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Desktop Linux is proof that the Single Responsibility Principle is both a way to make everyone hate life due to complexity and a way to allow infinite flexibility for the fussy.

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I don't know if this is a Kagi thing, but often a search will have, as the first result, a stack overflow question that is a) marked as a duplicate, and b) exactly answers the question I had.

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Smartwatch sales down. I rarely wear my Apple Watch and still have a series 6. There's literally no reason to upgrade, and the buggy integration just put me over the edge. When I'm wearing my watch,...

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Beyond notifications (which don't super work), the watch just makes everything worse. It's not nice looking (despite my large band collection), it's not great at telling time, and it mostly just...

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I don't know if I should be heartened or annoyed that, like Apple's operating systems, my Linux desktop has a forever-badge on Slack that won't go away, even after quitting the app. Good job Salesforce?

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I ask Linux for Helvetica, with a fallback to URW Gothic. It delivers Nimbus Sans, even though URW Gothic is available. Cool.

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Node now recommends installing on Linux via NVM, which just sucks to have to do inside Docker. Their "docker" recommendation is to use a base image for Node. I feel for maintainers having to deal with...

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Making playlists for the first time in years. They are named for where the songs were most listened to:- Walkman with No Rewind on Bus [late 80's]- CD Boombox in Dorm [early 90's]- CD Changer in Car...

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I wrote up my thoughts and experiences on desktop Linux after a 20 year absence. Also notes on the Framework 13 (not most recent) version. There's a big list of "if you this on Mac, here's what you can...

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Can't wait for the "new Plex mobile experience"Current Plex mobile experience is: "you have nothing in your library, he's a pile of garbage TV and movies you could watch, oh no, wait, you DO have a...

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Welp, the thing that may kill Linux forever for me is that 1Password just will not work with any browser. I have deleted and reinstalled it and Firefox many m any ways. I hate this.

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During my re-install of Firefox, all PWAs were lost (cool), so I'm trying Tuba for Mastodon and deck.blue as a PWA for Bluesky.

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I'm trying out ULauncher instead of Albert and it's ironic that you cannot search the extensions page by any means other than Ctrl-F in Firefox.

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Still seems like Wayland has no way to manage scroll speed on trackpad/mouse however the Logitech MX Master 3S has a random button that makes the scrollwheel "ratcheted" which means it's nice and slow...

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My favorite thing on Linux that i had forgotten I loved being able to do is setup a Quake style pull-down ephemeral terminal. I'm considering using it as my full time terminal and not having one...

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Linux keyboard update that I know is riveting - you can swap Fn and Ctrl in the Framework's bios!! This brings the location of Ctrl closer to where my pinky expects it based on apple keyboards to which...

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I've been heads down all day, but: trans rights are human rights. I wish it did not need to be said. But it does.

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Yesssssssssshttps://mastodon.laurakalbag.com/@laura/114308710220642933

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Plex contains some of the most advanced AI ever created. For any musical artist, it pulls possible pictures of the artist to use in the UI. Using ✨AI MAGIC✨ it picks the absolute worst one every single...

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Never downloaded an Apple Arcade title so quickly.

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