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illectrility

@ illectrility @sh.itjust.works

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Nerd, Anime and Film Enjoyer, Video Editor, Python Dev, Learning Rust, Linux Enjoyer, Sick of Windows, Currently Running Pop!_OS, Debian and /e/OS

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  • Is an upgraded T450, T14, or Framework a better laptop for a clumsy dev?

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  • When it comes to decisions like this, I usually make a list with my options, create some categories (e.g. durability, longevity, performance, ...), rate each option for each category and then divide each option's points by its price to see its value. If they're fairly similar, I would take the time I'd need to save up for them into account.

    In general, I would always want to go for A) upgrading what I already have or B) getting something used for the sake of sustainability.

    You could look at some more used ThinkPad options like a T470 or a T480. They can often be found for cheap refurbished on eBay. I would also take a look at online benchmarks to see what fits your requirements. In my experience, that works better than looking at spec sheets.

  • Do you do any simple experiments? Or track things and analyse them?

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  • I've used phyphox for lots of stuff. It's great for looking at raw data from your phone's sensors but there are also a lot of great experiments built in to the app. The university that develops it has a playlist showcasing them all, it's a great way to spend a weekend.

  • I enjoy creating conflict

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  • Well, yeah. If your requirement is "no corporate", then Pop doesn't fit. However, if you don't want to use Ubuntu because it's a product of Canonical, I would still go ahead and recommend Pop, since it's A) not by Canonical and B) a wholly different kind of corporate backing

  • Gesturefy: Navigate, operate, and browse faster with mouse gestures! A customizable Firefox mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands.

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  • Okay, so you can have intuitive and easy to use mouse gestures to speed up your browsing experience... But why wouldn't you use Vimium and use your keyboard with 32697 ~un~intuitive keybindings instead?

  • I enjoy creating conflict

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  • Technically, yeah. However, Pop isn't their product, their hardware is.

    They do their absolute best to create great software like coreboot and Pop and keep it all truly open source. They also innovate the space with things like COSMIC DE (which imo is phenomenal already, even in its early alpha state).

    They only offer software support and help for customers of their hardware but that seems reasonable to me. The community is big and helpful so it makes sense for S76 to refer non-customers there.

    I've been using Pop as a daily driver for more than 3 years now and a few months ago, I started to think about switching. Until recently, it was stuck on 22.04 with no clear indicator as to when 24.04 would be released. I decide that I was gonna wait for October and if i still felt that way, I was gonna switch. As of today, I haven't switched and since the first alpha release of COSMIC and the recent alpha release of Pop 24.04, I've never even thought about it.

    24.04 is fast, stable and works incredibly well with COSMIC. COSMIC is insane for productivity and has fixed almost all UX gripes I've ever had with GNOME and KDE. It's truly amazing and a must-try imo.

  • Are there any communities along the topic of practical DIY, 'Today/Recently I learnt to do''?

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  • There's "today I learned"/"TIL" but that's usually factoids, I think

  • Types of Headaches

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  • rm is like "delete permanently", trash-cli is like regular delete - it moves to the trash bin. Many people like making an alias so rm runs trash-cli to prevent accidentally permanently deleting data

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    America discovers white rocks with infinite energy: It's the oil of the 21st Century

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  • Infinite energy... right...

  • Pavlov

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  • Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist. During his studies, he observed that dogs would begin to salivate whenever an assistant entered the room, even if no food was present. Pavlov realized that the dogs had learned to associate the presence of the assistant with the arrival of food. He then conducted experiments where he would ring a bell or sound a metronome immediately before presenting the dogs with food. Over time, the dogs learned to associate the sound with the food, and would begin to salivate in response to the sound alone, even without the presence of food. This research on dogs became an iconic example of classical conditioning and the comic references this.

  • When I wear my glasses I'm not actually looking directly at my surroundings. I'm looking at projections on the two screens in front of my eyes.

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  • Since the light actually passes through the glasses and just gets refracted, there's no screen in front of your eyes. It's like looking through water, a window or anything else translucent/transparent.

  • What is your favourite animal?

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  • Tungsten. It's just so cool that it's so dense and has such a high melting point. It's also really hard and tough.

    Edit: also dragonflies are pretty badass

  • Anybody know how to get lossless audio on linux?

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  • Soulseek

  • What is one thing you love & hate about ObsidianMD?

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  • I love how quickly I can get things done using keybindings (I use Vim in Obsidian) and how I can link everything together to really form a second brain with lots and lots of stuff all linked together nicely. I also love Obsidian Sync, I think it's worth it.

    I hate the unreasonably long startup time. It's even worse on mobile as every time you open the app, it fully restarts, taking 10+ seconds. I've been trying to leave it open in the background but it's muscle memory to close all apps immediately.

    I also don't like the lack of a good CAS plugin. I currently use mathpad which gets the job done but I often find myself tinkering with my input because mathpad sometimes just refuses to work properly. Maybe it approximates too much or sth but often times it just doesn't calculate accurately, doesn't solve equations properly, etc.

  • Ich💻⁉️🈯️iel

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  • Samsung Galaxy Ring is non-repairable - GSMArena.com news

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  • No shit

  • What is your default sort?

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  • I switch between New, Hot and Top 6hrs/Day

  • Star Stuff

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  • You could make a religion out of this

  • The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT

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  • I would say: "Don't switch to Linux. Just start with Linux and never use Windows or Mac in the first place"

    Don't have to get used to something if you've never used something else.

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    He can vote too

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  • It means that 91.9% are smarter than him and he is smarter than 8.1%. So the vast majority of people have a higher IQ than he does.