monovergent

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This stuff makes me grateful that my bank and your bank still maintain a fully-featured website. I would be quite upset if I were stuck with such an app and no website.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Would like to, but never figured out how to get the TPM 1.2 chip in my X230 to work with cryptsetup. Everything seems to be written for TPM 2.0 only.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

same here but with hentai on searx.be

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

XFCE4. It's intuitive and predictable without sacrificing the ability to customize it exactly the way I want (with Chicago95 ofc). The built-in panel widgets are nothing short of amazing: battery, CPU, RAM, network, and disk monitors with labels toggled off to save space and a clock with only what I need on one line: MM/DD HH:mm:ss

Enough features so that it "just works" (no nitpicking through config files), especially on laptops, without being bloated in any way. Bonus of its lightweight nature is that I can keep my Debian/XFCE setup consistent across all of my machines, both old and new.

Can't wait for the finished xfwm4 port to wayland so I don't have to sacrifice some security running X11 and so I can do fractional scaling on hidpi machines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

QR code reader and generator on both phone and laptop

  • Phone: SecScanQR
  • Laptop: ZBarCam and Zint

But I'm glad to have learned about LocalSend here so I'm no longer limited to short text snippets

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

I miss print coupons. Hearing "get the app" or "there's an app for it" makes me flinch these days.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

School is where the passion for learning goes to die and the desire to cheat is born

In this day and age, hobbies are the last bastions of passion and curiosity. One who is engaged in a hobby is intrinsically motivated to learn and apply what has been learned in novel ways, just as the scholars of old have done. School, reviled by many a student, has earned its reputation by perverting the concept of learning and exploiting students' passions. The desire to cheat is most unnatural among students, a telltale sign that one's passion and curiosity for the topic at hand has been extinguished, replaced with a desire to rid oneself of a burden, the burden of learning only for the sake of becoming learned.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

Makes me wonder how far the closest alternative, glim, could be upgraded to match Ventoy given the confines of GRUB.

Someone had mentioned that Fedora fails to verify when booting from Ventoy. Now I'm thinking if I could dd the media loaded via Ventoy and compare with an original copy to see what changed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

What did it in were the semi-annual mandatory feature updates, which restored the invasive settings and bloat I worked hard to remove. Already being acquainted with Linux at that point, I began dual-booting and later having Windows on an entirely separate machine for a few stubborn programs I needed for work.

What made me acquainted with Linux was looking for alternatives after the loss of theming options and the start menu in Windows 8. That eventually brought me to my present Debian setup with the Chicago 95 theme, which recreates (and even improved) the workflow and stability I had grown to love in Windows 2000.

The first time I ever booted into a Linux iso, however, was to migrate files off of my machine, which was excruciatingly slow to transfer files under XP.

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

TIL what happens when the thermometer maxes out

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

IMF: Imperialist Monetary Fund

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

If you want to avoid this judgement, get an Apple silicon Macbook Air or something...

Damn, me over here trying to flex my Chicago95-ass X201T to my classmates

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