they don’t understand it. How are you going to stop people from having a dedicated server outside the country and then setting up their own VPNs? Wireguard is free and easy to access, how do you stop that?
If I want to open up my personal VPN to a bunch of Americans to use for free then what? I’m not American, my server isn’t in America, so why can’t I just give access to a few Americans? Hell my server would be great cause it’s located in a University so…student discounts!
the only issues I had with KDE when I was recently using it all revolved around the panel. Random crashes with “too much” interaction. Adding widgets for the panel or desktop is still to this day hit or miss. clicking the “get new widget” option is a roll of the dice if it will actually work or not or even find the thing you want. It’s still horrible at loading stuff in there. and installing whatever, again, is a roll of the dice if it will actually do it or not.
I like KDE, it’s a good and solid DE but man do they really need to focus on fixing the panels and the installation/discovery of widgets. The alternative is using the pling store and that’s just a headache on it’s own.
someone likely borked IAM.
it’s funny because once you start using other distros you quickly realize how easy Arch actually is. I find Arch more straight forward and easier to use that Ubuntu. Ubuntu makes me want to rip what remaining hair I have out.
on my CachyOS/Arch and NixOS machines I just use borg to backup to my dedicated server. Very easy to do. I have a couple alias’ set up so I can view my backups easily through my file manager on whatever local machine. Essentially all you have to do is make a script to tell it what files/folders to backup, what to potentially ignore, how often you want to backup, the time of day you want it to happen, can also tell it to delete old backups. In NixOS it’s painfully easy to set up and can be done within the configuration.nix. On other distros the only difference is you have to set up a service and timer for it.
but I like it, it’s straight forward, never had issues with it.
I mean if you’re going to go the multiple user accounts route for different things wouldn’t it just be easier to just use QubesOS? No account switching and granted it will be a bit slower but saves you the headaches.
well considering that Thiel is insane, this tracks. This is a man that A. believes in the Anti-Christ and B. is convinced said Anti-Christ will be returning any day now and C. it all relates to the tech industry.
Can’t have that in America. they need to be scheduled preferably on a weekend within a short commute.
As long as it’s on a weekend the drive isn’t too long, any other day? it’s a long drive + work + my healthcare is tied to my work + i still believe I’ll have work in a years time at this rate.
She even has the stereotypical “karen hairstyle”.
I don’t understand what drives people who are like that to get THAT specific hairstyle. Like it’s a sort of uniform or one of those brightly neon coloured poisonus frogs in the jungle warning to stay away.
I mean hell my sister is also a “karen” and even she has the SAME style and has had it for years. I remember years ago when my Mom even wanted to get it and I had to tell her “Mom, you’re too nice, you can’t have that hairstyle”
yeah I’m sure THAT’s the reason no one is having kids and not the fact that no one can afford to house said kids, or can afford to feed an extra mouth or two, or afford everything else thats involved in raising a child.
yeah, got it, the sperm count is down.
because they’re built by individuals who are those things. that’s the controversy. that’s it.
the whole thing is people are upset that Framework sponsored those things because they don’t like paying Framework for their machines who in turn then give money to people they feel are facists.
right that’s why I said worse comes to worse and to take it with a grain of salt. For very simple issues it’s fine, beyond that it’s a coin toss. It’s a fine rubber duck. Like if I missed something obvious but I’m just not seeing it then it might point that out for me. Like for example I recently reinstalled my OS and I couldn’t get wireguad to work so as a last ditch effort I plugged it into Claude and it told me that I had forgotten to replace a privatekey on one of the peers. I had just completely missed it.
journalctl and log files are very valuable. If it’s specific to an application running said application in a terminal with verbose also gives can potentially provide you with a clear indication of what’s going wrong.
I’m dyslexic so I get syntax errors all the damn time and thankfully using NixOS it likes to remind me on rebuild how much of an idiot I am.
Worse comes to worse you can always plug the error into an LLM like Claude or Chatgpt. But take that with a grain of salt. It’ll give you a good base to start from for debugging but never trust something like Claude that will constantly tell you “it’s a known issue” when it isn’t.
All this being said I’ve had the best experience for help via whatever application/distro/whatever IRC channels on Libera chat.
they sponsored Omarchy and Hyprland. one a glorified dotfiles arch “distro” built by DHH who is pretty much a fascist and Hyprland a buggy neon mess of a WM built by a transphobic fascist.
So yeah, they’re not having a good time right now.
I don’t get it either. I mean the distro at the end of the day really doesn’t matter. like ok, which way do you want to type a line in a terminal to download something. you want Debian, Arch, Fedora, Nix or Gentoo.
People always suggest Mint and I don’t get why. I mean I could have Cagebreak or Herbstluftwm on Mint…is it still new user friendly? no? then it’s not the Distro it’s the DE.
Throw Cinnamon or KDE Plasma on Arch with a Distro Manager GUI, boom now that’s new user friendly.
It’s the DE that’s important, the Distro is whatever.
mobile only.
I mean honeslty why use base firefox when there are much better forks of firefox. Floorp for example which I like.
If I want straight up firefox without the AI stuff then I’ll just go use Librewolf.
“but the drive is tooooooo long” the drive where? it’s the common excuse that it takes too long to travel…where ever. such a piss poor excuse.
I’d have more respect for Americans if they were just honest and straight up said “I don’t care” instead of “we’re waiting for a leader” or “we waiting to get organized” or “the drive to insert city name is too long” or “I have a job”. Just say you don’t care and then the rest of the world can finish applying the Nazi sticker to your country.
in his go fundme he states that he routinely goes up to Halifax to try and reconnect with his birth family but I don’t buy that. He says he’s unemployed so What I think happened was it wasn’t working out for him in the US, no job, no money, decides that hey he’s a Canadian by birth, doesn’t do his research, and decides to literally truck up here to see if he can make it work. Newsflash: it ain’t much better here.
So I don’t buy the whole reconnecting with family schtick. Also…He claims he’s a US citizen but has a Canadian passport…ok…he clearly KNEW he wasn’t an American Citizen. Why go through the trouble of obtaining a Canadian Passport? it would have been much easier and cheaper to get an American one IF he was American.
Chances are his adoptive parents DID go through the process to obtain him a green card and visa which would grant him a social security number THUS he’d be able to work, serve in the military etc, but the idiot never bothered or realize you HAVE to renew that shit. OR it was too expensive for him. So he didn’t.
But I god damn guarantee you he was well aware of the fact he wasn’t a US citizen.
I honestly don’t know why people are still harping on this. what’s even the point? I know he’s on the files, you know he’s on the files, everyone knows. so why? do people honestly, firmly, believe that releasing said files will be an a-ha moment that will lead to his impeachment? no of course not. It’s such a stupid thing to be concerned about. Democrats file motions of impeachment against this asshole on a nearly weekly basis and it goes no where. like what’s the point? oh THIS time it will? no it won’t. Guy ignores the courts on a routine basis.