I used Ubuntu for a long while, then Debian for a new PC because the video card or display just wasn’t working on Ubuntu.

Couple of weeks ago I finally tried this distro hopping thing people have been on about. I’d stuck with Ubuntu for so long due to an apparently misguided belief that it was stable.

I’m now using Project Bluefin from Universal Blue, a derivative of Fedora Silverblue and I’m blown away by how good it is. It uses Gnome and the maintainer has packaged a few tweaks to keep it similar in user experience to Ubuntu, along with a fantastic array of great software I never knew existed.

I’d highly recommend it to anyone historically loyal to Debian or Ubuntu.

For gaming you can easily install Bazzite as a container to access Steam. I can’t say I fully follow the tech stack that makes it work, but it just does. Whereas my boilerplate Steam install on Debian was completely botched.

Universal Blue really is the future…

https://www.reddit.com/r/LibDem/comments/1di5w9a/tactical_voting_sites_may_cost_us_seats/

I can’t see any mention of stopthetories.vote in that discussion though so perhaps it’s better than the others, at the very least it appears to give the poll data so there’s some transparency there

Just be aware these sites often have a significant Labour bias, don’t take what they say as fact.

Labour would never switch from FPTP. This election is showing just how much they benefit from it too

For a first timer Id recommend just complimenting the other person’s watch

I suspect if this was enabled by default there would be uproar from people annoyed the distro was stealing their bandwidth, and if it were opt-in then very few people would do it.

Windows Update uses peer to peer to distribute updates. It’s one of the first things I always disabled.

This might not be a bad thing. The crazies who usually vote conservative and drink up anti union rhetoric might be more tempted to lean towards Labour

They have fewer of those scary foreign looking people

Sounds like you’re calling for a good ole con lib coalition

That caused me actual pain. I almost downvoted you out of sheer rage

When you finish the final sentence of an essay or a report do you just submit it straight away? You don’t read it through?

I’ve always used the Nullable context so typically I’m just using string.IsNullOrEmpty to determine empty strings, I’m already confident null isn’t leaking. But your explanation does make sense.

I’m now wondering why I’ve never just used myStr != ""

string.IsNullOrEmpty(myStr) has always annoyed me, why isn’t it an extension method or a non-static method?

myStr.IsNullOrEmpty() just feels cleaner and more intuitive to me.

It’d be easier to list countries that don’t

Occasionally only one of my monitors will turn on, I end up having to unplug the power cable to kick the other in to life.

I’m using Debian, with an AMD 6700 XT graphics card, dual monitors via display port. I’ve just ended up accepting it as one of the quirks of the Linux experience.

I don’t know about the specific question you ask but I’ve found Google OR Tools to be useful in the past: https://developers.google.com/optimization/pack/bin_packing

Why the fuck would investors get compensation? Isn’t the entire point of investing that your capital is at risk

Blazor WebAssembly ticks the boxes that @treechicken@lemmy.world described.

I have this dream of a single WASM runtime environment across web, desktop, mobile with devs writing apps once, compiling them down to WASM, distributing them over the Internet, and users running them on any platform they like.

You write the app once and it can be compiled to WebAssembly that works across web, desktop, and mobile.

In reality to take full advantage of Blazor you’re probably going to use Blazor Server/hybrid for desktop and mobile but the principle is the same, you’ve only written your app once but it works in every environment.

I think you just described Blazor WebAssembly

You’re completely right. The deeper I get into bash the more absurd it is. Trying to iterate through text delimited by line breaks is ridiculously complex. And the sheer number of options for find and replace style operations is confusing sed, awk, printf, why?!