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  1. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    I'm not trying to imply your issue isn't real or be an annoying linux guy, but could you give an example of two applications you can't paste between? I've genuinely never encountered anything like...

    I'm not trying to imply your issue isn't real or be an annoying linux guy, but could you give an example of two applications you can't paste between? I've genuinely never encountered anything like that. The only think I can think of is how in the terminal you have to press ctrl+shift+{c,v} since ctrl+{c,v} is a terminal code, and in emacs you have to do alt+w, ctrl+y since it's emacs, but even then, they both use the system clipboard.

    12 votes
  2. Comment on GOG added OpenMW and Tamriel Rebuilt into their store for free as mods for TES3 Morrowind in ~games

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    I'm not sure about these, but it is notable that for the GOG cut of daggerfall, GOG did just put up a buggy and out of date version of daggerfall unity with no involvement from the developers....

    I’d be very surprised if GOG didn’t work with the OpenMW team to get them there.

    I'm not sure about these, but it is notable that for the GOG cut of daggerfall, GOG did just put up a buggy and out of date version of daggerfall unity with no involvement from the developers. Maybe they learned from that and are doing it differently this time.

    https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/controversial-version-of-elder-scrolls-2-daggerfalls-fan-remaster-delisted-from-gog-storefront-says-it-no-longer-fulfills-its-purpose-of-providing-a-hassle-free-modded-experience/

    2 votes
  3. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    As a guix user, there's a decent chance that anything I want to do will require me to package a program myself, and since guix requires things to be built reproducible completely from source, the...

    As a guix user, there's a decent chance that anything I want to do will require me to package a program myself, and since guix requires things to be built reproducible completely from source, the difficulty can range from trivial to hell mode. Of course, I wouldn't use guix if i really minded this, and I can always grab the flatpak/nix version/run it distrobox.

    3 votes
  4. Comment on Antisemitism on campus is 'systemic' and going unaddressed, says new report in ~society

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    Another possibility is that the whole paper had nothing to do with the Israel/Palestine issue at all and it's just someone who wrote a shitty paper and is mad about getting a bad grade. That seems...

    Another possibility is that the whole paper had nothing to do with the Israel/Palestine issue at all and it's just someone who wrote a shitty paper and is mad about getting a bad grade. That seems to be what Samantha Fulnecky controversy ended up as.

    15 votes
  5. Comment on Are we burning it down by proxy? in ~talk

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    This matches my anecdotal experience. Recently on this site I saw someone saying that $800 a year is a rounding error for working class adults, and that really left an impression on me about how...

    This matches my anecdotal experience. Recently on this site I saw someone saying that $800 a year is a rounding error for working class adults, and that really left an impression on me about how broad of a label "working class" is.

    18 votes
  6. Comment on Japanese translation request - achievement stickers in ~humanities.languages

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    Some of the funny ones: 1,C: おぬし…やりおるな "You're pretty good [at that]" but written in old timey kind of conceited language, which is associated with cats because of Natsume Soseki's I am a cat 1,D:...

    Some of the funny ones:

    1,C: おぬし…やりおるな
    "You're pretty good [at that]"
    but written in old timey kind of conceited language, which is associated with cats because of Natsume Soseki's I am a cat

    1,D: ニクいほどすてき amazingly wonderful
    にくいほど amazingly is written ニクいほど、ニク meaning meat. Silly pun

    Row two is all the same pun, いかしている means cool/stylish, イカ is squid, you're イカしている

    Row four is all" You got praised by the (cat) of the forest" written like jrpg text.

    6 votes
  7. Comment on Interresting Reddit/Discord alternative : surikata.app in ~tech

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    From a user perspective I don't really see how federation makes it complicated, since you can friend anyone on any server without doing anything special. Is it just that they won't know which...

    From a user perspective I don't really see how federation makes it complicated, since you can friend anyone on any server without doing anything special. Is it just that they won't know which server to make an account on?

    1 vote
  8. Comment on Interresting Reddit/Discord alternative : surikata.app in ~tech

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    I wonder why matrix gets such little traction as a discord alternative. It's actually open source and encrypted and very discord like. That one seems to be closed source, it seems like if it gains...

    I wonder why matrix gets such little traction as a discord alternative. It's actually open source and encrypted and very discord like. That one seems to be closed source, it seems like if it gains traction it will just be a matter of time before enshitification hits.

