[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Disrespect of poor people"
My dude, you never even posted a budget. Gaming mice are usually around a hundred dollars since they're meant to be of a higher build quality, as well as equipped with more, better bells and whistles. Your scoffing every time someone mentions a mouse more expensive than an Amazon basics one doesn't matter if someone is answering your post without having read everything that was said prior.

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 45 points 5 months ago

Man... At this point we really should actively be telling people to stay the hell away from Ubuntu. This is some M$Windows levels of sneaky and borderline malicious behavior.

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 67 points 5 months ago

Where did the duckduck go?

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 21 points 6 months ago

No, but not providing them with personal information like one's email, address, name, phone number or social media accounts, and not screaming "I live within # km of xxx!" by accessing their website with your actual IP address? That kinda helps. Plus, they're definitely blocking any reports made from out of state at this point.

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago

Not only is this a really interesting idea, this has to be one of the most beautifully written and structured bash scripts I've ever seen. I'll give it a try later!

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I would be surprised if there wasn't a differently named fork up somewhere within a week. Not like the program itself was infringing on any law.

There's just no winning a legal battle against a spiteful company that could drown you in fees before you even reach a ruling.

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 26 points 8 months ago

Or now they'll admit climate change is a thing. While claiming it's making whales gay.

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

I'm sure it's not much compared to what many here experienced, but it took me a long time to properly recover from this.

A couple years back on Christmas Eve, a few of my then friends, or at least acquaintances ripped apart my friend group. Doxxed me (I'm told) and slandered me for days. Basically out of nowhere from my perspective. No fights that I can recall were had shortly before and I was still having friendly conversations with the perpetrators that same day. I tried asking the "leaders" what I might've been accused of and I never got a single answer. Not even a "you should know". Just a message from my girlfriend telling me I should go offline for a while and beyond that, radio silence for a solid day.

Some time later my girlfriend told me one of them had been trying for weeks to convince her I was toxic. Manipulative. Untrustworthy. We're engaged now, somehow. She brings way more to the table than I do, but I do my best to make her days more interesting and I'm happier than I've ever been. I hope I bring her a similar comfort. I also got back in contact with a few of those old friends a year later.

But for a whole year and out of nowhere, I had to cut contact with essentially everyone I talked to online. And let's not kid ourselves, I'm an introverted nerd somewhere on the spectrum, that was basically my whole social circle. I'm told their... whatever this all was for ended up imploding, but I learned that day how easy it is to get exploited and mislead by those we trust.

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 46 points 10 months ago

Game and media preservation, for one. But I'm sure part of it is the technical challenge. There's still websites where you can download those old flash games to run them locally, but one day Adobe Flash player will cease to work on modern operating systems.

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago

Wait, does that mean we can start looking at HDR displays for regular Linux desktops in a near future?

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah… For years I already suggested anything good but Ubuntu to those interested in trying Linux, but now I'm going to directly tell them not to touch it. Sure, you've got lots of online discussions from the past 20-ish years of people teaching each other how to install PPAs for up-to-date versions of programs or drivers and that's sweet. But how about a distro where that stuff is just available out of the box and one that doesn't force you to use snaps as if they didn't cause issues left and right?

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Probably never. They're my third option after native packages and built-from-source packages/installs either manually or using the AUR. They're convenient and the only option I tolerate of those newer package styles (Flatpak/Snap/AppImage), but seemingly having to download a new 800+MB runtime for small 32MB applications is ridiculously wasteful and I wouldn't touch them if I didn't have at least a TB of storage.

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