plumbercraic

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[–] plumbercraic 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would think it's a good thing that there are a lot of greybeards in FOSS? If the claim is true, then it should mean that once you get into FOSS you tend to stay there.

The article seems to be referring to FOSS code contribution more than user adoption, but the same idea holds. The more I learn about my distro and its packages, the less scared I get about something going wrong that I can't fix and the less likely it is I will go back into an OS riddled with ads and spyware.

For code contribution I only ever managed to do a PR for a Kodi plugin, and even then it was only because this amazing guy from their team walked me through the whole thing step by step. It was quite intimidating figuring out how to do that stuff for the first time.

[–] plumbercraic 2 points 2 weeks ago

I feel that I have missed a golden opportunity

[–] plumbercraic 2 points 3 weeks ago

I only started six months ago and still consider my experience to be limited. These are just the names of some flavours of Linux, desktop environments, and display servers.

[–] plumbercraic 8 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Can't wait for Wayland to be ready in cinnamon. Possibly mean that literally as X is a laggy mess with fractional scaling. Maybe fedora with gnome will be my first distro hop.

[–] plumbercraic 7 points 1 month ago

I appreciate the memes on Lemmy. Seems to be automated and they have low engagement, but it's kind of awesome to to scroll, lol at cat, and get some news.

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[–] plumbercraic 5 points 1 month ago

Thank you for taking the time to write this. Making the rests reproducable and possible to improve on is important.

[–] plumbercraic 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I won tickets from the radio to see the premiere of Seven when I was 12. Glad I saw such a high quality high impact thriller so early. Watching Pitts character struggle with his decision at the end and trying to work out if his choice was right. Or consider the possibility there was no such a thing as a right choice. Amazing experience.

That being said, I wouldn't recommend that 12 year olds go see Seven.

[–] plumbercraic 7 points 1 month ago

A genuine username checks out moment - excellent

[–] plumbercraic 159 points 1 month ago (39 children)

I think 90% of my posts are deleted before sending because I just know that someone somewhere will find a way to be mad about it

But OK - here is a post that I would usually have deleted :)

[–] plumbercraic 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't notice which com I was in - well played.

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Taste of Uranus (lemmy.sdf.org)
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They certainly knew (lemmy.sdf.org)
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Haven't done this before. I wanted to get these posts into /c/theyknew, is this the way?

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Apple logo (lemmy.sdf.org)
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This Button (lemmy.sdf.org)
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We had this ad playing constantly in the 90s and for some reason I want to see it again. It was that special brand of terrible corporate "rap" of the time. The laces were colourful and curly I think.

Anyone remember this and have a link to the ad? Sorry for vague childhood memory.

 

has been a while

 

Pot is found in the living room and a family meeting is held

 

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The little things (self.theyknew)
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