In Germany, we have the word “schönsaufen”, which means something along the line of “drinking until something or someone ugly looks pretty” and I think that’s beautiful.

Yeah, which means you can’t just use any Linux you want… sounds almost like, I don’t know, a vendor lock-in.

just fine

Provided it’s an older one with an Intel CPU.

Macbook = Vendor Lock-In as Hardware.

I gamble too, but I do it with knockout options. I sometimes buy a factor 20 option, set it to 5% trailing stop loss and watch what happens.

In many cases, the option starts losing value and is automatically sold once it’s lost 5%, which isn’t too bad if you’ve invested, say, 1000 €. You lose ~50 €.

In other cases it goes up. And up. My current high score is making 450 € with one such investment.

It’s fun, and not too risky. Meanwhile, my retirement vehicles go brrr.

I just want shit to work. I want to use it as my daily driver so I can get work done, not waste time to get things working. I don’t want my installation to become obsolete. I want a nice desktop. I want a lot of nerdy console stuff, but good UI as well, so I can choose the best of both worlds for each use case, so I can work efficiently. I want to play the occasional game.

At the moment, EndeavourOS ticks all those boxes for me. I am aware other distros do as well, CachyOS looks nice. But I’m only gonna switch if it’s really worth the effort.

I started investing during the corona dip. Best financial decision of my entire life. These days, it’s an extra 20% of effortless household income and the entire portfolio value is up almost 40%.

But even then I felt I was just too late to the party for going into crypto. Thank goodness.

So here’s a quick recipe for a spicy egg salad. It’s a kind of love it or hate it thing, but it definitely has the same musical effect on your digestion.

• 20 cooked and roughly chopped eggs
• 1 jar of Hellmann’s Light mayonnaise
• 1 jar of white asparagus, chopped
• 1 jar of mushrooms
• 50g Stokes Curry Ketchup
• 3-4 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
• freshly ground black pepper
• Habanero Tabasco to taste

It definitely is, and yes, you’re right, I should open a bug report.

But then again, you could make the argument that a user-friendly OS shouldn’t require developer level expertise that’s necessary for opening bug reports in the first place. After all, bug reports require a certain quality level that’s not obvious to newbies (like how to reproduce et cetera).

Absolutely. When I go to a bar or restaurant, I prefer a place that doesn’t look like a co-working space. Also, when I see anyone using a laptop in there, I’m out.

Unfortunately in Linux, UI tools often take away some of the transparency you get with the CLI tools they’re made for.

I’ve recently tried setting up a VPN connection to my workplace using the EndeavourOS configuration UI. It basically just said “can’t connect, haha, fuck you”, so I had to dig deeper. Finding out how to use the CLI commands necessary to identify and fix the problem took some time and effort, but in the end, I managed to set it up successfully (turned out most Windows admins still think l2tp is hot shit while the Linux world considers it obsolete).

In this case, UI wasn’t as user friendly as CLI, because it hid vital information that was necessary to solve the problem.

A better UI would probably have solved that problem quicker and easier. In an ideal world, you get intuitive GUI tools that cover all use cases and you still have the option to use the CLI if you want to dig deeper. So yeah, I agree with the point you’re making - Mint trying to be as user friendly as possible by offering accessible UI tools is a good thing and one of the reasons why Mint is so popular. (It’s also a reason why Windows sucks ass, because for most UI things the CLI equivalent is either non-existent or cryptic as hell…)

The point I’m making - GUI tools should always try and make using the CLI unnecessary. Taking away complexity without taking away functionality is the key, and as a consequence, those GUI tools will not be underappreciated for sure.

John Ecticut?

Still wrong hemisphere.

Lemmy: We hate billionaires!

Me: Gabe Newell is a bill…

Lemmy: NOT THAT ONE.

Three dictators controlling about 11000 nuclear warheads.

Not a doomer, but that looks suspiciously like the Great Filter solution to the Fermi paradox.

When I was a little kid, one of those flying cunts stung my brother. So I vowed bitter revenge.

Over the years of my childhood, I caught dozens, if not hundreds of them with my net. Having caught one, I used to hold the net in front of a cross spider’s web, so that the wasp, triumphantly but mistakenly believing it had regained its freedom, had to fly straight into the web.

And then I watched the little asshole get destroyed. I’m pretty sure that to this day, I’m worshipped as a god by the local cross spider population.

Not an Ossi, you Flitzpiepe.

As a German I can confirm all stereotypes about us are completely true. We hate each other and ourselves, we only eat bratwurst and drink beer and we have no sense of humour whatsoever. My desktop wallpaper is a portrait of David Hasselhoff. I’m always punctual and I don’t know how to party, which makes sense because I work all day anyway.

Hope this helps.

Still sounds really great.

I’m German, and whenever someone here claims the British have bad food I mention all the fantastic chutneys and pickles you guys have over there. Particularly fond of a thing called “Glorious Garlic Pickle” by The Bay Tree. I wish I had the recipe because they don’t ship to mainland Europe.