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  • A polite open letter to KDE developers and maintainers, which got blocked by a moderator.

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  • Yea, it seems like keeping the peace is a tough job

  • how do you see future of linux?

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  • Mint, Manjaro, Fedora, Bazzite… there are plenty of beginner friendly distros these days!

  • Looking for a printer. Whats your opinion?

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  • Unless you're printing just a sheet or two at a time, it's unlikely that you're going to be able to print stickers for less than buying from a commercial printer.

  • The Internet, Reinvented

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  • Yea, this is an absolutely unhinged price point for a device like this

  • Out of the cave.

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  • "I could never leave the cave, climbing is just too inconvenient."

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  • Everything everyone else said, but also it literally has more features. KDE Plasma and apps like Dolphin make Windows look like a toy.

  • Time to uninstall krita (/s)

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  • They've had a few embarrassing slip-ups that are largely irrelevant to users of the distro. I used it for years and my partner still uses it. It's a perfectly fine distro.

  • I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice

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  • I agree that the learning curve is surmountable, but the fact is that many people are unwilling to use a CLI, which is valid. It's also very easy to bork your install with EOS, which is terrifying for people who don't have the knowledge to even begin to troubleshoot issues and who just want their system to work. IMO new GNU/Linux users, unless they specifically request a more advanced distros that will help them learn how things work, should always be recommended a distro with the lowest possible learning curve in order to keep their data safe, their confidence high, and minimise downtime. They can distro-hop later if they want to learn.

  • I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice

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  • I love EndeavourOS and I use it myself, but inflicting CLI package management and pacnew files on someone fresh from Windows is like throwing a baby into shark-infested oceans to teach it to swim.

    My recommendation for new users is Fedora KDE:

    • Almost never has any problems
    • Works out of the box
    • Up-to-date packages
    • GUI package management and upgrades with Discover
    • Lots of useful features vs. other desktop environments (such as GNOME that doesn't even have a minimize button)

    Mint is what I'd recommend for an elderly person who just needs to browse the internet and reply to emails, but for someone who needs to get work done it's Fedora KDE all the way.

  • I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice

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  • Fedora is a great distro. IMO it and Mint are the “it just works” distros.

    Hard agree:

    • Mint = "Just works"
    • Fedora KDE = "Just works but also has a bunch of useful features and up-to-date packages"

  • huh. didn't expect that

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  • IMO it's overblown. If you even have an issue at all, 99.99% of the time it's user error. And to mitigate that, you just use timeshift with BTRFS and snapshots on GRUB.

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    An open source repairable printer.

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  • Those are photographs…

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    An open source repairable printer.

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  • This. Based on my (elementary) understanding of laser printers, you have to have a laser zap a transfer belt to charge it so that it will elecromagnetically attract the toner, then precisely lay down a fine layer of toner onto the belt, then lay the microplastics + iron filings from the belt onto the page, repeat this four times, then roll the page through a tiny oven to bake on the thin, shiny layer of plastic. It's very complicated, and have you seen the price of new fuser units or transfer belts?

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    An open source repairable printer.

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  • I mean, toner is also made out of microplastic and iron filings.

  • Have you ever momentarily forgotten a word, so you just make one up?

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  • "The machine that makes the food hot"

  • Anon wants sex

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  • Surely not

  • Have you ever momentarily forgotten a word, so you just make one up?

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  • I used to work in a Mexican restaurant. I always forgot the Spanish word for oven, so I'd say "La máquina que hace calor la comida."

  • Arch btw...

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  • Oh Lord, yea, I try to keep to the official repos for that reason. If not there, AUR, else Flatpak, else AppImage.

  • Arch btw...

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  • Nothing like that, no. Arch (and Endeavour) are advanced distros. I'd recommend Fedora KDE if you want something easier. You could safely run updates with Discover on Fedora.

    Read up on Pacman on the Arch wiki or by using the man command to learn how to update and install software. With Endeavour there is also the eos-update utility.

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    Tennendo - Hagi

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    Cool ash bridge

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    Incense Review: Abundance / Oud by Flora Botanical Incense

    nathanupchurch.com /blog/incense-review-flora-botanical-incense-oud-abundance/
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    Incense Review: Faircense Vanille-Benzoe

    nathanupchurch.com /blog/incense-review-faircense-vanille-benzoe/
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    Incense Review: PremaNature Amber Deluxe

    nathanupchurch.com /blog/incense-review-premanature-amber-deluxe/
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    Cultivated Agarwood skins from Crassna Khmer

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    Testing a composition with cedar, lavender, and orris.

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    Incense Apprentice: A New Incense Bibliography

    incenseapprentice.substack.com /p/a-new-incense-bibliography-part-1
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    Am I crazy or is someone ripping off /c/incense?

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    I vote we call this "Nouveau Easterism"

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    Great book on Japanese Incense - The Fragrant Path by Michael Cousineau

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    Incense Cigarettes

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    Seems like not everyone enjoys agarwood: The Emperor's Frou Nose

    incenseapprentice.substack.com /p/the-emperors-frou-nose
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    Banjara Ritual Resin On Stick Chamomile

    incenseinthewind.blogspot.com /2025/04/banjara-ritual-resin-on-stick-chamomile.html
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    Banjara Ritual Resin On Stick Chamomile

    incenseinthewind.blogspot.com /2025/04/banjara-ritual-resin-on-stick-chamomile.html
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    Incense Review: Hono Sandalwood

    nathanupchurch.com /blog/hono-sandalwood-incense-review/
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    Incense Review: Pikake Jasmine by Yi-Xin Craft Incense

    nathanupchurch.com /blog/yi-xin-pikake-jasmine-review/