd say debian is a good pick. I have debian LTS on my ventoy for whenever I need to partition a drive and it's been great.

I never had any issues with it, what drove you away from debian on the desktop?