glibg10b
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property
That’s an interesting way to spell proprietary
If it will be used by non-tech savvy people, why do you care about snap and IBM? Do the people care about that?
When you start getting super specific about which distro you want, I think you should start looking towards a DIY distro.
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Proton @lemmy.world•Beware of this scam. Proton swap is not an official proton product.English27·2 years agoIt has a checkmark, so it must be legit, right?
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?7·2 years agoI wanted to use fio to benchmark my root drive. I had seen a tutorial saying that the
file=
parameter should point to the device file, so I pointed it at /dev/sda. As you might expect, the write test didn’t go so well.
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?10·2 years agoBefore installing Arch on a USB flash drive, I disabled ext4 journaling in order to reduce disk reads and writes, being fully aware of the implications (file corruption after unexpected power loss). I was confident that I would never have to pull the plug or the drive without issuing a normal shutdown first. Unfortunately, there was one possibility I hadn’t considered: sometimes, there’s that one service preventing your PC from turning off, and at that stage there’s no way to kill it (besides waiting for systemd to time out, but I was impatient).
So I pulled the plug. The system booted fine, but was missing some binaries. Unfortunately, I couldn’t use pacman to restore them because some of the files it relied on were also destroyed.
This was not the last time I went through this. Luckily I’ve learned my lesson by now
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•[Louis Rossmann] Google supports right to repair? Think again.English10·2 years agoRight to repair benefits consumers, whether he makes money from it or not
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?English3·2 years agoEvery single day since I bought it. My last phone too.
Windows 11 takes your money, gives you ads, sells your information and ignores your bug reports and feature requests
KDE is free, ad-free and open to contribution
I think we have a clear winner here
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Can't watch any YouTube videos anymore, what do I do now?English1·2 years agoAre you signed in?
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Can't watch any YouTube videos anymore, what do I do now?English3·2 years agoRecommendations
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why2·2 years agoWhat permission pain?
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why11·2 years agoJPEG XL for images because it compresses better than JPEG, PNG and WEBP most of the time.
XZ because it theoretically offers the highest compression ratio in most circumstances, and long decompression time isn’t really an issue when the alternative is downloading a larger file over a slow connection.
Config files stored as serialized data structures instead of in plain text. This speeds up read times and removes the possibility of syntax or type errors. Also, fuck JSON.
I wish there were a good format for typesetting. Docx is closed and inflexible. LaTeX is unreadable, inefficient to type and hard to learn due to the inconsistencies that arise from its reliance on third-party packages and its lack of guidelines for their design.
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•iFixit tears down a McDonald’s ice cream machine, demands DMCA exemption for itEnglish16·2 years agoIt’s a request, not a demand
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•I will stop using Linux / PC for 10 months. What do you think will happen in that period?3·2 years agoWindows has built-in clipboard history
Also, OP said they wouldn’t be using their PC at all, not just Linux. Specifically cutting out Linux to avoid distractions doesn’t even make sense
I’d ask the author of the commit:
Signed-off-by: John Allen
glibg10b@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Does Mnemonic Passcode more secure than normal password?English1·2 years agoLemmy has superscripts.
symbolcount^length^
produces symbolcountlength
I traced this baby back to January 19th, 2004: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt