Honestly, instead of trying to remove Snap from Ubuntu, I'd just install another distro (PopOS for example is mostly like Ubuntu but with Flatpak instead of Snap)

From their terms of service:

They (private repos) are also allowed for really small & personal stuff like your journal, config files, ideas or notes, but explicitly not as a personal cloud or media storage.

I'd guess that most private git repositories are small enough to fall under this category (unless you track large non-text files in git). This also seems like a very reasonable policy, considering that they're a non-profit and they want to focus on supporting open source projects.

Wie er es sich vorstellt, Atomkraft als "Überbrückungstechnologie" zu verwenden, verstehe ich auch nicht. Man bräuchte doch erstmal Jahre, um die Kraftwerke wieder auf Vordermann zu bringen und neue Brennelemente zu beschaffen. In der Zeit könnte man stattdessen auch einfach erneuerbare Energien ausbauen. Vor 10 Jahren hätte man darüber noch diskutieren können, aber mittlerweile ist die Entscheidung halt schon getroffen.

Selbst bei einer Dividende von 2.500 Euro ändert sich für die untere Hälfte der Bevölkerung nichts am Vermögen. Arme Menschen würden das Geld der Simulation zufolge für bislang ungestillte Konsumbedürfnisse ausgeben, anstatt es zu sparen. Ihr Vermögen wüchse also nicht, der Wohlstand aber schon.

Was ist denn das für ein Argument? Es geht ja nicht darum, dass alle Menschen am Ende möglichst viel Geld in ihrem Bankkonto anhäufen, sondern dass ihr Lebensstandard sich langfristig verbessert. Abgesehen von den (vermutlich nicht allzu vielen) Leuten, die um ein Unternehmen zu gründen oder eine extrem teure Ausbildung zu bezahlen viel Geld auf einmal brauchen, ist eine einmalige Geldspritze dafür ja vermutlich nicht das effektivste Mittel.

Das Problem der Betriebskosten löst man mit dezentralen Messengern aber auch nicht. Pro Nutzer werden die Betriebskosten da tendenziell noch höher sein und viele Leute spenden wahrscheinlich auch eher an eine bekannte Organisation wie die Signal Foundation als an einen kleinen unabhängigen Serverbetreiber.

I think Plex is not open source but is there any reason against Jellyfin? As far as I know, they also have apps for most smart TVs in case that's what you mean by navigating with a remote.

Are you using the Jerboa client? I think they recently introduced an option to open links in a private tab which is on by default for some reason. It confused me too until I found the setting.

Wahrscheinlich geht es vor allem darum, eine "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"-Strategy zu verhindern. Dabei würde Facebook zuerst einen guten, mit dem Fediverse kompatiblen Service anbieten, um einen möglichst hohen Marktanteil zu erreichen ("Embrace"). Sobald sie das geschafft haben, erweitern sie das Protokoll mit (eventuell patentierten) Features, die Open-Source Projekte nicht implementieren können ("Extend"). Diese Projekte gehen dann unter, weil sie mit einem Großteil des Marktes nicht mehr kompatibel sind ("Extinguish"). Wenn man sich anschaut, wie oft zB Microsoft so etwas getan hat (siehe Link oben), kann ich schon verstehen, warum man da vorsichtig ist.

I think it's a fairly standard feature. At least Protonmail also supports this kind of "alias".

This might be what you're looking for. When translating between languages other than English (German - Spanish in my case) the data can be a bit lacking but it generally works really well.

I've been using it for around a year and really like it so far. It is however very different from almost every other linux distro, so I would think carefully about it before switching. If you're not prepared to invest significant time and/or don't really care about the advantages of NixOS, you should stay away from it.

Pros of NixOS:

• Declarative configuration: This is probably the main selling point. The whole system configuration and installed packages are neatly in one place. Using home-manager, this can also replace config files for many programs. All of this is especially useful if you share that configuration between multiple devices.
• System rollbacks: If something breaks, simply boot into the previous generation.
• Very customizable system: You can freely choose your desktop environment & basic system packages.

Pros of Nix in general (you don't need to install NixOS for this):

• Huge package repository (also very up-to-date if you want to use the unstable channel)
• Consistent developer environments that can easily be shared

Cons of Nix & NixOS:

• Very steep learning curve: You essentially have to learn (the basics of) the Nix programming language.
• There are often many ways to do things without any clear recommendation: Channels / Flakes, whether nix-env should be used, etc.
• The documentation isn't always great (although it is improving)
• If something is not packaged in nixpkgs, it can be difficult to run it, since NixOS doesn't follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. There are some tools to run flatpaks, appimages and arbitrary executables, but especially the later might not always work out of the box.

