I mean I get where you’re going with this, but I still don’t see how this effects Linux. Oh no I can’t access reddit without a government ID…cool I don’t use it anyway?

And if Lemmy or whatever else requires one then oh well, I’ll find the dozen or so forums that don’t care then

Ah just looked up EX mode. Didn’t know capital Q entered a different mode, I just wrote “Q” to emphasize the key in general not capital Q specifically lol.

Personally I love vim, it’s just powerful enough for me for my bash scripts. Anything more complicated then I’m using a proper IDE or something more simple I’m using Kate or whatever graphical editor for my DE.

Nah, just looked it up. Recording mode is activated by pressing “q” and allows you to record your inputs for a macro. So if you forget to do “:” and just press “q” you’ll enter Recording mode and have to press “q” again to exit Recording and then you can do “:q” or whatever you needed.

But if you don’t know what you pressed and don’t know how to exit Recording mode then you’ll be stuck. I’ve seen coworkers get stuck in this from time to time.

We’re a RHEL shop so our vim version may be different, but Recording mode doesn’t let us exit vim directly, we have to exit Recording mode and then exit vim. Again, might just be our setup.

Just had a conversation at work about using Linux full time. Coworkers asking me what issues I have and what games I can play.

I mean it’s not all sunshine and rainbows…but I told them my Start Menu opens every time I need it. I don’t have explorer.exe randomly crashing. I can search in my Start Menu for things and they actually come up properly. Oh and with btrfs snapshots I can update whenever and if it breaks I just rollback and wait for a fix. Which has happened…once in the last 5 months of using Cachy+Plasma.

I feel like I can actually use my computer now. With Windows I dreaded doing updates. With Linux I update whenever I want and it doesn’t fucking bother me at all.

As a parent, I have zero faith in any system like this. I’m all for more parental controls(like what Gnome 50 just implemented), but I don’t want anything(program, web browser, video game, etc) to be able to query any kind of “age” field on an account on my system.

I don’t want ANYONE to know if my child is using a device. And if that means I have to create an adult account for them, then so be it. I don’t want my child’s information being scraped and imported into some random database that gets leaked or sold to nefarious actors.

I guess jury duty is optional where you live?

Could be in recording mode, which usually needs a couple ESC or a Q then you can :wq

Idk who’s spending $200 on it. It’s $100 for the basic, but it goes on sale often. Same with Ancestry’s test. They always go on sale.

I dumped it when it went from $5 to $10 a month for PC gamepass.

$120 a year gets me A LOT of games on Steam sales.

I know I’m not the target audience, but it was pretty nice playing tons of games for $5 a month.

At $30 I don’t think I could even justify that. It’s absurd. Even as a one off to play everything I could…I’d rather use that $30 for literally anything else.

You can buy appliances without smart features still?

Best Buy has dozens, if not hundreds, of fridges without smart features. I can buy a 18cu top freezer fridge for $450 right now.

That same type of fridge back in the 1970s cost $300-$400. Adjusted for inflation that’s $2,000

So I don’t get this post. You can buy cheap fridges still and it’ll probably last a long time if you take care of it. Read repair reports or Google random problems for a fridge you’re looking to buy to see the most common failure points and see what the repair cost would be to factor in future costs.

Stupid post.

Yeah, just a tiny 4000+ line script doesn’t count as one command, I agree!

Using Mediawiki here.

I have obsidian and tried using it, but my personal workflow for my homelab just doesn’t…work with it? Idk, it’s just easier to throw it into a private wiki.

I still use obsidian but for personal life stuff.

I’m not a programmer, but I have my dotfiles and bash scripts I like to keep in private repos. I just moved my dotfiles over to Codeberg, gonna do my scripts here soon…

But been relatively painless. I can see how bigger and public projects will take some coordination and planning but…it’s probably worth it?

Codeberg has been fun and simple to use, but again, I’m just a hobbyist.

Shout out to Switch and click doing a run through of different distros as well. Probably the best from a “normie” perspective IMO.

Nah I totally get where you’re coming from and agree that shit can happen, I just don’t care anymore I guess? I’m gonna vote how I always do and if shit happens then shit happens

That’s me, still haven’t bought it. I got other games to play anyway so oh well!

I’m in Cali, so I don’t know with other states.

My local registrar just has a box out front and I’ve dropped off ballots there at 3am before. It’s locked, but it looks like a USPS envelope drop off box, but it’s the registrar’s. So just shove them in the slot. And then I get a text the following day or two saying it’s been collected and counted.

No one checks anything. I’ve even gone one time where it was drive-through style and I just rolled my window down and gave them to one of the dozen or so poll workers.

As long as the envelope is sealed and signed properly by the voter, I don’t see a reason it’d be contested. And when it all gets counted if there’s a discrepancy then it’ll get flagged and that individual who signed it will be contacted.

Been doing the drop offs for years now, for all elections. Never had a problem.

At 3am? 12pm? 7pm? 8am? They’re going to be there 24/7?

Because I got all of the time in the world

That’s cool, I’ll just bring all dozen ballots from my family to the local registrar office drop off. No USPS involved.

Thanks for the warning Trump!

I just add the official launcher as a non-steam game and ran through the install as normal.

Granted I haven’t done it in a couple of months, so not sure if that method still works…but I don’t see why not