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  1. Comment on Superman | Official teaser trailer in ~movies

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    I share some similarities when i was growing, having really loved comics and superhero stuff...I was also really excited and thrilled when lots of the Xmen, Avengers, Hulk, DCd mvoies, and all...

    I share some similarities when i was growing, having really loved comics and superhero stuff...I was also really excited and thrilled when lots of the Xmen, Avengers, Hulk, DCd mvoies, and all manner of superhero movies came out - and vastly loved the more modern ones vs say Tim Burton era, but still loved all of them...and then, you know, i think it just got really saturated. I won;'t say i;ve been grinded/ground down, but i don;t seek these movies out as i used to. In fact, they quite often seem more about whizbang, how much CGI can we insert into every single frame...which iget it; its about super beings with super powers...But, i guess hollywood has squeezed so much that maybe its a bit sour for me...again, i still watch them, but only once they're on streaming services and if its convenient for my scheduled, etc. I thought maybe it was simply me getting older...but i don't think so...Because the biggest thing that attracted me to comics was equal parts awesomeness of superpowers of said superheors AS WELL AS compelling stories. Nowadays, i think what keeps me interested is not the powers, but THE stories...so i guess thats why i still watch, because i wish to enjoy the stories...but the CGI, meh, maybe i';ve had enough.
    But, maybe like you, i may not be exactly tha target audience anymore? :-)

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  2. Comment on US officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack in ~tech

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    Yep, fully agreed there! Thanks for the feedback. Even if its not specific to the verification thing, i hear ya. As far as the native login vs social login, i feel that's not just matrix clients,...

    ...some people can have a very low tolerance for having to do extra things...

    Yep, fully agreed there! Thanks for the feedback. Even if its not specific to the verification thing, i hear ya. As far as the native login vs social login, i feel that's not just matrix clients, but many areas of digital life nowadays, where as a tech-literate person i can see through the fluff, but were i to be less tech literate, i would find the world vastly more annoying to navigate...and then resort to fallbacks like poor password management, etc. - and of course can't really blame the normies, since tech is harder than it really needs to be.

    Ah, and to the point of notificatins not apperearing for IOS, unfortunately, i have zero advise there because have never used ios device with matrix clients (except for one brief weekend for my offpsirng)...however, i wonder if that has to do with IOS' issues constantly killing background processes and silently suppressing said notificaitons due to that proc. shutdown? If so, i wonder now how other chat clients handle that? Sorry, not giving any answers here.

    Thanks again for your feedback!

  3. Comment on US officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack in ~tech

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    I hear this alot about onboarding of matrix clients that it is not so great....while i am 100% biased as a fanboy of matrix (having started using is back in 2016)....would you clarify what is the...

    I hear this alot about onboarding of matrix clients that it is not so great....while i am 100% biased as a fanboy of matrix (having started using is back in 2016)....would you clarify what is the main negative? Is it the verification when logging in via a new/different device, or something else? I'm not knocking your perspective (again, i fully admit me being biased)...but i ask because i like to recommend matrix stuff to folks, but want to be sure that i am leading them to something truly useful...I'd hate to be that guy who recommends something, but its actually not a good experience for normies. ;-) Thanks in advance for your feedback!

    EDIT: I should add that i am not affiliated with matrix.org nor any of the clients nor Element....basically just a random fanboy user out on the internet. :-)

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  4. Comment on What are some common terminal aka CLI workflows? in ~comp

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    Agreed! Hence, my original inquiry to learn how and what people are doing with CLIs and TUIs, etc. :-) Agreed again! I don't know if its because there really are many more offerings, or if its...

    I feel like CLIs and TUIs need to be talked about more separately...

    Agreed! Hence, my original inquiry to learn how and what people are doing with CLIs and TUIs, etc. :-)

    ...It seems like there has been a resurgence of TUI apps...

    Agreed again! I don't know if its because there really are many more offerings, or if its simply that i am noticing them more often nowadays...but it sure feels like there's a sort of resurgence!

  5. Comment on What are some common terminal aka CLI workflows? in ~comp

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    That's a good endorsement for visidata, since my exposure had been quite limited. Thanks for validating that it is indeed worth using! :-) Also, your mention of duckdb is like the several dozenth...

    That's a good endorsement for visidata, since my exposure had been quite limited. Thanks for validating that it is indeed worth using! :-)
    Also, your mention of duckdb is like the several dozenth time over the last week that it has come up! So, clearly the online gods want me to dive into it for some reason! lol Long ago, i thought when i first heard of it i recall it sort of like a sqlite alternative...but maybe my recollection si incorrect....Well, with this many signals shone my way, i guess i shoui,d look into it and see what all the fuss is all about. :-)
    Thanks for sharing btw!

