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CatLikeLemming

@ CatLikeLemming @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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she/they

Bit of a mess, kinda depressed, and going through a gender identity crisis :3

(Ongoing issues, brain pls fix)

  • What makes it “Legitimate Interest“?

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  • One thing I've found to be useful is just having my browser clear all cookies upon closing. It's initially annoying while you set up all your exceptions for commonly used sites so you don't need to log in again there every time, but afterwards you don't need to worry too much, because once you close your browser, all the useless cookies are gone.

  • No common rube

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  • Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months

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  • I did not use Photoshop particularly long, but I have been using the Affinity Suite both on a pc and a tablet for over a year now and can say it's definitely quite good. Everything is where you think it should be, the workflow feels very usable with no major learning curve (looking at you, GIMP), and overall the only thing I don't like about it is its lack of Linux support. I would assume that absolute professionals won't be able to find everything they like/want, but if you're reading this, chances are you're gonna be more than satisfied, if FOSS options don't quite work for you.

  • Average CSS

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  • Well, flexbox and grid have different purposes in my opinion/experience. Personally I use grid for "top level" layouts like the layout of the whole site, while I tend to prefer flexbox for layouts inside the grid. Of course that's just a rule of thumb, there are absolutely cases where this isn't the best option.

  • Average CSS

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  • I know you meant this sarcastically, but yes, flex is a good option for centering something. Either that or setting the left and right margins of the element to auto, which is generally even easier.

    Basically, if you're in a flex container use flex, if you're in a grid use grid, and if neither of those apply set the left and right margins to auto.

  • The numbers 0–99 sorted alphabetically in different languages

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  • Since I primarily use English despite being a native German speaker I always get those jumbled up and it bugs me so much. People dictate long numbers in sets of two or three digits, but instead of saying the digits, they say them as numbers. Then it's like "3 & 40" and I write 34 because my brain goes "first number, first digit" until I notice that I made this error again and have to correct it. It takes way more mental effort than it should and it annoys me that so many people say these as numbers instead of as actual sets of digits, which wouldn't be a problem in most other languages, but nooooo of course we need to add a good ol' switcheroo right at the end there

  • Is the Proton (Mail, VPN, Password Manager) ecosystem any good?

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  • Wait, it doesn't support caldav? That really kills the appeal of the convenience they provide as a one-stop-shop, as I'd have to deal with hosting my calendars in another way. I guess at that point I could just get SimpleLogin and use the rest as I have it, even if that gets close to proton unlimited price-wise...

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    Am I old now?

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  • Thigh highs are where it's at nowadays :3

  • NAS, Home Servers, and where do I even start?

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  • That site is lovely, thank you!

  • NAS, Home Servers, and where do I even start?

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  • As I mentioned in the post, my money budget is around 1000€ as a target, but it extends both up and down. I can stretch if needed, but if that's comically overkill then I'd be happy to go lower. Time budget... not too high, but also not super low. I can certainly spend a day or two setting everything up. Electricity costs are certainly a factor, power prices here were some of the highest globally, even before the extreme increases lately.

    Also thanks for the tip of the S3 backup, it's probably a good idea to have an extra copy of important data off-site, yeah.

  • Very clever...

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  • Really, I'd just recommend using nano then. It's installed basically anywhere you can find vim and works perfectly fine as a text editor! To use vim effectively it has a learning curve no matter what, so it's not necessarily meant for everyone.

  • Who is watching this?!

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  • Hm, the Shorts algorithm should be generally based on your normal recommendations until you start watching them.

    You know, potentially controversial opinion, but I kinda like shorts, since by now the algo has figured out that I like longer documentary-style videos on normal videos, but still get vtuber clips and cute animal videos as shorts.

  • making fun of windows is our most treasured tradition

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  • The original meme template, to my knowledge, was something along the lines of "People be like "Subway sucks". Bro, you made the sandwich." and then it was tweaked a little, tweaked a little more, tweaked a little more and we ended up with this and even more absurd versions.

  • New Photon front end

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  • The best thing about this is that finally you don't have to click on every post anymore. I don't know if I'm the only one who found it insufferable, but the amount of times I accidentally opened a link while trying to see an image because both look near identical and you can't see the image without clicking on it drove me nuts.

  • Haiii pets! :3 CW possessiveness

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  • Yay :3

  • Haiii pets! :3 CW possessiveness

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  • Oki, if you say so :3

  • Haiii pets! :3 CW possessiveness

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  • Oh no, whatever shall I do?

  • I know that it's rolling release, but 4 times this year seems a bit much

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  • About NixOS specifically, I actually made a post on !linux@lemmy.ml and overall the feedback seemed to be that Nix is a mixed bag, and that unless you want to duplicate your system a bunch of times, it's probably smarter to stick to Arch, and a few people said I should use immutable Fedora for some reason despite that not being the question.

  • I know that it's rolling release, but 4 times this year seems a bit much

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  • I'm quite excited but also mildly worried about Arch. I am currently on EndeavourOS, so I'm used to day-to-day usage of an Arch-based system, but I do worry about not following some best practices that screw me over in the long run during the install or forgetting some crucial security things. I do believe 95% of what I could mess up is going to be covered in the install guide, but who knows what I'll overlook. And I know Archinstall exists, but I might as well stay on EOS if I was gonna use that, as I primarily intend this to be a learning opportunity. We'll see how things go!