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  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.dev•Linux - Recreating old problems with new tools
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    8 days ago

    A similar theme here from 2022 slagging off fedora

    Some up his own arse wanker: Dedoimedo is owned and run by Igor Ljubuncic: former physicist, contemporary IT nerd, fantasy & sci-fi book author, and persona extraordinaire.

    and of course clickbait, bullshitter extraordinaire.

    https://redlib.privacyredirect.com/r/Fedora/comments/jtbkv1/fedora_33_review_by_dedoimedo_i_dont_know_about/

    a few opinions

    I’m of the same opinion when it comes to Dedoimedo.

    I used to enjoy his stuff but it sounds like he’s soured on Linux distros in general over the years. Most of his complaints boil down to typical Windows users complaints about Linux. Which is fine, because I suppose that’s the audience whose views he’s trying to reflect (people who want their systems to “just work”), but it places unfair expectations on Linux distros to be something they’re no

    I, too stopped trusting Dedoimedo’s reviews quite some time ago. The issues he has always seem to be the same and often are things I can’t reproduce. Also often, like in this review, his qualms are more with the chosen DE not the actual distro. Why would review a GNOME distro if you hate GNOME? Just so you can then complain about it?

    The irony is, that his review on KDE was glowing and with KDE he seems to be more than willing to ignore all the little niggles or they magically disappear on his usually fickle machine.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you?
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    13 days ago

    Im an old therapist and I always recommend the power of silence.

    I’m not nice to my co-workers. I am courteous, professional and set boundaries.

    If someone asks me a private question about my life, family, children or anything I consider personal. I just remain silent.

    Silence is simple. It take no brain power, whereas trying to think of ways to deflect questions will be stressful.

    It is not written in stone that I have to answer questions. Silence is a powerful tool.

    I never get into justifying to anyone why I do not want to share my personal stuff. Its personal for a reason.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life?
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    13 days ago

    The question: How do I live the rest of my life?

    You must ask yourself, how did I manage to get to where I am today.

    Reading your post, you say you have not been diagnosed.

    The spectrum today, in comparson to 20 years ago has expanded exponentially from the original.

    Personally, I think an introvert could get a diagnosis.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    You are a human being, you are not a Label or a position on a spectrum.

    There is no perfect human being, we are all different, not one of us is a diagnoses. That is why we are given names at birth.

    I dont know anyone called, adhd, autistic, psychotic or depressed.

    Diagnoses are what the medical profession likes to use to label us and put us in little boxes.

    The rest of the world see each one of us as some random human walking down the street.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    During my psychotherapy undergraduate years at University, my peers and I did an experiment.

    The experiment was to challenge the status quo, and assess how easy it was to get a diagnoses and get a prescription.

    So being your typical, annoying under grads, a few of us. including me, went to our respective doctors and complained about; feeling down, unable to sleep, not eating very well, and extremely stressed because of the work load at university.

    My GP referred me to see a psychiatrist at my local hospital. I was diagnosed with clinical depression and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) with a likelihood of a personality disorder.

    He prescribed me the anti-depressant Mirtazapine and pregabalin for the anxiety.

    Obviously, I was healthy 30 year old and didn’t go the the chemist to get my prescription. I also told my doctor so he could remove any referrences to mental ill health added to my medical history.

    We knew it was a stupid thing to do, but it did give us lots to think about, regarding the state of attaining a medical diagnoses, being prescribed unnecessary drugs and being given labels.

    By the way, psychotherapists dont label people.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.dev•5 reasons to switch to an immutable Linux distro today - and which to try first
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    16 days ago

    ZDNET’s key takeaways

    A very hard sell, all positive, shill work.

    1. Immutable Linux distributions are the future. sounds like ai promotion!
    2. There are several reasons why immutable is the way to go. only positive reasons!
    3. From security to predictability, you can’t go wrong with immutable. of course not!

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    1. Improved security: you might consider it on a server being DDoS all day or poorly set up by the maintainer.

    Security is great on linux, You dont this on a desktop distro.

    1. Better reliability: you might consider it on a server being DDoS all day. or poorly set up by the maintainer.

    reliability is great on linux, You dont this it on a desktop distro.

    I have been using linux for 20 years and never borked anything.

    This includes distro’s: Kali, ParrotOS, Debian, linux mint, unbuntu, manjaro, arch, Archman, Blackarch, Endeavour, raspberry pi, sparky linux and the old ArcoLinux, on and on.

    1. Atomic updates : A/B partitioning system

    sounds more like androids a/b partitioning system. and look how delicate that is

    apt, npm, AUR, pamac and pacman etc, have been working great for years,

    never had a package break! at install.

    1. Simplified maintenance: My god, what!

    Suitable for experienced users and lazy bastards.

    1. Reproducibility:

    With an immutable system, you are always guaranteed to have a bootable system. The updates for an immutable system have been well-tested by the developers, which means the updates are easily reproducible

    All those shitty updates I installed over 20 years, none failed, and all the updates had been tested by the developers.

    and more and more reasons not to go with immutability

    too much hard sell

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.dev•What would be the best setup to ease my niece (10) into tux land?
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    20 days ago

    My niece, same age. no problems so far

    I installed linux mint xfce on an old laptop for her.

    we set it up together and she loves it. Themes icons and all that jazz.

    I have hidden and removed items from the start menu. Just to keep it simple.

    I also set up some aliases so she just has to open a terminal and type “update”. she loves that. Thinks she’s a hacker now and impresses her friends.

    I have set up an alias to call bleachbit, so she just types “cleanup” in the terminal, types her password, and she can watch bleachbit do its thing. I explained to her how important it is to keep her machine clean, like housework at home.

    I must say, Kids are a nighmare for attracting viruses and malware using windows, its not the best age to suddenly be thrust into the slop of the internet.

    They are young and excitable and will click on anything and everything that catches their attention without giving it a second thought.

    Its a big plus not worrying about viruses and malware on linux.

    To stop her having free reign and accidentally seeing porn on the internet and protect her from the worst crap, I installed Mullvads DNS on linux and in the librewolf browser.

    Mullvad have a fabulous family dns filter; https://family.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

    here are the options:

    https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

    I have set the search engine to Startpage

    I have also taken advantage of Ublock origin and added loads of these is the: my filters list

    just a few of many to stop access to certain websites from the search pane

    This one stops amazon links appearing in the startpage search

    startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“.amazon.”])

    startpage.##a[href=“.amazon.”]:upward(1)

    This one stops ebay links appearing in the startpage search

    startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“ebay.”])

    startpage.##a[href=“.ebay.”]:upward(1)

    I spent more time on this than anthing else;