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[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Only reason to choose Authy over anything else tbh. This just basically killed the product.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Personally I down voted once I read that somehow one of these laptops are on par with a high end gaming PC which is simply not true at all.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Err with his daughter or did his daughter go to the island too? Both are fucked up though.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is fine as a gateway drug imo. It hasn't made the best decisions over time though, but I appreciate it's contribution regardless.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Most people have to try really hard it fit into the world, even those who don't have Autism. What you see especially online is their highlight reel, what they don't show you is all the stress and effort it takes them to fit in and keep up with everybody else.

The good part is that once you're aware of the above it's easier to just do your own thing instead of trying to fit whatever you perceive as supposedly normal.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seems inefficient, one should just integrate ChatGPT into Bash to automatically check these things.

You said 'ls' but did you really mean 'ls -la'? Imma go ahead and just give you the output from 'cat /dev/urandom' anyway.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds like the Taiwanese police were under some pressure to make a big bust so they pulled out a box of cheap cables they acquired from the local markets and made up some public service maths to look good.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

You can actually by making the families cost of living and housing needs affordable on one parents income. One off baby bonus bribes and stuff that governments do will never actually work when both parents have to work themselves Into dust just to make ends meet.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is much more hassle. Apart from having to actually set up and configure such a device, every time you want to use it you've got to switch it on, switch your TV input and use a different remote to control it. This is far inferior to just using the TV remote to open Plex and navigate with the same remote. That's without considering that Plex is more polished and has an overall better UI as well.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

These are a lot of the core reasons why Plex is better. Setting up a media server is a lot more complicated than just installing the package in your favourite distro.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

Plex is easier to set up and has more features that are more polished than what Jellyfin has. It's also a more well known name and been available a lot longer and it's app is available on a lot more devices including TVs themselves.

Jellyfin will one day be the superior option though once it's more polished and caught up in these areas.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Wish I had the money to even be able to drive one of these nightmare cars in the first place. Yay for being poor I guess!

 
 

You might not be aware but Lemmy has RSS built into it. I just noticed myself so I wanted to check out the current state of RSS clients and well, nothing seems to be quite what I'm after.

What RSS clients out there are worth looking at? I notice several have self-hosted server solutions which is interesting. I don't care if it's free, open source, paid or whatever though, I just want a good experience.

 

I seem to be noticing a little bit of a trend lately that the out-of-box experience and overall quality of "mostly should just work" desktop-focused Linux distributions has declined. Usually, you could grab an .iso of distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro etc, install it and have a decent enough platform out of the box to tweak how you liked it. There might be some hardware you need to mess with to get working, or some small configuration changes to do, but these were mostly about personal preference as opposed to having to do them just to have a basically functioning system.

I recently built a new computer for work and naturally wanted to install a Linux distribution on it. I thought I'd try out a few desktop-focused ones to reduce the need to manually configure stuff like you'd do with an Arch install. The more curated and heavily moderated package systems are exactly what I wanted on this PC as stability/reliability was more important than bleeding edge for me. However, instead of just getting something usable and smooth like I was expecting, each distro I tried out had a bunch of basic issues:

  • Fedora: issues with Flatpak (that somehow got missed by 2 separate maintainers and released), the fonts look like crap again without a lot of tweaking (AA used to just work properly out of the box) and the XFCE spin is completely broken. To even get XFCE I had to install the Gnome version then manually install the XFCE desktop and LightDM the latter of which didn't even pull in all its dependencies to function.

  • Manjaro: I can't even update this out of the box without manual intervention because of a conflict between packages on a fresh installation. The problem has existed for a while apparently. Such a basic problem in the core package management of a distribution out of the box is unacceptable.

  • Ubuntu: I tried Kubuntu (used to be my favorite) and the KDE desktop experience by default completely sucks now. Even with graphics drivers installed and tweaking the settings a bit it screen tears on my Nvidia 3080 and performs like trash. I don't know how we even got to this point when Linux desktop environments used to be the slickest thing since butter was invented.

I'm a long time Linux user (since the 90s), former Linux sysadmin and a programmer so I know my way around a Linux system. All of the above problems can mostly be fixed. However, by now in 2023 I'm expecting all of these major distributions to at least nail down the basics and I'm finding it's just not the case, in fact it feels like things have sadly gone backwards.

Update: I ended up giving Mint Cinnamon a shot after a few people mentioned it here and it ended up being good enough out of the box for me to run with it. I needed a Linux desktop that just basically worked so that I didn't have to spend hours messing with it that I could be billing for work instead and Mint gave me that, so thank you for the suggestion. It's been a real shame that other distributions are not as slick as Mint is from the start.

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