What are you doing with your machine that would be confusing for your standard end user? KDE out of the box is good enough for my daily driving. PopOS, Bazzite, and Mint work great. GUI options for most normal computing things you'd do these days. The amount of customization allowed on an end user's machine is often minimal anyway. Plus, you sorta imply that the end user would be doing all this, instead of an IT admin preconfiguring a machine with Ansible or a custom install script. I think you may be over estimating what your typical business user does. It's mostly "Here's my chat, here's my browser, here's my 1-5 LOB apps, here's my printer. Can I change my background to my kids? Great."
Between cloud apps and RemoteApp technology, there is a pretty decent chance for Linux desktops with Windows servers becoming the norm, again, for smaller size businesses. Organizations I work with still use thin clients, which - what's the difference? And based on end user reactions to the UI when upgrading to Windows 11 - all change is hard. They'd get used to it fast. Especially if it acts mostly like Windows 10.
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1123143
Ceterum autem censeo Vaporwave esse delendam. > -Cato the Elder, probably
Just put Dot as GM, she can keep the brothers in line.
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1108580
> Happy Friday! This whole album is quite excellent.
【ｙｏｕ ｍａｙ ｎｏｔ ｌｉｋｅ ｉｔ， ｂｕｔ ｔｈｉｓ ｉｓ ｗｈａｔ ｐｅａｋ ｃａｌｉｆｏｒｎｉａｎ ｐｅｒｆｏｒｍａｎｃｅ ｌｏｏｋｓ ｌｉｋｅ】 (対岸の火事)
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1094081
>Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly ninety million miles, is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think vaporwave is a pretty neat idea. This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones who listened to vaporwave. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans. And then one day, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl, sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no-one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and so the idea was lost forever.
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1079074
> Happy Friday!
Hey, my name is on that probe! Good luck with the solar plunge little dude!
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1062309
> Happy Friday!
I would tell you to fight me, but I guess I need to add an GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 argument to my KDE Konflict Picker first....
I feel like I'll be reposting this video a lot, but I love ✨ＬＥＡＦ ＭＯＬＤ✨
In my garden, I took some chicken wire, a few stakes, and made a place for leaves, about 3-4 feet across.
Just like compost, mix it every few days and moisten it to the level of a damp sponge (appropriate for your climate). After a year (yes, a year), you'll have a pile of broken down organic matter, and a lovely leaf mold environment.
Also, Leaf mold breaks down leaves way faster when you already have a starter pile of it to add to from last year.
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1047521
> >Do You Think Vaporwave Can Bloom on A Battlefield?
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1033052
> >Vlaporwave is my favorite flavor of vlapor. > > https://pentium2.bandcamp.com/track/ft-babefake
It is.....I would like a Fediverse video platform, but this one ain't very cash money.
A reminder that Loops has a TOS that effectively grants them an unlimited license to use your likeness for whatever purpose they desire. Including AI generation. https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service#7
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1001824
> Happy Friday, Happy Friday, vaporwaveretti!
There are a couple 'Other - Please Specify' fields I definitely filled out with 'Do not do AI'.
I haven't seen that before, sounds like a bug report may be in order; maybe first look under the 'Encryption' section.
Under 'Encryption', check to make sure it shows your password is valid, and see if the number of decrypted items matches your other devices? Also, at one time I managed to have several encryption keys, see if it only lists the one or multiple.
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/985996
> This one is interesting, as it's sort of not-purchasable. It was delisted a while ago. It also has a fun(?) story: > > >All songs were written and recorded by Eco Virtual on a laptop and mastered direct to cassette tape in 2010. The original files were lost shortly after leaving only one master tape, which was damaged. This audio recording is a digital conversion of what was left on that tape. All songs were composed for the documentary film 'Wildlife Canada' produced and directed by Eco Virtual. > > > I enjoyed watching the documentary, it's ~9 minutes. Maybe I even learned something? You can access the album download through archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ECOVIRTUAL-WILDLIFECANADA > > Anyway, 'Salt Marsh' is my favorite track from this. Happy Friday, vaporwavers! >
"I'm sorry, we won't be able to hand out annual bonuses this year due to the CEO'S new yacht economic downturn"
I'll have a small ambient heater in there, controlled by my home automation system! They are LED lights, so not much heat there. Our house sits around 50-60F usually, so I'm spending a bit of time making sure the insulation is good.
The Long Dark Wet is coming, and I'm setting up in indoor grow zone for the winter. I can't wait to experiment! I'll be attempting to keep a couple peppers alive, as well as a dill, some citrus, a lemongrass,and a few other things. Some of these would be fine being dormant in our basement, but that's no fun!
I get the joke, but with no prior context it's kind of a jerk move to assume the player already opened it if they asked for a perception OR an investigation. A Mimic would normally just ambush you OR attack when the player opens them. If it was opened it's probably already attacking, and if it was closed then performing a perception shouldn't cause initiative until rolled (if the mimic noticed you noticing it, for instance).
I'll....I'll crawl back into my dingy nerd tavern now...
Supply chains are literally chains of suppliers, e.g. vendors. Your 'simplest electronic product' could absolutely be constrained by whom you choose to work with.
If your vendor locks you into buying from a certain source, and their vendor requires the same, and so on up the chain, how would you describe that dynamic to differentiate from a single vendor being the point of restriction?
