xaxl

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[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

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

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 12 points 8 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 8 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 8 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 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As a 40 year old dude I don't think I'd be setting my age range to that upper bound if I were to be divorced. More like 35 and that's with large caveats.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

They'll still wonder why they're paying you though sadly.

 
[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That kid is now known as the kid who got Roblox banned among their group of friends, not a nice thing to known for. This will be seen as a punishment by them regardless of how you frame it especially once the other kids at their school become aware of it.

Ouch. Good luck navigating this one as your kids get older.

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

Profit for their mates and fellow shareholders, not profit for the country either.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly what's about to happen to employment services in Australia too. They spend more money chasing a hand full of people who don't want to work than just continuing to pay them the pittance they exist on and have people apply to be the CEO of huge corporations who dropped out of high school in order to make their quotas. Government just announced an inquiry with the aim to reinstate control over it.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Australia is a live example of the fact that they're not. The state and federal governments have privatised a crap load of services and all they do is continue to hike our bills while providing less and less service. Electricity, water supply, employment services and more are now an absolute joke here.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

There's plenty of not curved monitors these days in fact you pretty much have to go looking for one if you want it.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I fast forward half way and pray she still isn't slobbering on some knob at that point and they've gotten down to businesses already.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by xaxl@lemmy.world to c/dankmemes@lemmy.world
 
 
 

I don't know if I'm just doing something wrong but I built my family tree and the website seems to have barely any information about my family at all. I found out more just checking out our national archives then what I found on this website. It's maybe worth noting that I'm not in the US and it does appear to be somewhat US-centric.

The best it could find was a couple of enrollment records for voting and a single immigrant notification in an old newspaper. It didn't find these either by itself, I had to manually go though the search system to find it. The OCR didn't even get the spelling of the name correct.

I'm not sure what I expected but it was definitely better than this, especially for all the pay walls they throw up.

 

I'm not getting images previews nor images themselves when I browse Lemmy using the RSS feed functionality. Other websites work fine, it just seems I'm having a problem with Lemmy. Instead, I just get a link and I can click that to be taken directly to the image on pictrs. It makes browsing Lemmy using an RSS client a sub-optimal experience sadly.

Does Lemmy support images or preview images in it's RSS feeds and if so what is the magic to enable it in my RSS client?

 

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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