Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 5 days ago

If they had gone with my plan of 24 seasons of 24 episodes each then there would have been plenty of room for both!

It's an objectively better plan I don't understand why they didn't listen to me

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I believe Firefox is completely FOSS.

Looks like it is! I was under the apparently false impression that it was only partly.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Well, because FOSS apps are usually the best/most user friendly option even if they're not always the most popular. If you woke up after a 30 year coma and had no prior commitments to using any particular software, there would be absolutely zero question that Linux is the best OS today.

An OS is a complicated thing, yet the FOSS option is the safest, most user friendly, and most versatile. I'm just a little surprised there isn't a browser that checks those boxes too, since the browser is a widely used thing. But I'm guessing because Firefox exists the number of devs willing to give the time investment just isn't as many.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

I'm not saying that nobody does this, but the idea that there is a widespread problem of people prioritizing GPT over their own cognition for a majority of their decision making has "trying to create a new moral panic" written all over it.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 14 points 5 days ago (10 children)

I'm not under the impression that a web browser is a simple thing to build but with Linux advancing the way it has in recent years it continues to surprise me that the "best" browser out there isn't FOSS.

Hopefully that is about to change!

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

A Raspberry Pi is pre built haha, there is nothing to build (unless I suppose you consider inserting an SD card to be "building"). Those cool mini SNES cases are really just enclosures.

For what it's worth, I saw the RetroFlag "SuperPI" SNES case in person once and was really impressed with the quality.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 15 points 5 days ago

Is one of those people Matt fucking Groening? Because otherwise it's a stupid claim. Did Sean Hannity create the Simpsons?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 40 points 5 days ago (8 children)

im not sure if youre joking but matt groening created the simpsons which is a fictional cartoon that premiered on fox broadcasting company, an entirely different company than news corp which created fox news and which existed nearly a decade before the simpsons did.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 58 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

1980 - News corp created

1989 - The Simpsons airs

why would Matt Groening do this

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

this is season three of an ongoing series

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fire stick works fine. Retropie is the simplest setup for a Raspberry Pi. You can also just buy one of those Anbernic handhelds with HDMI out. Most of them have bluetooth for additional controllers. I recommend replacing the OS with something like Knulli.

 

I have an aging Kindle and am looking for a new eReader to both read books and articles I've saved throughout the day. I use Wallabag to save articles. I like it over Pocket because it's better for paywalls because it fetches content directly from the browser.

I am leaning Kobo because of apps like Wallabako and KoReader (not exactly what that is yet but people seem to like it).

Anyone else have a similar setup or have any advice?

 

Note that r/coolguides is a very "normie" subreddit and may require extra handholding. There are a lot of people who don't seem to understand what "open source" means. Some looking for "The Lemmy app" etc. Be patient and helpful!

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