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vox, 10 months ago

new reddit chat is literally just a Matrix instance btw.

vox, 10 months ago

btw sometimes drm is used to actually rent out digital books

vox, 10 months ago

agree

vox, 10 months ago

embed fail

vox, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

you can disable the app manager thing and it should stop these.
or just buy an S series phone, they don’t come with any non-samsung bloatware. A series are partially bloatware-funded.

edit: this looks like carrier bloat to me

vox, 10 months ago

or carrier bloatware. Samsung has it’s thingy like that (only on A series) but it installs TikTok during the setup, nothing else.

vox, 10 months ago

US carriers do regularly do shit like this.

vox, 10 months ago

you don’t have to use all of the app containers things, pacman, apt or whatever your distro uses is often enough.
if you don’t have previews at all, your system is completely broken and fucked up if you get a command not found, well you just need install the missing tool…

vox, 10 months ago

you mentioned that file previews are broken for you, thy should just work, unless some component it terribly broken or missing…

also about the last part, package name usually matchess the name of the command, so for example if an online guide tells you to use the ffmpeg command and it’s not found on your system, usually that means that you have to install a package called ffmpeg.
some package managers and command line shells provide more helpful error messages, like: command X was not found, but here are some packages that provide this command, do you want to install one of them?

by the way, you mentioned that you tried using Fedora. common source of frustration is beginners trying to use apt on a system that doesn’t support or use it (apt is only used in Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives). Fedora uses dnf instead.

…but, as a beginner, you shouldn’t even worry about this, as most distros provide easy-to-use, graphical app store applications that can automagically install apps (from your package manager, Flatpak, Snap, etc, picking the source automatically if it’s unavailable in one of them) with a single click.

vox, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

well gnome software and epiphany app stores just work.
click, install, done.
they provide an option to pick the source to install from (package/flatpak/snap), but they both automatically pick the best one for you.

Debian/Ubuntu almost never break on updates (unless you mess with the PPAs too much), but at a significant cost: some packages and software (especially desktop environments and system packages) being 1-2 years out of date.

vox, 10 months ago

As a power user, I just like the terminal more, it’s much quicker to install stuff from the terminal.

vox, 10 months ago

…if you use Wayland. it’s a hit or miss janky experience with some weird limitations on x11.

vox, 10 months ago

tbh c/c++ type system is super fucked up
What the fuck is unsigned long long int just call it u64

vox, 10 months ago

this is for security

vox, 10 months ago

probably not worth it though unless you also have biometrics set up. (because you can’t rely on muscle memory to unlock the phone)

vox, 10 months ago

…why

vox, 10 months ago

yeah apple’s dp support is much better then hdmi

vox, 10 months ago

this is not due to safety but rather std. Set opt level to 3 and enable fat lto

vox, 10 months ago

set opt level to 3 and enable fat lto.
even without fat lto enabled, my entire multithreaded voxel engine with multithreaded procedural world generation, procedural structures and multiplayer is 5mb in size.

vox, 10 months ago

it can interact with mastodon yeah.
but afaik it’s a one-way integration currently. (mastodon users can see threads users but not vise versa)

vox, 10 months ago

this is mostly a security thing, because old apps lack granular permission system that modern apps have.
(you can still pick perms on first start but it’s kinda messy and breaks apps

vox, 10 months ago

the issue is that we’re doing it on a massive scale semi-automatically.
keeping small amount of animals in decent-ish conditions (like on a small farm) and killing some for food/meat is fine.
keeping thouthands of animals in tiny cages where they basically can’t move at all is not.

vox, 10 months ago

i always mistype codium as copium…
so

alias --save copium codium

vox, 10 months ago

or just use the vscode marketplace in codium…

you can also just use openvsix, which actually contains everything you’ll ever need