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pasdechance commented on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?    · Posted by u/revskill
pasdechance · 2 years ago
Total hodge podge but mostly standard end-user tech gripes and howtos with a splash of education

https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/blog/

pasdechance commented on I cannot wait for this deluge of AI products to be over    · Posted by u/ilrwbwrkhv
pasdechance · 2 years ago
agreed

If the number of articles in my RSS feed that I need to mark as read isn't an indicator of wasted CO2, it is an indicator of how boring my day will be.

pasdechance commented on Where will all the laid off people go?    · Posted by u/theusus
pasdechance · 2 years ago
Some are just being hired by competition, some are even being hired overseas [1].

Key word being "some," obviously.

[1]: https://neuters.de/technology/they-fire-we-hire-germany-seiz...

pasdechance commented on Ask HN: Rolling Release Distro, or LTS w/ Backports?    · Posted by u/themodelplumber
pasdechance · 2 years ago
Not the biggest distrohopper on the planet, but I have been using GNU/Linux since around 2006 so I will throw my hat in the ring with some comments and answers I have seen to similar questions over the years.

* Straight-up Debian is not always recommended as a desktop distro. I use Debian Testing as my desktop distro, though, and have had no problems. I did use Debian Sid, which works like a rolling distro in the sense that it does not need to be reinstalled for major version updates. I managed to mess it up during an update by carelessly pressing 'y' without reading what was written in the terminal.

* I have used Manjaro in the past, and it was fine. Just take it easy with packages from the AUR and everything will be OK. And remember: Manjaro != Arch. I tried Arch and used it for a long time. Not a single issue. Quite seamless, great wiki.

* I tried MX for quite some time. It might be worth looking at because you can access some newer packages through backports and the built-in tools can be helpful setting this up. I found it to be just as fast and seamless as Arch. MX is semi-rolling and Debian-based.

* Right now, I see a lot of people talking about Fedora as a great desktop Linux experience. It is one of the few major distros that I have never tried. Several of the big Linux YouTubers recommend it for Desktop use.

If I were you, I would stick with what works until it doesn't work. If you keep digging around, you'll start spending more time keeping your dotfiles in order than actually enjoying the distro. I stuck with Ubuntu for years until my hardware couldn't keep up with the demands of the DE. I lived in a minimal, tiling window manager for a few years. Like you, I like how Debian and apt work. So, my first pick for you would be MX.

Other options:

Bunsen Labs https://www.bunsenlabs.org/ (very light DE)

Linux Mint https://linuxmint.com/ (good transition from Ubuntu, loved by many)

Pop!_OS https://system76.com/pop

Neon https://neon.kde.org/ (if you want latest KDE)

pasdechance commented on Ask HN: How do you deal with the feeling that everyone around you is stupid?    · Posted by u/SunghoYahng
pasdechance · 3 years ago
Is this a "Curse of Knowledge" kind of feeling? Like, when you are talking to someone you begin by thinking they will understand, but then realise they do not. Or is it really just the feeling that you are surrounded by stupid people? How does this feeling you speak of compare to the feeling of speaking to someone on the same level as you?

I too, being of pretty average intelligence --- probably not above --- am shocked by the stupid things people say and do as well. Maybe what you are experiencing is normal, like giardini says [1]:

> Half of all people have an IQ less than 100

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806614

pasdechance commented on Can you suggest the solution to this puzzle?    · Posted by u/Rakib_7
Rakib_7 · 3 years ago
So I have asked the same question in the chatgpt subreddit. even if the babies were not born on the same time they have to be put on watch to check their health condition so they will be separated from their parents side.
pasdechance · 3 years ago
> they have to be put on watch to check their health condition so they will be separated from their parents side.

This is the North American way, I guess? So the question should be modified to include what country this happens in. Where I live, children never leave their parents' side. They pop out, get weighed in the same room, etc., and the mothers have a private recovery room for up to 5 days where both are monitored and taught some basics.

pasdechance commented on Can you suggest the solution to this puzzle?    · Posted by u/Rakib_7
pasdechance · 3 years ago
Yep. (NOTE: Nope.)

First you ask Reddit, then ChatGPT, then HN. Then you bikeshed the answers until someone points out some language quirk that passed unnoticed and reveals the answer.

Perhaps the babies were not born at the same time? Perhaps they put those little bracelets on the babies? Perhaps the babies never left their parents' side?

pasdechance commented on New Sony Walkman music player   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/rcarmo
pasdechance · 3 years ago
If anyone is wondering, there are a number of choices out there for DAPs and portable music devices.

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hi-res-portable-daps-compari...

I have a Shanling Q1. But, next time around I will probably go with something from Sony. Not out of brand loyalty, but because some of these companies tend to forget to provide updates. I really didn't want an Android device for music. I just wanted something around €100 that could play hi-res music.

To echo what so many others say: all hail the Sansa Clip+ and Rockbox.

pasdechance commented on Anonymous Messenger    · Posted by u/Sqarr
pasdechance · 3 years ago
> I want my private messages to never be seen or recovered by anyone

That might be hard, you know, because of screenshots.

I am not at all a pro on this, but if you look at the track record of some of these options you might be able to come to a conclusion. Signal, for example, has been subpoenaed a number of times and likes to repeat that they know about first and last connection, and that's it. But, Signal uses a phone number for registration, so some people might be put off by that.

Matrix is used by some government bodies (in France, I beleive), but you might want to host your own server (I don't know if admins have access to messages or not).

Briar "doesn't rely on a central server - messages are synchronized directly between the users' devices." [1]

Cwtch is one I've never heard of, but I like the buzzwords mashup of "decentralised P2P Tor Onion routing metadata resistant"

Session also proposes variation on that theme, and doesn't ask for a phone number.

I feel like this is a tough question that is up for debate.

[1] https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/home

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