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  6. Comment on What are some common terminal aka CLI workflows? in ~comp

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    I used to use the terminal for journaling some time ago (I just use text files for journaling, so its easy to adopt many worklfows). But, for some reason (that i can not recall), i got better at...

    I used to use the terminal for journaling some time ago (I just use text files for journaling, so its easy to adopt many worklfows). But, for some reason (that i can not recall), i got better at keyboard navigation from the GUI file manager to open text files with my favorite text editor (Kate)...and then just got used to the non-terminal flow. But, yeah, i can agree that text file editing, personal knowledge management via terminakl makes sense - more so if one is often in a terminal screen too.
    Interesting to learn that you have started to use Recutils! i had heard of it several years ago, but couldn't find a good enough use case for myself, though i think its quite intriguing. For the vast majority of the time if i need to do heavy duty stuff with a csv, i'm, reaching for ;libreoffice. However if i need to do very minor stuff, i mostly reach for my text editor...However maybe twice or three times i used somethign called visidata (a python terminalk app for working with sprreadsheets and other tabular sorts of data), which was really awesome. I have heard its the kind of thing that if you get good at it, the productivity shooots through the roof....but i assume that person probably is in CSVs like most of their work day, etc. Anyway, thanks again for sharing! :-)

  7. Comment on What are some common terminal aka CLI workflows? in ~comp

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    Yep, agreed! Also, thanks for sharing some of your use-cases (curling, compiling, transcoding). These make sense from a terminal perspective! :-)

    If your main text editor is vim or emacs then I'd say you're practically living in the terminal already.

    Yep, agreed! Also, thanks for sharing some of your use-cases (curling, compiling, transcoding). These make sense from a terminal perspective! :-)

  8. Comment on What are some common terminal aka CLI workflows? in ~comp

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    Yep, discovery is often an issue with the terminal and TUIs. This is one reason I'm trying to see what and how others use the terminal - beyond the obvious administering a machine, etc.

    Yep, discovery is often an issue with the terminal and TUIs. This is one reason I'm trying to see what and how others use the terminal - beyond the obvious administering a machine, etc.

  9. What are some common terminal aka CLI workflows?

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    So, earlier today i read about Bagels (https://github.com/EnhancedJax/Bagels), which describes itself as "Powerful expense tracker that lives in your terminal". Not only is it really cool looking,...

    So, earlier today i read about Bagels (https://github.com/EnhancedJax/Bagels), which describes itself as "Powerful expense tracker that lives in your terminal". Not only is it really cool looking, but seems quite useful! I'm really loving the increased TUI-centric command line apps that are becoming more popular; well, it seems like they've become more popular, but i admit to not having any hard data/stats to back up my impression. However...As much as i love the command line/terminal/CLI....my daily workflows simply do not necessitate being in/using the terminal. (I only need such terminal apps on a rare basis, or i simply use old school unix/linux cli tools.) I mean, especially while on my mobile, there's not that much that i need to do from the command line. (Yes, i know there are mobile app terminal emulators, i'm simply saying that i have very little use for my daily needs.)

    So, besides the expense tracking that Bagel cites, I'm very curious to learn what other common, daily sorts of use-cases and workflows do people here have that could benefit from leveraging terminal/command line apps? Please share!

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  10. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    I had not even known Proton Drive existed! I had previously heard of proton mail, but never much paid attention - only because mail/calendar/contacts isn't something i was looking for. But, yeah,...

    I had not even known Proton Drive existed! I had previously heard of proton mail, but never much paid attention - only because mail/calendar/contacts isn't something i was looking for. But, yeah, proton drive seems very interesting. Its a little pricey, but i think not unfairly considering the main use case for any proton products/services i imagine would be privacy-centric...and i and i believe others are not opposed to paying fair amounts for added privacy. Appreciate the recommendation; thanks!

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  11. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Now that's a great idea! Thanks for sharing! also, good to hear that a daily driver/in real -life usage like yours showed no issues of compatibility. My partner is not needing to work with...

    and you can connect it to your NextCloud instance so it acts exactly like OneDrive syncing and sharing. Or you can get a paid OnlyOffice cloud account which will do the same thing, but you may as well use what you've got, since that's free.

    Now that's a great idea! Thanks for sharing! also, good to hear that a daily driver/in real -life usage like yours showed no issues of compatibility. My partner is not needing to work with agencies or such, so glad to see their needs would be met for sure. Thanks again!

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  12. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Oh yeah, agreed! This is sort of why i even asked folks on this site...Because i'm trying to get the perspective, opinions, and advise of others. :-) My partner and i have been married for close...

