leopold

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[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It would probably make more sense for "ADVANCE" to be "ADVANCED"

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 3 months ago

Yes you can. UI color is in Settings -> Window Color Scheme. Editor color is in Settings -> Editor Color Scheme. Both are editable separately.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If it is a royal we, then you are excluded from the conversation and the amount of Microsoft in your household is irrelevant.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 3 months ago

I was doing computer science and we were asked or recommended to use the following pieces of software:

Didn't really have any problems using Linux. Might be different if you need other software, tho.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are pros and cons. I use both, because Lemmy on its own just isn't big enough to replace Reddit. Lemmy has a decent variety of active communities for very broad/mainstream topics, plus technology and left wing politics, reflecting the shared interests of most Lemmy users. But then for any topic that's more niche and doesn't have a disproportionally large overlap with the interests of Lemmy users, it kinda falls appart. A lot of the more niche subredddits I participate in have no Lemmy equivalent.

I'm also hesitant to call Lemmy's moderation better. One thing I've noticed with Lemmy mods is that they tend to be far too lenient with off-topic posts. Right now the top post for me on "All" is this post from !science_memes@mander.xyz. You might notice that it isn't a meme in any way shape or form. You might also notice that it was literally posted by a mod from that community. This kind of thing happens a lot, communities on Lemmy are very prone to getting derailed away from their nominal topic.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 3 months ago

calligra plan has this iirc

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Right, I'm well aware that that article is the reason why a bunch of people have been making the unsubstantiated claim that Nvidia has hired people to work on Nouveau.

Nvidia hired the former lead Nouveau maintainer and he contributed a bunch of patches a couple of months ago after they hired him. That was his first contribution since stepping down and I'm fairly certain it was his last because there's no way Phoronix would miss the opportunity to milk this some more if they could. He had said when stepping down that he was open to contributing every once in a while, so this wasn't very surprising either way. To be clear, it is not evidence that he or anyone else was hired by Nvidia to work on Nouveau. Otherwise, I'd like to ask what he's been doing since, because that was over three months ago.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Last I checked, there is no evidence Nvidia has hired anyone to work on Nouveau.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 27 points 4 months ago (4 children)

this is just going to cause indexers to ignore robots.txt

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

seems better to just spend the 100M like he wants and then just give the remaining 900M away.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 4 months ago

These are known as the short scale and long scale systems respectively. Though the United States was indeed the first English-speaking country to switch to short scale, pretty much all English-speaking countries have used short scale almost exclusively for a long time, including the United Kingdom. Saying that it's simply being influenced is an understatement. From Wikipedia:

British usage: Billion has meant 10^9^ in most sectors of official published writing for many years now. The UK government, the BBC, and most other broadcast or published mass media, have used the short scale in all contexts since the mid-1970s.^[12]^^[13]^^[43]^^[15]^

Before the widespread use of billion for 10^9^, UK usage generally referred to thousand million rather than milliard.^[16]^ The long scale term milliard, for 10^9^, is obsolete in British English, though its derivative, yard, is still used as slang in the London money, foreign exchange, and bond markets.

I've never actually seen the word milliard used in English outside of discussions about the long and short scale systems. However, many other languages do mainly or exclusively use long scale. For instance, my native language French.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure the video is just badly misnamed. PackageKit is an abstraction layer for interacting with native packages in a cross-distro manner. It's used by both Discover and Software Center. It is developed by Red Hat, but not as a part of GNOME.

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