Takios

Takios , 3 days ago

Saving $1,000/month is doable for many people

You're not being serious, right?

Takios , 3 days ago

Not surprised. Republican voters won't care, Centrists will lay the blame on Biden and Democratic voters who don't see the full story get discouraged to vote for him.

Takios , 6 days ago

I have a big library of music, mostly MP3 or OGG and don't really see myself pivoting solely towards streaming services where access to songs could be revoked at any time or could be changed/censored like movies or series sometimes are on streaming platforms. I do use YouTube for listening to new music and when I like it enough, I buy it to download (or acquire it in a different way if it's not available).

Takios , 6 days ago

It's the Robots->Empire->Foundation series written by Isaac Asimov and it's an amazing treat reading them in chronological order

Takios , 6 days ago

I've been in a long distance relationship for 5 years now, still gong strong!

Takios , 6 days ago

It certainly needs a special type of person I think. We are both very independent people for example and we value alone-times.
It helps that we have a common interest that can be shared via the distance: Playing videogames and watching shows like Star Trek together.

Takios , 8 days ago

I really wish we'd have chosen a term that does not include "sex" because it leads to a distorted view such as yours that it must be sexual. It's in the name after all, right?
But heterosexuality has been promoted to kids for ages now! Children's shows include married couples for example (husband + wife) or the main character goes into a relationship with a character of the opposite gender. So why does the same thing suddenly become "grooming" and "inappropriate" when it's husband + husband or wife + wife?

Also, covering homosexuality in school does not equate to having "kids choose their sexuality". Not to mention that it's not a choice anyway.

Takios , 8 days ago

Yeah, being able to seamlessly switch between the desktop app and mobile is a must for me so that's something I already prefer in Signal.

Takios , 9 days ago

Don't think it would be that easy. What Yast does is creating a middle layer between the actual config files and the user. You can look at it, most (if not all) of it is stored in /etc/sysconfig. Yast generates the actual config files out of what is stored there. This can be a headache because editing the config files directly will sometimes lead to them just being overwritten bei Yast again.
This is probably the reason why other distros don't even want to adopt Yast, it would have to fundamentally change how it interacts with the config files.
And the cool new thing is Cockpit anyway, even though it can do only a fraction of what Yast can last time I checked..

Takios , 10 days ago

How is it even legal to call for the murder of so many people using one of the most atrocious weapons humanity has invented....but if one were to suggest to apply a guillotine to this person for doing so, they would be in severe legal trouble?

Takios , 10 days ago

Unrelated but a colleague of mine actually thinks that McD burgers are made out of human children's meat lol

Takios , 10 days ago

So far I'm inclined to believe Joost's side of the story. Firstly because innocent until proven guilty. Secondly, because the other side doesn't tell its side of the story at all.
I think the EBU should have operated under the innocent until proven guilty assumption, especially since they now have opened a way to get rid of competition, just accuse them of assault shortly before the main event.

Takios , 11 days ago

No, the equivalent would be a kernel panic that the other user had linked. This is a situation where the RAM is fully used and a program's request for memory cannot be fulfilled. This is still a very bad situation because pretty much everything will grind to a halt. The Linux kernel thus makes a decision to kill a process (or multiple) until enough RAM is available again. Usually it kills the process with the most used RAM, but there's methods to influence the decision.

Takios , 11 days ago

It's the other way around in my country. The more votes the middle and left parties lost, the further they moved to the right in an attempt to claw back votes. But then there was a huge protest campaign against the right and the right started losing votes in our regular surveys (though still much too strong).
So I urge you to vote for your option that is not regularly talking about using fascist methods and undoing gained freedoms "on day one".

Takios , 11 days ago

If you don't have hope, you have already lost.

Takios , 10 days ago

I can understand and respect your stance. Personally, I wouldn't take the chance of having to live under a Trump presidency though.

Takios , 12 days ago

There'd be no legit excuse for why so many people voted him in though.

Takios , 12 days ago

I don't think many docker images out there will have keepassxc installed though.

Takios , 13 days ago

It's main branch these days (at least that's the new default for new repositories)

Takios , 13 days ago

I wonder if their recent blog post promoting conspiracy theorists and right-wing people turned away more people from telegram than they expected and now they feel the need to spread FUD against their competitors.

