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Also, if you don't know the channel and want to check out his videos, you can still watch them on Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheLinuxExperiment.
> 9/ Interestingly, Tran never trademarked "Sriracha" (he did trademark the green cap and rooster, though).
Regardless, in the US net median income is $37k. I think maybe you're living in a bubble if you don't understand how people live on that kind of money. Also, don't be surprised by how big of a factor lifestyle inflation is. Your average Joe in Spain is not dropping $60k on a new truck.
I don't want to tile all my windows, only terminals, so I'm not interested in tiling WM.
I also jump between OSs and appreciate being able to have the same terminal multiplexing behaviour on both linux and macOS, without needing to learn the keyboard shortcuts and idiosyncrasies of two different GUI terminal multiplexers.
As another commenter pointed out, being able to multiplex in the exact same way for remote sessions is a massive bonus.
Lastly, tmux has a lot of features and customization and once you learn those you really come to appreciate them. Tmux can also look really quite nice, it doesn't need to look as boring as it does out of the box: https://i.imgur.com/MgUx0U2.png.
I have definitely been called out for being online but not replying, so I can easily imagine how that can end up becoming a big drama in some relationships.
There's a decent guide here: https://ubuntu.com/blog/safely-backup-google-photos.
I run this every night on a raspberry pi, syncing them to my local NAS which is in turn backed up to cloud storage.
The vast vast majority voted against Brexit and are devastated, if not surprised, by how it has played out.
Luckily, getting residency was fairly straightforward, with the requirements basically being that you live and work / are retired in Spain.
The hardest part though is knowing that further generations are not able to exercise the same freedoms that we were able to. So many unlived experiences, friendships, marriages, children. That truly is the greatest shame of all.
In my opinion extensions have to be one of the worst sources of spyware these days. I am now extremely conservative with what extensions I use, and definitely would only use extensions from open source projects or companies that I trust.
Something needs to change. As long as extensions have such weak sandboxing along with such poor app review, Google/Mozilla etc will keep willingly shipping spyware unbeknownst to their users.
At least some mechanism of creating and verifying reproducible builds would go a long way.
This is a huge issue and Google is doing absolutely nothing to address it.
The jankiness of scaling on Linux is when you want to do fractional scaling.
There is a workaround to add custom addons, though: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issu...
If we are serious about tackling climate change then we need to decarbonize these other sectors by moving them off of fossil fuels and onto clean electricity. We are going to need to generate a lot more energy, not less.
It completely locked up Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04, rendering a frame and making a single beep sound about once per second. Had to close the browser and force kill some processes to get the TTS to stop.
Given pretty much all laptop screens manufactured these days look best with about 125%-150% scaling, this is a pretty big issue.
The piece is not anti-nuclear.
Also, risk is not binary. Finding out the true risk of something does not mean it's high risk and therefore negative. You can assess the risk of something and conclude that the risk is low and generally overblown, which is the point of the article.