Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
Well, welcome to the Free side fellow traveller :-) I too ditched Windows for (different) political reasons 25 years ago, and haven’t looked back. You’ll love it here, 'cause if you don’t, you now have the power to change it 'til you do.
Sorry, I was on mobile so I over-simplified 'cause digging up the details on Wikipedia wasn’t so easy while also juggling my kid :-) I’ll try to amend the original post.
I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve been shouted down more than a few times for suggesting that Ubuntu is a bad gateway distro.
I’ll likely be downvoted for this, but if you’re committed to Linux, you might want to reconsider using Ubuntu (or Fedora for that matter). Ubuntu has a well-earned reputation for trying to make things “easy” by obfuscating what it’s doing from the user (hence that useless error message). They’re also a corporate distro, so their motivations are for their profit rather than your needs (wait 'til you had about Snap).
A good starting distro is Debian (known for stable, albeit older) software. It’s a community Free software project and the 2nd-oldest Linux distro that’s still running as well as the basis for a massive number of other distros (including Ubuntu). The installer is straightforward and easy too.
Or if you’re feeling ambitious, I’d recommend Arch or Gentoo. These distros walk you through the install from a very “bare metal” perspective with excellent documentation. Your first install is a slog, but you learn a great deal about the OS in the process, ensuring that you have more intimate knowledge when something goes wrong.
Do AI bots really spam Lemmy of all places for this sort of thing? Ick. Well thank you very much, this is very useful. My intent is to drop Tilix in favour of GNOME’s default terminal (or maybe one of the sexy alternatives that the cool kids keep talking about like Kitty), but I couldn’t switch without understanding this first.
Your config works for me with one exception: bind -n M-| effectively means that I have to hit Alt+Shift+\, since | is only available via Shift+\. I amended this to be bind -n M-\\ and it works gloriously. Thank you so much!
It turns out that I didn’t need to use set -g xterm-keys on, but I’m curious: what does it do?
There’s no need to get snarky. I did in fact do multiple searches, but as you might note from the question, this is a hard thing to search for. The GitHub wiki has this page which looks promising, save for the disclaimer at the top claiming that it’s no longer relevant due to something called extended-keys, but searching the same wiki for that returns nothing. Similarly, a web search for it returned a bunch of news sites talking about how tmux does extended-keys now, but none of the ones I found explained what this was, how to use it, or even if it was relevant to my question.
This is great news, and I might be tempted to use it if I had some reassurance that the mail servers (and the organisation that controls them) weren’t subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
You’re being rather unreasonable here, responding to other threads, making out of context comments, “narrating” and referring to me as a “wasp”. I’m happy to have a civil conversation with you on this one day, but it’s clear that you’re not ready for that yet. I’m out.
I think you’re conflating “happy people” with “people living under a democratic system of government”. These are not necessarily the same thing.
The “material” presented was a series of articles citing the same study that polled the citizens of the US and China to ask if they thought their government was democratic. This does not change the meaning of the word, but rather outlines the general ignorance of those using it.
You make an excellent point about the US system, though I think we agree that the US is a shit model for democracy regardless.
Well if we’re going to agree to live in a world where words don’t have meanings anymore, then sure, China’s a “democracy”.
If however we want to have an adult conversation about it, then we need to agree on the meaning of words, and “democracy” is literally “rule by the people”. Given this (admittedly broad and forgiving) definition, China with its autocratic , centralised rule by a one-party government for which the public has no peaceful means of deposing is objectively not a democracy.
This isn’t to say that the US is much better of course, but you don’t do yourself any favours by measuring yourself against the dumbest kid in the class.
They’re both terrible, though at least the US has free(ish) and fair(ish) elections.
“Chinese democracy”
Edit: it’s clear that the majority of those in this community aren’t interested in living in a world where words have meaning, but for the minority, I offer this recent report from Varieties of Democracy that unsurprisingly classifies China as a “closed autocracy” because it:
Interestingly, Canada is not listed in the “liberal democracies” category, since we lack judicial and legislative constraints on the executive.
Also, the US stands to lose its democracy rating in next year’s report, so maybe then China will be as “democratic” as the US.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing. I’m not sure I’d be happy in a fully remote role where you’ve got hundreds of employees voting on how you build stuff, but I know that there are lots of people who dig this pattern, and they’re clearly doing Good work.
True, but the mere existence of an AGPL project that follows the MIT one might be enough to convince would-be contributors to choose our version instead.
It may also be more likely to be adopted by non-corporate Linux distros that favour the AGPL over MIT (Debian for example) which in turn could help make the AGPL version the dominant one.
The best example I could point to would be BSD. Unlike Linux, the BSD kernel was BSD (essentially MIT) -licensed. This allowed Apple to take their code and build OSX and a multi-billion dollar company on top of it, giving sweet fuck all back the community they stole from.
That’s the moral argument: it enables thievery.
The technical argument is one of practicality. MIT-licensed projects often lead to proprietary projects (see: Apple, Android, Chrome, etc) that use up all the oxygen in an ecosystem and allow one company to dominate where once we had the latitude to use better alternatives.
The GPL is the tool that got us here, and it makes these exploitative techbros furious that they can’t just steal our shit for their personal profit. We gain nothing by helping them, but stand to lose a great deal.
Here’s a fun idea, let’s fork these MIT-based projects and licence them under the AGPL :-)
My shit is custom and rather elaborate.
From left-to-right:
/: commitThe code for this is on GitLab.
Absolutely. I’ve been running Debian for literally decades both personally & professionally (on servers) and it’s rock-solid.
On the desktop, it’s also very stable, but holy-fuck is it old. I’m happy to accept the occasionally bug in exchange for modern software though, so I use Arch (btw) on the desktop.
Ubuntu is literally just Debian unstable with a bunch of patches. Literally every time I’ve been forced to use it, it’s been broken in at least a few obvious places.
I’ve got an Arctis 7 myself and it works just fine in Linux, no special drivers or anything needed. However, there are a bunch of features in their proprietary app which I used for all of a few minutes on a Windows machine (I think there was an equaliser in there?) and that might work in Linux under Wine… but I’m not sure as I’ve never bothered.