    Linux folks usually have an affinity for tech - like myself - but folks who only use tech for utility have a different mindset.

    Oh yeah, agreed! This is sort of why i even asked folks on this site...Because i'm trying to get the perspective, opinions, and advise of others. :-) My partner and i have been married for close to 25 years...so over all this time, i know now not to try and nudge them into a particular tech or even non-tech solution that i might favor (maybe because of my inclinations).

    One more idea- try a dual boot a few times to see if your partner is willing to switch? That might prep them for it?

    Instead of dual-booting, actually for the last few years, i've favored loading up a bunch of linux distros on a usb keychain, and leveraging ventoy (). Basically, ventoy allows for storing whatever number of linux distros can fit on a usb device, and then offers a neat little Ui to temporarily load a distro - which isn't different than trying a distro via the old school way of those "Live CDs/DVDs"...but ventoy makes it easier to use more than 1 distro...and of course it avoids any committment of installing a distro on a machine like dual booting requires. Not that dual booting is bad, but for my use-cases of testing out a distro, i have standardized on using ventoy. That being said, yes, for my partner, i would have them try - and try many, many multiple times - a particular distro waaaay before any such comittment is agreed upon. Right now, i'm only at the research phase for which solutions (above/beyond the base operating system) are viable. I have time since the Win11 "doomsday deadline" isn't for many, many months. :-)

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  13. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Funny you mention "between the 3", because i keep mention of this difference between 2 platforms (libreoffice and MS), but in actuality on the MS side the differences between web and desktop are...

    since the gaps between the 3 (libre/ms web/ms desktop) are often surprising.

    Funny you mention "between the 3", because i keep mention of this difference between 2 platforms (libreoffice and MS), but in actuality on the MS side the differences between web and desktop are enough that, really, the comparisons/research that i am undertaking could in other use-cases easily be considered 3 distinct, different enough platforms, and not only 2. ;-)

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  14. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Yeah, i used dropbox several years ago. And, did so successfully on linux. I only moved away to start leveraging my own self-hosted NextCloud instance...but, for my partner, if i could move them...

    Yeah, i used dropbox several years ago. And, did so successfully on linux. I only moved away to start leveraging my own self-hosted NextCloud instance...but, for my partner, if i could move them to linux, and the only proprietary element is dropbox, which avoids needing to buy anither machine only for Win11....hmmm, this is a good alternative. Thanks for refreshing my memory of dropbox!

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  15. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Thanks for sharing that video! At a quick glance, it seems that the gnoem file manager seems to employ a onedrive:// sort of protocol prefix for that mounted drive....which makes me wonder if...

    Thanks for sharing that video! At a quick glance, it seems that the gnoem file manager seems to employ a onedrive:// sort of protocol prefix for that mounted drive....which makes me wonder if Gnome file handler is simply implenting a sort of wrapper around webdav - which isn't bad....simply trying to guess here. Also the title of the doc the person showed had "Remote" in its title...so another clue that the file isn't locally mirrored, but rather, well, remotely accessed....which, again, not a bad thing. But this helps me understand how things might behave if/when i play with this a bit more. Anyway, thanks again for sharing this video! I'll dive in for sure!

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  16. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Great idea, thanks!

    Great idea, thanks!

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  17. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Ah-ha, using WebDAV, interesting indeed! Thanks!

    Ah-ha, using WebDAV, interesting indeed! Thanks!

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  18. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    I remember vaguely hearing about this those many months ago in one of the linux podcasts that i listen to...but back then, of course, didn't have to need. But, now that you mention it, i wonder...

    I remember vaguely hearing about this those many months ago in one of the linux podcasts that i listen to...but back then, of course, didn't have to need. But, now that you mention it, i wonder how it would work? My partner would not be opposed to using Gnome - as noted - they don;t care about the base OS...they only care about the UI of the Office suite. So, if it works fine, could be an option, i suppose. Yeah, this is certainly another rabbit hole to research. Thanks for the tip!

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  19. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Yeah, i'm familiar with syncthing, and very much agree that it works wonders while on the same network...But i wonder about use outside of the LAN? Hmmm...then there's an "extended LAN" like...

    Yeah, i'm familiar with syncthing, and very much agree that it works wonders while on the same network...But i wonder about use outside of the LAN? Hmmm...then there's an "extended LAN" like Tailscale...hmmm?
    Welp, you gave me yet another alternative for me to research. :-) Very much appreciate the idea, thanks!

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  20. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Yeah, this is one of the clients that i am aware of. Rsync can work, but i need something more automatic. Thanks anyway!

    Yeah, this is one of the clients that i am aware of. Rsync can work, but i need something more automatic. Thanks anyway!