I installed it yesterday and am enjoying it more than I thought I would!

Instead of doom scrolling Lemmy, I’m doom scrolling physics papers relevant to me. I can save any individual paper to my phone and transfer to my pc to read it in more depth on a bigger screen. Likely doing direct searching on arxiv might be more efficient, but making somewhat more productive use of wasting time on my phone when in bed or on the toilet is a good thing.

I would like an option for a slightly larger font. And the app going back to the top of search results after viewing an individual paper from search results is annoying.

What do you think of niri? I think i’m of a similar mind. I switched to i3 10ish years ago, and could never go back to a floating WM. Now on sway and am perfectly content with my workflow. I’m curious to try out niri, but haven’t really been that motivated to try it.

About twenty years ago I was on a book reading spree and tried to get through a bunch of books on this specific list and some other lists. Not necessarily in order but I picked out those that I thought I would enjoy.

Moby Dick is what completely stalled me out on reading these supposed best books of all time.

I did enjoy Catch 22 and I, Claudius. But not much else. I specifically remember hating sound and the fury, as it just made me feel stupid since I had no idea what was happening, and many others were just meh.

I haven’t ripped anything in a long long time, but the command line abcde was really nice. Once your config was to your liking, you just put in disc and type abcde, and done.

Has anyone here played daggerheart? I’ve only read through its srd and the rules and dice mechanics are completely uninteresting to me. I typically prefer rules light games, osr inspired, or pbta. Nothing in daggerheart’s rules screams that it sounds fun to play at the table, or that it wouldn’t turn into a rules slog like dnd, but maybe I’m missing something in there

Ehh… Im not sure it was a gamble in this case. Valheim was pretty complete in its early access form when I bought it like nearly 5 years ago. It also has overwhelmingly positive reviews. I think it’s also delivered more than its original roadmap, which wasn’t much past mistlands.

They stated it will still receive bug fixes, just perhaps no new content.

I think I paid $20 for it and I feel I got my money for it, even though I haven’t even played it since before the mistlands update released. I plan on firing it up again after the deep north 1.0 releases and imagine having a lot of fun with it.

I read most of these when I was young and don’t really remember them being overly violent. What I do remember are long descriptions of food.

My perspective as a physics professor at a public university who has spent most of my adult life in academia. While there’s some true points here, it’s annoying to read such overgeneralized statement. I’m not going to generalize my perspective as truth for all universities, but I doubt my experience is far from ordinary. I doubt the OP is in academia.

• As someone else stated, funding is an issue. Many programs, departments, and support offices are underfunded and understaffed.
• While I hate microsoft products, it is simply less expensive to pay microsoft then all the additional required IT staff to self-host servers and email. Salary and benefits to faculty and staff is the majority of a university’s expenses.
• My IT staff at my current institution helped me access our file system on my linux machine, even though they don’t officially support linux. But this was simply extra work for one of the staff who has a thousand other fires going on.
• 2FA is available to those without smartphones via USB dongles. And as much as I hate Edge, stupid microsoft Edge allows access to services without 2FA.
• At my grad school university, we had an IT member dedicated to managing unix/linux system for the physics faculty and grad students.
• How is it the fault of a University that the majority of the public uses social media? Yes, my institution uses social media, though I don’t think they use facebook anymore… Besides Lemmy, I have zero social media, and yet I am aware of all events going on campus. Everything is notified via university email, not just social media.
• The majority of math and physics students here learn LaTeX. As someone that has sat on numerous search committees hiring additional physics faculty, latex is prevalent in physics area of academia.
• Campus PC labs exist all over our campus. Yes, they are window machines.
• It would be awesome to have local faculty and student created research tools. Who’s going to do it? Between my teaching, committee, and advising responsibilities, I have zero free time. I can’t create these tools. What specific tools are you referring to? Our campus library website is pretty darn good at accessing peer-review literature for faculty and students, with no ads.

ChatGPT and AI is a giant problem right now in academia. Nothing I do seems to convince students that using AI to do their homework harms their education. If someone knows a solution to this, I’m all ears. I’m tired of people blaming me, or the university, for things we’re trying to find solutions to.

I doubt debian is what you want if you want to stay up to date. It’s newish now, but won’t get updates for another 2 years.

I’ve never run into issues updating to all short term Ubuntu releases between LTS versions when I used Ubuntu. Though I’ve now switched to Debian as I don’t care about latest updates and some snaps consistently gave me issues.

Maybe Fedora is what you would prefer though?

KDE is available on any distro. Just need to install it if it’s not the default desktop.

Yeah. I have a few necessary apps only available through Google store, but with the exception of installing those, I never use Google play.

I opened it the other day and it’s unusable for browsing apps, whereas I regularly open and browse F-Droid for new apps.

It’s a fun game, maybe the best realistic survival roguelike. I’ll usually play a new character once a year or every other year to experience the new updates. I finally figured out persistence hunting and can reliably get big game.

It really needs to update to widescreen though. Otherwise i don’t mind the simple graphics.

cmus.

I know it satisfies 1, mostly sure it satisfies 2, and looks like 3 was implemented somewhat recently

https://github.com/cmus/cmus/pull/1325

yep, just tested and resume works.

So sad. One of the most iconic and influential voices in metal.

I saw them about 15-20 years ago when they first reunited.

Haha yeah I agree completely. I don’t understand how anyone prefers floating windows. It just feels so clumsy to use now that i’m used to tiling.

Sway is wayland. I’ve never used anything else. People rave about hyprland. Others in this thread have recommend plugins for the usual desktops. Probably easy enough to try one for whichever desktop you use now.

There exists a ton of youtube content creators showcasing all the tiling window managers. It’s like one of the most popular topics for linux enthusiast content creators.

Yeah, it was a revelation when I discovered tiling. I was always doing work with two windows open, and i’d spend so much time fiddling and resizing the windows. Then i’d open a third window and wouldn’t know what to do with it.

I used i3 for many years and switched to sway when migrating to wayland. It does what I need and see no reason to try hyprland or other tilers.

I would say that mostly applies to the story. Warcraft 3 introduced the epic Arthas story line and wotlk is the conclusion to that. Nothing else they’ve done with wow on the story side has really compared to that. Though if you never played warcraft 3, this may not have as much impact on you. Oh and the story in some later expansions really stinks, such as shadowlands.

However, from the actual gameplay side, I would argue retail is infinitely superior now. Classes have mechanical depth and options. Max level content is much more varied with raids, mythic+, and delves. Warband features make the game so much more casual friendly, allowing you to hop around on alts.

If all you care about is the leveling experience and you don’t want to really play much at max level, then classic and especially wotlk is kinda peak wow at that, but otherwise, retail is an improved game as a whole.

There’s tons of youtube videos / tutorials on how to create a live usb of a distro, such as linux mint. This will allow you to boot into linux and play around without installing anything and get a feel for linux. It’s nowhere as tech wizardry as you think.

And if all your games are on steam and don’t have anti cheat things, they’ll probably just all work with proton (linux compatibility tool in steam).