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tomenzgg

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  • Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

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  • My dad knew someone who survived a car crash because he went through the windshield because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt and, if he had, he would've been trapped in the car and (in this particular crash) died; he refuses to wear a seatbelt since.

    My father was, likewise, surprised.

  • Scratching Post and Cat Tree Recommendations?

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  • What a handsome boy.

    This is perfect; really helps to get an idea of the tree.

    I really appreciate the recommendation; I really didn't want to buy something without an idea of how well it worked, again.

  • Scratching Post and Cat Tree Recommendations?

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  • Interesting; are they a good size? Every cat tree I've gotten has similar features but they always feel like they were designed to fit kittens. Our cats don't like the hammocks, either (though they do seem to hold their weight), but I kind of can't blame 'em: it doesn't seem like they'd fit all that comfy.

    Regardless, thanks so much for the link! I'll need to measure the height of our ceilings…

  • ed posting

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  • When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

  • ed posting

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  • I have – were I more artistically talented – often wanted to create graphics and stickers for Emacs utilizing the noble octopus.

  • Good command line ebook reader?

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  • Heh, that was part of the joke I was aiming for; I liked that it worked on both levels.

  • Good command line ebook reader?

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  • It looks like you already got some good suggestions that don't require an additional application but I was going to mention, if you use Emacs any, nov.el is a really great ereader; I've read much more, since discovering it.

  • Good command line ebook reader?

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  • Well, – you know – less is more.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • Firefox's use of Encrypted Media Extensions violates the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines as it allows for playing of DRM-protected content which can steer people to non-free software (there may be additional other reasons but that's one I definitely know of).

    But it's perfectly available in NonGuix; I use Firefox regularly on Guix.

    As for Librewolf, I'm not sure that's accurate? I see it available in the default Guix repo.s, latest version: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/librewolf/.

    It was added about 2 years ago. Admittedly, Guix is a smaller distro so some packages aren't packaged immediately just as a consequence of a lack of human resources; but it also continues to improve over time, quite nicely.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • At least as long as you don't really need WiFi of course...

    Hey, now – the NonGuix repo. exists!

    For those unfamiliar, it contains software with proprietary elements that otherwise can't make it into the Guix software repository, à la non-free for Debian.

    You can get the normal Linux kernel and all the hardware compatibility you'd typically expect easily through NonGuix.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • Does Home Manager not just have a dot file manager built in? On Guix, I just have my Waybar config. get moved to the appropriate location that Waybar will expect it.

    Some services will even allow you to specify files to get injected into the config.; like the Bash service so I can write some definitions out in a .sh file and the service inserts that contents after the boilerplate it provides into my .bashrc.

  • cpx Introduced as a Faster, Modern Replacement for Linux cp

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  • New Linux util.

    looks inside

    Non-copyleft license

    I appreciate that it's not trying to replace cp but the lack of copyleft is always disconcerting.

  • Virgin Framework vs Chad ThinkPad

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  • but i'd stopped suggesting framework to people long before we found out they're a bunch of assholes.

    Yeah…; I was Hell-bent on a Framework being one of my next laptops and telling everyone about them and then that shit dropped. Massively disappointing.

  • Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web

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  • Hey, I was working on something like this (with AP; fuck ATProto).

    Due to the anxiety and depression, probably won't ever finish; but hey.

  • The state of Linux music players in 2026

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  • I stopped using iTunes around 2012 and I expect its design has changed quite a bit, since then; Banshee was a perfect capture of it, then, and I haven't been able to find a suitable replacement for Banshee since development halted on it.

    Granted, the most important qualities, for me, is for the player to allow tagging within the app. and to rename and organize the files by their tags automatically once those tags have been modified and every Linux developer seems to hate that so my unique requirements seem to largely drive my impediment.

  • FreeBSD is a No-Go for KDE's Plasma Login Manager

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  • Oh, you were one of them that worked with the dolphins?

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • I'm surprised by how many basic things are faster

    I switched 14 years ago but it really is shocking realizing just how much you were either used to or sort of worked around dysfunctionality with Windows because…that's just the OS.

  • Linux Snap Users Warned as Attackers Push Malware Through Old Trusted Apps

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  • I one time got an E-mail claiming my computer had been hacked and they'd installed monitoring software in my root/system location and I was like, "In my /gnu/store? Doubtful…"