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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Honestly, no. I just use direct apt commands on my Debian installs for native stuff, assuming I even use the shell for that; sometimes, if it's not a complex update that's going to hold back 1.0*10^6^ packages, I just use Synaptic or Package Updater, frankly, as one of those is what I have my XFCE Package Update Indicator set to use on any machine I use frequently and it's convenient sometimes.

As for Flatpaks, I just run the flatpak update command whenever I feel bored. I wish Warehouse GUI supported updating, just because I find it really weird that's excluded from an otherwise pretty slick application that gets rid of me having to muck through the Flathub.

I don't write Rust code at the moment, and as for Python, I'm either using the Debian version of Python packages or scattered venvs that follow a de facto standard for Python developers: "What's an update?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

True; as said, this is Debian Testing. By "major issue", I mean Grub occasionally gets borked and I have to chroot in and fix it, or the time_t_64 transition.

I found the compromise between stability and newer packages acceptable for my desktop machine, which I am usually only on when I would actually have the time to debug these things. However, these days, I'm busy, thus may switch to stable in the next few months.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Having used the same Testing install since early 2022, I'd say it's not too bad. Stability-wise, I only have a major problem once a year.

Eventually, you get tired of having to switch to Flatpaks while packages transition. I'll either stay on Trixie when it goes to stable or reinstall. It's still an ext4 system and I want something different, as stable as ext4 is. I've been using btrfs on my new laptop for about a month and have been happy.

Honestly, in the age of Flatpaks, stable Debian is fine for most people in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I guess also, for Badgey facial expressions, I got some practice when I attempted to design a Lego Badgey figure (in addition to all of the Cerritos crew, most of which are fine except for Rutherford is really hard and so is T'Ana. Also, I need to fix up Billups's face. I did like how Shax's face turned out, though, even though he still needs a bit of work.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thanks. I actually overlayed a transparent image of Badgey over to get the relative sizing right. The eyebrows I did by myself, though, partly based on image reference; on the last one, though I tried to capture angry 10th doctor going stone cold through the ISS Cerritos hallways slaughtering fascists left and right.

I might add proportions were very hard and his eyes are actually proportionally much bigger than prime Badgey because when I tried to make the proportions the same, he looked TOO derpy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Still a bit bizarre. I feel like with 2TB NVMe as cheap as it is, HDDs in anything remotely portable are insane.

Now they make sense in RAID/NAS stuff, but I feel like ones the 3.5” ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I like CoreCtrl. I don’t know how well it works with Intel and Nvidia, but it’s great on my AMD Thinkpad and desktop.

Nice thing is it’s in most distros’ repos these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't researched this (I don't have kids), but out of curiosity, what type of mobile device is your daughter using? Also, I think PiHole is a solid recommendation like others recommend.

Otherwise, from a quick Google, I don't know of anything that can integrate both Linux PC and mobile phone screen time. Honestly, this sounds like a fun project I could implement someday if I ever had the will. However, for right now, in terms of screen time all I can think of is reading system logs (perhaps via SSH) to manually analyze your daughter's screen time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So you felt nothing when they were briefly on DS9 and stopped by Quark's before getting lost in the Delta Quadrant? You bring dishonor to your house! (In fact, Tom gets in a barfight with Quark (not shown on screen, unfortunately) in that one timeline where Harry was never assigned to Voyager.)

Just kidding about the "dishonor to your house part". Honestly, I like some of the fun 90s Trek had with crossovers, especially how VOY sort of rehabilitated Barclay. Honorable mention to that thing where Bashir helped Data have dreams. I guess O'Brien and the eventual Worf being mains on DS9 count as well; I think despite his flaws getting really annoying, Worf gave us an excuse for the fun Klingon political plot lines.

As an actual question, though, do any of the following apply to you?:

  1. Didn't also watch DS9 as a kid.
  2. Were watching Voyager out of order, only catching random episodes, etc.
  3. All of the above
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Delightfully 2000s. Maybe replace that icon theme, though. Also not big on any official Ubuntu derivatives, but that’s your choice in the end.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I was sticking with characters that had already been introduced at the time, which was hard because I wanted so bad to add Vic Fontaine saying, “Hey, what’s the big idea here, pally?”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

ROCm is basically AMD’s GPU compute system, like CUDA but worse but better because the card is actually usable for desktop stuff.

However, they only support it on specific distros, and they’re really weird about what cards they support. This should be changing soon - Debian’s been working on packaging it natively, and I think so has Fedora.

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