Putting everything I need for a project in a folder with a readme at the top level:
Waking up to no headache after feeling gross yesterday due to said headache.
crouch low to the drain to minimize splashing
We chose from a list where students with earlier birth dates got to choose first. Perhaps a consequence of small school district combined with less commonly-learned language, but after the 3rd year with the same teacher, we tended to revert to our real names, just pronounced with an accent.
I practically never need to. I’ll find a way to make things work one way or another.
Depends on the degree of coreboot support. If the vendor or a firm like 3mdeb officially supports coreboot on your model of choice, it’ll have first-class support and you won’t miss out on anything compared to your typical proprietary BIOS.
If you plan on installing it yourself, do read carefully through the coreboot docs since some systems will have a few quirks (e.g. audio jack issues on T480/T470). But once coreboot is up and running on your computer, it’s smooth sailing on Linux. Compiling and flashing can be a bit of a rabbit hole, but I’m happy to give some pointers if you go this route.
I daily drive a ThinkPad X230 with Libreboot and haven’t had any issues. The only significant differences I’ve noticed are
nvramcui payload) has very few optionsLost my mind a few years ago over this quirk. Now I always change both files when I want to change the hostname.
I tend to do the inverse of the two-step process you mention. Make the diagrams in Libreoffice Draw, export as .pdf, then use \includegraphics{} in Beamer.
For sure, if some research institution were motivated enough. I won’t speculate if it’s happened in secret, but cloning a sheep brings us pretty close to being capable of cloning a human. I would be more surprised if 30 years since the cloning of Dolly, we haven’t advanced to the point where the only thing stopping us from cloning humans are ethical concerns.
Fellow Debian user ricing my daily driver here. Other people may call me crazy too, but I can see where you’re coming from. I’ve mostly come to terms with it by reminding myself that most people are either blissfully ignorant or too busy to care.
Have you considered making a sort of install script or even just a public repository for your tweaks? Makes it all a bit more accessible for those interested to adopt elements of your system. I’ve personally wanted to put together an automated install script once I perfect my Chicago95 rice since I’d imagine there’s quite a few people who want a one-click, retro, but functional system.
Got Debian with MATE on a couple of my computers. It’s easy on the eyes and easy on system resources. I like that its file manager lets you expand folders so I have that installed on my XFCE machines too.
Every day I feel more justified in keeping my 1990s car running.
(I’d also like to walk or take public transit, but the infrastructure here is car dependent)
I can attest that having full control over a mini PC feels great compared to Android TV, if you have rather niche media consumption habits. Someone in my family had below their TV a laptop hooked up to an external drive full of local media, a DVD drive, and a crappy Android TV box only ever used to play YouTube videos. Replaced it all with an old SFF PC, put GNOME with 175% scaling on it, with a mini wireless keyboard to control it.
But as others have commented, a Linux setup falls apart as soon as you want to watch the mainstream streaming services.
Honestly no idea. I could perchance team up with trustworthy people to form some self-sufficient community, otherwise it’s just a matter of time before succumbing to the elements or other people. Would work on my fitness a bit more if I knew ahead of time the world would become like that.
Stuck with Google Workspace at work. Fortunately, it’s tolerant of me not being reachable 24/7, so it’s all confined to the browser on a work laptop. I like to think that I’m free from Google’s services in my personal life, though I still haven’t been able to give up YouTube yet. At least I’m never signed in.
Also, one personal Google account created ages ago. I’ve completely gutted it and haven’t logged into it in recent memory, but idk, I can’t be bothered to delete it either.
Knowing that Google isn’t peeking over my shoulder on my GrapheneOS phone is very freeing. I wouldn’t ever be comfortable using a regular Android phone again.
The difference would be trivial since the mail would still be going through and sitting on Google’s servers. Client has to fetch it from some server and your university using Gmail means they’ve already outsourced the whole email system to Google.
I’d take u/anticonnor’s advice and gradually move services and correspondence to your new mail provider. Several years back, Google flooded the education market with cheap cloud services and “unlimited” storage. Then a couple years ago, they started charging huge premiums on storage use above a certain limit, leading to mass data deletions and the discontinuation of alumni email among many universities. Who knows when they’ll pull the rug again.
I will admit, I miss the smooth graphics of Virtualbox. It’s quite evident with dragging windows around or playing a video inside a VM. Don’t want to touch Oracle stuff anymore though. Anyone here manage to get that working on virt-manager?
The way I’ve seen people around me use the dryer, for sure. High heat will ruin clothes more than anything else, especially if it continues to run after everything had dried out.
Back in university, we had timed dryers that could only do either high heat or tumble dry low for an hour. Rooms were too humid and cramped to air dry. Of course, I wasn’t going to spend more money waiting for low heat to do its work. Clothes came out bone dry and metal zippers scalding hot. Only the large towels held up, everything else noticeably faded and thinned over a couple years.
Night and day difference once I got my own place with a condenser dryer. It takes longer, but everything is just dry enough at the end of each cycle. It’s also a bit smaller so I have to air dry parts of larger loads, but either way, my clothes have held up much better ever since.
Functionally, not really. I can get my work done on anything from FVWM to GNOME without a hitch.
Aesthetically, very much. The Chicago95 theme sparks joy and makes work just a bit more enjoyable. KDE and GNOME might have more creature comforts, but I will happily tolerate XFCE because it works well with Chicago95. I don’t even do fresh installs anymore because of the time it takes for me to configure the visual style just right. I’ll instead image from an install I’ve prepared on a VM.
I use UTC+0 because I don’t like the ideas of timezones and DST.