ShellMonkey

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Meep meep!

What do you expect when the company is run by a loony toon?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How does cutting funding end up deleting data? Unless they where hosting this stuff on fed systems they shouldn't have been able to touch it, much less delete it.

As for the 'maybe it was accidental', I'd laugh if it wasn't so painful to reiterate what kind of sociopath we have running things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

The model here needs tuning, it hasn't managed to mimick coherent human language yet.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Battle of who do you want to give all your usage data to so they spam you with ads?

There's a reason why they're cheap, never used Walmart ones but the Amazon tablets required extra fees just to not be a permanent billboard on the lock screen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This is part of the annoyance of Nix as a desktop though. With windows you have 64bit and (for whatever reason) x86 versions of apps and it's generally just assumed to work with what your running, unless you have an antique with win98 or something.

With Nix there are a a whole pile of possible variables and ways to install things. Particularly with people getting so used to phone/tablet app stores the need for easy install, use, removal is needed for mass adoption. Nobody wants to create folder structures and set environment variables to use some app.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (13 children)

For server hosting it's the only way to go.

Gaming has improved significantly, although it's rather frustrating that it's by all these compatibility layers and such rather than native run.

For desktop, as a workstation and general purpose it's 'ok' with rough edges. Things like (limited tests with a couple common distros like Ubuntu/Mint/Bazzite) the nextcloud app not supporting virtual files that have been available for a while in Windows and domain auth being twitchy where I've tried.

For the end user a big part is being able to just find an app and use it, no compiling or tweaking of settings needed for it to do what's expected. Package managers help greatly, but with the huge number of distros out there it makes it really hit and miss to say just go for it. The relatively few times you can just download a Linux version of an app from a site (as people are prone to doing if they go read about something on the web) you often would have to go chmod +x it and quite possibly have to run it from a CLI rather than just click the downloaded app.

So usable yes, but in a place where I could just drop it on someone and say go to town less so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sweet, will have to take a further look at that. Had set it up to check the state of Nix games and it seems to be pretty decent (last I really looked was when StarCraft was still a big thing). Didn't see anything in the settings about ldap/ad auth in my messing about though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure if this is a nelson HawHaw, or just a 'yeah, that fits'.

These are the people that preach morality to the rest of us...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

I want to see some actual damn teeth here when felon inevitably looks to not comply, throw his ass personally in jail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

She's just paying attention to the feed and saving some of the things for later.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would say maybe a case of what are you referring to as attractive. I'm also iny 40s and would say 20s looks good, BUT, the gap in lived experiences, world views, musical tastes, etc, would get tiresome very quickly.

I also recognize that I'm not some Hollywood hero pretty myself, so trying to base a relationship on what is physically appealing as the first thought is not going to go far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Largely because half the services I host are tied to a Univention DC, and so are the current Windows client machines, I'd like to maintain that state.

I know Ubuntu has an AD option when you set it up, but it doesn't seem to work with any of the 'AD compatible' replacements I've tried.

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