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[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

But nope – not even a mention of Diamond Open Access, not in the article and not from the interviewed people apparently.

"Mutual benefit" my a**e.

Academics are apparently just stupid.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's been one of the poorest "animations" I've ever seen; not in the One-Punch Man series, but in anime in general. Not only there's lots of just panning and zooming, but the image that's panned or zoomed has much lower quality than the manga. Lots of frozen facial expressions with only the mouth moving, it reminds me of Clutch Cargo or of the cut-out animations of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam. Of course all anime do this to some degree, but in this case it's so extreme that you become completely aware of it.

Blame or no blame, one reason or another, it's J.C. Staff that made this, and it sucks. I wonder how an animation studio can do something like this; it affects the studio's popularity and can only have negative consequences down the line.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For trackpad gestures, check out touchegg and touché; I'm using it on Kubuntu.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Similar cool and scientifically correct simulations:

https://www.spacetimetravel.org/

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What I wonder: are the majority of UK citizens OK with this law?

Not that it matters probably, as UK isn't a democracy in practice...

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

I hope these evil arsehole moves will span new mobile-phone companies who see the economic benefit of taking side with the users. A little like it happened with Framework and laptops.

My mobile is dying; when it's dead it'll be GrapheneOS – and fuck you Google.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Spy x Family in roughly one week, and One Punch Man in roughly two 😭 (joy).

Interesting new titles too. What's the one so long that it covers the whole image (on my mobile browser)? 😂

Thanks for sharing!

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for asking. I think I've had it for a week, and luckily no issues so far. I use it sparsely though, I always have on-demand mode. But I imagine Ubuntu Studio has important differences from Ubuntu?

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Happy to have helped! I'm myself testing 580 now, fingers crossed :)

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I don't know if it's the same in Ubuntu Studio, but in Ubuntu and derivates you can launch sudo software-properties-gtk or sudo software-properties-qt from a terminal. In the window that appears, choose the tab 'Additional Drivers'. There you can choose the Nvidia graphic drivers you prefer among older and newer versions. Good way to roll back.

Apologies if this was obvious 🙏

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Hopefully one can turn off all this new bull in about: config...

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/50459056

[Edit: this question came out of my confusion. I thought Unbound could somehow substitute DNS servers (like CloudFlare), but it can't. Apologies for my ignorance.]

I've often heard about Unbound, and the possibility of using it as a DNS resolver on my laptop. So, to be clear, not as a DNS resolver in a local network; just in a single machine, also because I'd like to use it no matter where I bring my laptop.

The instructions given in the second link above seem quite complete. Does anyone here have other tips or experiences to share? I'm with Ubuntu on a Thinkpad.

Cheers!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/50459056

[Edit: this question came out of my confusion. I thought Unbound could somehow substitute DNS servers (like CloudFlare), but it can't. Apologies for my ignorance.]

I've often heard about Unbound, and the possibility of using it as a DNS resolver on my laptop. So, to be clear, not as a DNS resolver in a local network; just in a single machine, also because I'd like to use it no matter where I bring my laptop.

The instructions given in the second link above seem quite complete. Does anyone here have other tips or experiences to share? I'm with Ubuntu on a Thinkpad.

Cheers!

 

[Edit: this question came out of my confusion. I thought Unbound could somehow substitute DNS servers (like CloudFlare), but it can't. Apologies for my ignorance.]

I've often heard about Unbound, and the possibility of using it as a DNS resolver on my laptop. So, to be clear, not as a DNS resolver in a local network; just in a single machine, also because I'd like to use it no matter where I bring my laptop.

The instructions given in the second link above seem quite complete. Does anyone here have other tips or experiences to share? I'm with Ubuntu on a Thinkpad.

Cheers!

 

[I thought of posting this question here since it's the result of my avoiding direct use of Google search. Moderators feel free to delete it if it doesn't fit (apologies in that case).]

Just noticed something curious and somewhat funny with SearXNG: if I repeat the search, say by pressing several times enter in the search field containing a specific search string, then I get every time a different batch of results. Note that I'm using an existing server.

