mamamia88

Bedroom setup

My “secondary” setup.

I honestly have no idea if this is the right spot for this but, I need to get it out there. What if you had a few pieces of merch on lttstore.com that funded charitable projects? You could open something like a second hand electronics recycling center/learning center in Vancouver. All proceeds from this merch go into funding it. You can build computers capable of creating of doing video editing. You could have your camera expert teach kids photography. You could have video editing experts teach video editing. You could sell the computers to aspiring content creators at break even. You could fly mr beast in for a collarboration where he teaches kids how to make videos popular the very first video would be guaranteed 50 million views and i bet he would be into it. Maybe you could even build like a library of educational books and then the kids could make educational youtube content that kicks ass. Kinda like a youtube farm but for a good cause. All this while minimizing the environmental impact of tech and inspiring a new generation of youtubers. Am I off my rocker?

So I'm snowed in today and it got me thinking. Wouldn't it be nice to have like a "tech Noah's ark" like an RV with everything you need to just take off south when a blizzard warning hits the night before. So I'm kinda packing my own right now just to get the idea.

Just for fun. Keeping computers out of the dumpster. Maybe get like a stock pile of ssds from a bulk deal on AliExpress and turn them into something useful

What desktop do you start them with and what distro? I'm thinking of doing a side hustle for fun where I buy old computer gizmos and sell them to kids or people who can't afford the absolute greatest. Thinking like old dells with 4th gen i5s or higher 8-16gb of ram, and a 250gb ssd under $150. KDE is too convoluted,cinnamon is pretty good, gnome i'm not sure i would give a new user or maybe i would?

I like some of the changes they make though. Pop Shell and it's auto tiling is something I install on all my gnome desktops now.

Imagine if Terran started using a tiling wm

Oh how about "Linux Quickie" videos? Put together a Linux box keeping Linux in mind. Setup a duplicate workstation as someone would use at your office and ask them to do their job for like half hour to see if the switch is possible. Love to see what video editors think of the software available to Linux or what the guy with all the macros for video editing could come up with if he took up a custom workflow on Linux. You're a pretty good test bed for this type of experiment and it might really help improve Linux if say professionals embrace it or provide feedback to stuff like kdenlive.

Video idea. You both buy Linux laptops and run your day to day office off them. Or get Lenovo or System 76 to give them to you for review. System 76 seems cool I bet they would be interested in the publicity. I'd honestly love to see the experience of having a new Thinkpad with fedora and gnome 40 and a trackpad for gestures makes him more or less effective. Maybe you can do a Mac vs Linux for running a business challenge. Linus gets a MacBook as a daily driver Luke gets a Thinkpad?

Oh wow it's been awhile. I think I learned about it back in windows 7. Thanks for correcting me. I haven't used my windows 10 box much lately. Not that Linux is perfect. I just installed gnome and can't even get the screenshot extension to work. Just installed arch taking all the recommendations I've seen lately in these threads in mind. KDE lasted like 10 minutes on my pc. I can see why linus had some trouble.

Am I? I just think having access to stuff you wouldn't normally can never be a bad thing., I think it's better for something to be in the AUR than not at all. I personally use arch based distros. I use the AUR for chrome and maybe a random app every once in awhile. I just don't know how good of an idea enabling something with user submitted packages that are potentially harmful and run as root should be enabled by default and if it is at least understanding how to read what it does is a good idea. I don't feel like I'm managing a dual system like you said I just use yay instead of pacman cause it searches both. I kinda treat the AUR kinda like how I would treat adding a line to my sources.list file in debian. Just it's one line for every single piece of software in existence instead of needing to manually add a ppa every time i want new software. Maybe if something is really good in the AUR it can be moved to the repos or the maintainer of the package can be allowed to upload it to the official repos but, just don't really know how good of an idea it is to have stuff run as root that isn't vetted for. Imagine if micorsoft allowed anyone and everyone to distribute exes on a system that admin access is default with no barrier to entry. Oh wait that kind of exists which is why apple makes it so hard to install stuff not from the app store. It's a security risk.

Did I say it was wrong to try it? No I was demonstrating my point that he was approaching it from a windows perspective. Snipping tool is a windows only tool for screenshots. It's a stupid name and you would never find if you didn't google "how to take a screenshot on windows". Most normal people would probably type screenshot or something into the search and find it in a few seconds. But, the fact that was his first instinct tells me alot. Then he criticizes dolphin for not having a refresh button, which it does if you look and it's just about as hidden as snipping tool btw. God the first time i took a screenshot on windows i needed to google how to do it. That's a ui failure right there. Meanwhile the refresh button on a file browser is something next to nobody ever needs and he's saying it's nescessary? At least it's an option

For you the AUR is essential. But, to the devs of arch it's a security/stability liablilty. Sure 99% of the stuff is probably safe and have at it. If you want to install something from there nobody is stopping you. If you don't like reading pkgbuilds maybe use a distro that uses ppas or flatpaks etc. All kinds of choices. Nobody is forcing you to use an arch based distro.

That's just like your opinion man. Opinions are like assholes everybody has one. That's why you get to chose between file managers, desktops etc. It's not like it's difficult to enable it. I don't ever remember needing to use the refresh button in my file browser. What utility does it serve? If I just added a new file to the folder it should be visible without refreshing or if I'm waiting for the file to move there should be a way to tell it's progress without constantly refreshing the file browser. Also I can see why kde made the choice for show desktop the way it did. For me personally that button is a quick way to hide everything in case someone walks in for whatever reason. But, I might be in the middle of an important essay or something and need to get my thoughts on paper as quickly as possible before I lose that train of thought so having it all show up quickly is a good thing. And once again you can change it. If you try to predict what every user wants eventually you'll fail somebody. But, at least with linux a different project does it the way you want or the developer thought "i personally don't see the value in a refresh button but, if somebody is looking for it they add it". It's kinda why I don't like KDE. They try to accomodate every possible use case scenario and settings just seem to get buried or hidden. It's just a rabbit hole I find too deep to go down without going crazy.