In terms of pirated versions, has anyone managed to get more modern versions of Office or Photoshop working from pirated versions? I’ve been quite curious about it for a while.

A lot of minor things:

We’re starting a grpup project in uni this year. 3/8 team members met, 1 couldn’t be there, 2 we found online but didn’t get a response from. The other 2 are a mystery. A large chunk of our grade depends on picking our favourite one of 48 projects, which we can’t do cuz we don’t know half the team, and their interests and skillset. Also, I’m feeling massive impostor syndrome. I wasn’t too serious last year, so now I feel like I don’t know anything (I know quite a bit but not nearly to the level I’d be expected to, in any relevant area).

I’m still having a hard time socialising. Last year, I didn’t do any going out or socialising, even though I was in the perfect environment for it, with flatmates that were going out. This year, flatmates are older, and they’re either in relationships, or just too focused on studying, or they just don’t want to go clubbing necessarily. I have high libido (teen hormones, what can you do) so I want to find a girl but it’s just not going to happen if I don’t go out (and dating apps produced no results so far, I’ve been on them for a year). So what’s the solution? Going out by myself, and looking like a lone weirdo, making approaching girls (did mention I have 0 experience with this) even more difficult?

My flat is a slight upgrade in some areas, and an annoying downgrade in others. It’s an upgrade in storage space within my room. The wardrobe and drawers are more spacious, to the point where I could properly fit all my clothes and didn’t have to think of what to stash under the bed. BUT the drawers were built by a maniac, who left them looking like they were taken straight out of a wacky animation, or something like Hello Neighbour, one goes left and down, the other goes right and down, the remaining is right and up, and they all conflict each other and I have to lift one up to open the other. Also, the extra space in my room has been traded for virtually no space in the kitchen. One and a half cupboards for all my stuff and barely a fridge shelf? At least I got a full freezer shelf.

Also, the sudden onset of a sore throat for seemingly no reason a few hours ago has left me slightly concerned. It may or may not be combined with a slightly stuffy nose.

I’m still trying and failing to get off social media, to get myself to do the right thing immediately, instead of just spending a bunch of time dealing with other stuff, or musing on whether this is the right thing, whether it’s the most efficient way, etc. cuz it’s a waste of time.

And I still can’t fix my sleep schedule. But that’s mainly a lack of discipline and the presence of procrastination.

Good idea, but I couldn’t find it

I’ll just link another user’s response to a similar question, as I don’t think I could ever say it better myself: https://corndog.social/comment/3216441

There is a morally good and morally bad way to do this. Proton did it the right way. OpenAI is doing it the bad way.

The first paragraph on: https://proton.me/foundation

Proton was created to serve the world, and the non-profit Proton Foundation ensures that this can never change. As Proton’s primary shareholder, the foundation exercises its control to ensure that Proton does not deviate from our mission to build a better internet that serves the interests of all of society. Our legally binding purpose is to further the advancement of privacy, freedom, and democracy around the world.

In contrast, OpenAI seems to be leaving the nonprofit with a minority stake so watch it all collapse under corporate greed, or simply become worse, or squeezed dry after infinite growth investors get their hands on it.

Good to hear that they’re better at power efficiency. What’s potentially concerning however, is whether that would lead to manufacturers just using smaller batteries. I want my 80 or 99 Wh battery for the longest battery life! I’ll heed your advice and wait to see where things go.

How slow, because I neved noticed

Trust me, it’s noticeable. Or at least it was for me. Numbers wise, it doesn’t sound like much, but the difference between 0.05s and 0.5s (which are roughly the times I was experiencing) is very noticeable, at least for me. One is done before you’ve even fully lifted the finger off the key, while with the other you’re preparing to press (or maybe you’re already pressing pressing) the next key, by the time you see a reaction.

Your mileage may vary.

Well, I certainly agree that Markdown is a lot more popular. I just wanted to hear your opinion on it.

Not actually open source but ok.

Why not just use org mode if you’re doing literate programming? Have you considered it?

Currently still in history. Issue was closed an hour ago so u don’t have long. Hurry

omz is bloat and slows fown your shell a lot. Just do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21_WkzBErQk

And I’d recommend starship for a custom prompt, it’s really good: https://starship.rs

Edit: For other ZSH nice-to-haves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLEo4OQ-cuQ

I think you can run paru without sudo and it should still do privilege escalation no problem

It’s been abandoned btw. People recommend to switch to alternatives. Fastfetch and hyfetch seem to be the best ones rn.

Though I can’t confirm as I wrote my own minimal fetch

Isn’t that what Explicit Sync was trying to solve? Check your Nvidia driver version, as well as your KDE Plasma version and see if they both support Explicit Sync.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Snap slowdowns have been supposedly fixed, but the only snap that updated their packaging to apply the fix was Mozilla’s Firefox (from what I’ve heard).

And there is a way to create a custom store other than Canonical’s (but it’s obscure and hidden, so I bet nobody would bother).

And snaps have better support for cli programs.

If snaps were as good as flatpaks (which I don’t think they are yet), and they were not made by Canonical (got them some extra bad rep), they could have been the dominant packaging platform. The issue is that their reputation precedes them. I don’t think Canonical can ever fix that.

TLDR: Snaps are not as bad as people make them out to be (anymore). It’s just that their reputation precedes them, and some of the solutions are there but are not in use.

I’ve been trying the same with Bazzite and ublue. Also gave it 2 days, and then left it as well, right before doing that with NixOS.

Personally, I use cal all the time.

Exactly. And here I am, after 2 days of trying to bend NixOS to my will, and I gave up. Tomorrow, I’m going back to Fedora, where everything worked perfectly, because I fell for “Shiny thing sindrome”, or the “grass is greener on the other side” stuff. Should have never doubted it. After 2 years of full time Linux and a lot of distrohopping, one would think I’d have known better.

Makes sense. Ubuntu just works and is popular. Debian is the same, some people are just more conservative.