[-] 18107@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

LocalSend. File transfer between any devices with (almost) any OS over LAN. No account required. The best file transfer app I've ever encountered by far.

StreetComplete. Get motivated to go outside with quests to help complete OpenStreetMaps. Surprisingly addictive. Requires an OpenStreetMaps account.

f.lux. Remove the blue light from your computer monitor in the evening to help you fall asleep more easily. Redshift. As above. Not quite as good, but works on some OS/System configurations that f.lux can't handle.

Pulsar. A community version of the discontinued Atom text editor. Highly extendable and configurable. Great for small programming tasks or opening text files with an obscure syntax. Has most of the packages built for Atom.

Home Assistant. For automating your house and more (controlling smart lights and appliances, monitoring solar panel output, weather forecasts, printer diagnostics, delivery tracking...). A dedicated device (Raspberry Pi, old laptop) is highly recommended. A bit of a learning curve, but hard to live without after using it.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 12 points 11 months ago

She looks very polite.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Have you ever seen what happens to a balloon that gets caught under a treadmill?

Do you want that happening to a pet?

Don't let your pets near a running treadmill.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

This would be business as usual for Australia. They have been repeatedly violating multiple conventions when it come to the treatment of asylum seekers.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint Debian Edition

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Try Linux Mint with Cinnamon.

Cinnamon was built for Mint. The only time I've run Cinnamon on another distro, I encountered a bunch of confusing bugs.

At least this will tell you which bugs are caused by Cinnamon, and which are due to the integration with a custom distro.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

I have a friend who's 91. He just started using Linux, and has had only minor issues that I was able to fix in seconds.

It's nowhere near as difficult as it was 10 years ago.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

It's about time.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I've decided that COVID is a man-made virus designed to kill only conspiracy theorists.

I wonder how the consp

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Would it prevent you from seeing a parliament of superb owls?

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Only about 5% of me is a chatbot. The rest of me is mostly human.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

I would like to provide this XKCD in case the last graphic was too helpful.

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