It was an effort by multiple Unix vendors to create a common desktop environment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

*tabs Fedora*

Well, the thing is, if you’ve got a whole bunch of biodiversity and you cut down a small patch in the middle of it, where you grow your monoculture and use your big machines and whatnot, that’s when this fuck-biodiversity approach is rather profitable.

But if you scale that up, if a whole bunch of farmers kill biodiversity in the same region, this will obliterate profitability. You need biodiversity for:

• pollination
• enriching the soil (we have no industrial process for creating humus; it’s mostly just earthworms doing their thing)
• pest control (birds and whatnot can eat your pests, if they settle nearby; they won’t settle nearby, if there’s no food for half the year because you’ve killed everything else)
• resilience against pests and climate variations (if your harvest consists out of multiple different plants, then some of them failing from pests or droughts etc. is much less of a problem)

I’m probably forgetting more aspects, and we probably don’t yet know all aspects either. But ultimately, plants have evolved to exist in rich biodiversity. It isn’t just some moral thing to do, to keep that intact. Plants will falter without biodiversity, no matter how much fertilizer and pesticide you pour onto them.

Yeah, Lemmy is actually a decent software for this use-case…

I am not sure, but in Nix I declare the desired state of installed packages and configurations in an obscure language and the package manger takes care of that, right?

The package manager is only one (very important) component of the system that applies your configuration, but otherwise this is a good description, yeah.

Now the module declare reasonable default configurations? Like http server starts on system start and serves on port 80?

Obviously, it depends on each individual module, but so far, I’ve mostly been fine with the defaults. Typically, it doesn’t modify the configuration, unless you explicitly specify a configuration value, therefore using the defaults that the software normally uses.

Now you lost me at the Home-Manger. I can declare stuff in my home folder. OK, so for user-wide configuration? For packages and configuration in the user space? Or what?

It’s for user-wide configuration, so what would generally be stored in dotfiles. For example, you can configure the search engines in Firefox. Or the panel layout in KDE.

Home-Manager can also install packages, which is useful, because it can also be used standalone on other distributions. And in particular, you usually want to declare that a package should be installed and what user configuration it should use, all in one place…

Soll ja kein Auftrag an den Innenminister sein, aber es ist ein baldiger Auftrag an die CDU als Koalitionspartner hier Gespräche zu führen.

On KDE, I’d recommend getting a KWin Script for tiling. Krohnkite is what people use currently.

It’s not as buttery smooth as dedicated tiling window managers and it can be a bit glitchy at times, but it is better than one might expect and significantly easier (and likely less glitchy) than trying to get bspwm to work in Plasma.

Habe recht lange in einem Musikverein mitgespielt, auf dem Land.

War damals noch vegetarisch unterwegs, und selbst da war die Verpflegung schwierig. Meistens gab es höchstens z.B. trockene Brötchen, während die anderen eben Saitenwürste o.Ä. dazu gegessen haben.
Manchmal gab’s dann auch mal bei Veranstaltungen etwas größere Buffets, aber da konnte man auch nur bedingt den Gerichten vertrauen, weil man nie so sicher wusste, ob z.B. der Kartoffelsalat mit Fleischbrühe ist. Oder oft war auch z.B. Bohnensalat dann mit Speckwürfeln, was man natürlich sieht, aber schmälert die möglichen Gerichte eben nochmal. Vegan hätte man da komplett vergessen können, weil auch nie angeschrieben war, was in den Gerichten drin ist.
Selbst wenn mal explizit vegetarisches Essen ausgeschrieben war, war es einfach nur das normale Gericht ohne Proteinbrocken. Ausgeschriebenes veganes Essen habe ich nie gesehen.

Bzgl. Erfahrungen mit anderen, obwohl es während meiner Zeit auch noch zwei andere gab, die (zeitweise) vegetarisch gelebt haben, haben wir darüber nie großartig connected, weil man sonst nicht so viel miteinander zu tun hatte. Mir geht’s zumindest auch meistens, dass ich ganz froh bin, wenn eine Person mal nicht nach meinen Essgewohnheiten fragt.
Sonst gab’s regelmäßig wahrscheinlich halbwegs nett gemeinte, aber eben doch irgendwo doofe Sprüche, dass ich Salat essen müsste und Co…
Ja, und dann gab’s auch schlechte Erfahrungen. Generell war ich anders, weswegen mich manche immer komisch beäugt haben.
Bei uns war aber auch z.B. der stellvertretende Vorsitzende ein Schweinebauer für den meine Existenz natürlich ein Affront gegen seine Existenzgrundlage war.

Ich denke, es kommt definitiv auf den Verein an, wie viele Menschen mit Mitgefühl oder progressiverem Gedankengut da drin sitzen. Und ja, würde auch mal pauschal behaupten, dass es auf dem Land nochmal schwieriger ist, mit solchen neuen Ideen Anklang zu finden.

