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What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?
  • Awesome...

    Care to share the video/code? I actually have something similar (Corsair Scimitar's macro customizer doesn't work on Linux

    As I was writing this I found a project that deals with Corsair MMO mice on Linux so now I will be going on an egg hunt.

  • Pick 3
  • I think it's closer to Level 2 Priest compared to Yahweh.

    But then how many abilities will end up crummy for balancing purposes? It's like "pick a sword, bow, or gun to defend yourself", but you don't have the strength for a European longbow and your pirate-era flintlock has enough spread to hit the neighbor's dog.

    What if teleportation is 2 inches, or flight is 3 feet? What if invisibility means light goes straight through your corneas and you end up blind? What if immortal just means only your brain will survive??

    Nevermind

  • Pick 3
  • Teleportation, invulnerability, siphon abilities.

    And then I teleport to everyone in the thread.

    Unless someone has teleportation, intellect, and siphon abilities. Then they might outwit me and find someone invulnerable before I do. But I might find someone intellectual before they do. And then it becomes a race.

    Comic adaptation when?

    That time I got 3 superpowers from a Lemmy post, but so did everyone else? Yuusha no Skill Siphon

  • rule

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    im like the rats learning to drive

    context: https://theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscientist-who-taught-rats-to-drive-their-joy-suggests-how-anticipating-fun-can-enrich-human-life-239029

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    What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?

    Just wondering since I know a lot of people quietly use a screen-area-select -> tesseract OCR -> clipboard shortcut.

    • I separate subjects of interest into different Firefox windows, in different workspaces -- so I have an extension title them and a startup script parse text to ask the compositor to put them in the correct workspace (lets me restart more conveniently).
    • I have automatically-set different-orientation wallpapers for using my 2-in-1 depending on whether I use it in portrait or landscape (kind of just for looks, but I don't think if anyone else adds a wallpaper change to their screen rotation keybind).
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    Maybe Lemmy can forcibly invent a new term for "ricing". (Good faith pls)
  • Personally I don't feel either way about this stuff being racist or not. I'm an Asian and I am completely unaffected. But I do think that some people are, and it'd probably be nice to help those people vs. ignoring them.

    For git master specifically, it was based off of a foggy memory of something in my RSS feed, and I was just pointing out that it was something that some companies addressed.

  • Maybe Lemmy can forcibly invent a new term for "ricing". (Good faith pls)
  • No, Gentoo is alive! I can catch up to upstream Firefox's LTO+Clang+PGO optimizations and use my own version of Debian alternatives and save 3MB by removing iso9660 support from REFind!

    It seems pretty alive to me though. 5/25 of the month-top-posts in r/unixporn have it in the title, and I'm sure more are present in the comments. And a lot of YT videos on it still mention it.

  • Maybe Lemmy can forcibly invent a new term for "ricing". (Good faith pls)

    I'd learned about this last week, and this stuff is a bunch of Wikipedia searches so forgive me if I miss anything :]

    Similar to git master and whitelist/blacklist having addressed racist origins, I've just learned that "ricing" -- i.e. way-far-from-default, colorfully souped-up \*nix customizations -- came from a derogatory word for Asian "riced out" cars.

    (click to enlarge spot where I came to learn about this)

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    Example in the lemmy.ml/c/linux community. !

    !

    The linked Wikipedia article doesn't list \*nix ricing specifically, but it's probably not a far reach -- for example, tech's master-slave came from cars too.

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    Now I'm not here to start a debate on whether the term itself is bad. The arguments are done to death and predictable (old threadhope I can link here). Rather, I posit that we could probably invent a new term if we forced it hard enough.

    For example, 4chan forcibly invented the use of the ok hand for "white power", as a collective prank (Wikipedia).

    Further, Tumblr invented 'then beg' as an insult response to 'I beg your pardon/to differ'. (click to enlarge)

    Based on Pukicho.

    !

    So why can't Lemmy invent something too?

    Here are some earlier takes. (click to enlarge for source, but they are listed below anyway)

    !

    I surmise it has to be (1) somewhat unique and (2) short and nounable/verbable.

    • Customization doesn't fit -- it's too broad. Changing the wallpaper is a customization -- diagonalizing your screen is a rice (term to be replaced...).
    • Bespoke doesn't fit either. That's for a duct-tape script you hack together.
    • Pimping out... is not a good alternative. It preexists(citation needed?) and has inertia but it's not any better.
    • Souping up... doesn't roll off the tongue so much. But it's food-related (and thus not far from "rice"). Though I can't see myself saying "Yo, check out this epic soup."

    Brainstorming welcome :P

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    Whats your stupidest joke?
  • When I was younger I memorized this in three (3) steps to use at zero (0) family gatherings... is it cheating if my stupidest joke is the only one I can recall instantly? :]

    Warning: this joke is so ancient, it's sepia-toned.


    An engineer and a doctor were arguing about who had the harder job. To prove his might, the engineer decided to open a clinic, betting he'd be a successful doctor:

    "If we can cure you, you pay $500; if we can't, we pay you $1,000."

    Of course the doctor saw the proverbial <easy money> button immediately. The guy didn't even have a license! So the doc went straight to the clinic as his first patient.

    Doc: "Sir, I have lost my sense of taste."

    Engineer: "Nurse, please bring the medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient's mouth."

    Doc: "Blawrgh! This is gasoline!"

    Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your taste back. That will be $500."

    The doctor leaves, fuming. But not to be beaten, he goes back after a few days -- he can still leave with a profit if he plays this right.

    Doc: "Sir, I have lost my memory."

    Engineer: "Nurse, please bring the medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient's mouth."

    Doc: "What, no! That's gasoline!"

    Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your memory back. That will be $500."

    The doctor leaves pissed. Buuut, doc comes back after a few days --- he needs to at least break even, right? So, more determined than before, he brings a cane and says:

    Doc: "Sir, I've gone blind."

    Engineer: disappointed "Well, unfortunately I don't have any medicine for that. Take this $1,000."

    Doc: "But this is $500..."

    Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your vision back! That will be $500."

  • Goldman Sachs is such a nutty name. Imagine working at Compman Uters or Shrimpman Friedrice.

    Nominative predeterminism?

    Edit: word

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