What? Is this supposed to be snark? By blocking the community, I am saying that this is the wrong place for me to be. I just don’t want it showing up in /all.

I believe, that’s the opposite of doom scrolling…

Well, the ‘politics’ communities are usually used by US folks as their politics communities. It’s great that Trump is doing senile-old-man things again, but I cannot vote for or against the guy anyways. So, there is no real reason for me to keep up with that drama.

You’re supposed to cut off the green parts. 🫠

I noticed yesterday that openSUSE specifically recommends not using Ventoy, due to possible boot issues: https://en.opensuse.org/Create_installation_USB_stick#Ventoy

The “Ventoy Update” post looks rather suspicious to me. The dev didn’t respond to the GitHub issue, so this might just be some jackass pretending to be the dev.

But independently of that, the BLOBs are even more suspicious…

Oh, I didn’t mean to say that balenaEtcher actually had gone unmaintained before. I just meant that it’s likely to do so in the future, like pretty much all software.

dd is kind of in a unique position, in that it’s so simple, that it’ll hardly need maintenance, and it’s useful enough that it presumably gets this maintenance.

With balenaEtcher, it’s developed by a company. If that company folds or changes strategy, then they’ll stop maintaining balenaEtcher.
It’s also implemented with Electron, i.e. browser technologies. If it goes unmaintained for a few months, you’ll quickly have security vulnerabilities in there.
You might also not find anyone willing to maintain such a comparatively thick tech stack…

There’s a condition where people may sweat less or not at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypohidrosis

Not as great as it might sound at first…

I feel like the main problem with balenaEtcher is that it requires downloading 150 MB, for a software that many people will use only once before a reinstall.
If you’re in a rich country, you might hardly notice, but for poorer countries, this is an insane ask, especially if it just improves convenience mildly.

But yeah, ultimately any such tool is going to face the problem that no matter how easy it is to use, you need to first install it, which needs to be explained.
The usage of dd also needs explaining, but you don’t need to install it.

Well, and another factor is that dd has been around since the dawn of time. Software like balenaEtcher tends to go unmaintained after a few years, at which point any documentation referencing it, will need to be rewritten. And it’s usually rewritten to reference dd instead, before a new convenient software emerges…

Yeah, this could just be someone pretending to be the actual developer.

Looks like a cool software from a usability viewpoint, and that machine learning recipe import is probably actually quite useful for archiving other people’s recipes.

But for long-term archiving, I think just a bunch of Markdown files + images are a better choice.
To still get a searchable webpage, personally I’d use mdBook.

Well, I’m glad we’ve cleared that up, with absolutely no questions remaining.

You need to be on Plasma 6.1+ and on Wayland.

Using a Chromium-based browser when you’re bother by ad tech makes no sense whatsoever. Chromium is mostly developed by an ad company.

Apparently, this is how one is supposed to read it, for anyone else wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragdoll

Some e-mail clients, like for example Thunderbird, do also support RSS.

I believe, you can also crush humans and it produces a red dye…

German dogs say “Wuff”. No idea what “Wöf” is.

I mean, that is more obvious and more readable.

But what I really don’t like about it, is that it’s less clear to what it applies. For example:

not list.isEmpty() and x > 3

Is that not (a and b) or (not a) and b?
Obviously, you can define precedence rules, like there also is for !, but that’s again just additional things to learn.
I’m definitely not generally opposed to special characters. I do also hate significant whitespace, because I find that less readable than braces.