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Wow, who would have thought?
It seems the AI hype is shrinking (or at least slowing down), since people are more and more critical of it: intellectual property, workers rights, power consumption, climate impacts, usefulness and more.
If you want more reading, I recommend these:
I can’t recommend Ed Zitron’s blog enough: Where’s your Ed at
He did an interview with Adam Conover a month ago, which was also really interesting.
The other blog I highly recommend is The Luddite, e.g. Why is there an AI hype?
I know that feeling all too wel…
Sorry I can’t help you with the solution you want, I don’t use flatpak.
It’s not really what you’re asking, but couldn’t you just visit the about:profiles
page?
It’s not as nice as the dedicated profile manager, but it’s just as functional.
You could even set it as your default page, or add it to the bookmark bar.
Username checks out 🏴☠️
I will also never buy a spaceship /j
IIRC, within RHEL it goes fedora (next major) -> centos stream (next minor) -> RHEL (current major.minor).
With Debian and its derivatives (e.g Ubuntu) this means that Debian-unstable corresponds to fedora, Debian-testing corresponds to CentOS stream and Debian-stable corresponds to RHEL. (Roughly of course).
Ubuntu is based off of some flavor of Debian and is therefore downstream of it: Debian (unstable I think) -> Ubuntu -> Ubuntu LTS.
But as far as which version has the newest packages then sure, your list is correct.
Thank you, was wondering what happened there.
Youtube tip everyone needs to now: remove the si
query parameter, it’s not necessary and used for tracking
From
https://youtu.be/LKCVKw9CzFo?si=06X6O91R9pX_8UbX
Into
https://youtu.be/LKCVKw9CzFo
people’s configs on github?
They’re making a new browser engine from scratch in an open way, absolutely amazing!
I do have several questions:
Why would they use BSD instead of GPL? If you care about open-source so much, why would you make it possible for a company to run away with your fancy new engine?
Why are they creating a new browser, when even firefox has to struggle to keep some semblance of market share? I get that not every project needs to aim to be “the biggest”, and that even a smaller project (in terms of users), can be fun. It’s just that writing a browser engine that can handle the modern web seems like an almost Sisyphean task; which makes me wonder what their motivation(?) is.
Why the FLOSS are they using closed-source proprietary discord as their main communication channel?
Yep, it’s definitely better to have as a default
It is with zfs, but I not with regular mount
I think (at least not by default). It might depend on the filesystem though.
You can also do the following to prevent unwanted writes when something is not mounted at /mnt/thatdrive
:
# make sure it is not mounted, fails if not mounted which is fine
umount /mnt/thatdrive
# make sure the mountpoint exists
mkdir -p /mnt/thatdrive
# make the directory immutable, which disallows writing to it (i.e. creating files inside it)
chattr +i /mnt/thatdrive
# test write to unmounted dir (should fail)
touch /mnt/thatdrive/myfile
# remount the drive (assumes it’s already listed in fstab)
mount /mnt/thatdrive
# test write to mounted dir (should succeed)
touch /mnt/thatdrive/myfile
# cleanup
rm /mnt/thatdrive/myfile
From man 1 chattr
:
A file with the ‘i’ attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file, most of the file’s metadata can not be modified, and the file can not be opened in write mode.
Only the superuser or a process possessing the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute.
I do this to prevent exactly the situation you’ve encountered. Hope this helps!
Then you might like this tech blog: https://theluddite.org/#!post/ai-hype
If you don’t want spellchecking, then no. You can just change the keyboard layout.
If you do want spellchecking then yes, you will need to install some kind of language pack.
I’m not sure how libreoffice does it, but Firefox has different language packs for translating the UI and for spellchecking.
Are the extra dialects taking up too much space for you?
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I’m sorry that I don’t have any advice for a specific laptop, but it seems others are helping with that already.
More memory and cores will help you with compiling and running your code.
Have you even read my comment?
It’s probably best to limit yourself to a used laptop.
Reading and writing code is nothing more than reading and writing text, and for that you don’t need a fancy gpu or screen.
What I would recommend you look for in a laptop is
More memory and cores will help you with compiling and running your code.
And make sure you take regular backups! You never know when your disk will fail.
Also make sure to check linux compatibility before you buy. Laptops used to be a pain (10+ years ago), and it’s gotten a lot better, but it’s not always perfect. Just search for “[brand] [model] linux” or try to find the model on the archlinux wiki.
Why is that?