inzen

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[–] inzen 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Here are some I can think of at the moment, these are most likely local to Estonia and local to Tallinn for the choclate store:

  • https://karukombucha.ee/ if you are into fermented drinks this one is the best available in Estonia in my humble opinion. It is a living food so qualitiy varies a little, batch to batch.
  • https://orto.ee/en/products Cosmetics and cleaning products. I like their soaps and shampoos, not quite Japanese/Korean level but better than most supermarket stuff. My fave Orto products:
  • https://karamelle.ee/kontakt/ My source of high quality dark chocklate in Tallinn. They also make my favorite flavour: cinamon dark chocklate. Other notable products: many flavours of hand crafted zefir and pralines. If you really like dark chocklate try their 100% coca choclate, very smooth texture and strong flavour, not sweet.
[–] inzen 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup, "Thinkpad" not the other Think... or ...pad. The consumer targeted stuff is bad, even the Lenovo sales rep I got my P14s told me so.

[–] inzen 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I second used or new Thinkpads. They have good linux support. I use a p14s with arch (btw).

[–] inzen 2 points 2 weeks ago

Spent half the day debugging wifi and kernel panic issues during boot. What finally fixed it was adding 5 sec delay to iwd service so wifi card firmware can do it's thing (or at least I think thats why it helped).

[–] inzen 17 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I don't know much about compression algorithms. What are the benefits of doing this?

[–] inzen 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I guess it depends what she does on her pc.

But ignoring that, Mint without sudo. Throw in flatpaks and appimages.

Immutable distros are probably fine too but in my experience they tend to be a bit fussy if you need to change something in the system config.

Ubuntu, always a solid choice for beginners but Gnome shell is a bigger change from windows conpared to Cinamon.

P.S. I have Mint on our TV PC and my SO handdles it without issues.

[–] inzen 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just got a Thinkpad P14s Gen 5 with ryzen 7 8840HS/Radeon 780M, 32GB of ram and 1TB nvme ssd. I haven't even installed the os yet(tried live boot Mint, but I'm going with custom Arch Hyprland setup). I choose it for linux use, because all (enterprise?) Lenovo laptops have linux support, afaik. I was close to going with framework but it's a bit pricy for me personally.

[–] inzen 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

My editors

  • Professionally I use Jetbrains stuff (intellij, pycharm, etc).
  • At home I use Neovim because I like to have lsp support, I'm too cheap to pay for IDE's and I dislike VSCode for personal reasons. For quick edits I use default text editor e.g. kate/gedit.

My opinions on learning new editors

  • If you need to go fast now, use what you know best.
  • If you have time to learn just try whatever looks cool. Learning a new editor/way to edit text will broaden your horizons even if you don't end up using it.
[–] inzen 4 points 1 month ago

While I agree philosophically and would prefer the Debian based version. I personally have had issues with it, myabe it's my Nvidia graphics.

So for a beginner I would reccomend the version that is considered the "main" version at the moment. Currently it is still Ubuntu based afaik.

[–] inzen 8 points 1 month ago

Why would anyone criticize Mint as a suggestion? It's easy to use and stable. I have been using it on my main pc for abut a year with barely any issues (i had more problems on windows). I have tried other distros: mutable, immutable, rolling etc but I always come back to Mint if I want things to just work.

P.S. I have used ubuntu professionally for about 7 years and while I don't always like it, it is still a solid choice.

[–] inzen 1 points 1 month ago

I tend to agree, it did glitch out in the past when I held it by one corner between meetings(old work laptop). Not the smartest way to hold a laptop. Interestingly it is working fine now with windows. I gave it away to someone that needed a pc and have been keeping an eye on it.

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

I second markdown with Nextcloud notes and I'll add Markor as Android markdown editor. I use the Nextcloud Android client to sync my notes folder. On desktop I use any text editor that has markdown syntax highlighting and/or Nextcloud Notes app on the web.

 

I tried to install Arch Linux on my old faithful latitude 7490. After partitioning and formatting the drive I tried to mount the root partition and got this random glitch. When I unmount it the glitch stops. Maybe my laptop is trying to tell me I'm not ready for Arch 😅

I haven't seen something like this before so I thought I'd share.

In the video: The screen of a laptop showing Arch Linux liveboot terminal. After creating partition table and formatting the partitions. I try to mount thebroot partition to the liveboot filesystem. The mounting succeeds but the text on the screen starts to shift andnjump eratically. Looks like the whole image shifts. Then I try unmounting the partition and the screen goes back to normal.

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