I can’t imagine the country matters.

Do you just not have the “User Interface…” menu entry?

Hmm, that’s weird. Are you on a semi-recent version of LibreOffice? I believe, it got shipped with version 6.0.

And just to be sure, you are checking here, right?:

Well, HTTP + HTML+JS+CSS. The “World Wide Web”, if you will.

You can switch to the “Tabbed” interface for something more similar MS Office: https://books.libreoffice.org/en/WG252/WG2521-UserInterfaceVariants.html#toc6

Link for those wanting to subscribe from other instances: !Silksong@indie-ver.se

Alright yeah, I half-expected as much when I wrote that sentence. Surely someone will post about a webpage they found, or will source something from e.g. Wikipedia. But well, hopefully it still happens less often, or at least there’s less of an expectation that you look at linked webpages. 🫠

Right, yeah, I guess on Lemmy, the categorization is already mostly there. I was thinking more generally… 😅

There should be an open-source recommendation algorithm, though; I’m sure of it.

Problem is that the kind of algorithm you envision is technologically a black-box, not just by choice. It’s a machine learning model. At best, you could make the training data and instructions public, but it would still be hard to reason why it makes certain decisions. Corporations traditionally try to eliminate biases by throwing as much data at it as possible, but that makes it even harder to reason about it.

I guess, maybe you could try to split the tasks. So, set up a list of e.g. 50 topics, such as sports, IT, politics etc… Then use a small language model to decide into which categories each post fits. And then you could let the user decide the weights for the topics + weights for recency and vote count.
Or I guess, automatically decide the weights based on what the user upvotes and then make the weights transparent to each user.

But yeah, I don’t think there’s prior art in this respect, so would probably need lots of experimenting still.

Terraform is proprietary. You want to the use the OpenTofu fork instead: https://opentofu.org/

There’s varying takes on why folks prefer Gemini:

• HTML browsers are too complex. It is virtually impossible to implement a new one. We’ve got 2½ implementations, i.e. Blink/WebKit and Gecko, and that’s it. Yes, you can use Dillo or w3m, links and lynx to view simplistic webpages, but anyone, who actually wants to use the web with these, will quickly run into webpages they cannot view.
  With Gemini, you can use tons of clients, some of them even written in Bash, because it’s so simple, and you will not run into pages you cannot view.
• Burn the web. Some folks hold the opinion that the modern web is beyond saving, because advertisers control many central parts of it. Presumably, these days folks are also glad to be spared from AI-generated garbage. And again, you can create your own webpage that’s all smallweb with pure HTML and whatnot, but anyone who actually wants to browse these pages has an easier time finding them on Gemini.
• An own community. Of course, using a different communication protocol cuts off communication with most of humanity. But as a result, many folks on Gemini know each other and bother reading blogs that they might not have read on the HTTP side of things.
  Well, and through survivorship bias, folks on Gemini tend to be nerds who care about permacomputing and the like, so that also helps with finding folks that have similar interests, even if you might end up reading their gardening blog, due to the aforementioned point.

Hmm, they might’ve scrambled to add Recall et al, because those other features you named don’t particularly need to be offloaded. Except for maybe TTS, you’re not gonna run these in the background all the time. And if you need the occasional translation, it’s fine, if it takes a bit longer.

At least, I would’ve absolutely seen headlines à la “Microslop wants you to buy an expensive new PC – to do things your current PC can perfectly fine”.

Sorry, I meant a mop. Couldn’t think of the word and wanted to express that it should just be damp, not actually wet…

I can recommend wiping the floor regularly with a damp cloth. Removes a lot of the dust from the room, so that it can’t get kicked up and land in other places. And it’s relatively quick to do, especially since you don’t have to reach all the corners for that either.

You may want to add a bit of lemon acid to the water every few months or so, since the water will leave behind limescale when it dries, which will make your floor less shiny.

Yeah, this is probably going to sound like a truism, but to avoid shitty Scrum, you need to resist management trying to alter the processes, but you should absolutely tweak the processes to account for the needs of the devs.

Basically, yet another reporting meeting does not help deliver the software faster. But more (or less) meetings for devs to sync what they’re working on, that can help, depending on your team’s specific needs.

At its core, SystemD coordinates and launches all the services in your operating system. So, it is essential for the boot process, but also does scheduling, meaning you could run a backup script every night with it, for example.

That’s the simple answer. But in truth, SystemD is often criticized for doing too much, so it’s hard to describe what it really does. For example, you can also manage network interfaces via SystemD.

Kind of the goal of SystemD is to provide common plumbing which works the same across distros, so that when you configure your services or network interfaces etc. on Ubuntu, it works the same as on openSUSE or Arch or whatever.

Yeah, window cleaner or alcohol in general has the advantage that it dissipates, making it much less likely for it to get into the electronics and shortcircuit something.

It’s not yet in its enshittification phase, so right now it seems like a good deal. But before you know it, blog posts there will be blocked by all kinds of overlays and whatnot, like they are on Medium these days.

Gotta love Linux newbies talking about their first experiences and they’ve already tried 3 distros that I have barely on my radar. A few months in, I hardly knew what SystemD was and this guy’s already on a distro that explicitly removes it.

If you prepare an installation USB stick, so-called “Live-USB”, and select in the BIOS that it should boot from that, then you can test-drive Linux before you install it.

There is more details involved, like you may need to turn off Secure Boot in the BIOS, but yeah, point is, you don’t have to commit to Linux to try it.

I’m guessing, those people are worried that it will be removed. It’s already somewhat on the line since Wayland started replacing X11, because individual desktop environments can now decide to implement it or not.