    3 votes
  9. Comment on Medium term cold storage options? in ~comp

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    I use the same password for keepassxc and for my email because if my email is compromised they can reset half of my passwords anyway

    I use the same password for keepassxc and for my email because if my email is compromised they can reset half of my passwords anyway

    1 vote
  10. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life

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    I don't agree with most of the internet safety and censorship laws passed under the pretext of making children safe, and I don't know how to fix it. But this quote from the article really does...

    I don't agree with most of the internet safety and censorship laws passed under the pretext of making children safe, and I don't know how to fix it. But this quote from the article really does bother me

    Many respondents have been regular porn viewers since the fourth grade; few were older than twelve when they picked up the habit. And they were watching some serious stuff.

    Watching hardcore pornography regularly since before you've even hit puberty must have some effects on your mental development. I don't think we can completely attribute the phenomenon to consenting adults spending their time in the way they enjoy. Though I'm not sure how much of that should be attributed to the normalization of softer sexual content on most platforms either.

    13 votes
  11. Comment on CS2 skin update ‘rug pulls’ collectors as $1 billion wiped from market cap in ~games

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    Actually they aren't all fungible. Many skins have random patterns, so two knives of the same type may have dramatically different values depending on how desirable the pattern is.

    Actually they aren't all fungible. Many skins have random patterns, so two knives of the same type may have dramatically different values depending on how desirable the pattern is.

    9 votes
  12. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    also #'org-{increase,decrease}-number-at-point are build in, but they don't have global bindings

    also #'org-{increase,decrease}-number-at-point are build in, but they don't have global bindings

    4 votes
  13. Comment on Should C be mandatory learning for career developers? in ~comp

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    Yeah sicp is great, it's one of the reasons why I think it would be interesting to learn more about lambda calculus

    Yeah sicp is great, it's one of the reasons why I think it would be interesting to learn more about lambda calculus

    2 votes
  14. Comment on Should C be mandatory learning for career developers? in ~comp

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    Does anyone have book recommendations for learning lambda calculus?

    Does anyone have book recommendations for learning lambda calculus?

    2 votes
  15. Comment on How do you organize images you've collected? (e.g. memes, art, inspiration, etc) in ~tech

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    Hydrus is a powerful and open source tag based system for managing an image collection. I haven't really gotten deep into it but it seems pretty cool from playing with it....

    Hydrus is a powerful and open source tag based system for managing an image collection. I haven't really gotten deep into it but it seems pretty cool from playing with it.

    https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/index.html

    6 votes
  16. Comment on She didn’t get an apartment because of an AI-generated score – and sued to help others avoid the same fate in ~life

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    A little off topic, but it's kind of funny that "hacker" is your example of a word losing it's legitimate meaning of being able to find exploits, because that meaning was also considered a...

    A little off topic, but it's kind of funny that "hacker" is your example of a word losing it's legitimate meaning of being able to find exploits, because that meaning was also considered a distortion of the original meaning of programmers and tinkerers.

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

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    I feel like CLIs and TUIs need to be talked about more separately. I use cli tools a lot and they are extremely good for complex tasks, but I don't use many TUI tools and would never explicitly...

    I feel like CLIs and TUIs need to be talked about more separately. I use cli tools a lot and they are extremely good for complex tasks, but I don't use many TUI tools and would never explicitly seek out a tool because of it being a TUI. It seems like there has been a resurgence of TUI apps and like you I am curious as to what the appeal is.

    1 vote
  18. Comment on Have you tried Fossil scm, an alternative to git? in ~comp

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    Are you using it for collaborative development or personal projects? I think a lot of gits complexity only applies to the former, and is often necessary there.

    Are you using it for collaborative development or personal projects? I think a lot of gits complexity only applies to the former, and is often necessary there.

    14 votes
  19. Comment on Anime for someone who doesn't like (shonen) anime that much in ~anime

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    for learning Japanese as a beginner i think frieren is pretty fantastic, there aren't a ton of characters talking at the same time or background noise and they speak really clearly and simply,...

    for learning Japanese as a beginner i think frieren is pretty fantastic, there aren't a ton of characters talking at the same time or background noise and they speak really clearly and simply, it's on the same difficulty level as simple slice of life like k-on (although you replace the music vocabulary with swords and sorcery vocabulary)

    3 votes
  20. Comment on Entry level IEM earbuds recommendations? in ~music

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    I have hd 650s + schiit stack and i bought chu's for my phone, they sound so good for so cheap it makes me borderline regret my desktop setup. The only problem is the filter clogs easily and it's...

    I have hd 650s + schiit stack and i bought chu's for my phone, they sound so good for so cheap it makes me borderline regret my desktop setup. The only problem is the filter clogs easily and it's a pain to clean or replace but it looks like the chu IIs fix that

    2 votes