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donnachaidh 68 points 3 years ago

alias v=vim. There, just saved you two keystrokes.

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donnachaidh 62 points 3 years ago

Instead of importing the Chrome extension directly, Firefox is installing the Firefox version of the extension from Mozilla's own extension store.

Seems like it's just for making the switch from Chrome smoother, rather than being useful for long-time Firefox users.

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donnachaidh 47 points 3 years ago

While this generally gets a little chuckle from me, it really needs to die. It's as old and untrue now as 'ubuntu is just for noobs', etc. I have never broken Arch with an update. I have broken it with changes I've made actively, but never just an upgrade. If you want to say the install process is unintuitive, or that the lack of defaults for practically anything you actually use is debilitating for new users, or overreliance on AUR is unsafe, or any number of other valid points, fine. But it doesn't just break everything constantly.

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donnachaidh 22 points 3 years ago

You run Arch.

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donnachaidh 17 points 3 years ago

Seems like it. The article also mentioned that there are only 73 pairs available, so it sounds like Mozilla has to explicitly define what Chrome extensions corresponds to what Firefox extension.

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donnachaidh 12 points 3 years ago

That could break some peoples' dotfile management, e.g. symlinks or git repos. I'd say deprecation notice and reading from both, at least for a while, is better.

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donnachaidh 10 points 3 years ago

I haven't used tomb and I don't think I really have a usecase for this, but I respect the on-brand command aliases.

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donnachaidh 9 points 3 years ago

I was going to ask you, but then figured I could do my own research and just ask if you think it's reasonable. According to Our World in Data, the WHO says 4.2 million people die every year from outside pollution. Again according to Our World in Data, road transport accounts for 11.9% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Obviously, that's different to health-affecting pollution, and it might pollute more in places where people live compared to something like electricity generation which would likely be further from population, but it's the best I could come up with. So that would mean we could attribute ~0.5 million deaths per year to road transport. According to Movotiv, there are 1.2 billion vehicles, 70 million daily driving trips, with an average distance of 15 km. That means a total annual distance traveled of ~383.25 billion km. So there's 0.0035 deaths per year per vehicle, or 286 years per death per vehicle, and 1 death per 91,250km. That doesn't sound right, and I blame the Movotiv statistics, unless I made a mistake. 300km/year for the average vehicle sounds ridiculously low, so something's not right. I don't have time to find the issue or better stats right now, but I might have a look later. In the interim, do you think my logic stacks up, or do you have better statistics?

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donnachaidh 8 points 3 years ago

The DEs listed for a distro will be ones you can get out of the box, i.e. you install the distro and it already has the DE. However, you can then install pretty much any DE/WM on pretty much any distro. Most of the time, you'll also get a login screen where you can choose between different DEs, so you can try multiple on the same distro to see how you like them.

Most of the 'random desktops' will be window managers, there are just a few main DEs, which each have a window manager bundled in. If you take one of the separate window managers (which can be tiling, stacking, or a mix) you'll just have a bit more work to do to make it like you want, but they can have more customisation than full DEs. You can make most window managers look like pretty much any DE, but not necessarily the other way around. If you look at !unixporn@lemmy.ml, most of those are window managers. Saying they're confusing to understand and you don't want to have to customise them to make them look nice and add any separate programs you need for a full system is fair, but saying they're ugly is kinda nonsensical, since you can make them look however you like.

As for why some distros' Plasmas look different, that's just because it is itself quite customisable (from what I hear, the most customisable of the mainstream DEs). So if you install XeroLinux, you could customise it to look like stock Plasma, and vice versa.

Long story short, don't choose a distro based on their default DE or vice versa, don't disregard window managers out of hand (but do if you just want a full out-of-the-box environment), and look at different distros' customisations, as well as !unixporn@lemmy.ml and similar, to see what DEs can look like you want, but again you don't have to decide distro based on that.

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donnachaidh 8 points 3 years ago

100% agree that it's horrible wording, but the linguistics nerd inside my brain just has to say: that's not the passive voice.

Passive voice would be something like "a store was smashed into" or "a car was driven into the store", where the grammatical subject is the semantic object. It can be used to avoid saying the subject of the sentence, who's doing the action, but in this case they keep the active voice and just change the subject from a "driver" to a "car".

On another note, it's also telling that the article first comments on financial damage, then that the driver is unhurt and the car is damaged, and only after that does it say that the store-owner and the two customers were unharmed.

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donnachaidh 5 points 3 years ago

That seems like strong premature optimisation. Perhaps worth a note, but I'd presume the majority of people the majority of the time wouldn't need to worry about that.

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donnachaidh 4 points 3 years ago

That's quite an interesting layout. Is the vertical thumbkey easy to press? And what's the right arrow you've got in both thumb clusters? Does having a letter key on the thumb feel natural?

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donnachaidh 4 points 3 years ago

You could do that at the firmware level, with QMK or ZMK macros (or, presumably, whatever other firmware). It might be a long one, but launching an application or the like could just be typing the combination that runs it. I haven't used KDE, but something like super, then type the name, then enter, should work.

Having said that, a quick look at keyd proposed by the other replier does seem like it has more than enough capability, and if you have one setup you want to use it for and not move the keyboard between computers, it very well might be the better choice for you.

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donnachaidh 3 points 3 years ago

Not quite what you're asking for, but Dalinor in The Way of Kings is at the very least distruted by his peers and hated/feared by the non-Alethi. He's not hated by most of the other main characters though, so not quite a loner that everyone hates. We don't really know why at first, but it ends up being for quite a good reason, and definitely leads to drama and conflict, as well as character development.

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donnachaidh 3 points 3 years ago

And just to explicitly point out, your code's also better because of the use of the standard traits. It took me a while to get into the habit, but using what's already there is always a good idea.

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donnachaidh 3 points 3 years ago

You might also contemplate Cloudflare R2. It's compatible with S3, so if you have a library that expects S3, R2 should also work, and can be cheaper (and maybe faster? Not so sure about how they store it across their edge network). They've got a price calculator too here.

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donnachaidh 3 points 3 years ago

I'm not OP, and one-haned keyboards definitely exist (I can't remember the name, but I think there's even an 8-key complete layout). However, since they said 34-key split, I'd assume the other half's in the bag, or otherwise offscreen.

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donnachaidh 3 points 3 years ago

Eh, if you vote Republican, complain about things getting worse, then vote Democrat, that's changing your mind. If I saw someone with that sticker, I'd assume they regret the decision and won't be getting another one. Being able to change your opinion with new information really shouldn't be discouraged.

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donnachaidh 2 points 3 years ago

Just imagine being that pilot. I'm sure they'll get quite the ribbing from their mates.

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donnachaidh 2 points 3 years ago

I'm on hybrid Intel/Nvidia, and it works fine. The discrete card isn't particularly powerful, so I don't use it much, but it works pretty much as I would expect. If you're wary, just try on a live USB. It won't harm your computer as long as you check it's working before installing, and if it works on there it should work once installed. Might be best to start with a distro that at least has a toggle for proprietary drivers in the installer though, so you don't have to do any faffing about yourself.

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thanks for using Leebra!

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