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voxpoplar OP wrote
Reply to comment by Dogmantra in I am thinking of turning an old Android phone with a broken power button into a Linux server but I don’t know what I would actually run on it by voxpoplar
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Jenheadjen wrote
Reply to I am thinking of turning an old Android phone with a broken power button into a Linux server but I don’t know what I would actually run on it by voxpoplar
if the flashlight still works it could be a lamp
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in sorry twovests popos doesn’t work on my machine by hollyhoppet
it took me more than ten years but i think im finally over the time in the late 00s when their tagline was “from freedom came elegance”
emma wrote
Reply to I am thinking of turning an old Android phone with a broken power button into a Linux server but I don’t know what I would actually run on it by voxpoplar
you could host a gitea instance and use it to keep the scripts and config used to provision it in a git repo
twovests wrote
sorry popos didn't work for you. linux mint is excellent :D
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by flabberghaster in sorry twovests popos doesn’t work on my machine by hollyhoppet
this is also true
flabberghaster wrote
dislexically misread this as "poops doesn't work on my machine"
twovests wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in microsoft's copilot (open an LLM helper) key might be the last straw to me going to linux by hollyhoppet
I want to say at least two years now. I used Ubuntu for >10 years before that, but I kept running into issues with snaps which drove me to Pop.
On the side, System76 (popos people) is making a new Rust-based "Cosmic" desktop to eventually replace the GNOME based one. If you've used cosmic-text
in a Rust project, that is what it's from!
winter wrote
Reply to microsoft's copilot (open an LLM helper) key might be the last straw to me going to linux by hollyhoppet
do it do it do it join the linux fanclub
emma wrote
Reply to microsoft's copilot (open an LLM helper) key might be the last straw to me going to linux by hollyhoppet
it's so funny they named it copilot. the ejection seat and plane wreck jokes quite literally write themselves.
hollyhoppet OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by twovests in microsoft's copilot (open an LLM helper) key might be the last straw to me going to linux by hollyhoppet
yeah pop os looks pretty damn snazzy. might give it a try. how long have you been using it for?
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in microsoft's copilot (open an LLM helper) key might be the last straw to me going to linux by hollyhoppet
Ya! My only arguments for pop os ("Pop! OS") is that i love the defaults, so i'll just list the defaults i like
it's based on ubuntu, which is based on debian, has no "snaps" (bad package manager system that has caused my a lot of problems), and it's custom GNOME-based desktop environment has builtin window tiling and stacking.
i like tiling a lot because i dislike the other tiling WMs which all expect you to memorize shortcuts.
i have an nvidia GPU so the ISO that comes with the appropriate drivers builtin is very very nice
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in microsoft's copilot (open an LLM helper) key might be the last straw to me going to linux by hollyhoppet
Hmm maybe i'll have a tiny dual boot partition but I don't believe anything i play uses anti-cheat.
Also I really just want something stable that I don't have to fiddle with much aside from mouse speed/acceleration settings which is why I'm looking at debian. If you have any other recs that would fill that role though I'm open to hearing them
twovests wrote
Reply to microsoft's copilot (open an LLM helper) key might be the last straw to me going to linux by hollyhoppet
I'm a longtime Linux user here. If you're looking for any distro recommendations, I can write a really long annoying post about it. (luv luv luv popos)
Proton IS awesome. If you told me in 2017 that "Linux desktop is going to be a viable platform for Gamers" I would have thought you were a delusional Linux stan.
But now, videogames which don't work on Linux are the exception and that's increasingly rare. It's mind-boggling. Most of the exceptions are competitive online games with anticheat enabled.
anethum wrote
Reply to The hyperloop is dead for real this time by Moonside
virgin hyperloop
heh, clearly should've [coughing so hard nondescript red chunks come out] clearly should've tried to made a chad hyperloop,
In 2020, it conducted its first — and only — test with human passengers. The pod only reached a top speed of 100mph,
fucking typical innit
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to The hyperloop is dead for real this time by Moonside
"it was a dream too impossible for this world" is way too generous lmao
devtesla wrote
Reply to The hyperloop is dead for real this time by Moonside
the evil is defeated
emma wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in People like to make fun of RIIR and Rust nerds preaching about why all software should be written in Rust, but ActivityPub evangelists are much worse by nitori
This is the kind of thing that would make me close the issue tracker and open up a mailing list with the gnarliest designed for netscape 2.0 web interface imaginable
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by emma in People like to make fun of RIIR and Rust nerds preaching about why all software should be written in Rust, but ActivityPub evangelists are much worse by nitori
i want to gatekeep git a little bit because of this person
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to comment by nitori in People like to make fun of RIIR and Rust nerds preaching about why all software should be written in Rust, but ActivityPub evangelists are much worse by nitori
danbooru is anti-post you heard it here first
nitori OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in People like to make fun of RIIR and Rust nerds preaching about why all software should be written in Rust, but ActivityPub evangelists are much worse by nitori
Mastodon users would also be horrified to see their replies getting heavily downvoted in danbooru. Danbooru is ruthless and brutal when it comes to silly comments :P
I'm not even joking about the comments getting downvoted, I just said "maricup" in a post of glasses Mima holding a cup with Marisa's face on it and I got -3 points as of writing https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/493392#comment_2347374
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to People like to make fun of RIIR and Rust nerds preaching about why all software should be written in Rust, but ActivityPub evangelists are much worse by nitori
"because danbooru contains some brilliant stolen porn i need to see it from my mastodon server"
flabberghaster wrote
Reply to good news i'm a happy pop os user now by hollyhoppet
Yoo! That's awesome! 2024, the year of the Linux gamer