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techno hippie

see c/UGEM for UnderGroundElectronicMusic. :) (I was going to set up something like that when saw someone else had already requested to make it. Good stuff. Populate it.)

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  • Yep, for sure there's room for improvement here. Perhaps someone can provide some configurations, pull requests, forks, or even entirely new shells, that do prioritise upfront documentation for new users who wont go out of their way to find the documentation to learn.

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  • KDE4. Plasma. The fattiest FOSS has to offer.

    Worth looking at Trinity (KDE3 fork/continuation).

    XFCE looks like it's trying to go from lightweight to fattiest some upgrades too. Still, very elegant, and you wont notice that on new beefy hardware. But on ancientware, ... best stick to LXDE, or even just openbox, or any other window manager, pretty much.

    IceWM, calls itself a window manager, but it seems to cover all the main basics for a desktop environment feel.

    There still be places to go to get the light, fast and shiny in FOSS, even if KDE went nuts around 15 years ago (whenever KDE4 was).

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    TIL Iran Has No Water Left, 28 Million People WITHOUT Water

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  • Yeah, you're right. Better just to use geoengineering stuff, like cloud seeding aerosol injection and such, to bring about a deluge. :3 Tada!

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  • If you’ve never used the terminal before, how do you know what to type?

    Start pushing buttons. Start typing things, try pressing tab variously. Look up guides, introductions, help. Yes it's not like the discovery of gui where you get to discover whatever the developer of the gui made available to you. It's a deeper kind of discovery of what more you can do with command line that you cant do with gui. The gui lets you point at pictures provided. The command line lets you string commands together, like stringing words together to form sentences, to have a more nuanced conversation of your own making. So yes, there's a different initial hurdle and learning curve. Well worth getting over through. Understandable how this is missed by those coming from where the command line is really limited and the gui tries to be all (even if that all is limited). The good stuff's over the hurdle, and keeps getting better as you progress along the learning curve, deep into the wide delta of potential, where we each become each others teachers.

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  • So close and so far.

    I'm the sort of person who has had wacom tablets since the 90s, and many a penabled and/or multitouch thinkpad nearly multiple decades, and has not had a mobile phone since the Snowden confirmation in 2013. And before that, yes, my phones had full physical keyboards (nokia e90, & n900).

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  • stuff like

     
        
xset s off
xset -dpms
xset s noblank

    and/or there may be other ways in guis to do so too.

    can put that in some startup shell bobbins, or wherever its supposed to go in configs. but i tend to just run it in terminal (from fish history) once it bothers me enough to switch it off. ... am not on my usual computer just now, so i had to look that up. plucked that from 2nd result of a websearch for "x11 noblank off".

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  • They're not landlocked. ... The cant ' de-sal'?

  • Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible — Estimates show that the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. It could get much worse

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  • Eesh... some of the comments here, are in the same boat:

    Lies so big not even their inverse are true.

  • Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible — Estimates show that the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. It could get much worse

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  • Is it like paying the exit fee from subscription proprietary software?

    How many were they killing as the subscription fee?

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  • FYI to new users... Do not run any command without knowing what it does. Especially that one. Not even if they say "don't worry, rm prevents you from deleting your hard drive's contents now", .... like I fell for, 21 years ago. Doh!

    FYI to old users... Stop telling people to do that. It's not funny. Getting new users to delete their root directory... not cool.

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  • Cant rush these things. ;)

    Especially if wanting to make sure there's no data loss or unnecessarily extended disruption to productivity.

    ... But yeah. Does seem one can rush an article out before the story's complete.

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  • Lots of good suggestions there.

    I'll also add AntiX. (I, non-techie, started with SuSe (over 2 decades ago.))

    Or if you're a bit wacky like my uncle, Puppy (~ boy I really did not expect him to pick puppy as his distro, when I showed him several, but he's been on it over a decade now, utterly loves it.)

    You may not initially be techie, but I have heard some users started with arch (or artix or other non-systemd forks of arch), gentoo, GuixSD, or NixOS, and learn, just by following the documentation, becoming more techie. I think some even went as far as starting with LFS. O_O It may seem daunting at first, but it's not actually hard, is easy, just takes some time and attention. And, makes things easier in the long run.

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  • Alas, argumentum populum is no valid vindication nor excuse.

    "Anybody here work in advertising or marketing?" [--Bill Hicks, and the rest of that bit] hints at the reason though.

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  • I felt late to the party in 2003. Been quite the ride watching others suffer windows this long yet.

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  • Depends how you interpret it.

    Linux has been easy that long. Contrary to the message that goes around that it's hard. This indeed is very encouraging.

    Windows is abusing you. Contrary to the message that goes around that it's your only salvation. This is indeed very encouraging.

    If interpreting that instead as "I'm so great, you're all slow" self aggrandising put down of others, it'll be a turn-off to many. But that's not the case. It's more like, "even I! you can too!" in all humility and positive encouragement.

    Interpretation's a bitch.

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  • I use a distro that does not encourage promoting itself.

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  • Heh, could play that game all day.

    The biggie, can you fork it, can you mend it, etc. Free Software ftw.

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  • in 2 decades of using KDE from time to time, the biggest flaw (besides how they released KDE4 way too early and distros picked it up), is how it's never perfect. fix one bug, add another. add a new feature, break an old feature. always feels like there's just one little irk hiding somewhere.

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  • Yus!

    That was so my take too, in 2003.

    I switched because of WinXP, that insane bloater chewing up resources I could have been using for my art tools if not for their squander on pointless shiny.

    So then, in SuSe, with KDE, it had even better shiny, useful shiny, not pointless, and it didnt run 10x slower than 95/98/NT/2000, like XP did, but instead ran 10x faster!

    There was no going back to being abused by M$ after seeing that.

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  • Possibly not a "solution" (or workaround rather) you want, but... I just switch all that stuff off.

    The cool thing about Linux and FOSS is "many eyes make all bugs shallow", and so if you search for the issue, someone else may have already reported it, in the community, or even in the issue tracker, and if not, you can do that, to help others, and then the developers (which can be anyone, even you, btw) can have a better handle on how to mend it.

    Every problem, an opportunity, to give back. That's how we got here, in these 4 decades since Richard Stallman announced the start of the GNU project.