pmk @ pmk @lemmy.sdf.org

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Does it have dual batteries? My t470s does a hard shutdown instead of switching battery source when the first battery is empty sometimes. It's an old bug and I think the consensus is that no one is really sure why.

The Chinese room argument. It's hard to ignore the reality of qualia.

Some GNU projects have amazing official logos:
https://www.gnu.org/graphics/package-logos.html
I like pascal especially.

Maybe this is a naive view, but I wouldn't mind paying a programmer to improve free software when there's something I need. Then everyone can benefit the same way I benefit from other people improving the software in similar or other ways.
For example, a while ago I realized that the OpenBSD file(1) tool didn't detect utf-8 encoding, which was something I wanted. It doesn't seem like a priority of the devs, but generally an improvement for everyone if it worked. If there was an easy way to pay a programmer to implement it for a reasonable price I could pay for that. If more people wanted the same thing we could share the cost too. Finally if the devs thought it was a feature in line with the goals of the project it could be merged into the main source code and everyone would benefit.
I wish this system of hiring programmers was easier to navigate.

I don't think the admins use lemmy at all.

Well there's something about it that is confusing compared to other installers? For example there is a text message instructing the users what happens if they don't set a root password. Many people miss it, but it's right there. If many people miss it, there's something that can be improved.

Honest question, what is unintuitive about the Debian installer? I'm asking because I've done it so many times that it's intuitive for me.

It's been thoroughly researched by linguists. The main source is the pronounciation guides written by the romans themselves. They describe how to trill the R's and how to say diphtongs etc, and compare latin pronounciation with the letters of other languages, mainly greek.

The romans pronounced it "uike uersa" or "wike wersa" (two syllables for each word). The letter "c" was always a k-sound, and "v" was like our "u", it was the same letter for a long time. So another example, if you want to say "Veni vidi vici" the historically accurate way would be "Weni widi wiki".

I also found OSM around 10 years ago. I added my entire village from barely existing on the map to all landuse and small roads, bike paths, things. And this was before there was good enough aerial images, so I had to use GPS and walk/bike all the roads, walk around all the fields and areas.
It was great!
Then came satellite pics and I could add buildings too. But I miss that outdoorsy feeling. I keep my eyes on new buildings and developments in the city I live in now. Do you know of any best practices for local surveying to ensure up to date map quality?

If ads are pushed into ed(1), then it truly is everything. But, as long as Theo is the leader of OpenBSD, we will always have a free operating system.

How about a federated archive.org? (Kids these days are crazy about scanned public domain books and stuff.)

I'm with you. I've started using firefox with no extensions, not even ad-blocker. Whenever I am annoyed by a website autoplaying sound in a popup or asking me to sign up for their newsletter or whatever, I look at the URL and think: this website is dead to me now.

What are the biggest reasons for the complexity? What would we be giving up if browsers were simpler?

I remember back in the 90s when it was mostly text and hyperlinks (and animated gifs). Now, we have a lot of nice features of course, javascript and what not, but which of these features are the heaviest for browser complexity?

This is a fairly common opinion in Sweden among people.

Söt katt!

OpenBSD -release seems to be at rust 1.72, but -current has 1.75.
https://openbsd.app/?search=rust&current=on

Nice! I know that OpenBSD people have been working on a wayland compatible thing which takes into account Linux-specific things (libinput?), but last I heard it's not ready. I have my hopes up though! Could be the year of desktop BSD if they port COSMIC.

Just curious, on a scale from cowsay to MS Word, how difficult would it be to port COSMIC to the BSDs, assuming wayland support?

What would be the right way? @SDF here on lemmy has been pinged afaik. I don't use mastodon, and I don't know where to e-mail.

In the future, maybe we should ask SDF for an official way to contact them outside lemmy. I'm guessing that the admin isn't really a lemmy user, or they would have noticed the whole thing going on.

I realize that I can't demand anything, we're using a free service run by volunteers and donations. I like the community here on SDF, and am interested in finding out how we, together, can make it a great instance.