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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

ahahahhhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every time a windows/mac user switches to libre software, Saint iGNUcius (aka GNU/god) smiles. Keep it up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Glad I use arch btw, pacman manages my python packages so I don't have to deal with all this mess.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Yet another python packager............... insane that such a popular language still doesn't have this basic problem solved.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't. No. This isn't real. He's lying, surely he's lying. It's just a person on the internet making a joke right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If they were honest, they would call it Unfair Source. 'We get to put bully our users for two years, and then they can have their freedom" - what's """fair""" about that? Yes, I said bully, because they can put spyware, malware and bad features without anyone being able to redistribute a copy without the mal-features. So either you get bullied, or you wait two years before the software goes open source. But by the time it's gone open source, the software will most likely be obsolete, because that's the pace of modern software development. Completely stupid license. If you want to keep your freedom, stick to free software.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Actually, I just read the manual.

 

Long live Julian Assange.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You would be surprised with how common it is for the lay person to have problems on their computer. I like to start from there, and suggest a free as in freedom software solution. Then, once their issue has been solved, I will talk about the free software movement, explaning that these are the reasons that have motivated the authors of the software solution I promoted. Hopefully this leads on to a discussion about freedom in the digital world.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That is definitely not a good starting point. WSL is much more complicated and prone to breakage than running a distro directly. It litteraly changes the whole system to make Windows run on top of a hypervisor. A better way to try out GNU/Linux is to boot up a live environment on a USB stick or use a VM. Plus, WSL is only command line, and I would think that showing a friendly desktop environment is the best way to blow the assumption of GNU/Linux being hard/only for nerds.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Github is one of many public software repositories like Gitlab, Codeberg, sourcehut... You could search there also.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

At the start I dual booted but after some months I realised everything I could do on Windows I could do on GNU/Linux, only my computer would run faster on the later and actually did what I meant. I tried to battle Windows to configure it how I wanted and it was a real pain in the rear end. My advice is go for the full switch and nuke Windows. I never looked back since.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

To my understanding:

Many terminals are capable of displaying multiple fonts at the same time, say latin unicode characters in font foo and japanese unicode characters in font baz. In urxvt at least, it is also possible to have one font in a certain size and the next font in another size. However, no font can have a size bigger than the base size, the size of a terminal cell.

Why is it not possible to have multiple terminal cell sizes? For exampleso one line has terminal size 8 and the next line has terminal size 12.

 

Hi, does anyone know of a program that will automatically lower sound / set a maximum sound level so as to prevent hearing loss? Preferably something that works with mpd.

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Replace cars with velomobiles (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
 

Speed record of a velomobile: 144 km/h https://www.aerovelo.com/eta-speedbike

We don't need any knew infrastructure, we just need to get cars out of the way

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