DidacticDumbass @ DidacticDumbass @lemmy.one

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This impotent cynism changes nothing.

Use the technology you feel safe with, or try try to build if it does not exist.

The echo chamber is making everyone deaf.

Hell yes! Feeling futuristic.

Cool recommendation! I just bought one!

I am hoping with all hope that it will let me replace my Roku for streaming.

As great as the functionality of the Roku is, the constant advertising makes me loath this thing. I do not want it anymore.

I cannot count the number of times I installed seemingly well documented software only to have it kill my system. Snaps, the very thing that would prevent that kind of misery, has inexcusable behavior.

Yeah, Flatpaks are great. Although I will say I am pretty agnostic, I don't need my computer to follow some kind of paradigm for anything other than the comfort of organization. In fact just now I installed software through a PPA, because that is the official way for my system at the moment. Not the greatest, I think I could have chosen a different way in a drop down menu, but it detected Ubuntu (Mint), so whatever.

I just remembered I have a lenovo gaming laptop that gets no love because it is huge and I stopped lugging it around when I inherited a MacBook Air.

Time to try it!

I think that is one time download of a library so the app can run. Also, any other app that needs it.

It seems to me that the biggest complaint people have with flatpaks are the space it takes.

I wonder if the blow up in GBs was an early buggy behavior?

I will trial both I guess. See which I like more.

I am leaning towards Fedora just to have Pipewire and Walyand standard.

I am comfortable with any desktop enviroment as long as it is not KDE. I would rather use a mouseless tiling WM than that.

Okay, I was between this and OpenSuse MicroOS. I guess it makes sense to use the distro by the company that makes the technology I want.

I honestly would be happy having every guitar from the Gibson line as an Epiphone.

Okay, that seems cool. I had not considered that a possibility. It would be fun to "stream" any compilations to the Optiplexes.

I think what it means is that your OS layer is totally isolated from your User layer. So, installing software won't directly mess with your system, possibly breaking things.

Everything is isolated, so it is easy to add thing or roll back with practically no obstacles or consequences.

Neat. I was wondering how to do that.

Sure. I personally have not noticed a difference. Then again, I recently got a new computer, and all my other computers are over a decade old, so everything feels luxurious.

This has officially won me over. I am not a minimalist, nor do I have some principled view of package management. I care about computing, and I am all for anything that makes it easier. I am the kind of person who wants all the software I will ever think to use already installed. I see my computer like a library. It is a castle, not a tiny home. I don't give a shit about "wasted space." I can always buy more.

Containerization is awesome, and I will embrace it.

Just curious, what distro are you on right now?

The quality in all factories just keep rising. It is awesome what you can get for the price.

My Epiphone is the newer line (Inspired by Gibson) with the redesigned headstock that looks closer to Gibson's. The quality is excellent. The finish is something special, it actually feels like a nitro finish, but it poly.

I am officially done buying guitars, save for a high quality acoustic which I never invested in. I can't predict the future, but I like what I have. Same with amps.

Now I am turning back to a past love, the Clarinet. I adore it, but never got to practice it due to family telling me to quiet down, which sucks. I hope to start a lifelong journey getting intimate with this instrument, and will be saving up for real wood upgrade.

If I ever get bored of Mint I am jumping back on there. OpenSuse is as perfect a linux distro I have ever used, excepting my graphic driver woes.

Gorgeous!

Nice setup! I also use Skinny Top/Heavy Bottom, but keep it in standard. I love the tightness, but will probably move back to a regular set up strings when I replace them. I bend a lot.

I recently scored a 2020 Black Epiphone Les Paul Standard at a pawn shop, and it was pristine! Half the street price.

I love it so much. I alternate between that and a black PRS S2 Standard 24. Honestly, they compliment each other.

I hope one day to own the genuine thing.

Nice! May I ask what is your base system?

That is probably the most important use case. It is good not to allow proprietary software to extend their tendrils beyond the sandbox.

That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying my misconception. I think I will set that up. I have a couple of Dell Optiplexes that are bumming it out right now. I can put one to work with Gentoo.