brianary

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[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

๐ŸŽค Tap, tap, is this thing on? Posting again, even though this joke is probably only for me.

Presumably, this is F W DeMorgan's Law.

[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

KDE: With too much power comes too much responsibility. ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Zero that axis, please.

[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 64 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I didn't even know they had GPS that long ago.

[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bruce Schneier has been saying for something like 25 years that technological advances always favor attackers over defenders.

[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

WinGet, choco, scoop, &c, they all have strengths and weaknesses, which is why I had to write this: https://github.com/brianary/scripts/blob/main/Update-Everything.ps1

It's also why I use Linux at home.

[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

I really like the tiling window support in Pop_OS!'s Cosmos desktop.

[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the same argument I've heard about the "complexity" of Mastodon: too many choices, which is I guess why people largely stopped going to websites outside the major social networks. Monopoly over competition, it's like everyone is pining for a monarchy.

[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago

I guess the chicken and egg may have appeared at the same time.

[โ€“] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago

I've always called Word documents and PDFs "dead-end formats" (DEF). Once you export your data to them, there's no reliable way to retrieve your data from them for further transformation like you can for YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, Markdown, &c.

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