m4m4m4m4

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[–] m4m4m4m4 8 points 3 months ago

We had the same ISP at home for about 16 years. Internet runs over copper cable along with the landline phone service.

On April this year they sent a letter saying they are deprecating copper lines and switching everything to optic fiber, but for some reason our neighborhood is not getting it so they were supposed to terminate the contract and stopping their services on April 2025.

But they did that past Wednesday, all of a sudden, without notifying us whatsoever. They are not answering why are doing this either. On Wednesday I called them to ask what was going on and they told me they were going to reconnect on Thursday morning, but at 4:00 pm it was still the same. Called them again and said they were not reconnecting us because fuck you.

So I can't visit most of the web right now and I fear I might be booted from the WFH job. The couple of things I use frequently that are still working somehow are Feedly and Lemmy. Tried to switch DNS addresses at the router trying to circumvent this to no avail.

Heading to the nearest library in a couple of hours to talk with my boss.

[–] m4m4m4m4 5 points 3 months ago

For what it's worth they still air it here from time to time, in the self-claimed "only rock station of Colombia"

[–] m4m4m4m4 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Neither did I, but here we are. Going a bit too far outside the scope of a digital painting program that one day decided to include animation features, but at least they have the resources to do it.

Meanwhile (the) GIMP is still trying to reach the 3.0 release and its devs keep being ultradefensive to whatever critique is done to the project...

Hope Krita doesn't take +10 years to move to Qt6 as GIMP has took moving to freaking GTK+3.

[–] m4m4m4m4 2 points 3 months ago

What scared me about it is this kind of shit.

[–] m4m4m4m4 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd be surprised if there was any alternative, to be honest.

I'd file the bug - your case is not common. I run kscreenlocker just fine and it's not such a ram hog here.

[–] m4m4m4m4 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some nice stuff right there but gosh, I just can't stand seeing Inter on a single more UI screen.

[–] m4m4m4m4 12 points 3 months ago

That means the lack of huge software like Gnome

Been using Gentoo since Jan 2009 and one of the reasons I moved to it and never looked back was because it let me tailor "huge software" like KDE to my needs, with the aid of USE flags and sets. That's what an actual customizable distro let you to do. If you want to use "smaller software" like, say, Openbox, it won't get in your way either.

So that point of "centered around smaller software" strucks as weird to me - it goes against the "customizability" point and, ironically, the very Linux kernel is "huge software"...

[–] m4m4m4m4 1 points 3 months ago

I'd think about something with Xfce on it, like a Fedora Xfce spin

[–] m4m4m4m4 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More expensive helmets aren't safer, cause they all have to pass the same safety tests

If only that were true here on "third world" countries too - here you can get helmets made of paper-thin plastic and cheap styrofoam in whatever bike shop and mall. Even those are being sold for kids.

[–] m4m4m4m4 23 points 3 months ago (11 children)

If you make your own he's looking forward to seeing it.

Not a programmer whatsoever but I've heard about Zig and people comparing it to Rust, what's the deal with it?

[–] m4m4m4m4 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Out of the loop, what changes made it 'unusable'?

[–] m4m4m4m4 20 points 3 months ago

For what it's worth, I recall some turd at r/graphic_design swearing at Inkscape because it was "communist"

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