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Cake day: August 21st, 2025

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  • rarsamx@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldNew Years Eve
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    2 months ago

    Well, it has an actual meaning. The date is arbitrary but the event isn’t.

    The same way that our life’s depend on the cycle of day and night, they also revolve around the stations. Cycles of abundance and scarcity, of heat and cold.

    Years are points of reference for historical reasons.

    To be clear, we are mostly idiots but some non-idiots calculated the days in a cycle.





  • Why does it need to go on mass production? OP explained they want to get to a point where they share their design.

    I keep repeating the same about Linux and other free software projects. The main goal is freedom, not market share.

    OPs project seems to follow the same goals. And I find it awesome.



  • rarsamx@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHrmmmmm
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    4 months ago

    The reason of the confusion is clear.

    The US propaganda has always equated Communism and totalitarianism.

    It is bonkers that people in the USA cannot distinguish between an economic system and a political system.

    Those two are distinct things. True communism is very democratic. But reading the Communist manifesto is heretic in the US and you are left with what your leaders tell you.

    The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.

    Right wing totalitarian dictators also use starvation of their own people as means of control.

    What you are experiencing in the US is totalitarianism and while it hasn’t gotten to USSR levels, it is going on that direction.

    Food for thought: study the political system in China, you’d be surprised how it’s actually more democratic than the current USA. Yes, the CCP controls the nominations. Now, tell me if there is true plurality in the US, two right wing parties selecting their candidates without any real popular input.

    Really you’ve been bamboozled to think there is real democracy in the US.


  • What i did in my last road trip (19 months) was:

    • Configure the camera to record in 1 minute segments
    • I wrote a script to use ffmpeg concatenate all the videos for a particular day while accelerating them e.g. 8x

    It’s still a large amount of data but I can remember my trip day by day throughout 49,000 Km. (Well, less than that because I wrote the script half way)


  • People compare gnome to Desktops with a 30 year old interface which is painfully cumbersome but that they are used to.

    I was on the no Gnome camp after Gnome 2 but came back around Gnome 40 (2022) and I was surprised at how simple and stable it is. I agree that many things that are extensions should be built in, but I also agree with the filosophy of not spreading resources to thin and if people want a feature, they can build it.

    I only use two or three extensions but mostly need only one: Forge.

    I still use Niri as my primary environment but I think that Gnome is good.

    I grind my teeth every time I need to use an environment with an old style menu and cumbersome tiling.

    C’mon. End users haven’t used drop down menues to start apps for a long time. The iOS/Android drawer style is more comfortable and can adapt to the user’s organizational preferences.