Yeah, I don’t like when corporations put stuff like that into their ToS, but at the same time, I 100% understand why every open-source license under the sun has it. You’re giving it away for free, so you don’t want people to sue for more than you’re providing for free.

Mastodon.social is currently very much in the latter camp of giving things away for free. I also understand that a service is yet another beast than a piece of software, since they hold your personal data and may leak/sell it. But yeah, at this point in time, I wouldn’t want someone to be able to sue Mastodon.social out of existence. I guess, it depends a lot on how it’s formulated in the end…

I’ve never used Facebook, but I’ve seen people say that Friendica is quite similar to Facebook (in case you care about that).

Yeah, the wording is confusing. A long time ago, there was no paid software, there was only software where you got the source code and other software where e.g. it was pre-installed on some hardware and the manufacturer didn’t want to give the source code.

In that time, a whole movement started fighting for software freedom, so they called their software “free”.

Muss bei sowas immer daran denken, wie bei uns in der Schule der Mythos umging, dass Haare nicht nachwachsen würden, wenn man sie ausreißt.

Gibt mehr als genug Menschen, die sich alle paar Wochen mit 'nem Epiliergerät oder Wachsstreifen so ca. den halben Körper ausreißen, und das dann ein paar Wochen später nochmal machen, weil Haare offensichtlich nachwachsen.

Aber logisch denken ist da für viele wirklich einfach nicht drin. Es könnte ja theoretisch doch vielleicht etwas dran sein. Und selbst wenn es sich strikt ausschließen lässt, will man es ja nicht ‘riskieren’. Da sorgt dann die Angst dafür, dass man gar nicht mehr logisch denken will.

Bei den Zivilkriegszuständen der letzten Tage, muss man ja lebensmüde sein, um bei einer Militärparade aufzutauchen.

Can that actually happen like this? If Windows killed the bootloader wouldn’t that mean that you couldn’t boot into Kubuntu either? Or can it somehow kill the bootloader when the PC is turned off?

It’s just the normal “Pager” widget, configured to show application icons.

I find “minimap” more descriptive for what I’m doing, because I don’t minimize, nor stack windows, so if a window exists, it has a location.
Which is also ultimately how I use this thing. Imagine a large desk where you need to jump between topics every so often. You’d put related sheets of paper next to each other and leave a bit of space between the groups. Sheets of paper are just application windows in my case (I will open one or more windows per task, I don’t mix tasks together based on application like people usually do). Well, and my desk also happens to be very long, so I can comfortably fit a minimap for it in my panel.

And because I really like multitasking, I’ve actually got multiple desks, in different colors:

For these, I use Plasma’s Activities. The different colors are done by having a transparent panel and then setting the wallpaper to different colors + telling Plasma to use the wallpaper for determining the accent color.

In this screenshot, you can also beautifully see a workspace with 5 Kate windows, which is genuinely where I shoved a bunch of notes, for me to sort through them later. 🙃

Not a piece of software I’d use voluntarily: The web version of MS Teams.

I get to use Linux at $DAYJOB and I have a rather customized KDE setup (basically window tiling, 20-80 workspaces, a workspace minimap in the panel).
Usually, I’m surrounded by other nerds, who’ll ask about it occasionally, but you know, they’ve heard of or used Linux before, they know that some crazy things can be done.

Now, yesterday, I was in a call with the legal department. I started sharing my screen and explaining my relatively simple problem. And the guy took longer than I expected to respond, which made me quite self-conscious, whether he needs time to process my explanation …or rather what in the fresh hell I did to my computer to make it look like that. 🙃

People here are saying that Waydroid works quite well for running Android apps on mobile Linux.

I tried postmarketOS a few months ago on my SHIFT6mq and for me, the dealbreaker was that I couldn’t get my SIM card to connect, so no mobile internet and no calls. As I understand, this strongly varies between phone models, though.
Aside from that, I did like what I saw a lot. I used Plasma Mobile and that was a more competent UI than stock Android, because well, it is essentially just Plasma with some tweaks. Felt a lot more like the pocket computer I never knew I wanted.

Also, bonus fun fact: “Alter!” as an exclamation probably comes from “Alter Schwede!”, which means “Old Swede!”.

According to Wikipedia, after the Thirty Years’ War, a German duke hired experienced Swedish soldiers to train new soldiers. And because they were experienced, they were also generally old. I have no idea, though, why that stuck around as an exclamation. 😅

Right, so presumably “Ålder” means “age”. In German, we have basically the same word, “Alter”, but we also use it as an exclamation, kind of like “Dude!”.

Now, if you want to exclaim “Alter!” with more disbelief, you say it with a long A and a D in place of the T, which one might write as “Alder”.
And for even more disbelief + almost anger, you can pronounce the “A” very strongly and kind of slur the rest of the word, which one might write as “Alla”.

So, this reads to me like someone exclaiming their growing disbelief. 🙃

(All of this is very informal. These are not official rules you’d find in a dictionary, but younger generations would probably interpret it as I described.)