Can anyone explain to me why this happens, and how to avoid it? Does it depend on my specific settings?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/50059421

I'm looking around for a laptop with these characteristics in particular:

  • Screen with stylus / pen (and pressure levels), but it doesn't need to be "2-in-1".

  • Good or above-average computing capabilities.

  • Long support for some Linux distribution. I emphasize "long", because for example Lenovo for its laptops supports only one specific distribution version. Recently I upgraded my Thinkpad X1C9 to Kubuntu 24.04, but OEM drivers are only available for 20.04.

Do you have any suggestions of good vendors of a laptop like that? And experiences to share?

The Thinkpad X1 Extreme was a good example of what I have in mind. But Lenovo don't produce stuff like that anymore – and again, it doesn't really support Linux long-term.

Thank you for sharing!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/50059421

I'm looking around for a laptop with these characteristics in particular:

  • Screen with stylus / pen (and pressure levels), but it doesn't need to be "2-in-1".

  • Good or above-average computing capabilities.

  • Long support for some Linux distribution. I emphasize "long", because for example Lenovo for its laptops supports only one specific distribution version. Recently I upgraded my Thinkpad X1C9 to Kubuntu 24.04, but OEM drivers are only available for 20.04.

Do you have any suggestions of good vendors of a laptop like that? And experiences to share?

The Thinkpad X1 Extreme was a good example of what I have in mind. But Lenovo don't produce stuff like that anymore – and again, it doesn't really support Linux long-term.

Thank you for sharing!

 

I'm looking around for a laptop with these characteristics in particular:

  • Screen with stylus / pen (and pressure levels), but it doesn't need to be "2-in-1".

  • Good or above-average computing capabilities.

  • Long support for some Linux distribution. I emphasize "long", because for example Lenovo for its laptops supports only one specific distribution version. Recently I upgraded my Thinkpad X1C9 to Kubuntu 24.04, but OEM drivers are only available for 20.04.

Do you have any suggestions of good vendors of a laptop like that? And experiences to share?

The Thinkpad X1 Extreme was a good example of what I have in mind. But Lenovo don't produce stuff like that anymore – and again, it doesn't really support Linux long-term.

Thank you for sharing!

 

Does anyone know how to test a Wayland session with a Kubuntu 24.04 live USB? I'm testing it out now, but I see that it's using an X11 session. I'd like to test how the laptop would work under Wayland instead, before installing Kubuntu or Ubuntu for good.

Some web search lead to this post, which gives quite involved instructions but it's from 2020. Hopefully it's more straightforward now?

Cheers!

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Sci-Net (sci-net.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

This is quite new. Just wanted to share. (The link is from Sci-Hub, so the whole thing seems legit).

Edit: but, if I'm getting it right, they're just replacing paywalls with another paywall?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
 

For several years I've been using DuckDuckGo instead of Google Search, and I've been overall quite happy with the results. Only rarely had I to resort to Google search (!g).

During the last month or two, however, I've found myself using the !g switch and Google search more than half of the time. DuckDuckGo shows no or few results where Google shows more (and useful) ones.

Still I don't want to give in. So:

  • Have you also experienced this worsening of DuckDuckGo?
  • Which other more privacy-respecting alternatives do you recommend?
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Edit: explicitly downgrading to 10.1 with

sudo apt install wine-staging=10.1~focal-1 wine-staging-amd64=10.1~focal-1 wine-staging-i386:i386=10.1~focal-1 winehq-staging=10.1~focal-1

worked for me, but see other solutions posted below.

Thank you for the help!


On Ubuntu, the last apt upgrade of Wine broke down, bringing down the whole apt system:

The following packages have unmet dependencies. wine-staging : Depends: wine-staging-amd64 (= 10.2~focal-2) but 10.2~focal-1 is installed

At the suggestion of running sudo apt --fix-broken install, this is what happens:

Unpacking wine-staging-amd64 (10.2~focal-2) over (10.2~focal-1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/wine-staging-amd64_10.2~focal-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/opt/wine-staging/bin/wine', which is also in package wine-staging-i386:i386 10.2~focal-2 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/wine-staging-amd64_10.2~focal-2_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Apparently this is also happening on Linux Mint: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=441158

Any suggestions? Cheers!

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