I never appreciated snapshots until I ran a server. I used to just install a new distro whenever anything significant went wrong. Now I use them everywhere.

I can’t switch from Celsius to Fahrenheit, the switch just reverts. I do think it looks beautiful and has weather stats that I use when I bike but other apps don’t always have (air quality, UV) .

My partner did this just recently. I just handed the phone to them with Lemmy open and said “he saw you”. :D

That sounds likes fascinating project. I Iove it when people do interesting projects instead of taking the low hanging topics like everyone else.

Minus the thing about pumping freezing air into a computer where it will condense and fry everything, is there a reason other than the noise why a big fan like this couldn’t effectively cool a computer?

Yup, the Yeti and my ages old DSLR are the only remaining mini-usb devices in my home. I thought it was the other way around though. I thought mini was fragile and micro was smaller and stronger. I may have been wrong.

In any case, did you ever see the microUSB cables that could be inserted either way? I don’t think it was ever standards compliant, but my chosen USB cable supplier at the time did this and it’s was my favorite micro cable for years until it died.

My current frustration is devices that appear to be usb-c, but will only charge if the other end is usb A. Usually when you are on a trip with only USBC to USBC. :‘’'-(

I haven’t completely switched and still own a registered and insured car, but I didn’t drive more than 2-3 times over the course of a few months and that was already several hundred dollars in gas alone, plus the increased productivity from getting exercise and feeling less shitty than usual. Overall, even a single ride has a positive effect, but I imagine you would save several thousand a year (then spend it all on cool new bikes).

My city floated the idea of pothole decals a decade or two ago. It never happened, but it would have been bad. Lots of rear endings predicted.

That’s a great idea, eat shit butthead. ;-)

Yes, and the desktop is delightfully simple. Makes older hardware feel new but still looks good enough on modern hardware.

I hear you on the tiling. I wish my window arrangement on KDE was more keyboard based. As it is, I end up dragging and resizing across multiple monitors and workspaces.

I should have been more clear,

Assuming dev/sda is Linux and dev/sdb is Windows, I have grub on sda and Windows bootloader on sdb. I use a hotkey at boot to tell the bios which drive to boot from.

Theoretically windows thinks it’s the only OS unless it’s scoping out that second hard disk.

Is there any issue with having windows on one drive and Linux on the other and toggling in the bios at boot? Do I introduce any problems by keeping my rarely used windows installation on a separate disk like this?

We started with Linux around the same time, and I remember how awesome Gnome 2 was on Warty Warthog or whatever old release. At the time, the Windows Start menu was a convoluted mess of folders, uninstallers, readme files, etc. Gnome listed my programs more or less in alphabetical order with one icon each in logical categories. It was so simple, I explored every crevice of it and remember thinking “is this it?”. It was and I soon learned that it was not just simpler, but more powerful and user friendly in various ways. I have moved to KDE since then, but it is absolutely the enshitification of Windows that pushed me here.

Out of curiosity, what do you consider a decent file manager? Dolphin is my favorite currently because I almost always have two panes open, but I’ve been looking for something even better since I also spend a lot of time working with files.

Our favorite OS, comrade.

I also jumped from Gnome to KDE over the years. I’m not a fan of how Gnome went with the convergence, large-padding, touch trend. I love how KDE has tighter spacing and follows a traditional desktop metaphor while still being customizable. Gnome 2 did okay at this, but when gnome 3 hit, I ran to Mint/Cinnamon for a bit before trying a bunch of KDE distros.

KDE is so humble. Their k-apps are much more numerous than I realized and the DE is great on Kubuntu, Neon, Arch, MX, etc.

Having said that, I hold a lot of love for the gnome team too, I just don’t jive with the design philosophy anymore.

I started with Ubuntu in the 2005-7 timeframe on very slow old hardware. Shortly after, I bought an eeepc as I was a poor college student at the time and couldn’t afford much else. I dual booted for years until windows 8 irritated me into giving up Windows for non-gaming completely, I’ve been using various forms of Linux as my primary OS since then.

Tl;Dr tried Linux because my hardware was very modest, stayed because Windows was getting worse in various ways.

I like it. I’m going to start calling it that now. Why are we tiptoing around their corporate feelings? They forcing these things to become obsolete in contravention of what is best for the consumer.

Here’s one of the posts. The series was called Off-Theme.

https://lemmy.world/post/8878673

Sad to hear you had that experience. Someone posted some blog posts about complete KDE themes here a while back. I had very good results following the instructions in those blog posts. Each one had icons, window, plasma, gtk, wallpaper, and whatever else was needed. I stuck with “shades of purple” for ages, which would normally not be my first choice of theme.