This is kinda funny. During a family vacation as a kid, I went down to the hotel business center to use a computer kiosk but it required payment. I was bored so I was clicking around on the locked screen's hotel logo and got to their company about page, and a bit more link clicking eventually got me out of the company's website and to a google search page. I browsed for free for what seemed like an hour and did it again the next day before we went home.

Wow. I didn't realize beehaw has over 380 instances blocked! Now I feel like I'm missing out on the Lemmy fediverse.

Very cool. I wish the entirety of the computer's interface was scalable SVG so any custom resolution is possible and looks good.

I moved into a new apartment in a new part of town, just had a mattress on the floor and a few items moved in, and took a nap. When I woke up there was a man standing over me watching me sleep. Scared the shit out of me. Then I watched him slowly fade away from into thin air. Turns out I wasn't 100% awake yet and my dreaming brain had created a brief hallucination.

It's much harder to break if you're prone to tinker. And there's no configuration drift that naturally accumulates over time as you tweak a system, so it always runs like a fresh new installation.

I have learned much more on immutable OS because I'm no longer afraid to tinker around and try new things. I play in distrobox and can completely nuke the container without affecting my whole system.

No way. I don't want my clothes and computer covered in dog hair. I don't want my fingers licked. I don't want to smell dog breath or wet dog. I don't want to look at my coworker's dog taking a shit or peeing on the carpet, nor do I want to smell it.

Satan of the Bible, similar character to Prometheus https://www.enotes.com/topics/paradise-lost/questions/why-satan-considered-hero-paradise-lost-419454

Tasks.org app because it syncs across Nextcloud or Apple Reminders or Android or Linux, and more.

We had an "automobile hairdryer." On school mornings after I took a shower and was being driven to school, I would lean my head up towards the dashboard and have the A/C blowing full blast to finish drying my hair. I would do this every morning in elementary school. Probably not very safe now that I think back on it.

GrapheneOS. I love it. I migrated from the Apple ecosystem about two years ago into the FOSS and Linux world and haven't looked back.

No, I dont think it is unfortunately. Another commenter said it was full of trackers, although I have not verified that. I didn't realize that when I made the post

I've found OnlyOffice (not to be confused with OpenOffice) is very compatible with Microsoft's Office document format. I can open and edit docx files created by other people with no problem.

The solution is immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue. Immutable distros are almost impossible to break. The base OS cannot be changed - all your system customizations live in your home folder and containers. And you can always rollback to a previous system snapshot if desired. https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/

I used to have the same problem where after tinkering, my system would eventually break and I would need to reinstall Linux. I absolutely love Fedora Silverblue but there are others like VanillaOS for an Ubuntu-based variety.

I love the level of precision and dedication. I was just working on making XFCE look like Gnome but don't have anything uploaded.

Thunderbird will be releasing a completely redesigned app from scratch next month. It has a fresher look. Maybe you could install the beta and try it out?

https://www.howtogeek.com/897874/mozilla-thunderbirds-next-big-update-is-now-in-beta/

I guess Triangles. Most of them are too complicated but I guess they suit the KDE experience

I got a used ThinkPad T480s and installed 40 GB of RAM in it for Qubes OS. It's modern enough to charge over USB-C, so one plug for everything. I also have a MacBook I use for school and both are solid.

This is not good. The past few Gnome wallpapers were much nicer.

Another Lawnchair / GrapheneOS setup

Here is the post: https://beehaw.org/comment/449643

I cannot verify if that comment is true or not, or how they found out the information.

I tried to reply and ask, but for some reason my comment will not post! I have tried using the website and several Lemmy apps.

If you use Linux most mainstream distros allow you to encrypt your hard drive during OS installation using LUKS. You can also use Gnome Disk Utility to encrypt an external hard drive (using LUKS).

Veracrypt is cross platform but personally I use LUKS since it is integrated into the OS.

Here is a guide explaining more: https://tails.net/doc/encryption_and_privacy/encrypted_volumes/index.en.html

There is lazydocker which gives a visual interface to docker in the terminal window. May be worth looking into.

Another vote for syncthing. It just magically works in the background and is very reliable. I take a photo on my phone and within seconds it's on my Photos library on my computer. (gThumb and/or Shotwell for Linux work well. )

I have had good results with Tesseract. I had to export the PDF to individual jpegs, then batch OCR'd them with tesseract, then merged the individual pages back into a single PDF. If you don't want to use command line and are okay with it not being open source, PDF24.org does a good job and does not charge.

I don't really understand what is different from how it already works now.

Oh wow I haven't heard of this! Just downloaded it.

My mom has several cats and I tried to tell her this but she insists "this is just what cats do" and it is the natural order for cats to roam free outdoors. She thinks people who say cats belong indoors are out of touch with reality.

Do you install the mobile site as a web app to your home screen? Otherwise it gets lost in a million tabs in my browser.

15 stories high in the air over a concrete street.

This image made me physically ill.

LibreTube for Android. YouTube just has too many ads.

I installed it on a M1 MacBook and everything seemed to work fine except I think it had trouble resuming from sleep and I had to force restart it every time. This was over a year ago so I'm not sure if this may still be an issue with Asahi, and I no longer have it to test further.

flaws in identifying women and people with dark skin highlighted.

Why did I read this as women using makeup to highlight their cheekbones.

Not sure how paying for an item online using Zelle is in itself a scam. The scam would only come later if the stranger had requested your bank info, or you reply to a dodgy email, etc, but so far nothing untrustworthy had happened yet? I don't think that was a good question.

I was just about to say the same thing. This is awesome, OP! Keep making them!

#3 sounds interesting. What advice would you give to someone to figure out if they're currently in a #3 situation or not?

Lawnchair Alpha version is beautiful and modern. I've tried many launchers before but have stuck with Lawnchair since I found it a year ago. Get the the official github alpha version - the version in the Play store or F-Droid is not the same.

Or OnlyOffice which is a near clone of Microsoft Office that can handle docx files without screwing then up.

Pink Flamingoes

Backyard birdwatching? Collect recipes like on Pinterest that look good and if you feel like it later you'll have some good recipes to try making?