pmk

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[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 hours ago

Do you know which packages and what defaults? I've tried to find the differences but I can't really find what is different, except for wallpaper etc.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

What is in LMDE that isn't in plain Debian out of the box beyond branding?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It did make sense at one point. They implemented a music player with a daemon part and a client part, so from that you had the mpd server and mpc client. Someone wrote an ncurses frontend for the client, naturally called ncmpc. Iirc that person abandoned it and someone else took over with a new iteration. ncmpcpp. But it really is a bad name.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

For a long time I used the music player ncmpcpp. The name makes perfect sense if you already know what it means and how it relates to other things.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

One time I saw an http 418, but I think someone just configured it wrong on purpose.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, sorry I fumbled the wording, I meant to say it makes me wonder what the other chinese factory workers make and under which conditions they work compared to the chinese workers that make fairphones. Maybe it's all propaganda and fairphone uses slave labour, but that would surprise me. Another thing I thought about is that tech is just more expensive in europe in general. It's common that we pay 20% more for the same phone or laptop in europe compared to the US.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ethically sourced, fair wages to workers, etc. Makes you wonder what a factory worker in china makes to allow for cheaper phones.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days ago

I hope all of Europe only buys weapons from other european countries now. I don't want any money going to the US.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 69 points 6 days ago (5 children)

For buying gifts, for example.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cowsay as a Service. A Go microservice that lets you send form or json http post with curl or whatever to an api over the internet and in return you get the cowsay ascii art you requested.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

Very cool. Especially if their work benefits everyone. Maybe they can even fix kerning in LibreOffice for everyone.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

I did the same thing, but with ubuntu. Now, you and I can troubleshoot issues and have patience. But someone who is sort of reluctant to begin with, it's a hard sell if there are hurdles.

 

I'm trying to understand the way Mastodon works. Back in the day I started with IRC and then the many php-based forums and then reddit which led to lemmy. I never used twitter or similar platforms.
My understanding (and this is where I need help) is that all of the above are topic-based, whereas Mastodon is person-based? What I mean is that on lemmy I subscribe to things based on topic and I don't really care about usernames or user profiles, I only care about discussing a topic. It seems to me like Mastodon is the opposite? You follow persons and what they might say about any topic?
Is there something I'm missing here? Are hashtags close enough to sorting it by topic that it works just like a topic based platform? Is this difference inherent or just in my head because I don't understand Mastodon?

 

... what should we do?
I guess it all depends on how it would be implemented, which is something I have a hard time imagining at this moment. How do you imagine day to day online life in a post-Chat Control EU world? Which ways of communicating would still be private? Is there anything we can do at this point to prepare for the worst outcome?

 

A video from openSUSE Conference 2024 about using distrobox on openSUSE Aeon.

 

Congratulations to Andreas!
It seems like he has lots of ideas for how to improve things in packaging, and for communicating with other distros. Debian is a big ship to steer, and I personally hope the leader can facilitate people working together to reach our goals.

 

For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system".
I also think we could learn website design from.. looks at notes ..everyone else.

 

I'm not proposing anything here, I'm curious what you all think of the future.

What is your vision for what you want Linux to be?

I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc.

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it's now your desktop computer. That's one vision. ChromeOS has its "everything is in the cloud" vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it's free software.

If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?

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