I’d try and get my work to switch, but apparently Zebra thermal printers (of which we have so many) don’t work well with CUPS, you may be able to do some weird shit to make them work but iirc it wasn’t too viable for a large scale operation.

I’d wager a lot of companies do use things that just don’t work too well on linux yet, not that they couldn’t work it’s just that none of the people smarter than me who make linux happen have worked on it yet, and until they do it’s just what it is. Before we want to capture the enterprise market we need good easy to use thermal printing software, CNC software, laser etching software, stuff like that. It can be done too for at least most things I’m sure.

Yeah I’m sure I would do the full build, but also I’m definitely a weirdo and there’s no way any of the shit I use comes stock lol so it has been mainly the “additional software” and dependencies bit, and to be honest I had no clue how you guys did it but this post helped a lot, thanks!

I’m still kind of a linux noob is also the thing, I started my journey years ago, but only by booting into tails every so often, then eventually ~4y ago I installed Fedora, eventually got tired of gnome and when the framework 16s dropped I grabbed one and switched to FedoraKDE, and that’s it, I haven’t made the jump to a big boy distro that “isn’t recommended for beginners” but Slackware will be the one I try, because I was a SubGenius before I even installed linux.

Thanks! The “having to figure out dependency management” thing has been the largest roadblock in me trying out Slackware so far, but I really do want to try it.

I need to try Slackware soon, by Dobbs.

What are the names of the projects in the steps? Slackware itself I think is the minnie basement, but then I’m at a loss.

Eh, I’m not gonna switch whole OSes to the most invasive spyware I can readily find just for the once every 3y I need to spin up PKhex, wine will do.

And yet, it happens.

At least in the US, that is illegal to do. Now good luck prosecuting that until a lot of police reform happens because that’s a whole issue as well, but that is illegal. Over there he’d be convicted and sentenced on top of being held.

Listen I know it doesn’t mean much but for what it’s worth I’m sorry the entirety of lemmy is (evidentially) too fucking stupid to feel the searing sarcasm of your comments here today. Consider this a formal apology on behalf of my “contemporaries.”

Me: Prosecute? Speech? You can’t, get fucked.

Glastonbury

Oh that sounds bri*ish as hell, makes sense, didn’t have a chant starting loicense.

Honestly (can’t speak for OP, but) I’ve been moving away from matrix recently.

• Element is buggy as hell on my phone and a shitty electron app on my laptop. The other apps mostly lack feature parity.
• It’s difficult for normals to use and thus difficult for me to convert and retain my contacts (and trying has likely hurt my chances at getting them to adopt another now that they’ve all fallen back to SMS).
• Parts of it like reactions aren’t encrypted and it leaks metadata hardcore
• I found out that the Matrix [.] org foundation was started by a former Amdocs employee (in fact it started as an Amdocs project before they stopped funding it and the matrix foundation was created) which raises HUGE red flags for me. Amdocs is affiliated with mossad. Even if Matrix isn’t their proximity to Amdocs who definitely is is too close for comfort.
• Lastly I understand that things in the privacy space are often exploited by bad actors and don’t directly blame Matrix for this, but the CP problem on matrix makes the public rooms basically unusable and thus removes them from the equation. First of all because of this they removed the ability to find rooms through search, which “good” but it also kneecaps innocent use of the rooms, and secondly I just don’t want to see that shit so even if I know the room addr I don’t want to join it anymore unless I need specific tech support from an official room listed on some project’s website, and then I’m in and out. Plus now I have friends asking what kind of CP app did I make them install and asking if they’ll get sent to prison for seeing that shit in the raspberry pi room, and you and I both know they won’t but also I don’t want to put them in that position in the first place.

I’ve fallen back to xmpp for now, but I’ve been trying out Delta Chat as of the last few days and I’m liking it, I think I could get the normals on it with the easy onboarding, and the “no public groups” thing might be a feature not a bug.

I really really wanted to like matrix but it boils down to A) even if I do a chat app is useless without my people on it and B) with the Amdocs connection I’m too paranoid to trust it and C) even if I can just avoid the public rooms and thus CP, the fact that someone I know like my mom or cousin could conceivably stumble upon it there isn’t a selling point at the very least.

Steaming letters open is a thing. More work though.

Call me when you accomplish at least half of something, 20%er.

Sorry, DDG says no, and I’m gonna have to agree with it here. 20% is 20%, that’s an 80% failure rate, hardly “hugely successful.”

We’re just gonna have to 20% agree to disagree.

1/5th success.

Well, they only got 20% of the guns that time, and the vast majority of them were .22 “pea rifles” and shotguns. In fact only 204 automatic weapons were turned in (for a rate of 1 in 1,000). Also they had about 3.2 million registered firearms before the ban, which reduced to about 2.2 million, only to now be back around 3.2 million, but with a lower % of Aussies owning them.

Also violence was already on the downswing before the buyback, both firearm and non-firearm homicides generally lowered from around '79 on, though while firearm suicides decreased, non-firearm suicides increased.

Don’t get me wrong I’m sure the bans effected the rates a little, but not much and they were already decreasing over a decade earlier. It seems that AUS is just not that murderous, and that those who would have shot themselves seem to have just found another way.

(I think their point was that it should be taught unilaterally instead of used as a punishment because the teachers administering the punishment could be overly sensitive, overly passive, or even directly weaponize it.)

Tbf that argument is not without it’s merits, that might be better, in addition to being harder to abuse it as a punishment, it also wouldn’t limit it to witnessed/reported misogynists, and teaching it to even young women could help them have the courage to call it out when encountered or even just recognize it, or even help with internalized misogyny. Idk, sounds good to me.

Was

Is.* Nicotine+ is the client to make it even better.

Well I do at least want to try it out, the creator is a SubGenius (thus the name "Slack"ware) as am I, so that’s reason number one, and SW is less likely to have a canonical moment (like ubuntu ykwim) than Fedora.

That is good to know that you don’t have to hunt for the dependencies though because that’s definitely one of the biggest things holding me back from trying it yet!

Praise “Bob”!

I want to run Slackware for religious reasons but the “no package management” thing has me prioritizing my Slack over learning how to Slackware (just as Dobbs intended.) For now Fedora will do I suppose.

Tbf he did say “diaspora” meaning he’s talking about Lebanese that have moved (or dispersed) abroad, and he’s saying those who moved are mostly christian.

I can’t back up his claims (because honestly idgaf about your internet argument and am not going to look into it at all), but the “54% Muslim…” seemed to say that was in Lebanon, not all those who have migrated elsewhere, so it’s possible you’re both right.

(Though also I’ve seen articles saying he is Muslim so unless those are wrong this is all a moot point anyway.)