Legend:
w - work day
w - weekend

wwwwwww

Never heard about it, but seems like it is, indeed. Thank you.

cool 👍

• Panel 1: You know these.
• Panel 2:
  • OS: ZorinOS, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Fedora
  • Browser: Brave, Firefox
  • Apps: Telegram, Signal
• Panel 3:
  • OS: Debian, Arch, VoidLinux, LineageOs (Android ROM)
  • Browser: qutebrowser, Librewolf
  • Apps: Jami, Briar (first time hear about them), Fdroid, Element (Matrix client)
• Panel 4:
  • OS: Tails (Live distro for privacy), Gentoo (DIY distro)
  • Browser: Tor
  • Apps: IRC (text chat rooms), XMPP/Jabber (messaging protocol), self-hosted community (applications you can put on your own server, I presume)
• Panel 5:
  • OS: Trisquel, Parabola, Guix (all three approved by FSF as “actually free”)
  • Browser: Icecat (gnu firefox fork), lynx, w3m (both terminal-based browsers), (missed opportunity to put emacs here as well =))
  • Apps: Emacs, Emacs, Emacs (powerful os with built-in text editor)
• Panel 6:
  • OS: Garuda, No idea (something arch-based), Arco Linux, Arch Linux
  • ???
  • Apps: Kvantum (qt theme manager), Latte (macOS style application dock for KDE), Plank (also app dock)
• Panel 7:
  • OS: Temple OS
  • Browser: Bible
  • Apps: Racing game, Tanks game from TempleOS, Amen.

Not sure where I fall into this chart =)

Favorite OS: OpenSuse Tumbleweed
Favorite browser: Librewolf
Favorite Apps: Vim/Neovim (not even close to anything else)

• I’m not paranoid, though. (It’s not paranoia if everyone agrees with you, most people just don’t care)
• I love FOSS culture and hate corporations with passion.
• For messaging I use Discord and Telegram
• Use old netbook from 2007 and my desktop PC is around the same age.
• I do watch Luke Smith and “Richard Stallman was right”!

I remember seeing lemmy maybe 4+ years ago on some open-source subreddit. It had practically non-existent user base, so I’ve ignored it. After that, I remember a first wave of people making mastodon accounts (even before elon). There I’ve first heard of concept of “fediverse”. I liked the idea but I honestly thought it had zero chances to compete with mainstream social media.

And then everything turned to shit, making a gap between something like lemmy and reddit a lot smaller. So I’ve jumped the ship with everyone after the API shitstorm.

Ubuntu: 😮why?

For a lot of people Ubuntu is the linux. Canonical is just good at marketing. For all it worth, Ubuntu is not the bad choice for average user who’s not into ricing and not bothered by bloat.

Manjaro: haven’t you managed to kill it yet?

I’ve been using Arch and Manjaro for couple years each and in my experience they both break regularly. But, for some weird reason, Arch Linux is praised, when Manjaro is shamed upon.

Mint: ex windows guy?

Aren’t we all?

The most stable rolling distro.

it’s a marketing stunt not a logic-related problem

He might do like 2-5 deliveries per trip if they align.

Sorry, I meant to write that Github is not a software distribution, but a code distribution platform.

And ‘mostly harmless’ as in it’s not inherently malicious - you can use it for harmless stuff. It’s merely a tool.

Github is not a software distribution platform, it was never meant to be one. It’s a developer platform for code distribution and collaboration. And UI is designed around that.

A lot of projects use it as a distribution platform, but they’re wrong - it’s always better to have a web page with simple download button for casual “ordinary” people.

But, this case is special: this mostly harmless tool is designed and almost exclusively used to stalk / doxx / hack people =|. So, it’s not in developers interest to make it widely available and easy to install.

In theory this issue can be solved with LD_PRELOAD trick. E.g. redirect all/most/some fopen calls to “$HOME” to some other directory. But before I try to tackle it myself: is there already a similar solution like that?

I don’t understand.
How is it hard to remember: “eXtract File” = “tar xf …”? If tar is gZipped - it’s “tar xzf …”.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen tarball that wouldn’t work with one of these two commands.

RunnerUp and Another Activity Tracker seem like your best options.

For one - the error handling. Every codebase is filled with messy, hard to type:

if err != nil {
    ...
}

And it doesn’t even give you a stack trace to debug the problem when an error happens, apparently.

Second reason - it lacks many features that are generally available in most other languages. Generics is the big one, but thankfully they added them in last half a year or so. In general Golang’s design principle is to implement only the required minimum.

And probably most important - Go is owned by Google, aka the “all seeing eye of Sauron”. There was recently a big controversy with them proposing adding an on-by-default telemetry to the compiler. And with the recent trend of enshittification, I wouldn’t trust google or any other mega-corporation.

I have all apps I use daily in the appimage format. Yesterday I decided to try btrfs for my root partition and did my annual Linux reinstall. All my apps were already there and ready for work from the start.
I also have a usb flashdrive always on me with the same appimages. Just in case I’d wipe a hard drive by accident and wouldn’t have an internet connection or something like that (in case of emergencies). You can’t do this with flatpaks or snaps.

IMO, go’s gopher is ugly, not cute. But, anyway, there are better reasons not to learn Go.

Try libredirect, it automatically redirects links from twitter, youtube, imgur and many other spying platforms to alternative privacy friendly frontends. It is also very customizable: you can turn only some redirects and configure what particular site to use for each platform.

That’s a human weakness, most animals eat poop for breakfast