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- Comment on Yeah 6 days ago:
This makes me happy. 🙂
- Comment on Yeah 6 days ago:
SVN is still great if there a need for strict access controls and central control matters a lot. Auditing is also a bit easier with SVN.
It caters more for a linear workflow, though. So modern large teams won’t find joy with SVN.
- Comment on Yeah 6 days ago:
Gitlab, Gog’s, Gitea… you can run all those locally.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 1 week ago:
Basically some reasonableness.
Set boundaries. Meaning you probably should choose specific times to check the news. You could for instance check once in the morning and once in the evening. Or even only on specific days.
Also curate your sources. Follow outlets that offer reasonably balanced reporting. Misinformation and sensationalism are your sanity’s worst enemies. For example, don’t get your news from social media (as is so common with many and which leads to a host of other issues…).
Try to avoid doomscrolling. If scrolling starts feeling like sinking, it’s
okaynecessary to stop. You really don’t need to absorb every detail to be informed.And just something I personally found is to balance bad with good news. Spend time with positive stuff. Even in this timeline there’s good to be had.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 weeks ago:
“I present: the Jericho.”
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, quite a few things. Here’s a few:
- Software installation and compatibility
- Application support; some popular software is built with Windows in mind.
- One-clickinstallers; Software usually comes with user-friendly installation wizards. No command lines or dependency juggling.
- Driver availability; Linux is getting better, but Windows is superior
- Better peripheral support like for printers, webcams, game controllers.
- Gaming performance; although Linux is gaining ground, Windows is just better in this regard
- Media codecs and formats; again, Linux is getting better, but this isn’t always an out-of-the-box everyone
- Business integration; Windows plays nicely with enterprise tools like Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and legacy business apps.
Don’t get me wrong. I use Linux as my daily driver. That also means I get frustrated on occasion when again I must consult man pages instead of just running a troubleshooter or fiddling with Nvidia drivers instead of just running the game.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 4 weeks ago:
And yet, the wants of the many often do.
- Comment on Birb 5 weeks ago:
!birdsarentreal@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Is there something like a spreadsheet for hierarchical data structures? 5 weeks ago:
One of the best organising tools I ever found. And still under active development.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 1 month ago:
blog.cryptographyengineering.com/…/telegram-is-no…
To get encryption one must start a “secret chat”, which many users likely don’t even know exists. It’s an opt-in! Regular users will not even know the option exists, that’s how well hidden it is.
Regular chats? Plainly readable on the server.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 1 month ago:
Most of the alternatives mentioned have such low adoption that they aren’t truly viable options yet—no matter how much we wish otherwise.
And I say that not as a critic—I actually use Matrix, XMPP, and Jitsi myself. But guess how many of my friends, family, or colleagues are on them?
Exactly.
That’s why I recommend Signal. At least there, people are likely to find folks they already know.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 1 month ago:
I features, yes. By 10 miles.
Privacy? It isn’t driving anymore at this point.