ertai

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[–] ertai 5 points 1 week ago

ahahahhhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG

[–] ertai 1 points 1 month ago

Rubberhose FS (insane lore)

[–] ertai 1 points 1 month ago

Art is unique.

[–] ertai 1 points 1 month ago

"Computers need to be defenestrated, which means either throw Windows out of the computer, or throw the computer out the window." - Richard Stallman, Free Software, Free Society :)

[–] ertai 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every time a windows/mac user switches to libre software, Saint iGNUcius (aka GNU/god) smiles. Keep it up.

[–] ertai 1 points 1 month ago

Glad I use arch btw, pacman manages my python packages so I don't have to deal with all this mess.

[–] ertai 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Yet another python packager............... insane that such a popular language still doesn't have this basic problem solved.

[–] ertai 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't. No. This isn't real. He's lying, surely he's lying. It's just a person on the internet making a joke right?

[–] ertai 3 points 1 month ago

If they were honest, they would call it Unfair Source. 'We get to put bully our users for two years, and then they can have their freedom" - what's """fair""" about that? Yes, I said bully, because they can put spyware, malware and bad features without anyone being able to redistribute a copy without the mal-features. So either you get bullied, or you wait two years before the software goes open source. But by the time it's gone open source, the software will most likely be obsolete, because that's the pace of modern software development. Completely stupid license. If you want to keep your freedom, stick to free software.

[–] ertai 2 points 1 month ago

Actually, I just read the manual.

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submitted 1 month ago by ertai to c/security
 

Long live Julian Assange.

[–] ertai 2 points 2 months ago

You would be surprised with how common it is for the lay person to have problems on their computer. I like to start from there, and suggest a free as in freedom software solution. Then, once their issue has been solved, I will talk about the free software movement, explaning that these are the reasons that have motivated the authors of the software solution I promoted. Hopefully this leads on to a discussion about freedom in the digital world.

[–] ertai 1 points 2 months ago

That is definitely not a good starting point. WSL is much more complicated and prone to breakage than running a distro directly. It litteraly changes the whole system to make Windows run on top of a hypervisor. A better way to try out GNU/Linux is to boot up a live environment on a USB stick or use a VM. Plus, WSL is only command line, and I would think that showing a friendly desktop environment is the best way to blow the assumption of GNU/Linux being hard/only for nerds.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ertai to c/no_stupid_questions
 

To my understanding:

Many terminals are capable of displaying multiple fonts at the same time, say latin unicode characters in font foo and japanese unicode characters in font baz. In urxvt at least, it is also possible to have one font in a certain size and the next font in another size. However, no font can have a size bigger than the base size, the size of a terminal cell.

Why is it not possible to have multiple terminal cell sizes? For exampleso one line has terminal size 8 and the next line has terminal size 12.

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submitted 2 months ago by ertai to c/a11y
 

Hi, does anyone know of a program that will automatically lower sound / set a maximum sound level so as to prevent hearing loss? Preferably something that works with mpd.

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Replace cars with velomobiles (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
submitted 2 months ago by ertai to c/[email protected]
 

Speed record of a velomobile: 144 km/h https://www.aerovelo.com/eta-speedbike

We don't need any knew infrastructure, we just need to get cars out of the way

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