iortega

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[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually, I have never used piped and invidious to watch the videos themselves. I use them just as subscription feeds and in case I need to search for some video, then I toggle a script I have, I copy the links to the videos I want to watch and I untoggle the script. Then the links I copied start playing on mpv. I don't like to overload piped and invidious services, which I would say is the main reason for them to be shut down, when I can watch/download the video through mpv-ytdlp on my own. Although, I don't know if that answers your question.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 1 points 1 year ago

Well, actually, many google services perform worse on my computers when I'm using firefox than when I'm using some chromium based browser.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 0 points 1 year ago

I use budspencer theme on fish. https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/blob/master/docs/Themes.md#budspencer-theme It looks cool and yellow, which I like. I prints the path on the far right and parent folders are printed only with initial letter, so it doesn't take 2 lines in the shell and it ends up pretty short. It also has git integration and some budspencer exclusive commands to perform some cools actions, I don't care about and I have never used. Also, I like that command errors are displayed as ✔ or ✘ on the next prompt. It also prints the time the last command has been running. I use vi keybidings, so prompt color changes when I change the mode feel cool. I would also like to have the execution time for every command, but I have another theme for that I don't remember the name of on my work machine.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I like your solution! Thank you.

About my computers: I have 2 1GB RAM laptops. One has 20-25 years the other one 10-15. I have tried Puppy and antiX in these. And I personally prefer antix on them. Another 4GB laptop that might be around 8 but is pretty trash as it was a gift from our bank (it was able to run Elementary OS, it was fine). A kind of old computer but with 4GB RAM (Think I have XFCE or Cinnamon Mint on it). And a big boy with 16GB and a pretty good CPU. And the oldest computers are used the least often (maybe once a year) while the middle computer might be used 20 times a year and the last one maybe once every week.

So I believe something like antix would work, but I'm not sure if the USB way would. Seems like they would lose their pendrives the second day.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I have lately experienced a problem with my family. We have good computers, kind of bad computers and really bad and old computers. I can install a really cool distro on good computers, but not on the bad ones. I need a lighter DE on bad computers and a distro ready for old computers. But my family can't afford to learn how to use the 3 of them. So what is the solution here?

I'm thinking about installing the same distribution on all of them so that they don't have to get used to a new one every time they jump from one to another computer. I think that will be antiX.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 0 points 2 years ago

I used to use libreddit or teddit. But they are unviable now because of the amount of requests. So I sometimes try to check if there is something interesting about SSBM, which is the only subreddit that is not on lemmy which I'm kind of interested in, but I get the same error many of the times. But it doesn't really matter, if you ignore reddit's existence, you will feel no attachment to it.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why did I hear Ralph's voice inside my head?

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 7 points 2 years ago

You will get already many responses to your question. Let me answer you the opposite.

I concluded after starting using FOSS software, that it was much easier to find high quality programs searching by "open source [feature I want]" or "[program] alternative open source" and I have lost hours and hours searching, installing and cleaning my PC because of malware I downloaded.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This Chinese, not Japanese.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 4 points 2 years ago

It is really strange to me they specified "an open source library"

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Although with Void I forget I'm on a rolling release

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 4 points 2 years ago

Free Software Foundation

 

I'm sorry for all the Rust fans out there reading the title, but it is true. I can't stop feeling fear whenever there is news about Rust spreading more around free software

I have looked at the project and it is fun! I have known people that loved Rust and I wish I did too. I think the results the programming language is getting around performance and security are great! But I can't help feel fearful of its trademark.

I have already accepted myself Firefox trademark. I kind of think it is fine. But being Rust a programming language, the foundation for software, I can only feel fear when I think how much software will be affected by trademark concerns.

I think the discussion about this was reopened with a Debian bug that was then summarized on this LWN article.

I can't stop thinking that this trademark that, I think, was made to protect the users (?), is in violation of freedom 3 (The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others), which make compilers that compile Rust code with the Rust name on it non-free software. Maybe, it is not specifically the freedom 3 which is being violated, it might be another license clause. It's basically that the software with the trademark is at mercy of its trademark owner, so it could sent a cease and desist whenever it feels preferable, then not being completely free as in freedom.

I thought the other day, "I think I read there is a new rust compiler with a gcc backend. That's so cool!! maybe that will fix trademark issues and I will be able to use Rust without any concern!". But seems like they are keeping the Rust name, which also keeps the Trademark. Moreover, I think gcc rust is going to gcc itself? (this is when I got stressed).

We could all assume nothing bad is going to happen with Rust and that it is going to be a wonderful programming language and compiler for free software. But wouldn't we be going against the very principles of free software by making this whole community trust a single organization? Now I think called Rust foundation, but pretty sure under control by Mozilla. What if everything goes fine the first 5, 10, 15 years, but then the trademark goes against us and we cannot do anything because Rust is everywhere?

I have always tried to ignore the trademark issue (because you know, it stresses me :), but back then I thought it would be better in order to protect Rust having a good specification (I think currently there is only an incomplete "reference") with a compiler that doesn't update and add so many features so often, so that alternative Rust compilers could be built and catch up the main implementation, instead of having a single ever-changing one as today.

I would like to know how you manage to suppress these fearful feelings or at least how you feel about this philosophically nonfree software/trademark issue.

Thank you for reading about my concerns :^)

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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by iortega@lemmy.eus to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

Is it possible for a regular user to block posts made by users on an specified instance?

Also, is it possible for a regular user to block posts with links (link as URL or as a cross-post, if that feature exists already) to another instance?

I think I can only do so for users and communities.

 

I'm not able to find that font.

I have found some websites that work for text, but they don't seem to work for emoji.

I'm using Firefox on Void Linux (old install) and Linux Mint (1 week old install, I didn't almost do anything). I have already tried to change fonts from settings, to check if emojis change, but I had no luck. I get these emojis on firefox, but not on Brave, for example.

Here is a sample image of some of my emojis:

I have to note that I only get these emojis on firefox. And I know should know which fonts I have installed on my system. But I have never understood fonts on linux.

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