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RoboRay

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If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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Used Windows today since months

I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc. Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet). Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It...

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You told it to update then you're upset that it is updating...

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Thinkpad X1 Carbons are absolutely flawless in Linux... I've used Gen 5s and now have a Gen 9.

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Have you seen tiktok?

I am honestly very happy to say "no."

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It's endless content for people with short attention spans that don't care about the quality or even really the topic of the content they are consuming... they just want mindless entertainment to occupy their time without needing to make any decisions or take any actions. Or even to stay focused on any one thing for more than a few seconds.

So, of course it's extremely popular.

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I hope she told them that she requires that supervisor be moved to a different location.

Brother printer questions

My partner and I are thinking about getting a Brother laser printer for home use in the near future. How difficult is it to get a newer model working in a Linux ecosystem? Are there any specific drivers we should look into installing, if a specific driver isn't available for the model we end up getting? Any advice for connecting...

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I have a 20 year old B&W Brother laser and a 2 year old color Brother laser... both just work automatically in Linux without needing any setup, configuration, or drivers.

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The AMD card is newer, faster, has more VRAM and has better driver support in Linux.

Even on Windows, between those choices, Nvidia is the loser.

Why if we see fork, snap always the problem : Canonical LXD forked... (news.ycombinator.com)

“Canonical only having snap releases was harmful to adoption. I liked using lxd, but uninstalled snapd (forgetting lxd used it), and my vms obviously stopped. Snap wouldn’t reinstall properly (various inscrutable errors), so I moved it all over to libvirt. I’d still be happily using lxd if it weren’t for Canonical’s...

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There's also LMDE as an option.

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you can just type what program you want. It’s not year 2000 anymore.

Typing the name of the program you want is a 1970s thing.

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Sure, which makes it curious that the previous comment implied that it's a new thing since 2000 when it's actually a very old thing.

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Only a bit tongue-in-cheek... :)

Sometimes typing something is better, sometimes just clicking a button is better. It just depends on... too many things to list.

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Google drive integrates simply into the file manager on Gnome for cloud storage. It doesn't do offline file-sync between devices, however.

The Microsoft and Apple products don't support Linux because... Microsoft and Apple.

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No, the Google Drive implementation is just for cloud storage. It doesn't do offline file-sync. I'll update my earlier comment.

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I have not and do not recommend it. I simply responded to the claim that it doesn't work, because it does. OP has something else going on that's causing Google Drive problems.

I use both Dropbox and Mega and recommend either for someone seeking a simple cloud-sync solution.

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Yes, it's often possible to get unsupported services working, but it's rarely simple and it's prone to breakage over time with changes to the system as well as to the service. I do not recommend it to anyone seeking a simple solution and I will not do it for someone I need to support.

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Even a small barrier to entry greatly improves the signal to noise ratio in discussions, so I view the (very) minor challenge of getting into the Fediverse to be a much appreciated feature.

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Slashdot that's not all pre-selected botspam?

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I got the same popup. Blocks the article, no way to get past it to read it. And no, I don't read Hacker News nor did I follow a link from them. Fuck Asahi. They can pull their heads out of their asses and then maybe I'll regain some interest in their shit... but I doubt it. They've just demonstrated sheer technical incompetence as well as childish pettiness. Definitely not anyone worthy of being relied on.

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Blocking access from everyone that wants to protect their privacy is not an acceptable policy.

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It pretty much screams "Don't trust!"

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I already said I didn't care.

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Most people don't consider 127 °C to be room temperature.

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Correct. So why are you concerned with it not working at well over boiling water temperatures? This is about a room temperature superconductor. 127 °C is not room temperature.

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Lock her him up!

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I use OnlyOffice, but certainly would not suggest it as an Outlook replacement.

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