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What do you like about your Linux Distro?
  • I was excited when I bought an Amiga 500, and ever since then the main thing I noticed is that the EXCITEMENT of getting a computer was always over-ruled by my ability to exploit it's powers and use it.

    So my perspective is that all computers and operating systems SUCK. But some suck less than others...

    So using Manjaro KDE, it sucks less because it's very simple and easy for me to install whatever I like - having AUR available, being able to search with pamac to include repos, AUR and Flatpak (even snap if I was that desperate).

    KDE also gives you super powers to fuck up modify your desktop experience and shortcuts.

    It's been good to me for 6 years now. After going Ubuntu>Mint I was excited to leave Debian and try something else, I never made it to the Redhat camp (always interested to try Fedora) and hopefully will never feel the need.

    So yes, what I like MOST is - it mostly just works. And when it fails, the forum is awesome.

  • What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?
  • That's very negative, however I must concur that it's a fact the correlative conjunctions were incorrectly placed to negate the possibilities.

    Whether that fact is true or not is up to you.

  • Has anyone else been trying to break their reddit-era habit of downvoting?
  • up/down voting is simply a way to help comments you think are good, or agree with, become more/less dominant in the thread.

    In some cases, comments are useful to explain why - but often that's just not the case.

  • Facebook's Threads is so depressing
  • Hard to find something depressing with no experience.

    What is depressing is that tens of millions JUMP on the platform, knowing already that Meta is evil and not caring.

    The human race is digging it's own grave, and the handful that know better will just get pulled down.

  • Memmy developers were able to build a better app in a month than Reddit’s team was able to build in ten years
  • It doesn't say much...

    • It reminds us that Reddit never gave a toss.

    • It reminds you that, through the Reddit lens, your value is about zero.

  • Best Firefox Extensions?
    1. Inoreader
    2. Bitwarden
    3. uBlock
    4. Sponsorblock
    5. Dark Reader
    6. Font Changer
    7. Stylus
    8. Markdownload - web clipper
    9. Lasttab (Alt_Z back to last tab) A. Violentmonkey B. webcompat.com reporter C. Wikiwand D. YouTube Redux
  • When people tell you to post to drive engagement
  • When Lemmy.ml gives you infinite loading times to open this post...

  • Yo are fireworks that fun?
  • Fireworks are brilliant. I think you live somewhere with cultural issues... people reserve the right to party and annoy everyone else...

    They have their time and place - and 2am sounds more like problms with arseholes, not Fireworks.

    They should be banned after 9pm (except for New Year - extend until 00:20 for that).

    I've been witness to some amazing displays that bring tears to my eyes they were so awesome. The most memorable being ones that I'm close enough to feel the pressure wave, a truly trouser flapping experience.

  • Atheists/agnostics of Lemmy, do you believe in the existence of souls?
  • I think 'soul' is not something which exists in itself - it is the idea of the essence of a thing, the thing which causes an individual life.

    So theories go around that there are spiritual beings separate from the physical (debatable) and I personally think that it extends to all life, such that trees can have awareness which can also extend beyond their physical bodies.

    As such, they obviously exist - but their exact definition and nature is quite hard to grasp. I don't think they can survive physical death.

  • Your best terminal aliases
  • TTIME (abbr - not alias)

    abbr -a -- ttime date\ \'+It\ is\ \%-H\ \%M\ and\ \%S\ seconds\'\|espeak\ \>/dev/null\ 2\>/dev/null # imported from a universal variable, see `help abbr`
    
  • Is there a keyboard shortcut to copy the URL of the page you're on?
  • Generic shortcuts - F6 and Ctrl+L both get the URL selected. Ctrl+C can copy - switch window and paste.

    Alternatively, if the windows are both open you can drag the Padlock icon (certainly with Firefox) to your field.

  • Is there a keyboard shortcut to copy the URL of the page you're on?
  • Well yes... Ctrl+L then Ctrl+C gets it.

  • What is an often overlooked aspect of fascism that people should be aware of?
  • Swastika/fasist tattoos and memorabilia are often simply anti-authority expression and not really fascist ideology (as witnessed recently with ex-cons, UKR and Russian soldiers being caught out and branded as being 'Nazi' or 'fascist').

  • What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?
  • 'true fact'.

    • Facts cannot be anything except for true.
    • Anyone who uses the two words 'true fact' together cannot be trusted because they know neither the meaning of the word 'true' or the word 'fact'.
  • Here’s a playlist of 7 hours of music with NO VOCALS I use to focus when I’m studying /coding. Post yours as well if you also have one!
  • Pyradio has me covered here. I grab my channels using [Radio Search]https://www.radio-browser.info/search?) (custom Firefox search)

    • BBC Radio 4 Extra
    • SomaFM cliqhob idm
    • dinamo.fm sleep
    • Lounge Chillout Station URL: http://188.40.109.122:8000/ices3
    • MyNoise
    • Radio Caprice - Drone Ambient
    • Synphaera Radio (Space Music)
    • Ambient Sleeping Pill
    • SomaFM Drone Zone (256k AAC+)
    • SomaFM Lounge
    • Classical Chamber
    • Classical Choral
    • Classical Lullabies
    • Classic FM Relax
    • Classical Peaceful Piano
    • Naim Classical 320k AAC
    • Classic Vinyl (Walm)
    • 101 Smooth Jazz
    • Abaco Libros y Cafe Jazz Radio
  • Me waiting for someone to explain the bean meme
  • I haven't bean paying attention.

  • What are some reddit communities you wish to see live and more active on lemmy?
  • Over obsessing with puns is a recognised psychological issue...

    At school, I remember the time I was jealous of our 'class clown' who was genuinely pretty hilarious every time he opened his mouth and extremely popular (especially with the girls). The worst thing to do is to try to emulate that (go home, study a ton of jokes... I'm sure everyone did that at some stage).

    I think one of the lessons I worked hard to teach my son is that you shouldn't make an effort to be funny, because that's mostly just four-king annoying. Since then, his jokes come less frequently - but with higher hit-rates.

    But for sure, Reddit seems to have an average mentality of 6 to 12.

    The worst trap to get into is to try to make jokes about unemployed people - because they never work.

  • More Coffee?

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    Pingu

    Better than Ping ;)

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