I always recommend Fedora or Debian these days. Eventually you get anything running with those.

But yeah, Ubuntu makes it easy for nvidia, but is also has snaps.

Anyway, I would always go with a main distro instead of something that is based on them. You’re just a bit closer to upstream. That’s at least my opinion. So far, it did not fail me.

When I post gifs I post them as gifs, not as links. I am not affected.

And: I disabled link preview in Discord. I’ve never seen your tenors, I just guessed them by looking at the url. ^^

I use rgdal in R to avoid doing statistics with QGIS. But for thematic maps I find it very useful. And for nicer looking legends on maps I use Inkscape.

The true power of open source for me is, that you use many programs together to achieve a result that can beat closed source software. It is sometime more work to do so, when you aim for near perfection.

Speak for yourself; for me everything is a path now ^^

or just mainboard.

Thx for the reminder to switch asap!

Awesome. After many years of vim-use I learned about CTRL+n as well. A game changer.

And while we’re at it, I also installed vim-nox to be able to use vim-snippets with utilsnips to TAB for even more joy of programming with vim. [=

When is the time to switch to systemd-boot? It can already do sll the things one would need from a boot loader but nicer.

I am using it many years now, previously on Gentoo, now on Debian stable.

Except for the chair. I don’t like this chair. Give me another chair and a desk to put my foot on. Or: a swing.

Also in the fineprint: Imagine you could do a planetary broadcast through a “data link” in 2024. Do they mean TikTok or Instagram?

I always uninstall nano on systems with not much users. On the more busy and established servers, I need to leave it as-is and I have to adjust when visudo opens nano and I forgot to put EDITOR=vim in front of it.

Oh, I did not know of ‘A’ before. Hopefully I can train myself to use it.

I use the normal arrow keys in vim to navigate, but I love all the other neat features and I propably only know <20% of them.

And maybe on a 40% keyboard with custom layout every key is very near. My arrow keys are very custom placed, btw. I have 4 of the same keyboard (Planck), because I am so used to my own custom layout and layers.

I do this when asked for my ticket in public transport. I’ll wait until they are in front of me. When they walk away before I am ready, I put my ticket back so that they have to come back and wait until I am ready. I think, public transport should be free and financed only by taxes. I may have helped people who just forgot to get a ticket or need to catch the train quickly and still waiting for the app to validate their ticket.

Only for longer trips accross the country I prepare my ticket in advance. I can’t explain it.

thx, I call it laundry machine from now on [=

The article has a typo; you won’t find CVE-2026-53111 for Linux, but you will find CVE-2026-23111, which is already fixed if you do not postpone updates more than a month.

This is how I get almost 3 days out of an iPhone 13 mini:

1. data safer on; certain apps blocked to use mobile internet as well.
2. battery always in low power mode; this also prevent apps from doing stuff in the background
3. wifi and LTE/5G/4G only on when I actively use my phone or cannot miss a reply I am waiting for
4. lowest brightness setting as the base in a dark room and adaptive brightness from there
5. no automatic app updates to safe on data plan and battery. updates only with wifi at home
6. download favourite music instead of streaming (apple music can do that). hear music offline. do nothing else while listening to it.

Thursday throwup?

20+ years ago I needed to know how to burn a CD before making the switch. I think WinXP was the last, I have use on a private PC.

All my windows use today is work related; no games there.

To me, they are just indicators of how much content I can expect. I scroll with the mouse wheel or using the page down/up keys. I don’t grab the thing. I only need to see the indicator when I am scrolling.

But I wonder whether there is a accesibility aspect to always visible and wide scrollbars. I think, the best way to deal with it, is to make it an option how they look and behave.