megane_kun

I only got to know this because of an XKCD comic.

The author lost me when they showed the terminal command to install Nvidia drivers on Debian. Yes, it’s one sentence. That’s still extremely daunting to the vast majority of computer users. It undermines the author’s own thesis.

I think it's just a consequence of the variety of ways a Linux distro can present its options and settings. It's far easier—and arguably, safer—to share a command than to anticipate how to get to a certain option or setting.

Just as an aside, I had this exact same problem when a friend asked me to do something on my system. I ended up having to send them screenshots of what I'm looking at in order to direct me to where I need to be. All that trouble could have been avoided had they sent me a command to run on my terminal.

Is it better to have a utility that a user can just click? Yeah! Someone can write a utility program that can do just that, I guess. But then again, the problem now becomes how the user can make sure this utility program is in their system.

I guess it can be a bash script? The user can download the script and then make it usable. It's a few clicks in Dolphin and (Gnome) Files, probably the same in Thunar, but we're back to the same problem: the variety of ways a GUI can take to the same end.

I highly doubt that Linux users, at least the ones who value customization, will want to lose that customizability in order to make things easier for Windows refugees and pull more of them in.

It's from this comment somewhere else in this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17995404

I just took the link there as well as other information from the other comments here and collated the information along with the description.

I wanted to see what it is about other than the title. Thankfully, some of the replies here have given me where to go to get the info to make a decision before I watch the video.

Peertube mirror (thanks to @[email protected]):

• https://peertube.wtf/w/tkde6SyxaM64kMcxYWFn3E

Transcript (thanks to @[email protected]):

• https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like/transcript

Description (taken from the TED talk link):

“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” — the powerful tech executives who are using their global digital platforms to amass unprecedented geopolitical power, dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. Her rallying cry: resist data harvesting and mass surveillance, and support others in a groundswell of digital disobedience. “You have more power than you think,” she says. (This talk contains mature language.)

Just for reference.

IDK why, but I went in expecting someone rewriting the software for PS1 in Rust.

I've played Simutrans on and off ever since the mid 2010's. I'm not any good at it, and usually play it without regard to a lot of its mechanics (especially managing finances), but I've spent countless of hours just connecting communities and cities with over-engineered roads, rail systems, ferries, and airplanes.

No problem. I actually discovered this via an entirely different route, and it can really be frustrating sometimes.

KDE Plasma is so powerful and provides a metric ton of options. However, a lot of them are lying "hidden" like this. Still, kudos to KDE Plasma for having these options be configurable via a GUI, in a more or less logical place.

In the KDE systems settings, go to "File Associations".

From there, you'd be seeing a tree of "known types", go to "inode" and then "directory", you can add a new program by clicking "Add..." in the "General > Application Preference Order" area.

What's happening here is that you're adding a program to handle the "inode/directory" mimetype. Because of that, this change isn't limited to Konsole, but will also affect other programs.

They certainly exist in Ikea here in the Philippines. I've been there a few months ago and the free pencils and paper tape measures (rulers?) are still there and being used.

I'll add another datapoint. I've had to do some effort removing/disabling OEM bloatware and adware on my Xiaomi phone.

To be fair though, I bought it because it has good specs for its price, and I was already aware of all the bloat and adware that came with it. The first thing I did after unboxing the phone is to just excise all of that shit.

Global version from the Philippines, if you must know.

I am in no way an expert nor a proficient user of ReFind, but I looked at my own configuration and noticed that in the main configuration, the showtools line is commented out. However, when I looked at the configuration file of the theme I was using, there's a showtools line:

# Minimal dark refind theme v.0.2

# Set the name of a subdirectory in which icons are stored.
icons_dir themes/darkmini/icons

# Your background!
#banner themes/darkmini/bg/ubuntu_two.png
banner themes/darkmini/bg/background.png

# Custom images for the selection background.
selection_big   themes/darkmini/selection_big.png
selection_small themes/darkmini/selection_small.png

# Tools
showtools shutdown,reboot,firmware

I suppose then that if you're using a ReFind theme, it might be overriding your base configuration.

Now, this is but an extra, so feel free to ignore this. This is how it looks like (mine has a different background image and list of OS'es):

I suppose you would want a more minimal look like this:

And here's the theme in question, https://github.com/LightAir/darkmini

I hope that helps somehow. Best of luck!

EDIT:

Changed the image to better reflect how my ReFind looks like given the theme and configuration. Added an additional screenshot. Added explanatory text and separation between my main response and additional info.