Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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  • The list is great! But it doesn’t really tell us which ones are actively developed. Running historical DEs is fun sometimes. For example, LXDE doesn’t really see a lot of development compared to its successor, LXQt. But once again shows the the Arch Wiki is the best ;)

    I guess people do occasionally compile KDE 1.x just to see if it still runs on modern systems (it does, but obviously some underlying things have changed over the years, like the audio and graphics stacks). But that isn’t the same as being actively developed :)








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    What is the oldest you can be and still call yourself a millennial? Google says born in 1980s counts. I’m pretty sure I have all five.

    Now excuse me while I avoid work while scrolling Lemmy. ;).




  • Troy@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldOnyx Solar launches walkable PV tiles
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    This depends on what you’re optimizing for. If you are optimizing for total energy captured per square metre, then you’re right about the benches.

    But suppose you have a sufficient flux even with some areas being covered so you aren’t bothered by the shadows. Wouldn’t it be aesthetically superior to have uniform tile types? Or would you prefer they micromanage the tile placement such that the tiles below the bench shadows are different?

    Anyway, I think it is a good idea. Better than the silly solar roadways crap.


  • Someone enlighten me. How many active desktop projects are there currently? (Not just window managers…)

    KDE Plasma, Trinity (is it active? Fork of KDE 3.5)

    Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon (fork all the things!), or “reskins” like Unity or Budgie?

    LXQt, Xfce… Is enlightenment still active as a project?

    Does anyone use Deepin – appears to be a partial fork of KDE (kwin, etc.) with new desktop environment built around it rather than use Plasma.

    Or Pantheon (Vala+GTK3?).

    Cosmic is from the ground up, recent and active I guess.

    Missing anything?




  • When you believe in an all powerful space fairy, it’s quite easy to believe in other arbitrary nonsense too. QAnon was an interesting phenomenon, as it was uniting the crystal woo hippy left antivax crowd into the magical space fairy religious right. And the radicalization pipeline took it from there.

    It’s not necessarily religion that is the problem here. It’s that people who don’t have critical reasoning skills are drawn to religion. But they’re also drawn to whatever other bullshit anyone is peddling.

    Excuse me a moment, I need to adjust my magnetic bracelet and turn on my Himalayan salt lamp.