Here’s how to fix this[+]

Create $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs with

XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=“$HOME/downloads”

You may need to logout/in for things to reread this file.

The full list of keys is:

• XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
• XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR
• XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR
• XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR
• XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR
• XDG_MUSIC_DIR
• XDG_PICTURES_DIR
• XDG_VIDEOS_DIR

+: Since this is Linux, this is a fix for many but not all cases.

I like “heat pump”. It’s a very nice ELI5 name. It’s a pump for heat. A water pump takes water and forces it to where it wouldn’t go naturally. A heat pump does the same.

If that counts then Vim is definitely ad-ware (soliciting ICCF donations).

RIP Bram. You’ll be missed :(.

I’m obviously a fan of LE but a simple self-hosted option with a custom CA would be great for local machines:

• I don’t want every Raspberry Pi/laptop/temp VM/whatever published into the cert transparency record
• Configuring the router to forward every local hostname to the machine’s .well-known would be awful (if my ISP even allowed port 80)
• Exposing local machines to the Internet is an unnecessary degradation of security

No one seems to mention license considerations when talking about static linking. Even if your app is open source, your particular license may not be legally compatible with the GPL, for example. 3BSD, MIT, and Apache most likely don’t change in a single binary but it’s kind of a new thing that no one was really thinking of before when mixing licenses together.

I think this default okay assumption comes from most developers having a cloud-centric view where there’s technically no “distribution” to trigger copyright.

It’s a modern take on the Pidgin concept. Pidgin ran locally on one computer and didn’t sync anything between any of your other Pidgin installs. Also, your login details for every account were usually in plaintext on disk. In practice, it feels

Beeper (really Matrix + bridges) is a network service that you can access with a browser, mobile app, whatever.

Well, uhh, sounds like you could use some more traffic enforcement there. Maybe with AI and cameras ;)

You’re still beating up that strawman. Expectations of privacy change based on context. Driving = no. Walking around = yes.

At least in the US, I believe this is actual legal case law so I’m not making stuff up here.

A beautiful strawman. This is about driving and traffic enforcement by the government, not creepy campus stalking by a crazy person.

There is no conceivable reality where the government will publicly post your movements for everyone to see based this system. None.

Same. I forget how long I’ve had it (primary domain even) and I just got the email today.

The choice between “Algorithm” and “Chronological” is a false dichotomy. Lemmy has several choices and the default for me is “active”, not chronological. And why can’t I have multiple separate streams of subscriptions by a grouping of my choice?

Thinkpads always seem to have garbage screens. It felt like they maxed out at 1340x768 res for a long time and even when I last looked a year or two ago, 1080p seemed like the best you can get in most cases.

Ha, I forgot about USB-C. My niece’s iPhone was dead and we had nothing to charge her phone with. We were absolutely surrounded with tech but not a single Lightning cable. Forced incompatibility was having a leopards ate my face moment.

I troll them back by writing out: Liked “Copy-paste-of-your-whole-message”

“Slippery slope” is a common argument but usually flawed. In this case, driving is an extraordinarily regulated privilege and despite that, it still results in massive deaths and permanent life changing injury every year. In the US, car crashes are the number one cause of death for children. It’s difficult to draw a line between expanding driving enforcement to gross losses in privacy like many here are envisioning.

It also ignores the benefits to civil rights. Again, I don’t know about the UK but in the US, traffic enforcement by police is very unevenly applied. Minorities routinely get their privacy violated on pretexts while cops don’t even pay lip service to the rules.

The HOV lane is supposed to look empty. If it was packed full of cars, carpooling wouldn’t have any advantage because you wouldn’t go any faster.

Also, I don’t think a narcissist would intentionally and publicly humiliate themselves the way Musk has done (Not a psychologist).

I didn’t pay much attention when this was happening. Are there size requirements or something? How does lemmy.ca or sh.itjust.works avoid paying?

Wow, that’s a cool little company. Also, “Stealing Tesla’s Ideas”, ha.

Related to the sibling comment, good ideas are rarely the whole story to a company’s success. Execution (and luck) matter.

I’m going to need to read up more on them. The jump from “regular truck drivers who do repairs” to “so we put a locomotive drivetrain in our truck” is too big and I think it’s really the key to them getting off the ground.

I think that would have been a healthier start, to focus attention and generate some liveliness, but people’s preconceived notion is “Reddit” so that’s where community creation went.