Yes. Niri is my choice, too. Very convenient, especially when using a laptop with limited screen space as I do.

Me with my tiling compositor, modal editor and Tridactyl in my browser: I refuse to use a mouse.

Yea, found a friend with a Windows machine to test it out, it’s indeed an Explorer shortcut. I wonder if there is a way to get to some sort of shell without Explorer or Task Manager.

The saddest part for me is that he didn’t even break the computer that bad, but declared it unusable. Just hit Super+R, you can run anything from there.

“Apart” as in “hate each other”, not distance-wise.

People were never apart to begin with, even if some power hungry pricks want you to believe otherwise.

We all live on the same planet, have roughly the same needs and wishes. Languages and cultures may be different, but under the hood we are all the same.

Oh, no, Russian government ends up leaking each and every piece of information it has for 50 rubles per person through sheer incompetence. So, you are both getting your data sold and flying out the window.

Depends on how you rate Putin reading your messages against Zuckerberg reading your messages.

That’s exactly why you want to do this. When people speak casually or are making jokes, nobody speaks with grammar in mind. Gathering this intuition for the language is exactly what I’m looking for when learning.

You just look for people who are interested to learn your language, any place where people communicate can work. Maybe hit some groups for learning the language you know and try to find people who speak the language you want there.

I personally play VRChat, there are a number of language learning groups there. Though, the culture of the place is certainly not for everyone.

Not really about piracy, but doing language exchanges is a great way to learn a language. You teach someone your language, they teach you theirs. It’s free and it gives you more knowledge than any book. Natural languages don’t work with strict rules usually, natives speak by feel, the only way to learn that feel is by interacting with people.

BitTorrent breaks your data in blocks, each block is hashed, their sizes are known. Assuming you got your .torrent file from a legitimate source, it’s practically impossible to receive something else, as long as your client does all the checks properly.

In theory, it is possible to write malware that will collide hashes with some other content, but considering you are restricted to the size of the actual content, it’s extremely unlikely that out of all the millions of .torrents we created so far we can find even one for which it is possible.

And even if you win this absolutely bizzare lottery, you’ll be competing with legitimate peers for serving the blocks. If at least one block that you care about is not served by you, the recepient will just get corrupted content that won’t be dangerous in any way. In other words, you need to have so much bandwidth, that you serve everything before anyone else can serve even one significant block. At which point you will probably have to spend a lot more money on that than you’ll ever get from whatever malware you are trying to serve.

No. With Unix-style tools, bare terminal is always more powerful than any GUI. It’s just that a lot of people don’t want to invest their time into reading manuals and actually understanding how it all works.

I’d say your best chance is just launching an Android version with a controller (I assume Android version supports controllers). It’s just that nobody on PC plays Bedrock. All the community content (mods, resource packs, custom tools) is for the original version, after all, and Bedrock is a walled garden.

If you confused period and fax intentionally, I commend the effort.

Considering vibe is probalby float, I doubt any exceptions can be thrown there, you can eliminate another useless scope.

Even if it’s not float, I’d consider burning alive anyone who overrides an operator like this anyway.

I’m not exactly sure how it works with flatpak versions, but for native Steam+Lutris, you install it with this and Lutris picks it up automatically, as far as I remember. Probably need to allow the flatpack to see the installation directory or put it in Lutris runners altogether instead of Steam directory.

Helix is very similar to Emacs and vim/nvim, but a lot easier to set up. Tried all of them but with Helix it just clicked for me.

Have been almost a year since I switched to Linux completely. I’m using CachyOS (an Arch derivative), so, you may have to adjust some things for your distro.

First of all, your driver setup varies heavily on what hardware you have, obviously. All AMD (both CPU and GPU) being the easiest for setup and laptops with Intel CPU + iGPU and Nvidia dGPU being notoriously hard to manage (it’s also my case, which sucks). Look up what you need for your specific hardware.

Next comes your display server and audio server. The bleeding edge here being Wayland + Pipewire.

Wayland can be a bit bitchy on Nvidia GPUs, but it got a lot better over the last years. To use Wayland your desktop environment has to support it. Check with your specific DE. I’m using KDE Plasma, been quite happy since the switch.

Pipewire is pretty easy to setup, just uninstall your old audio server, replace it with Pipewire and an adapter package for what you had (like pipewire-pulse for PulseAudio) and you are good to go. It’s very cool with tools like qpwgraph for audio management, easily the most mind-blowing thing I installed. Your friend came over and you want to send game audio both to your and their headphones? Easy. Been selling parts of my soul to get these sorts of setups on Windows for a long time.

Next, use native software where you can. You can replace Notepad++ with VSCodium or Helix (the learning curve for modal editors is steep, but it’s very worth it).

For Minecraft, TLauncher is… controversial to say the least, even for usage on Windows. Try PrismLauncher. Works great, allows to download modpacks from popular distributors and is pretty easy to trick into playing in offline mode without a Microsoft account, just look it up.

Next, the translation layer. I’m using Proton-GE for everything via Lutris. While, as per GE, it is not a supported use-case, it’s what I’ve got the best experience with so far.

As for dependecies, there is a good guide from GE for that.

Hopefully it helps in one way or the other. You can also experiment with distibution of your choice. There are some gaming-focused ones that come with driver installation tools to make it easier for you, don’t hesitate to dump everything and start from scratch with a fresh install while you are not that commited to one specific distro.

As some people poined out, I was talking about VK. A Russian social network that ended up in the claws of Russian government, which in turn ended up in massive political repressions of it’s userbase for posting “wrong” things.

He then made Telegram and used Russian government’s attempts to block it as a PR campaign. I guess that’s what made it so appealing at first, but now French government stepped in and we are going all over again.

The guy has a history of making something that looks good and then selling it to governments. I’m surprised people took the bait for the second time.