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Is there a safe way to run multiple desktop environments on Ubuntu 22.04?
  • Pretty easy, and it's saved my bacon a handful of times. Most recently I restored from command line because I borked my display driver (legacy Nvidia user).

    Aside from that instance, everything else was done through the GUI.

  • What's your preferred DE?
  • Started with XFCE but migrated away due to bugginess with my outdated system. Next was KDE. I was pleasantly surprised by how lightweight it ended up being after hearing otherwise. Now I'm on Sway, and it makes this old computer scream!

  • Looking for resource-light distro to run on 2010 Macbook
  • SSD: Best Buy (US electronics store) still had some SATA SSDs in stock, so I didn't need an adapter. This is what I got: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-cs900-500gb-internal-ssd-sata/6385542.p?skuId=6385542

    Take advantage of the fact that you can make Live USBs of the distros as you decide what you're looking for.

    For me, I found AntiX a little too barebones for me. But your mileage will vary.

    I will have to give Mint another go sometime!

  • Looking for resource-light distro to run on 2010 Macbook
  • Ooh, I just did this! Mid 2010 white MacBook, Core 2 Duo P8600, 2GB, spinning rust HDD.

    *Strongly recommend switching to SSD. I also added an 8GB stick (so 9GB total, hah) but my hunch is that even the SSD alone would have made this machine much more enjoyable.

    I ultimately decided on MX Linux, although with systemd as init so that logind could handle lid and power button events. The default power manager (XFCE?) would result in a black screen upon resuming otherwise. MX Linux also worked the best for me in terms of optimizing for battery life.

    PeppermintOS was my second place but also had the black-screen on resume.

    I also tried various flavors of Mint but felt that Peppermint and MX were ever-so-slightly leaner in terms of features I actually use and battery life.

    Avoid Void Linux. On my system the trackpad only worked in one direction.

    I was not able to get the nVidia card to work with proprietary drivers. It's so old that it requires legacy drivers (340) and I just ran out of patience. Nouveau or bust.

    I am currently using it for casual web browsing and YouTube. It handles YouTube pretty well although I'm still searching for a native frontend that allows me to login to my YouTube account so I get all my subscriptions and stuff.

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  • Devil’s advocate: if a delayed message is put far up the conversation history, it may not be seen when it finally goes through? Although notifications could mitigate that to some extent.

  • 22 August 2023
  • Posting this from a 2010 MacBook given a second chance at life with an SSD, 8GB of RAM, and Linux. Spent $70 bucks on the upgrades.

    Original battery still gets 4 hours of battery life, too.

  • A humorous look at bad UI design

    Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius by Tantacrul (not mine)

    YouTube description: "In this video, I take a detailed look at the design of Avid's Sibelius - a popular music notation application. Sibelius is the embodiment of what not to do as a user experience designer and this video covers a range of examples of inappropriate design patterns and bad user interface choices. Then I go insane.

    Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/Tantacrul

    This really is one of the great examples of breaking all UI design principles and every UX design principle too. It's like a design bull in a musical china shop."

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    [Feature request] Sort posts by New Comments

    Please educate me if this already exists and I'm not finding it. Sorting posts by New Comments is a great way to stay on top of the latest discussions.

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    Apple Weather's forecasts are so bad my meteorologist made a post about it
    spacecityweather.com Excessive heat continues, and despite what your weather app says it’s not going to rain

    Good morning. Since the forecast is pretty much unchanged—expect very hot and sunny weather for the foreseeable future—I want to briefly address a question I’ve received several times. And th…

    Excessive heat continues, and despite what your weather app says it’s not going to rain

    Apple Weather forecasts for my area have shown a 30-50% chance of precipitation for eternity, even when there isn't a cloud in sight. My meteorologist has told his readers to ignore Apple's forecasts.

    This started around the time the Apple Weather outages a few months ago and haven't improved. YSK that you can report inaccurate forecasts from within the app, but it hasn't improved for me.

    I'm currently using Foreca on iPhone and the free version of Carrot on Apple Watch.

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    Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings

    Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent.

    >Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat and make it more difficult to use rivals like Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has now started notifying IT admins that it will force Outlook and Teams to ignore the default web browser on Windows and open links in Microsoft Edge instead.

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)MR
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