Rogue

joined 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

I used Ubuntu for a long while, then Debian for a new PC because the video card or display just wasn't working on Ubuntu.

Couple of weeks ago I finally tried this distro hopping thing people have been on about. I'd stuck with Ubuntu for so long due to an apparently misguided belief that it was stable.

I'm now using Project Bluefin from Universal Blue, a derivative of Fedora Silverblue and I'm blown away by how good it is. It uses Gnome and the maintainer has packaged a few tweaks to keep it similar in user experience to Ubuntu, along with a fantastic array of great software I never knew existed.

I'd highly recommend it to anyone historically loyal to Debian or Ubuntu.

For gaming you can easily install Bazzite as a container to access Steam. I can't say I fully follow the tech stack that makes it work, but it just does. Whereas my boilerplate Steam install on Debian was completely botched.

Universal Blue really is the future...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/LibDem/comments/1di5w9a/tactical_voting_sites_may_cost_us_seats/

I can't see any mention of stopthetories.vote in that discussion though so perhaps it's better than the others, at the very least it appears to give the poll data so there's some transparency there

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Just be aware these sites often have a significant Labour bias, don't take what they say as fact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Labour would never switch from FPTP. This election is showing just how much they benefit from it too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

For a first timer Id recommend just complimenting the other person's watch

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This might not be a bad thing. The crazies who usually vote conservative and drink up anti union rhetoric might be more tempted to lean towards Labour

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

They have fewer of those scary foreign looking people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like you're calling for a good ole con lib coalition

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That caused me actual pain. I almost downvoted you out of sheer rage

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

When you finish the final sentence of an essay or a report do you just submit it straight away? You don't read it through?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've always used the Nullable context so typically I'm just using string.IsNullOrEmpty to determine empty strings, I'm already confident null isn't leaking. But your explanation does make sense.

I'm now wondering why I've never just used myStr != ""

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

string.IsNullOrEmpty(myStr) has always annoyed me, why isn't it an extension method or a non-static method?

myStr.IsNullOrEmpty() just feels cleaner and more intuitive to me.

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