Not So Silent Service by leavesfallingup
I have read it again, and I just cannot stop myself from saying aloud how great a collection of short stories this is. The unifying element of these stories is that these are stories where servants (or similar in-background characters) save the situation. Another unifying element of these stories is how well written they are. Really, highly recommended!
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Iamb, but yes, sometimes with help from the Web client in Firefox. (old Element Android on F-Droid, because Element company hates its customers, and Element X is still not supported on One Element).
You can right now … except it is a paid service … https://element.io/blog/element-one-all-of-matrix-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram-in-one-place/
This post literally links to the leading one.
Hmm, how to react to that? “Go through his brain and look for loose thoughts.”? (Sounds like Legilimency from Harry Potter world)
I was never distro-hopping much. Switched from Debian only when I got a job with Red Hat, and then switched to openSUSE when I switched to SUSE. I have actually switched recently to my own semi-distro https://sr.ht/~mcepl/moldavite/ (basically MicroOS with sway).
Eh? Both pandoc and rst2epub can generate eBooks. All those lightweight markup languages are especially awesome for converting into various output formats.
Discuss it with https://lemmy.world/post/12126335
I think you have arguments about MicroOS (or Silberblue, which I know less about, and possibly Nix, which I know nothing about, and it seems to me it is not in the same group) wrong. Take a look at this https://youtu.be/lKYLF1tA4Ik.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/ still claims that sway is “i3-compatible Wayland compositor”.
Ehm, what would be a difference for you, if you install sway?
Not vim necessarily, but I would really suggest thinking about a plain text editor of your choice and some of those lightweight markup languages (Markdown itself, reStructuredText, ASCIIDoc … I prefer rST, but they are mostly the same). Exactly because it allows me to concentrate on the content and ignore formatting. Besides, formatting, do you write for print or as everybody else these days for HTML? Why do you need a large word processor which is build primarily for preparing documents for print? Every serious text editor has some kind of plugins with spellcheckers, grammar checkers, dictionaries, etc.
Yes, of course, the sockets are the answer to everything (and BTW, d-bus uses sockets as well, e.g. /run/dbus/system_bus_socket on my current system), but the problem is no standard for the communication over these sockets (or where is the socket located). For example, X11 developed one system of communicating over their socket, but it was used just by few X11 programs, and everybody else had their other system of communication. And even if an app found some socket, there was absolutely no standard how exactly should programs communicate over it. How to send more than just plain ASCII strings? Each program had to write their own serialization/deserialization code, their own format for marshalling binary data, etc. Now there is just one standard for those protocols, and even libraries with the standard (and well tested) code for it.
Size. I really don’t like the current 6”+ phones. The last phone I really liked was Google Nexus 5, because it had just 5" display.
https://youtu.be/4WuYGcs0t6I (Richard Brown (FOSDEM 2023): “I was wrong about Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap”)
Yup, and "I use Gentoo" before that.
Without regards about this discussion, run, don’t just go, and buy a vertical mouse. Just saved my wrists.
Give a man a regular expression and he’ll match a string… teach him to make his own regular expressions and you’ve got a man with problems. -- yakugo in http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247#comment-3022 (and yes, it is
http://neverhttps://for this domain)
- Many Linux installers can preserve
/homewhen asked nicely. - (as root)
rsync -avz /home/youruser/ other-machine:/home/
I haven’t meant it as the criticism of ZFS. It is just so, and perhaps there were good reasons for it. Now (especially with the convergence trend) it hurts.
This is twelve years old, but it nicely illustrates what BTRFS (and ZFS on other OS) can do … https://youtu.be/9H7e6BcI5Fo?t=206
Access to the cache content with the Flatpaked Firefox on Linux
Is there any difference in cache files for Flatpaked Firefox and the normal one?
I have been using FanFicFare application for downloading Fanfiction stories as EPub from the main fanfiction websites. It works just fine for most of them, but there are now terrible problems with the biggest of them all, https://fanfiction.net, which is behind Cloudflare and generally inaccessible to scripts.
Therefore functionality has been added to script which with appropriate flags (-o use_browser_cache=true -o use_browser_cache_only=true) and when correctly configured it can “download” HTML pages from the Firefox (or Chrome) cache instead and stitch them together into EPub same as if the pages were downloaded from the Internet.
It all works perfectly fine with Firefox as packaged by major distributions (openSUSE in my case), but [it doesn't work with Firefox installed from Flatpak](https:
The Road Back by prhood
This book was a bit of let-down for me. Yes, it is very nicely written, characters are well described, they have even some (slight) development to them (which is rather rare in all fanfiction stories), but it feels like painting by numbers. Elizabeth and Gardiners travel all the way to the Lake District, so there is never a meeting at Pemberley, and Lydia is ruined (for long time it seems irrecoverably, but it turns out better). Then Elizabeth meets Darcy when she hides in London with her uncle and aunt and everything proceeds as you expect. Lydia is sent to Canada to be married and saving the fame of the Bennet family, D&E have their happily ever-after, Jane finds some replacement for Bingley, who in the end (with many rounds around) marries Georgiana. Everything is very predictable and it takes extraordinary time to get there (59 chapters). If you read one of stories like this, you probably shouldn’t bother.
The Sailor's Rest : A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Don Jacobson
Pride & Prejudice meet Persuasion meet Horatio Hornblower, slightly too long and slightly failing on “Show, don’t tell” rule, but otherwise obviously professionally written thing and the tension is really high and adventure dramatic. Highly recommended.
Cannot login with the mobile Firefox 115 (lemmy 0.18.1-rc.7)
Partners by muggledad
I have heard about this story so many times, I have felt compelled to download it and read it. It is pleasantly written, I don’t have any serious complaints about it, but in the end it is just yet another indy!Harry mixed with (never explained) sudden whirlwind romance, where Harry and Daphne get from 0 (him not knowing her name) to marriage (and of course the married bed) in a week or so. If you read something like this, you've read it all, I am afraid. Interesting part is that the whole story is from Daphne’s point of view (that’s at least something different).
The End and the Beginning
What in the world I have just read? It could be just one rather normal run-of-the-mill indy!Harry story with mildly evil Dumbledore where Harry will build his own base and defeats Voldemort, but the author for reasons I really cannot understand put whole story into Harry & Hermione’s third year (of course, it is a Harmony story, it is indy!Harry after all, isn’t it?).
Which again is nothing bad. There are really few stories in the Harry’s third year and there are many themes which could be fruitfully investigated. I would love to finally somebody utilized the best JKR sentence in whole heptalogy (“Lucky you,” said Ginny coolly.’ OotP), it is the year of Ginny’s and transition from freaked out little girl to the storm of energy she is later in the series, it is the most peaceful Harry’s year (whole year happens absolutely nothing, everything is in the end), so we could have more of non-Voldemort-happy-life-at-Hogwarts. Did author use anything of these?
No, she/he didn’t. I have ab
Colonel Fitzwilliam Interferes - LissaMU - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
After reading an excellent “One Week Late” by Bethany Delleman, I hoped that this story might another (very rare) example of non-canonical pairing P&P story. I have always thought that the relationship between Colonel Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth could be very interesting to explore, and generally that a relationship with a solider (looking how well the relationship with a sailor worked in “Persuasion”) could be interesting as well. Except the story had did not much of that exploration. Since the first wedding, it was quite obvious how it will end and there were only two ways how to achieve that end, neither of one which I liked. In the end the author decided to follow both of them. Oh well.