snroh

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[–] snroh@lemm.ee 45 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

is there anything more useless than signing online petitions?

[–] snroh@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago

there is, either by manually remapping everything using Plasma's keyboard settings or using one of the many Kinto variants.

advice from someone who made the same switch - don't do it. start adapting and relearning. muscle memory is a pain, but it's tameable. you're not going back, there's no point in retaining useless skill.

[–] snroh@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

I tried using bazzite as a media PC and gave up after a couple of days, this isn't even remotely something I want in my household.

try it on fast hardware and make up your own mind. good luck!

p.s.: plasma bigscreen isn't available for public use and kodi and its derivatives should be tossed in the deepest volcanoes we got.

[–] snroh@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

tried three times, either neochat explodes or the messages don't go through. thanks anyway.

[–] snroh@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

yeah I found that but I don't know how to query matrix.org for those settings, no clients I tried can tell me what the settings are. I'm just interested in 1on1 chat where both users are on matrix.org, so federation shouldn't complicate things (?)

[–] snroh@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

so what unlimited cloud storage a la telegram? can you share where that's stated? thanks.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by snroh@lemm.ee to c/matrix@lemmy.ml
 

tried searching but came up short... anyone know what's their message retention policy i.e. how long is chat history available for private, 1on1 chats?

[–] snroh@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

dhh isn't advocating for linux for everybody per se; instead it's addressed at programmers and similar folk who regard linux as way too complex for everyday use. the background story being that he was an Apple fanboy for the longest time and recently made the switch and now can't shut up about it. as a result they (basecamp) developed some insane rice setup that has to be seen to be believed, it's beyond ridiculous.

as an aside, I've met those people he's talking at and they regularly blow my mind. like, how can you utilize a modern toolchain for practically every possible development scenario using an OS that actively fights you every step of the way, the abomination called WSL notwithstanding...

so the idea is the brogrammers will become the early adopters and by way of trickle-down-tech linux will make its way to normies, same way e.g. Android did.

I don't think that's gonna happen in the foreseeable future. the options, distros, DEs, whatevers are way too fragmented and fragile and are infested with the most deluded, rabid "fans" there are, each and everyone of them mired in truckloads of "no true scottsman" fallacies.

Apple has a vertically integrated tech stack - there is one DE, one WM, one codebase for every product they sell and they are free to focus their sinister efforts elsewhere, backed by the deepest coffers there are.

contrast this with the myriad of distros, package managers, DEs, WMs, etc. each pulling in a different direction, abandoned paths and duplicated efforts galore, done predominantly with no funds to speak of; and if there are any, they are squandered on... what was it, shamans?

no math in this universe is gonna make team #2 catch up to team #1, let alone surpass it.

[–] snroh@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Far Cry 5. you blaspheme your way across montana, killing and pillaging, to a kick-ass soundtrack.

[–] snroh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

you should definitely pick up a oneplus 6 or POCO F1 or similar (8 GB RAM), they should be in the $50 range and play around with it. the OS will get better with participation and there's a number of things you can do on there that's downright impossible on Android. I'm just cautioning that it's not a substitute; but neither was Linux not that long ago.

[–] snroh@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

nowhere close to being daily driver material. and I don't mean the esoteric stuff you mention (NFC, 5G, etc.) I mean just normal, everyday stuff, like you turn it on and it works. source: I own the fastest device supported by pmOS and no UI (gnome, phosh, plasma, etc) works even remotely acceptable.

this is a fun project to tinker with and marvel at some choices made but if you're thinking you can switch, that's simply not an item on the menu.

them guys are working on super-complex stuff with no funds to speak of and expecting anything resembling an OS that's developed for close to two decades by the richest corporations in the world isn't realistic.

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