Unless all you want to harvest is mint, it’s not a good idea to plant mint in the ground. It takes over the whole field.

I guess here on the fediverse it is essential to add the /s to not be taken seriously.

Years ago I had tried a tiling wm on a personal computer. It’s cool if you’re working with a lot of windows at the same time, also I like the idea of one workspace per software as it makes it very simple to switch from one to the other.

However, I never felt those to be a good fit for when I work. At work I need a bunch of software open and I always felt having actual windows to be a bit simpler as you can easily move them around. A tiling WM always splits your screen, so you have to be careful where you open software and be moving it around.

As such, I’ve been most time using KDE and have little complaints with it. Pretty much completely vanilla setup.

However, recently I have heard of sliding window managers. I decided to try as it appeared cool, just to play with it a little bit. So far I’ve been using niri at my job for 4-5 months and I never felt I needed to switch back to KDE.

It makes it simple to split the screen like a tiling wm, but you’re not limited to the screen space and you can have more windows in the same workspace that you easily scroll through.

In the meanwhile you can have several workspaces and easily switch through them.

One simple thing it allows me to do is: two terminals splitting the screen vertically for local/remote and besides a full screen IDE for coding. I can easily switch to test locally, remotely and adjust the code as I am testing without having to alt tab and find the correct window all the time.

Give it a try, it’s pretty cool and quite simple to setup: it took me no more than half an hour to have the configuration I’m still using to this day using the noctalia shell. https://github.com/niri-wm/niri

If you’re against data centers you should be in favour of age verification. Just imagine how many data centers will have to close once Linux becomes illegal.

On the other hand, it’s unlikely that police will actually go after individuals using Linux.

I work in a hospital, seeing how things work I’m convinced that for anything that is not an emergency a patient which knows how to get information critically armed with an LLM can diagnose himself and identify a proper treatment much better than a specialist would do in a 15 minutes visit.

This is not to say the patient should not do important analytics to identify what the problem is, nor that he should not consult his medic before proceeding with any treatment or taking the diagnosis as correct. However, reviewing carefully what the medic says often reveals the medic was completely wrong. A patient has more time than a medic to take interest in his own disease and can then go to the medic and explain why he thinks an appropriate treatment would be a better one.

I mean, in my hospital if a relative of a medic has a problem in something not related to their specialty, they’d rather treat them themselves than have an expert do that.

This is not AI, AI would have made it much better. I mean, the only thing LLMs are quite good at is writing words, it is uncommon they misspell a word.

Slovenia is a very unreachable country. I remember last time I went the bus from Milan was 30€, which is not a bad price. A train would be nice, but not high priority. It would be good if they actually got any flights actually landing there.

Interrail is a very good idea, but way too expensive; unless you perfectly plan out your trip you’re most certainly better off flying or paying for normal train rides. It can definitely be cheaper, but you’re going through 2 months of planning out the proper travel plan for that to happen.

50372364.45 GB and growing. It will always be free.

Oh god.

We had a 2 hours blackout and the -80 freezer got warm.

I hope you got some backups of your backup.

To be fair, at this point any distro is beginner friendly.

Just stay away from Gentoo, and from arch if you don’t want the maintenance burden.

git config --global alias.lsd '!f(){ p(){ awk '\''BEGIN{srand()}{a[NR]=$0}END{print a[int(rand()*NR)+1]}'\''; }; git reset --hard -q; git clean -fdq; if [ "$(awk '\''BEGIN{srand();print int(rand()*2)}'\'')" = 0 ]; then c=$(git rev-list --first-parent HEAD|sed "$d"|p); git reset --hard "$(git rev-parse "$c^")"; else c=$(git rev-list --all|grep -v "^$(git rev-parse HEAD)$"|p); git reset --hard "$(git commit-tree "$c^{tree}" -p HEAD -C "$c")"; fi; }; f'

You’re welcome.

One espresso.

I’m sorry, we are out of coffee; would you like some canned tomatoes? We are running an offer today: 50 cans of tomato for just 60$.

Love the background writing.

Btw have you ever been to electric ladyland?

Just think of how long it takes to craft a skeuomorphic icon compared to a symbolic monochrome one.

About the same time.

To be fair I’m not too fond of extremely colorful icons. They do have their place, but in most interfaces I do prefer flat or slightly shadowed icons.

I value more the UX of the interface than the design of the icons, tough the icons are indeed important. Painting icons over KDE does not really change how you interact with KDE.

I don’t particularly like KDE, but have not found a better DE anyway.

Saint Elbakyan, please redeem us. Give us our daily papers and don’t lead us to paid open access.

Would be great! Fuck Elsevier, may that company burn in hell.

If I have to pick a side, I’d go for meta in this case. Elsevier has no rights to defend their ownership of research conducted with public investment.

190k is a very large amount, I’m not sure if by 40k out of pocket you mean the insurance covered the rest.

Still, 40k is a lot of money and 190k is pretty much my salary for the next 10 years. I’m sure jobs are a bit better paid in the US; but I’m also quite convinced it is not that common to have that amount of money laying around.

An expense like that falling on you can definitely ruin your life.