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Cake day: May 31st, 2020

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  • Good question. My best guess is that the buttons have become less important, because:

    • they try to auto-detect where a signal comes,
    • they have better defaults, so you don’t really need to change settings, and
    • even monitor brightness can partially be controlled by the OS.

    But yeah, I got a new monitor at work, and instead of buttons, it has a joystick on the backside. Now the monitor’s menu pops up every so often, I’m guessing because something shook the joystick just enough to trigger it.
    When I saw that joystick for the first time, I wondered how long it’ll take before it breaks, but it’s broken on day 1, so that’s great. 🫠


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzPeas plz
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    I believe, the problem is mainly white bread, which is what people typically have in mind for feeding ducks.

    As opposed to wholegrain, it only retains the endosperm, which is mostly just carbohydrates without many nutrients:

    I think, the lack of fiber is also particularly problematic. At least, I’ve heard that it gives them diarrhea, which probably means their guts don’t have time to extract the few remaining nutrients.







  • On KDE, it’s just one of the suggestions, I believe, that you could search this term on the web. If you trigger that suggestion, it then opens the web browser to do the search.

    As such, searching “terminal” wouldn’t yield a suggestion from a web result that matches, but I’m pretty sure applications are prioritized above other results either way.


  • A few years ago, I set up a home-server with music and some pictures on there, and recently I noticed that my storage disk was getting full. Then I saw that the disk only had 16 GB and wondered, where the hell I got that small of a disk from.

    So, I go to plug in a bigger disk and can’t even find the original disk at first. Turns out my whole storage capacity was one of these bad boys:

    Spoiler

    A tiny USB-A stick, designed for keeping it plugged into a laptop at all times.

    And yeah, I’ve got about 1800 songs, clocking in at 5.8 GB, so even that tiny storage would easily be enough for a much larger collection.
    And I do also have them replicated on my phone, for listening on the go. (Don’t even need an SD card in my case.)



  • Man, at $DAYJOB, if we open-source something, they tell us to check for checked-in passwords and whatnot, and force us to throw away the commit history, which always feels stupid when we’ve known upfront that we’re going to open-source it and so kept things clean from the start.

    But then, yeah, you see a post like that and just think that it really wouldn’t have been too difficult to search for swear words before publishing.
    I mean, I also don’t really care, since it’s code rather than an official communication channel, but I can understand why management might care.


  • The description in the ticket isn’t too bad:

    allows users to make a window disappear and keep only its title bar visible.

    It really just hides the window contents. In effect, it is similar to minimizing a window, except that it doesn’t spring into your panel and rather stays in place as just the window title bar without the contents.

    It is a niche feature, if you couldn’t tell. But it isn’t some KDE specialty feature; various other desktops and window managers also support it. I think, it was more popular in the early days of graphical user interfaces, when we were still working out, how we want to do panels and such.

    And conversely, I do think it makes more sense as a feature on big screens like you can have today, where your panel might be quite a bit away.
    Don’t think, window shading will make a big comeback just yet, but yeah, probably enough existing users that use it, so that it would be cool to support that workflow.




  • Isn’t that like a central part of the whole Christian thingamabob? I believe, you can interpret the bible to say that humans were created in the likeness of the Christian god and they are supposed to exploit all the other stuff that the god created. So, cats are there to be snacked, not for going to heaven…





  • As the other person said, the bit about Arch is just the preamble.
    But you can use Nix Home-Manager on Arch (or other distros), if you’re so inclined, which will give you that reproducibility for the stuff in your home-directory.

    In some ways, this is like backing up and restoring your dotfiles, but it allows you to template those dotfiles and depending on the program, it offers simple ways to populate the dotfile templates. For example, KDE applications don’t generally offer very legible dotfiles and so configuring e.g. a panel via dotfiles is kind of a pain. To help with this, there’s Nix Plasma-Manager.