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eshep

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General love of all things linux and the choice it provides. I prefer to hang my hat in gentoo with e16 but do like to keep up with other stuff.

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@lemmyreader Looks quite snazzy!

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@nicknonya If it truly is "different" you want, take a look at stuff like Tiny Core Linux, MenuetOS, or ReactOS. If you want a bit more milder different, may go with a BSD/UNIX. There's loads of really weird stuff out there if you dig around a bit. Or just plunder DistroWatch for somethin that strikes you. Who knows, you may just find a new comfortable on yer journey. 😁

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@TimeSquirrel @nicknonya Been runnin basically the same setup for the better part of ~20 years. That's not gonna stop me from playin with stuff I don't know or like though.

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@Successful_Try543 Fair point, yes! ...but I did recommend it as a "truly different" choice. 😉

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@nyan How different does different get than very unsame? 😜

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@krash @steeznson I always recommend to anyone interested in learning about linux. I'd advise LFS only as a follow up to that once they have an understanding of what goes where.

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@barbara Is bash itself not already an improvement on ""the basic stuff""?

...and whitespace in filenames is simply unacceptable, and should not be encouraged. 😆

What's wrong with the method we've been usin forever of working with dumbly named files? Just "enclose em", or use an escape char in em.

Easily find program name from context menu/without terminal?

I occasionally need to know the names of programs. I asked here about "Run as Administrator" being added to the context menu (like in Windows), and the response was basically "can't be easily done". an example is if I wish to edit a config file it cannot be done without accessing the terminal. Knowing the name "gedit" is the...

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@flork Granted it's listed in a mimeapps.list file, you should easily be able to pull the program name out of there by querying against the file in question's mimetype.

And while "can't be easily done" may be generally true, don't call it quits; some file managers may offer less "not easy" than others. Don't end your customization exploration because the file manager you currently use can't do what you want, try fiddlin round with some others. The process for each file manager is going to be different, and getting the name of the program for any filetype is also going to differ depending on the syntax required for altering each different file manager.

atomicpoet , to Fediverse News
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The Fedipact table showing which servers are blocking Threads is not accurate!

For example, it says that atomicpoet.org is blocking Threads when, in fact, this is not correct. So view this entire site with skepticism.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/

@fediversenews

eshep ,
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@atomicpoet They also don't appear to have cast a very wide net when collecting those inaccuracies. 😆

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@Sunny @minamoog It'd be hard to argue for anything against ! The only time it's not pleasing to look at is when it's littered with [ B ] markers. 😆

jupiter_rowland , to Random
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Maybe I should start an irregular series of "What Hubzilla is like" posts for people in the Fediverse, Mastodon specifically, who don't know anything about it. Not for those who want to switch, but for those who assume that Hubzilla is just like whatever else they know. Like, for Mastodon users who blindly assume that Hubzilla is just like Mastodon with a different UI and then act accordingly. Thus, it'd mostly focus on how Hubzilla is different from Mastodon.

The difficult part would be to limit these posts to only 500 characters. Minus what I'll need for the hashtags, namely #Hubzilla, #FediTips and #FediverseTips to increase discoverability for those who are interested and #FediMeta, #FediverseMeta, #CWFediMeta and #CWFediverseMeta so that these posts are automatically removed or hidden behind generated content warnings by already existing filters. Because I know for a fact that many Mastodon users won't touch anything that goes even a smidge over 500 characters. And I know that there are Mastodon users for whom any and all Fediverse meta is too nerve-gratingly techy.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta

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@jupiter_rowland @Regez I don't get much ridiculousness on my feed(?), it's not too difficult to weed out, but I saw a rather disheartening thing show up recently that was encouraging people to "fight back"/"take a stand" against connecting to .

No, that's not what is for, the whole idea is to allow communication across different services. There seems to be quite a few people who do not want non-Mastodon things in the . I'm not so sure that it's simply a matter of ignorance, although that probably has a bit to do with it.

readbeanicecream , to Science
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Conspiracy theories are the new pandemic infecting public life: Millions of people, from all walks of life, have come to believe aspects of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Prevention is our only hope, says James Ball. James Ball is the author of The Other Pandemic: How QAnon contaminated the world
https://archive.is/DGKiV

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@readbeanicecream I thought QAnon was some silly fanatical Star Trek thing. 😆

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@nachtigall @anders Have you never played with ?

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@nachtigall @anders An OS written entirely in assembly of course.....

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