What’s the vibe in Switzerland about the upcoming quarter final against England?

That travel router looks good. Will you also be using it to connect to the internet using a phone hotspot or just using it for a local network?

I saw a youtuber once reviewing the distro that the Russian military uses. It had some crusty retro desktop environment iirc.

I’d like to design a similar off-grid system. What do you have in mind for mobile wifi router and cellular signal booster?

No need for that tone old bean.

I heard that some employers are having to teach new ‘gen z’ employees how to download email attachments…

Looks fun!

I’m very intrigued by Guix. What would a Debian stable user notice most if they were to switch?

You could try Jami. It’s peer to peer, so essentially any participants are self-hosting it. Its E2E encrypted, supports group messaging, voice and video calling, has easily ‘linkable’ mobile and desktop apps for all platforms and requires no email address or phone number to use. It’s also the only messenger I’m aware of which is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. I highly recommend it 👌

I wish I could donate to more novelists directly via their websites. I tend to pirate ebooks because I don’t want a) the fuss of removing the DRM and b) to bankroll the destruction of the economy for 99% of people by giving money to big companies.

I do this too.

Is it because their planes keep falling apart or because they keep murdering people?

I work with print a lot too. Very interested in the imminent release of GIMP 3.0 with it’s colour upgrades.

That’s really interesting. Thanks :)

Just enjoy buddy.

I actually think that it wouldn’t take too many more people using GIMP for the name of the program to be considered the primary meaning of the word in English.

No worries :) It’s a big release and is gonna really bring GIMP up to date. I’m super excited about it!

Then it would be nice if they could chill out and not take themselves so seriously. Good to know if they’re making the discussion shit by removing stuff though, as we can just use different communities.

I’ve seen a few posts and comments made by ‘tankies’ (I had to look up this term, as I’ve never seen it outside of Lemmy) and I don’t think there should be such a moral panic about them. It implies that everyone is so impressionable that they can’t be exposed to a minority fringe political opinion without being instantly turned into a rabid and dangerous extremist.

See something you don’t agree with? Ignore it. Downvote it. Block it if you really want to. So many people seem to come here just looking for a fight with other users or to get some general outrage out of their system, whether it’s ‘tankies’ or ‘anti-tankies’. Just relax. Lemmy is diverse and ever-expanding; there’s loads of fun, interesting and positive stuff to see and talk about here.

I will mention that smaller, niche communities have way more harmonious and interesting discussions. This suggests to me that the majority of aggro comes from people who are just logging in and scrolling down the ‘front page’ for something to do. It’s worth putting in a bit of effort to find specific topics you’re interested in and then looking at the feed of your subscriptions. It’s a much better experience for everyone.

Edited for bad grammarring.

GIMP 3.0 should be out this year. If you’re interested, you can already use some of the new features (like true non-destructive editing) by running the development version.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/