[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I don't believe in anything supernatural, but I'm pretty sure wiper blade attachment designs were somehow still born in the deepest fires of hell.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We have to make the war such a bad option for Russia that Putin is deposed,

You're right and it might be humanity's only chance at survival. In the post nuclear era, we must either eradicate all warmongering, or it will likely kill every single one of us.

If Putin wins, no one else can. He chose to start a new war for personal reasons in the post nuclear age. Humanity likely cannot afford to tolerate people who do that, in a post nuclear age.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm also not a fan of being limited to certain cloud services (I use neither Google Drive nor Dropbox).

Good news!

Boox will run any cloud sync that has a recent Android app available. It's just an Android tablet, at heart, and it's already unlocked.

In particular, the local NAS sync client for Synology runs like a dream.

Edit: Oops. I missed that we switched from Boox to reMarkable, there.

I guess I'll leave this since Boox sells eInk tablets that are feature matched to reMarkable, anyway.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 days ago

There's gotta be less cruel ways to rehabilitate people, though.

I'm kidding. Welcome reformed convicts, to the wonderful and awful world of coding!

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

But why?

Probably because having two separate dependency management solutions can lead to a lot of needless headaches.

And it makes particular sense for Gnome to switch over, since Gnome is focused on user space apps. Flatpaks should generally be more relevant and lower risk, long term, since they don't require root privileges to install.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

without some sort of clear 'Linux Certified'

I think we will get there. Ironically, we might have 'Steam Certified' first, for alternate SteamDeck hardware.

I'm the meantime there's premium brands like System76 and Framework who are making Linux support part of their brand image.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Needing ndiswrapper was bad, but Ndiswrapper was salvation (okay it was fixed wifi, which is practically the same thing, to me...)

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah. I'm confident in this change thanks to my equal discomfort configuring either SELinux or whatever OpenSUSE has. Hooray!

But joking aside, this sounds like a good thing and I appreciate all the folks who do understand that stuff and have worked hard on it.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If Keanu wants to make a Constantine film, I'm excited to see it.

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