I had my new Win11 PC preinstalled by the vendor and then immediately ran Win11Debloat on it. It's been quite painless that way; not many nuisances except a few OneDrive popups to extinguish and the typical forced reboots after updates.
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racked commented on VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025 fsfe.org/news/2025/news-2... · Posted by u/kirschner
As a Windows user, I never used VLC because I didn't like its UI and not having the "click to pause" was a big issue when you control a media center with a mouse.
So I used Media Player Classic without any issues for years.
When I moved to Linux Desktop, it came with VLC so I tried and forced me to use that damn "space to pause". But half my videos had issues playing. Being in KDE, I switched to Haruna. It's ugly, but I can play anything without issues... and I can "click to pause"!
Have you tried SMPlayer? It's a lot like MPC
racked commented on Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication togetherlondon.com/insigh... · Posted by u/lucidplot
I bet you're getting plenty of downvotes from the Yanks.
Do elaborate on that first paragraph though please, I'm bursting with curiosity about what makes you see it that way.
racked commented on Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication togetherlondon.com/insigh... · Posted by u/lucidplot
"The technique works by subverting standard social etiquette. The normal rules dictate that we take turns. I talk about myself, then you talk about yourself, etc. Active listening changes that. You are listening, they are talking. We do not take turns.
You need to work hard to maintain these unusual rules. Your partner will try to give you a turn"
This unwritten rule is not understood by many. There are plenty of people out there that are completely happy to drain you of your energy by talking endlessly about themselves. What I try to do in those situations is to assert my speaking time and if that doesn't change their attitude, it's bye bye, fuck off, go drain someone else.
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racked commented on Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption borgbackup.org/... · Posted by u/rubyn00bie
I remember using Borg Backup before eventually switching to Duplicati. It's been a while.
I've had an awful experience with Duplicati. Unstable, incomplete, hell to install natively on Linux. This was 5 years ago and development in Duplicati seemed slow back then. Not sure how the situation is now.
Mr. Sanglard is a lucky man :-)