[-] wfh@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Nice cheat sheet!

Weirdly enough, I printed at 235 thinking the nozzle was too hot and it was worse. At 245 more issues seem to disappear except less than ideal overhangs.

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

★☆☆☆☆

Substituted a knife for the spoon and caulk for peanut butter. Awful taste, horrible recipe. Do not recommend. Would put zero stars but it won't let me.

Karen, MO

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

"Hate" is a strong word. I don't hate Ubuntu. It's just irrelevant.

It's not alone anymore in the realm of "easy to install and use", and ongoing enshittification nagging you to upgrade to Pro™️ makes it an objectively worse product than its direct competitors.

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

Maintainer team size matters in the long run. CachyOS is maintained by 3 people, Nobara by one single person.

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

I moved my SSD from my old 8th gen Intel laptop to my brand new Zen 4 Framework 16. It was absolutely uneventful. Almost disappointing 😅

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

Public transport in Europe is often in a sorry state, but trust me, it's nothing compared to the US. Here in France, a lot of regional trains are very unreliable at best but at least high speed trains on dedicated tracks are fine (very expensive, but ok).

I don't remember UK rail to be a shitshow and/or that expensive but my only experience is going to/from central London to/from neighboring counties and it was fine.

But in the US, oh boy. About 15 years ago I was living with some roommates in Campbell, CA and we went to SF one day. 1h drive mostly on shitty concrete motorways, including probably around $5 of gas. They were heading north for a romantic getaway so I went back to Campbell by myself. It took almost 4 fuckin hours, on maybe 4 or 5 different private companies, and cost me like $25 to get back.

Public transit in the US is so fucked up im almost convinced it's by design.

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Here in the EU there are a few companies selling rebranded Tongfang or Clevo barebones without an OS. Some are Linux-oriented like Tuxedo, Slimbook or LaptopmetLinux, some are general-purpose or gaming oriented like Schenker/XMG.

Slimbook Elemental 14 start at around 600€, Tuxedo Aura 14 starts at around 840€ for what looks to be the same SKU but a bit more storage.

Where are you located and what's your budget ? It might help point you in the right direction.

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

The problem with Haas has never been Guenther, it's always been Gene. Mfer still believes he can run a team as a privateer in 2024. Buy a chassis, buy an engine and show up on the grid, like in nascar or Indy.

While smaller teams struggled to stay alive, big players made massive investments in manufacturing and testing facilities before the budget cap came into effect. Meanwhile Haas still has zero manufacturing capabilities. They're not a manufacturer. They're an aero designer.

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

"Finland happiest country on earth" factoid actualy just statistical error. average Finn is happy 0 times per year. Happys Antti, who lives in cave & is happy over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Because most people getting interested in Linux have heard of Arch, and might think "well there is a very vocal community of Arch users, this might be a great place to start".

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly. KDE people praise its flexibility and tweakability, but I feel it tries to cater at too many use cases at once, and looks much harder to maintain as it always felt buggy and a bit janky to me.

Gnome devs may have very strong opinions and that seems to anger some people, but their approach is actually the best for small teams: focus on a single use case, make it as polished as possible, and let users develop extensions to cater to their own use cases.

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't figure out how to setup flatpak. Everything seems to be working fine until I enter the last line in the terminal:

Assuming you've installed flatpak correctly (sudo apt install flatpak gnome-software-plugin-flatpak)

in a terminal, type flatpak remotes. If it lists flathub, you're good.

Try installing a random app like flatpak install flathub de.haeckerfelix.Shortwave

It shoud work. If it doesn't, post your logs.

I have to type a password in the terminal every time I want to use sudo

This is the intended behavior and should not be changed, it's a basic security feature. Once you've finished setting up you system, you shouldn't need sudo everyday anyway, except for updating/upgrading the system.

I'm used to a desktop interface with a toolbar/start menu that I can pin frequently-used programs to, but with Debian it seems like I need to click "Activities" to do anything. Is there a way to set up the interface so it's more like Windows in that regard?

Assuming you're using Gnome, this is easy to solve using Extensions. First if it's not installed already on Firefox, install Gnome Shell Integration. It'll let you manage Gnome Extensions directly from https://extensions.gnome.org/

Then, install dash-to-panel for a "windows-style" experience, or dash-to-dock for a "macos-style" experience.

After that, you can go wild on the extensions you want to use ;)

If I need to do a clean install, I'm thinking of switching to Ubuntu, since I'm more familiar with the interface.

Don't. Ubuntu will teach you nothing but the Ubuntu way. Debian is as Standard Linux as conceivable. If your only concern is the Ubuntu-style interface, configuring dash to panel to appear on the left side is all you need.

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