I don’t know specifically about a medical lab tech program. But I do know about clinical software in general. It is by and large proprietary Widows software. Seems like something you may encounter. But said software could be delivered via Citrix, which does have a Linux client.

Thanks for the tip!

Edit: I typed out two sets of the same numbers, one in a row, intonating one after the other, and the others in a column in an attempt to impart the idea of all at once.

My Lemmy client put both on single lines, which is confusing. So I removed the original comment.

Fair point. I dislike competitive multiplayer games. Also why I don’t encounter anything with anti-cheat, as that’s the primary (maybe only?) type of game it’s used for.

But absolutely an important consideration for those that do like competitive multiplayer.

My personal experience gaming solely on Linux for about two years is a 100% success rate running Windows games. Mind you I don’t play anything that has anti-cheat. And maybe 85%-90% without needing to fiddle with anything.

You guess right! Thanks for providing the correct syntax.

I agree with this sentiment.

My guess is I’d fit u/but_my_mom_says_im_cool’s definition of a “Lemmy Linux bro”. I’m that person that responds to any post about bad behavior from Microsoft with some variation of “use Linux”.

But I won’t shame any individual for using Windows. That’s their choice.

I’m the Linux/open source/digital privacy person in my friend group. And I’m vocal enough about it that people know this, but I don’t shove it down anyone’s throat. But I will answer questions and offer suggestions when asked. And I’ve had some small successes in bringing people around in this way.

I feel like I was aware of this (much time has passed), but I think it’s something we discovered by trying it out of curiosity.

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Reminds me of the Ferd Fteenthousand. https://youtu.be/F8P5vGcf-NU

I built an office shed in my back yard. Almost all the grass is gone where I walk between the back door and the shed. I do this fairly frequently, but I’d think still quite a bit less than an even lightly trafficked hiking path.

I’ll put some stepping stones out there eventually.

Gross. I didn’t know that. I do occasionally use AirBnB. I’m aware of their impact on the rental market, so I favor hotels most of the time. But there have been a few occasions in recent years where I was traveling in a larger group and an AirBnB made more sense. But no more of that.

I looked in to this a little, and Joe Gebbia is no longer the CEO, but he is still on the board. Still a good enough reason to boycott.

NixOS is a declarative distro. Meaning it you can declare pretty much every aspect of it from what software is installed to how the system is configured from a config file.

Using your calandar example, you can list Thunderbird (or whatever) as a package you want in the configuration and it will be installed. You can also use that same configuration on another machine and produce the same environment.

Relevant to the original point, since all your software is listed in a text file, you can easily see exactly what’s installed.

Void for desktop/laptop. These are the things I like about it.

• Rolling release
• Initial installation is minimal, and doesn’t foist a specific DE or other unessential software on me.
• No systemd
• Nothing similar to Arch’s AUR. I know a lot of people love it, but I do not. I mention as the distros are similar.

Debian for my server. But I plan to migrate to Devuan.

• Stable and well tested
• Huge package selection
• Pretty ubiquitously supported. If for whatever reason what you want to run isn’t in the repo, .deb packages and apt repos are often available.
• Minimal installation available.

I’ll try this! I used to use caldav via my mail provider with DAVx5, but I had problems with it not retaining notification settings with recurring events.

I don’t know if that’s a problem with their caldav server, DAVx5, or my phone’s calendar. But worth trying with radicale and see if it works.

My kneejerk response to this was negative. “Oh, another distro spinoff”. But I read the article and the front page of their site. It feels to me it’s trying to be to Fedora what Mint is to Ubuntu. And I hear good things about Mint.

While I take issue with both base distros (Ubuntu, Fedora). I’m also of the opinion that Fedora is better, relatively speaking. So, maybe this has more of a place than I initially thought.

For those like myself who hadn’t heard of GoToSocial and are curious what it is but don’t want to watch a video, it is as you might guess an ActivityPub based microblogging platform. With a focus on smaller instances capable of running on low end hardware. According to their site, anyway. https://gotosocial.org/

It’s a novel idea. But despite the article’s claims this is not a practical alternative to a laptop in planes, coffee shops, etc. Nor is a minipc inherently more serviceable than a laptop as others have pointed out.

For traveling, if it’s a longer trip, it almost makes sense to me as you’d have it set up for a while. Though I’d do a mini ITX system. The ones with external power supplies and no drive bays or expansion slots are pretty small. But even then, I don’t feel like this would be significantly better than a laptop. And that’s a lot to buy for a niche use case.

Edit: spelling and grammar

By first gen I meant not a switch 2. I’m not too particular about which version or revision.