108 sats \ 1 reply \ @MattInTech 6 Mar \ on: If Bitcoin were a person, how would s/he look like? BooksAndArticles
You might want to check this out for inspiration, I find it quite brilliant:
Well, one doesn't exclude the other. For example: many people I know prefer the touch-and-feel of books, which is something that I get. But I also find books quite inconvenient, especially in low-light situations or when I'm traveling. For those use cases, I find my e-reader 100 times better.
As an alternative, when I cannot pack a lot of stuff but still need to be productive while on the move, I don't mind to occasionally use my iPad as a reading device, especially after having applied a Paperlike screen protector. I also find it quite nice to make notes with the pencil or to highlight sentences/paragraphs that I find particularly interesting. I would feel bad to do the same on a book, to be honest...
As if SN wasn't already full of random low-quality posts just to get a few sats. This way you attract a lot of new over-excited community members that will start to share random stuff, or incentivize the usual suspects to keep posting, because it's almost granted that the prize will be won by a big zapper.
I don't know, I don't quite like this little experiment. I hope it's just a one-off.
Cool little experiment, but not the way to go in my opinion. I think that small daily rewards are a stronger incentive to participate in a meaningful way to the growth of the community.
Genuine question: was this a unilateral decision from the core developers or was it ever asked to the community?
- change swapfile for zram
- distrobox for app compatibility
- cider to listen Apple Music on desktop
- flatseal to keep track of my flatpak permissions
- a bunch of gnome extensions to personalize my user experience
Well, distrobox uses podman at its core, but targets a completely different kind of user. Podman is more suited for “server” kind of apps, distrobox allows to easily install (and export in your DE) GUI apps that were packaged for other distributions.
Still, both podman and distrobox are amazing.
I use OpenSUSE Aeon.
Pros:
- stable
- immutable and Atomic
- SUSE believes way more in Open Source principles than any other similar company
Cons:
- difficult to operate at system level (e.g. install a vpn client, Citrix, or other stupid apps with networking components)
- documentation is not great, still wip
- the community is way smaller compared to other distros
I first discovered Linux while trying to improve the performance of a potato PC back in 2013, when I was 18 years old and about to write my mini-thesis for high school graduation. My go-to choice was Ubuntu 13.10 with the Unity desktop, which has been updated multiple times (as well as some pc components) up to Ubuntu 15.04 if I’m not mistaken.
Also, I took a gap year between graduating high school and starting a university course, in which I worked for a 3D printing startup that strongly believed in open-source. Every company laptop was running Lubuntu 14.04 LTS, as well as our Ubuntu server. After that, I choose Fedora as my go-to distro during my university years and, after a lot of distro hopping, I finally stuck with OpenSUSE Aeon (former Micro OS desktop).
It’s been an amazing journey, and the little penguin never let me down!
It’s a shame the way HDMI forum refused AMD’s proposal. I just hope hardware manufacturers, especially tv manufacturers, will adopt HDMI less and less over the years in favor of DisplayPort or dp-over-usbC
True, maybe “half” is not that fair. In my experience suse’s doc is great, arch great as well, Ubuntu decent but the active community helps you find what you need, Fedora is just a disgrace. You would expect Alpine to have excellent documentation, due to its focus on containerized professional workflows. Maybe that’s the point, Alpine appeals more to developers and IT professionals than end users
The documentation is still pretty bad from what I’ve seen… but to be fair, the documentation of half of the most common distros is far from being high quality and user friendly
You will need it. It’s a great distro with some great tooling, but the learning curve is quite steep. Still, a great learning journey!
21 sats \ 2 replies \ @MattInTech 2 Mar \ parent \ on: Welcome, what flavor of Linux do you run? Linux
Hope that Manjaro stays as you’re experiencing it, I heard pretty bad things about the management behind that distro..
It’s a great choice, zypper and YaST are great tools that save a lot of headaches. If you feel adventurous, you might wanna try Opensuse Aeon or Kappa, both based on the immutable and atomic Micro OS.
Another great article:
https://www.linuxstart.com/which-linux-distro-to-choose/