Laut dem Artikel müssten außerdem mindestens 14% der Unfälle durch Radfahrer verursacht sein, obwohl der Unfall auf einem Radweg stattfand (mehr, wenn man davon ausgeht dass Fahrradfahrer bei anderen Unfallorten nicht immer Verursacher sind). Geht es da um Zebrastreifen oder Abbiegespuren? Ansonsten hätten die Fahrradfahrer ja Vorfahrt. Oder zählt der Artikel geteilte Fuß- und Radwege auch als Radwege?

Seems like a very weird bug, for me the website is in Korean by default 🤔

I think this should work assuming that the game and mods are compatible with proton. Also, you don't need an external drive, you can access the windows partition from linux (probably not the other way around though since linux understands NTFS but windows doesn't understand ext4). If there are any issues, maybe try the "Verify Game Files" feature of steam. This might remove the mods but at least you don't have to download the game again.

In my experience, a good way to get a polished desktop with a tiling workflow is to use KDE / GNOME with a few extensions & i3 shortcuts. Unless you really care about customizing every part of your DE, the work of configuring i3 to match a proper DE in terms of polish might not be worth it.

I previously used GNOME with the Forge extension and a few simple extensions for a workspace indicator, disabling the workspace switch animation, etc. This worked quite well but since GNOME is not very configurable, you have to do a lot of that through extensions (e.g. disabling the workspace switch animation & popup). This is particularly annoying since GNOME updates tend to break extensions.

For that reason, I recently switched to KDE. Polonium is a very nice tiling plugin for it. Since KDE is pretty customizable, I didn't really need a lot of other extensions to support my workflow. It's mainly a matter of configuring keyboard shortcuts and a few other settings. I haven't used KDE long enough to say how stable everything is under updates, but from what I've heard it should be a lot better than GNOME.

I personally use NixOS and Home Manager with the Plasma Manager module for KDE. It's a steep learning curve but if you have fun learning new stuff it is worth it in my opinion.

Otherwise, a GNOME / KDE tiling setup will probably also be mostly reproducible if you just track your dot files. There's always a bit of manual configuration but it's also difficult to completely avoid that with NixOS (although probably possible).

I've started writing a NixOS config to replace the Ubuntu install that I currently have on my server. I'm starting to question if it makes sense though, since the Nextcloud Snap is very convenient (it even includes a backup/restore script) and I don't know if I'll be able to easily replicate all of that easily using the NixOS module.

From Wikipedia:

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

The only part that could vaguely be associated with capitalism (in a democratic country) is "militarism" and even then this is only the case if you mainly focus on the USA. The fact that fascist countries were running free-market economy is also not really a point since that was (and is) the case for a large part of the world.

"subordination of personal interest" and "strong regimentation of [...] the economy" is the opposite of prototypical uncontrolled capitalism. Saying that capitalism is fascism is just as stupid as saying that fascism and socialism are the same ("bUT it wAs cALLed naTIOnaL soCiaLIsm"). Using the word "fascism" for everything you don't like just makes it lose all meaning.

Such a polite fox :D

First, you need to pass the plasma-manager input to your home-manager config in some way. I use the NixOS module for home-manager which I declare like this in my flake.nix (if you have a different setup, this might not be necessary or you have to do it in a slightly different way):

homeManagerModule = {
  imports = [home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager];
  home-manager.users.myusername = import ./home.nix;
  # This will give us access to the inputs in the home-manager config
  home-manager.extraSpecialArgs = {inherit inputs};
};

Now the home-manager config (in my case home.nix) can look like this:

{
  inputs,
  ...
}: {
  imports = [inputs.plasma-manager.homeManagerModules.plasma-manager];
  programs.plasma = {
    enable = true;
    # ...
}

You probably forgot to import the plasma-manager module into home-manager. If you want to have a cleaner setup, I'd also recommend against just copying the complete output of rc2nix into your config since it tends to contain a lot of unnecessary stuff. What I usually do is:

1. Store the current config in a file, i.e. rc2nix > old-config.nix
2. Make whatever changes I want in Plasma in the graphical settings app
3. Store the updated config in a new file, i.e. rc2nix > new-config.nix
4. Get the difference, i.e. diff old-config.nix new-config.nix and add what I want to my actual plasma-manager config.

This of course only works if you're starting from a relatively unmodified installation of KDE, but in that case it's worth the effort imo.

Die Probleme mit der Dauer der Verbindung, Anzahl der Umstiege (und damit auch Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass man einen Anschluss verpasst) würden ja durch Hochgeschwindigkeitsverbindungen, bei denen man einen Großteil der Strecke in einem Zug fährt, verbessert werden. Das Buchungssystem innerhalb von Europa ist im Moment allerdings wirklich eine Katastrophe. Die beste (günstigste) Lösung ist in vielen Fällen noch Interrail, aber das lohnt sich auch nicht immer. Und dass Zugtickets günstiger (bzw Flugtickets teurer) werden müssen, ist auch klar.

Die ganzen anderen Probleme sind für mich aber kein Grund, gegen mehr high speed rail zu sein.