To your point that the phrase didn't exist, here are three supply-chain oriented papers that directly reference the phrase: This paper is exploring the social dynamics of buyers and sellers:
Lock-in situations in supply chains: A social exchange theoretic study of sourcing arrangements
Specifically, we believe that the examination of lock-in situations between a manufacturer and its supplier, i.e., instances where for all intent and purposes, one party is heavily dependent upon the other party, with few alternatives, under social exchange theory, can provide new insights into controlled self-interest behaviors (e.g., strategies) in on-going supply chain relationships.
This paper is about supply chains in plastic management, but the phrase is here:
Business models and sustainable plastic management: A systematic review of the literature
Barriers frequently mentioned were high costs, complexity of new systems, supply chain lock-in and low customer buy-in.
And here's a paper about optimizing your supply chain where it is referenced as something to avoid:
Orchestrating cradle-to-cradle innovation across the value chain
This one even has a handy definition:
Supply chain lock-in:
Contracts and strong dependencies with suppliers not supporting circularity (e.g., either due to non-willingness or lock-in in production facilities optimized for linear concepts).
I suppose if you would like to be super extra pendantic Wikipedia does have you covered with "Collective Monopolistic Vendor Lock-in".
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/971375
> It's Friday, nostalgia huffers!
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/954242
> Happy Friday, wave riders!
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/938974
> Happy Friday, cassette heads!
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/923566
> Happy Friday, Vaporwavites!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20260661
> Hello Vaporwavians!
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> As a Vaporwave Enjoyer, I'd like to see some more life in this community! To that end, I'm going to try and make a weekly post sharing my favorite tracks. I encourage you to do the same!
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> First up, as an computer person who assists others often, it's my theme song: コンピューターマン (Ｃｏｍｐｕｔｅｒ░Ｍａｎ) from ꜰᴏʀᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴍɪᴅɴɪɢʜᴛ.
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> Check it out!
Howdy, gardeners! It's been a minute since I posted, but my PNW garden is just getting up to steam!
My first cukes came in, I'm growing 'Spacemaster 80' slicing cucumbers and 'Homemade Pickle' cucumbers, for obvious reasons. !Cukes I've just made my first batch of pickles using a Claussen knock off recipe from the forbidden site, so we'll see how that goes. It just went in the fridge for cooling, so I get to try it in just a couple days!
I've started researching canning, as I want to can peppers, tomatoes, beans, and maybe corn - should the Corn Experiment prove bountiful. Learning how to Not Get Botulism seems pretty important!
My tomatoes are doing well - I'm growing Roma, Gardener's Delight, and Oxheart. I'm endlessly fascinated by how the Roma tomatoes look like they do on the label of the can :) ! Those are in containers. The other two varieties are trellised and are going nuts!
Gardener's Delight: !Tomatoes
Oxheart: !Tomatoes
Gardener's Delight Closeup: !Tomatoes
Oxheart Closeup: !Tomatoes
All the peppers are finally flowering. I'm growing Serrano, Jalapeno, Poblano, Shishito, and Ground Cherries. They are all growing rather well except a couple of the Shishito's in the raised bed seem quite small.
In my Three Sisters Garden, corn is growing fairly well, it seems half of them are 'normal' size and the other half are still half height, so I may have packed it too tight. I'm growing Blue FM1 pole beans, which have just flowered and are doing well, as well as pumpkins, of which two have grown so far, still green.
In the Squash Garden, I've got crazy vines from my Kubota squash, with 4 or so gourds growing. I planted beans here but they never really took off.
I also built a 'Wildlife Garden' this year. It's open to the public (animal visitors) and I don't do any pest control here. It's also gone NUTS! I have Blue Hubbard squash growing a mile a minute with 8 gourds on the vine, scarlet runner beans reaching for the sky, some ridiculous sunflowers pushing their way up, chamomile, clover, feverfew, boy it's wild! It's fun to look at.
For salad greens we've had the 'Tower of Power' going for a few months - it was a strawberry planter that I stuck a bunch of transplanted lettuce/chard/kale/mustard plants into. It produced salad for us every couple days, pretty excellent! My wife asked me to start migrating it back to strawberries, so I've started that process. Due to that, I've replanted a bunch more greens to keep us going!
!THE TOWER PROVIDES !Jumpstarting Strawberries !Jumpstarting Strawberries
And speaking of those strawberries, I'm propagating a bunch of strawberry plants (june-bearing) to have more ground cover for next year in addition to the strawberry tower, and I'm hoping my ever-bearing strawberry will put out runners, but it's still fruiting consistently!
I got a small onion harvest (time to figure out how many onions I'd actually need in a year), and plenty of garlic. This was my first year growing onions, and half the garlic was from last years harvest! !
I also have numerous other things going - my lemongrass is growing really well:
As is my celery in a pot:
I've been growing marigolds and nasturtiums all over the place. The nasturtiums are great in salad! My cabbage started doing pretty well once I defeated an Aphid Menace that was stunting them.
So, that's my big ole report! What’s growing on with you all?
(Apologies to LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org if I stepped on your toes, I felt compelled to make a weekly thread!)
This is a beautiful Lemon Queen sunflower in my backyard. I've planted a whole row, but this one shot up and got an early start, the rest barely have their heads grown.
I'm growing these as part of The Great Sunflower Project, a citizen science effort to track pollinators in the United States. These were chosen for their wide appeal to pollinators, and true to form, there is always at least one sort of insect buddy visiting at any given moment!
David From Space @orbiting.observer I'm David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.
You think you saw me behind some ferns? You just might have!