By showing how you drew a comic about it them posted it to lemmy ofc

Not only were the programmers women, but so were the computers.

this place isn’t what it used to be

whatever gets em there

It’s written in a messy way but I actually read it the opposite way.

There is a non insignificant portion of the gun community who, when presented with the concept of “everybody should be taught gun safety, because it’s a right granted to us” relating specifically to liberals (go figure) happen to get really fucking antsy at the thought of people they don’t like owning guns.

I think what @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com meant was that the 2A people don’t seem to be very interested in defending gun rights for people outside their circles. I don’t know if I’d use liberals as the example here. I think Black people would be far more salient.

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While 1967 was a long time ago, the “antsiness” has remained. How often do you hear of these people doing anything to defend the people who are the primary targets of anti gun laws? Which is, by a large margin, Black and other racialized people.

I heard an interview with some Public Defenders who had submitted an amicus brief in relation to a guns rights case on the basis that even though the actual case was stupid, changing the law would materially improve the lives of overincarcerted communities. I thought it was on 5-4 podcast in follow up to the first ep that covered the case in a less friendly way: New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. I don’t find the subsequent ep where they had the PDs on for an interview… maybe it was taken down.

Luckily my device screens can all be turned off, closed, put face down and otherwise turned off when not in use. Unlike indicator lights on the routers, APs, HDDs, PCs, mice, powerbars, extension cords, radios, headphones, USB cables, ACs, microwaves etc etc etc. Either totally unnecessary to have a light in the first place, or a subtle light could do the job just as well.

I freaking hate blue LEDs.

I actively avoid buying anything with a blue LED because they are so obnoxious. So bright. Why do I want to read by the light of my HDD? Does this video explain why they have to be like that?

Maybe if you have a separate wing of the mansion to do computing stuff it is not annoying. But if like a lot of people you have electronics in your living space, these lights are extremely disruptive.

It seems that can’t really be dimmed… I had to give up on a couple of blue backlit alarm clocks because there is no way that the time can be visible without illuminating the whole area around them.

For whatever reason, red is the best one. I would prefer another color aesthetically. For whatever reason, red is the only color that does what it has to do and nothing more.

It doesn’t matter if no one ends up with the same configuration. No one ends up with the same configurations on KDE or Gnome either. Having a reasonable starting place is courteous and doesn’t diminish the experience for those who wish to delete it immediately.

But I guess it does serve some emotional needs for their communities. So I’m glad it’s there for those who need it.

I’m not sure if that is working properly on my system. It opens a dialogue box that just has content "" with cancel/ok buttons .

I tried populating a file tab.txt with a few lines because I am not sure if my results from the first part are what’s expected, which is 1 line. No matter what the content the best I can do is get the first line to show in the dialogue but not in an interactive way.

Tbh having a bit of a hard time following what’s going on with 2>&1 tee. But I am not sure how it could be the right thing as I don’t see more than input?

What I want is to open a dialogue like this:

yad --title "Create a file" --form --field="File name" --field="Content

where the user’s input gets directed to some sort of structure. Like an argument As though you had a terminal script with the syntax scriptname --filename="file.txt" --content="red green blue".

If you leave some of the field blank will it be able to skip assigning the respective variable? That’s one problem with the positional values.

It is the only solution I found. I described it in the post but put it behind a “spoiler” “What doesn’t work” to make the post shorter.

This seems unmanageable because adding a new field or failing to provide input for a field will both change the output order of every subsequent value. It’s way too fragile.

I do not understand the mystique of applications that don’t come with a reasonable working config. I don’t want to invest hours just to try something and see if it is vaguely suitable. Anyone who wants to delete the default config can easily do so.

I guess people get pulled with sunk costs because by the time you get it working you’ve spent so much time on it.

Codeberg us really new, i think like 2 years. Since covid for sure.

Am not a gamer. But i made a sort of platform for my laptop to sit on to keep it being flush on a surface esp like couch or bed where no air goes in. I found a coated metal wire thingamagig thats the right size, and used zip ties to add stoppers so it doesn’t slide off. Im sure you can buy something like this instead of make it out of garbage like i did.

Anyways one of the really useful side benefits is that i can clip the power cord to the platform so that there is no tension on the connectors. My power outlets sometimes in the opposite direction from the connector and if i dont use the platform thing it is always pulling.

I don’t have much VM experience and I didn’t think of them for this. I didn’t know you can do suspend to disk. Does it work reliably? Would I be correct in guessing each “saved session” would be no greater in size than your available RAM?

Interface-wise would it be similar to a remote session where you open a window and it has a full second desktop inside it?

its intuitive enough you don’t even notice

a bit much

COMPUTERS ARE FUN AGAIN

agreed

familarize yourself with everything first

dry humor i hope

Also CalyxOS

was it a qoo wop song?

why was Google able to find the answer to questions exactly like this 6+ years ago?

curious if there is any way to know for sure if this is the case? is there documentation of vague google searches over time to track their results? sort of seems like a “don’t know what you got til it’s gone” sort of thing for the average user. but maybe there is some academic work or industry publications to this effect?

We do have a good 10-20 years of every news story intro containing a line like “a google search for ‘spatula’ returns 2.5million results”. remember when journalists and other writers thought that just putting a single search term into a search engine was the way to conduct online research?

otherwise it is really just your recollection how it felt then vs now. i can’t comment on @merc@sh.itjust.works’s programing skills but the point about changing expectations is a good one. not to mention that the amount of available data has exploded.