I know this wasn’t directed at me, but I use a Pixel + GOS

Pro: I keep my bootloader locked and just hit a button for updates.

On LOS, you could go through some kind of relocking process each time, but updates are pretty darn frequent. As a result I ran around with an unlocked phone… Which is honestly stupid.

Con: It’s really not a cheap route. New features on GOS like android auto require you to have a fairly newer pixel. They do drop out support as time goes along too. If you get a pixel 7 or 8 now you can expect something like 7 years support. What I’m saying is, if you get some Pixel 5 today, you aren’t getting all the updates…

Also android auto disconnects somewhat frequently while I drive. I can’t blame GOS entirely, android auto is a weird app, and aspects of it are head unit dependent… But my LOS experience was flawless.

This may be a minor point, but I often think in discussions like these, people are talking about the entire OS rather than just the kernel. And while you can take a fully featured desktop system environment for a spin, and it’s pretty good, a lightweight window manager is lightning quick.

If you stick to minimalistic apps for things like photo viewing, you can open folders with 1000s of images in thumbnail mode at incredible speeds, or enormous PDFs. Those are the types of tasks that seemingly slow W10 to a crawl.

In general I also have pretty good luck with stability on my machine. I don’t find myself needing to kill apps that start misbehaving for unexplained reasons, except Firefox… But usually an update sorts it out.

This is a completely fair point. If I were given the proverbial golden keys to rewrite bidding practices, I imagine whatever I wrote would be subject to perverse incentives of some kind.

Do you think education is generally moving in the right direction? I have a few people in my circle that trained to be teachers and left the profession because of the lack of support from admin when dealing with troubled students (and troubled parents). They described a staff that was upside down, similar to a hospital (everyone is an admin, a very small part of the staff is actually teachers, and they never make the rules).

On the other hand it sounds like the mechanics of disseminating knowledge have increased tremendously due to research supported practices. I just wonder if the next generation is doomed, I guess.

Yes, another tragedy is when sales guy from company A talks to sales guy from company B.

You want a submarine to also fly into space? Oh yeah, we can do that! Our engineers are really smart, shouldn’t be a problem. We’ll have that design over to you in 2 weeks!

Later, when talking to the engineering team…

Well, I don’t see what’s so hard about it. We’ve had submarines and planes in WW2, you’re telling me we can’t innovative and combine those ideas? Well, this is an opportunity for you guys to really show off the engineering ability of the company… And I can’t move the promise date now, I already talked to him on the phone and I’m about to go on my cruise. Call me if you need anything!

Excellent point about government sponsored anti corruption measures, too. Here in the US our government contracts award “points” to businesses which are minority or woman- owned.

In practice, the same construction companies simply institute shell companies, and make their wives/daughters/sisters the owners of these shell companies, charge a premium, and have the “owner” subcontract the work back to the same old company, effectively making themselves an extra 20 percent…

Small businesses (which may be minority or woman owned, but they don’t play golf with the government buyers) are still totally forgotten.

I’m an engineer. When you see something really badly designed and think “wow, those engineers are so stupid! I could have done a better job myself!”

Please know that we did think about it. It’s just that some guy with an MBA decides the schedule, and another guy with an MBA decides the budget, and terrible designs get released no matter how much we protest. I’m sorry we couldn’t figure it out fast enough and cheap enough, though.

And yes, we do mistakes all the time too. It’s just that we usually know about the obvious ones.

I’m the same as you! I recommend “trash-cli”, then you can undo if you mess something up. You can even set an alias to echo “wrong command” if you use ‘RM’.

I guess their company might have a BYOD policy… Damn I hope that’s the case.

I saw this thread on stack Exchange

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41210/redirect-terminal-output-to-image-file#41211

I think you’d write a script that turns standard output from something like khal to an image, then use a feh command to turn it into your background. But honestly it’s pretty fast to set up a keyboard shortcut to launch a terminal session and type khal.

I think PhotoPrism

I think you want to use hwdb and evdev to do this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/nypsi1/updated_guide_to_remapping_keys_on_linux_using/

If you check out the mailing list archives there is some active discussion about dbus-broker as well.

Vimwiki + Syncthing. You can deafult your vimwiki to create markdown files… This only works if you use vim/neovim as your text editor.

What software did you use to put the slide deck together? It seems to work so nicely when placed on a webpage, too…

When I first entered this thread I was on your side. But in a twist of extreme irony, the first 7-10 disagreement replies explaining that giving a reason is better than a random downvote, I ended up siding with them. Maybe between blocking, reporting, and explanations, we have enough?

I’m not sure if lemmy/the fediverse has the legs to keep the community going indefinitely (i was around when Voat was absorbing the last reddit exodus, i’m hoping lemmy has more legs than that), but I think i’m done with these for-profit social media sites.

What I’m hoping for, is that a portion of people that care and come to Lemmy stick with it, and those people that aren’t at all concerned with Reddits’s business dealings stick with Reddit. It gives each community a chance to develop it’s own voice, which is how it was before the major centralization of the web.

I guess what I’m saying is, even if Lemmy doesn’t beat Reddit into the ground, Lemmy can still win in it’s own way.

I use vimwiki. If you are on linux you can set up a workflow: spawn a terminal, launch neovim, and using plugins, use a keyboard shortcut (eg <leader>vw) to launch into your main personal wiki page. If you host that index on a syncthing folder, you have auto sync’d notes across all your linux instances. You can configure your pages to be autosaved as markdown files.