Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
What’s ext4rat? Web searches don’t turn anything up and I must have missed out on whatever it is, or was. (Which wouldn’t be the first time.)
I did find a Python script called ext4ract which apparently pulls files out of an ext4 filesystem, but it doesn’t seem to be a hugely well-known tool and I’m not sure how it’s relevant here.
You’ll find both Sunday-first and Monday-first calendars here in Britain, though I couldn’t tell you the ratio and popularity of each.
I’m usually given one as a Christmas gift and that particular make are usually Monday-first, but last year’s was Sunday-first for the first time in ages, which took me by surprise.
Also, my computer preference is Monday first wherever it can be set.
That might derive from locale settings, but I’ve carried over configs for literally decades at this point, so I couldn’t tell you for sure.
A hard-coded list of known browsers would almost certainly work. There aren’t that many of them. Or better, a list of the common support files that get installed alongside the main browser executable(s), so you can’t just rename the main one and have it work.
Anything cleverer than that is about as technical as removing the custom OS and installing standard Sailfish.
Nah. I was thinking more like one of the actual non-shopped photos of him where he nonetheless looks like he’s not having fun.
There’s a few from the Senate testimony hearing where he looks especially spaced out, for example.
Alternatively, the one where he’s peering in a window for some reason. Assuming that’s not AI generated.
The oldest initial users of the C64 are elderly now. Those folks were adults in the '80s when the machine came out.
And those of us who were kids at the time are now late forties, early fifties or thereabouts. Riiight about the age eyesight starts to go…
T-shirt idea: Caption reads “Are we having fun yet?” with a picture of Zuck at his most creepy and least emotive.
I want to believe that this banned AI had decided that not being unkind and not hoarding wealth were good things and was starting to make convincing arguments to that effect.
I know that it probably wasn’t that, but that’s my head canon until proven otherwise.
I get that there’s a relatively distilled Linux user base here in the Fediverse, but what percentage of that group really needs ISOs that quickly, and presumably, often?
Is this to suggest that we’d try more distros if we didn’t have to weigh the time needed to download them?
The cloud idea is better. It would be nice to be able to essentially quicksave to off-site before logging off for an extended period, or even periodically.
On the other hand, how many gigabytes does the average person need to back up on a regular basis? Even power users don’t generate that much data, and I’d expect that they’d have some kind of rolling backup that does files at a time.
Oh, I do hope that there won’t be an influx of Elon Musk deepfakes on Xitter any time soon, because that would be terrible.
LibreOffice have specifically called them out, so I guess the support isn’t as good for ODF as it is for Microsoft’s OOXML.
There might be any one of a number of confusions here, depending how I read your comment. Or there are none at all. Hard to be sure. But for clarification’s sake:
Euro Office is not OnlyOffice. OnlyOffice is not OpenOffice, which is essentially defunct but was the most popular suite that first adopted ODF. OnlyOffice may have been named that way to lure people away from OpenOffice, which was, and is, still in use in some places despite a better non-proprietary option being available. Namely:
LibreOffice is the successor to OpenOffice and uses ODF as its default, so its support is 100%.
OnlyOffice supports* ODF too, but it’s by far not the, uh, only one.
* According to their specifications anyway. I haven’t used it to be able to confirm how good their support is.
They could have supported both by default.
Someone somewhere made the decision to concentrate on OOXML to the exclusion of everything else, either clueless as to how that would look, or hoping that few people would notice and the fall-out would be minimal.
Either way, neglect of the open alternative is not a good look.
I think you were downvoted because Euro Office has made the mistake of supporting Microsoft document formats above all else and don’t have good support for the ODF alternatives at the moment.
They have since said they want to do better, but they’re off on the wrong foot.
Yoti is British. I get you were talking about Sony, but I wouldn’t want people to get the impression that this is a strictly Japanese thing.
Oh. Well that’s much better.
I don’t remember seeing it in my distro’s package manager previously, but I have a feeling I might have rejected it for being a Qt app. By default their look and feel doesn’t match my window manager choices, and my distro hasn’t ever handled that automatically, so I may have decided I didn’t like the look of it.
Now I’m aware of qt5ct (changes some of the look and feel of Qt5 apps) so that’s not as much of a problem any more.
They generally share quite a bit of policy with the conservative party though. And where there are politicians changing parties in order to follow the gravy train (rather than the party itself moving right), it’s often from a conservative party to an up-and-coming even-further-right party.
Basically, love of money and sticking the boot in to those who don’t have it.
Only in America
Sadly this part isn’t true. If you want to find a hateful regressive, you only need to look to the right-wing parties in many countries. Sure, there are a few regressives in the fringe left-wing parties too, but the political right has a far more mainstream problem, worldwide.
And it seems like a handful of the party faithful might be waking up to that fact.
I would have recommended WinDirStat myself. I never did like the pie chart style views in programs like Filelight and Baobab.
(I use Graphical Disk Map on Linux. Not quite as full featured as WinDirStat but works in a pinch.)
That’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.
DuckDuckGo is my default engine. It assumed I meant “extract” and gave me a dictionary definition along with links to download WinZip and WinRAR. When I told it I actually meant what I typed, it put it in quotes and returned no results.
It was not obvious that I should have omitted the X and the T.
What I apparently didn’t do was try Google afterwards, and I’m a little disturbed that I didn’t. Adding !g to the search in DDG is usually the first thing I do when it can’t find anything, but my browser history suggests I didn’t do that.