Takios , 13 days ago

This is the blog post: https://telegram.org/blog/my-profile-and-15-more
This is a post highlighting the problematic content of the blog post: https://plush.city/@PsyChuan/112336464469767051

Though now that I'm more awake I think it's probably unrelated, I haven't seen this circulated around that much.

Takios , 19 days ago

Instead of reformatting it just logs you out and demands buying a Heal Crystal for 350 Linux Diamonds. You can buy Linux Diamonds in packages of 400 for just 9.99 or buy the 800 package to get a 10% discount!

Takios , 21 days ago

Helldivers 2 works on Linux.

Takios , 21 days ago

I tried to install Windows 10 about two years ago as a dual boot option. The selection on which disk to install it on always failed with some obscure error. Turns out the installer couldn't handle multiple disks being available so I had to unplug every disk except the soon-to-be Windows 10 disk...whereas the openSuse installer was able to setup a pretty complicated RAID+encryption setup easily.

Takios , 23 days ago

In elementary school, our gym got infested by bees or wasps (don't remember exactly) and they were everywhere. We still were forced to do sports class in there. I got stung twice and then ran outside, bawling my eyes out. I'm now in my 30s and have a severe phobia of bees, wasps and hornets. Bumblebees are fine though for some reason.

Takios , 23 days ago

“oh they won’t hurt you, just ignore them”

Oh yeah I got hit with this a lot. But I have empiric evidence of the contrary right in my memory! D:

Takios , 26 days ago

Changed jobs recently and a colleague was supposed to show me the process of doing something. The very first thing out of his mouth were begging me not to get vaccinated because it would kill me.

I harshly responded that I disagree with his position and that he shouldn't bring up that topic again. He very much tested the water if I would be an ally to his conspiracy nut views but shutting that down quickly spared me further incidents like this. Other colleagues who tried to just ignore his ramblings just received more and more of it.

Takios , 28 days ago

I'd been using Cantata for many years but recently switched to Strawberry. It's pretty good, the dynamic playlist feature is the closest I have found to cantata's though it still behaves a bit differently in details which is a bit annoying :/

Takios , 28 days ago

You can set certain filters and it will automatically fill the playlist with tracks matching those filters. For example I have a smart playlist set to contain all tracks that I rated 3 stars or higher.

Takios , 29 days ago

Linux Mint

Takios , 1 month ago

There were grassroots movements like the Limux project (Munich using a custom Linux distribution). But that got shut down by Microsoft bribery (not confirmed, but MS did build a new headquarters in Munich...).

Takios , 1 month ago

Putin has started the war and can end it at any time he pleases by removing his forces from the occupied regions of Ukraine.

Takios , 1 month ago

You're pulling an argument of another person into my argument and accuse me of hypocrisy based on that.
You are arguing in bad faith, have a nice day.

Takios , 1 month ago

Nowadays it would be $19.99 per month and it's a one year contract that renews three months before expiration.

Takios , 1 month ago

Ads have evolved into a cancer that is just growing and growing, making everything around them worse.

Takios , 1 month ago

I don’t know what happens if a significant amount of yt users used freetube. but that probably won’t happen.

Look at what happened with Nitter (alternative Twitter frontend). They'll start changing around things so often that alternative frontends break every few days.

Takios , 1 month ago

Most responses tell you to add them yourself which is a solution to this problem. But I think the reason why the state of businesses on OSM and Organic Maps (which uses OSM as a source) is so dire is interesting too:

OSM must not use other maps as sources. In fact, they must not use any information that hasn't been licensed in a way that specifically allows OSM to use it. As such, they can't just go to Google Maps and copy all the business information over because Google has not licensed that information in an open way. Information like streets, paths or houses can be gleaned from satellite pictures that have been provided to OSM and can be put in easily so they tend to be up-to-date. But for businesses, someone has to actually go there and confirm the information.

Now why is Google so good at that? Because almost every business owner makes sure to put their business on GMaps themselves and keep that information updated so it doesn't depend on one person going through the area regularly.

Takios , 1 month ago

Agreed. History has shown that appeasement does not work with these kind of people. You need to set boundaries and push back hard when they test the boundaries you setup or else they'll just step over any new boundary you set.

Takios , 1 month ago

The problem is the first past the post system which heavily encourages a two-party outcome. A ranked choice system would drastically improve the chances of new candidates or parties to emerge with meaningful results.

But since that hurts the current holders of power, it's pretty unlikely to be enacted anytime soon.