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Why has nobody ever heard of Distrobox? Let me tell you why everyone should take a look at it!
  • I did an experiment where I used Distrobox for many apps not available on Debian. I installed an Arch distrobox and exported the packages. I found that it works great with simple programs, but I run into a few issues when using more complex programs. Jellyfin Media Player for example tended to have a memory leak and have a core dump on the desktop whenever it is closed. It uses twice as memory as the Flatpak for some reason. I had the same issue with Stremio which is also a video streaming app. For command line things it's mostly fine. But this too can get tricky. I tried to use Neovim (Debian's is a bit old) in the Arch distorbox. The issue is that if you need plugins that require some dependency with a given version then you have to also install those and export them which makes things messy. For example you may have a version of Nodejs on your Debian install but you'll need to install Nodejs on the distorbox too and export it. It's the same with many packages like that. You'll run into some issues and waste time trying to figure out where is it coming from. Is it your machine or the distorbox? I ended up just building from source. Overall it's a great project and might work for some software that you need. But it's not something you can always rely on for everything. The app devs are not testing for that specific use case. It's so great for testing and installing stuff and then destroying when you don't need it anymore.

  • Simple Gallery Pro vanished from F-Droid, any similar alternatives?
  • There's a fork called Fossify that is expected to replace the Simple Mobile Tools. There's a Gallery and File Manager app already. I am not sure how it's different from the pro version though. It's a fork of the Simple Gallary app that was in Fdroid.

  • Trump won’t commit to discouraging violence among his supporters
  • I never claimed Trump never said stupid shit, but there are many instances where it's so clickbaity which actually really helps Trump and his supporters. The appeal of Trump is that he posits himself as persecuted by the "woke mob" and "radical left". He also depicted as someone "saying it as it is" and saying what the "establishment" doesn't want you to say. There's some theoretical work that studies how this happens, and I think many leftists rarely pose the hard question of why he is having a mass appeal. It's not sufficient to just say "people bad and racist" and move on. The modern right succeeded in tricking everyone into seeing the left as this policing and hegemonic force out there trying to force you to say the right thing. It's so ironic given that the right is the actual hegemonic and moralize force. The trick that they pulled is spectacular tbh and usually the left plays right into their hsnds. The fact that Trump says bad shit is not gonna harm him. That's his entire appeal. It's funny that leftist media thinks the more they show he said bad shit the more unlikely he'll be supported. It's the exact opposite. It's the classic childish tragressive thing of "I am gonna say exactly what they want me not to say". We are in the age of the "rebel punk" right, which is so fuckin ironic. Of course it's not rebel or punk but they are formally in that positionz while the leftist is cast as the polished professor telling you what to say and what not to say. You can easily see the appeal of the right if you look at it this way, and see how this "trump said a bad thing" is exactly why he is popular.

  • #memes
  • The Arabic "muakhirah" means something like "the behind". Funny enough, it shares some roots with the word "muta'akhir" which means "being late" and "akhir" which means "the latest". It's polite and used even in some dialects to just refer politely to it. Every dialect though has other specific words that are more vulgar. Some are different in every country. Egyptians would use "Tiz" to refer to it and Moroccans would use the more vulgar "Zok". Middle Eastern countries also often use "Tiz".

  • Trump won’t commit to discouraging violence among his supporters
  • I don't think it's the content of what he is saying that his supporters are drawn to. Trump has succeeded in positing himself as a victim of the "woke left" and the "establishment". His entire project relies on this vehement opposition. He actually needs the political correctness because his opposition to it is what sustains him. There are theoretical studies of this, like for example Todd McGowan theory of left and right enjoyment. The enjoyment of the right is this enjoyment of transgression, the utterly childish thing of "I am gonna say exactly what you tell me not to say". The more dumb shit he says the more it goes up. This is what some leftists do not get. You'll never defeat Trump by showing that he said something bad and "transgressive ". This is exactly his appeal. The right succeeds in making a weird move. They cast the leftist as the "parent figure" that's out there trying to steal your enjoyment. "You can't say anything anymore these days". Ironically the right is the moralizing position, but they succeeded in casting the left as this moralizing figure and we play right into their hands. The early leftist transgressive "hippy" figure has been replaced, in popular imagination, by the uptight professor telling you what you can and can't say, and you saying it anyway and bonding with the class through that very prohibition.

  • Trump won’t commit to discouraging violence among his supporters
  • The media is milking the Trump hysteria for all its worth. The headline is usually "omg Trump said this bad bad thing" but if you see what he says it's usually nothing. Don't get me wrong, he does say some dumb shit but it's insane how they jump on every word he says. Recently I saw the headline of him commenting about a shooting and saying it's a tragedy and we should move on, which is awkward but could easily have been said by anyone. The move on part is usually said in tragedies as well. But it's depicted as if he said "omg just move on already" I am actually a leftist and I don't like Trump but this is absolutely insane.

  • I need tips and resources for cutomizing the look and feel

    I love Firefox and I used it on and off for many years. Right now I am using Brave because I just prefer the look and feel of it. I want to move to Firefox again but I just can't stand the way the tabs look on Firefox. They are too big and ugly and it's not great on a laptop, etc. Once you have a few open then they are not readable anymore. What are some ways to change the look?

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    How to respond to gf saying "I'm fat"

    She gained some weight but she is not fat at all!

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    Is igetintopc safe ?

    Basically the title.

    More details : My gf's teacher basically sent them a link to download a pirated version of Photoshop to work on some minor thing. We live in a developing country where piracy is the norm even in universities and the like, because no student has the means to buy it. I just want to know if it's likely safe to download from there.

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    News @lemmy.ml nobloat @lemmy.ml
    Three palestinian students shot and wounded in vermont in possible hate crime
    www.the-independent.com Three Palestinian students shot and wounded in Vermont in possible hate crime

    The students were wearing Palestinian kuffiyeh when they were shot

    Three Palestinian students shot and wounded in Vermont in possible hate crime
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    Jellyfin not reading mounted sshfs folders

    I set up jellyfin with docker and it's working fine with local files. I wanted to add some additional media files so I mounted a directory using sshfs. The directory is present with the media files and it is bound to a volume in Docker. But jellyfin doesn't add the files. It doesn't find the subdirectories or the media files. Am I doing something wrong ?

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    Why do usernames of accounts you visit sometimes include your username?

    I recently suggested Mastodon to a friend and she is using it on IOS. She sent me a picture of her visiting an account and the name shows as @username@herusername@mastodon.social

    This doesn't happen for all accounts and I personally never noticed it. Is this a bug or is it supposed to be that way ?

    Edit: She is using the "official" Mastodon app

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    Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave resigns after backlash to Israel-Hamas war comments | CNN Business
    edition.cnn.com Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave resigns after backlash to Israel-Hamas war comments | CNN Business

    Paddy Cosgrave, the chief executive of Web Summit, stepped down Saturday after several Big Tech companies withdrew from the company’s upcoming annual technology conference over his comments on the Israel-Hamas war.

    Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave resigns after backlash to Israel-Hamas war comments | CNN Business
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