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emma wrote

Reply to Nitter is dead. by anethum

shame. though i did have a good time reading the off-topic comments on github arguing the merits of mastodon in shadow the hedgehog voice.

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Moonside wrote

Reply to Nitter is dead. by anethum

I think I was banned from Twitter for searching too hard. There's a couple of good guys with permaculture and social science effort threads there that I consulted a lot, but needed some search-fu to find. I think I failed the Turing test.

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twovests wrote

Reply to good news i'm a happy pop os user now by hollyhoppet

yesssss

i am exaggerating my personal stake in the matter beyond mere "happy to share taste with a revered poster" to the levels necessary for the statement of y essssssss for the sake of posting and will not be hurt or upset if you change distros

yessssssssssssssss

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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!

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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