milicent_bystandr

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

After a suspicious-looking guide I nearly started with, and the NoxOS split drama, and having homemanager bork my login in a test setup, I wonder if next time I'll try GUIX.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

What kind of apostrophe use is

its'

?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You'll have people arguing two hundred years later if women are technically members of the generic plural 'boys'.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

"How about a salad?"

"Oh, I know a few vegetables who'd object to that, Sir!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

I recommend distrohopping to check out Vista and iOS. It's easier to get started with if you dual boot them on your W11 netbook.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I like flapjack* for the occasional programs I want the newest version.

*Sure, autocorrect, let's call it that now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I've also hopped distros on a scale of several years at a time. Loved Arch before I was living on an awful internet connection; did Ubuntu until they messed with snaps; loved Tumbleweed for a few years, but the volume of updates was getting a bit much; nearly learnt Nix but a trial run of Home Manager went up in flames, then I realised multiple layered package versions wasn't worth the 'stability'; now Mint's been doing the job nicely, but I'm tempted to try KDE's new distro someday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I mean, the word 'which' doesn't matter, according to the English professor.

Sure, if you're taking the joke seriously about money, looks and [removed], I agree they all matter to some extent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Which doesn't matter."

-- English professor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I think that's the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rich people will say, money doesn't matter. But they haven't experienced actually not having it. It's ironic.

Attractive people say, looks don't matter, but they've always had good looks. It's ironic.

The joke plays on the way deleted comments on Reddit show up as removed by deleted user, sounding similar to the earlier ironies: Deleted says deleted. Since that last is effectively meaningless, and entirely different underneath from the reaction-to-judgement underlying the first two, it's also humour from the non-sequitur.

So it turns a frustration with rich and attractive people telling us not to worry about money and looks, into a surreal joke comparing the pattern to deleted Reddit comments.

 

I've been playing around with self hosting for file sharing, backups, and a handful of other ideas I might one day get round to. I like the idea of a mesh VPN and being able to, for example, connect a travelling laptop to a 'host' laptop nearby, though my only public ip is a VPS in another country.

Of all the options I found, I liked the look of Nebula most. Fiddly in some places, but it's working nicely for me, and I appreciate some of the simplicity of design.

I'm wondering if people here have much experience of it, though? My biggest concern is over its future. With,

  1. The Defined Networking site focusing on making money off it, and
  2. The Android app doesn't allow full configuration (including the firewall, so I can't host a website from a phone) but - I heard - does if you use Defined Networking's paid service for configuration,

makes me worry they might be essentially trying to deprecate viable FOSS Nebula in favour of a paid or controlled service.

Any thoughts? Insight?

 

I finally watched Frozen 2 on the plane a few days ago. Did somebody pay Disney to shill for homeopathy?

 

Hi I've been gradually finishing my first and only-main farm, and wanted to share :-) It started as the central plaza and fish ponds (since I came to love fishing!) and grew from there. I was going to get all-seasons screenshots and post together, but that's going soo slowly; and, hey, content!

Hope you like it! I think there's a little bit of just about everything there, and if you look closely you can see me sitting on a bench enjoying the flower garden. It's been single player until right at the end I added the 'guest lodges' to share with family and friends. I love how well they fit in places I hadn't planned!

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