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Keshara Keshara @lemmy.world

🇦🇺 Technical IT Consultant and Linux Gamer 🐧

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What's your go-to long form Youtuber?
  • My recommendation for travel would be 'Bald and Bankrupt', in particular I loved his whole Russian/Ex-Soviet Union series.

    For documentaries, I do enjoy the 'Down the Rabbit Hole' documentaries. They did a great one on Terry A. Davis a few years back

  • What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like?
  • Lol dw, you won't get shot here for using your hardware how you intend to use it... Why would anyone get mad about that??

    Well if you don't use your trackpad then obviously Gnome gestures won't be a big point for you. I never really used to either back when I used tiling Window managers, I solely relied on a purely keyboard driven workflow, until I got a new job and they use MacBook Pros as our work laptops, there I got super into the trackpad gestures. For example, three finger swipe left or right to change workspace, three finger swipe up for an application/workspace overview.

  • What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like?
  • I've jumped over the years, Gnome, Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE, Unity, AwesomeWM, QTile, XMonad, Hyprland.

    For the last couple of years I've completely settled on KDE for my Desktop, and Gnome on my Laptops.

    I love the customisability of KDE and being able to turn it into whatever the hell I want lol. But Gnomes gestures on a laptop are unmatched in the Linux space imo, and finally at a point that I firmly believe Gnome gestures are now on par with MacOS gestures.

  • I just thought this looked cool.
  • Damn you're lucky. Since 4.0 released, just getting to my ship has been a complete hit-or-miss. And did you actually manage to play during 3.18?!?!

  • I just thought this looked cool.
  • Cool screenshot :) how has your experience been in 4.0.1?

  • TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google
  • Have the search results on Brave Search improved? I tried it a few months after they launched it and found the results terrible

  • TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google
  • I really need to try this out at some point. Just been too lazy to give it a shot

  • TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google
  • The dictionary bang is 100% something I'll be using quite often moving forward

  • TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google
  • I hear you, but sometimes when I'm working I want 2 things when trying to solve a problem quickly; 1. Accurate results, and 2. Speed and performance.

    So while I do use SP on occasion, I find that sometimes for me it can take a while to load the results and just generally get a bit laggy. This can really start to annoy me over the course of a day, it's those moments when I just bite the bullet and go to Google directly if DuckDuckGo isn't giving me what I need

  • TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google
  • Its amazing, I work in the IT industry, I love exploring different areas of tech, but the concept of bangs in a search engine has never come up haha. I've seen not ever really used them in a terminal when forgetting to run a command as sudo

  • TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google

    So til that if you use DuckDuckGo search engine, and you're not happy with the result and want to run the previous search through Google, instead of copying your search, then heading to Google, then pasting your previous search, you can just add !g to front of your search in DuckDuckGo and that will auto direct you to Google and run that search for you!

    For example: !g search term for Google

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    Driving shoe recommendations?
  • I'm not sure sorry

  • Driving shoe recommendations?
  • Vans, comfortable basic shoes that go with any outfit, and the flat bottom makes it super easy for heel-toe

  • Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses?
  • How are you treating it? And if not you should start. Don't let it grow now

  • Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses?
  • Sounds like depression to me. Tired and bored all the time are quite classic signs of it. Maybe try and seek some help while you are still young? Before letting it manifest into something bigger

  • I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this?
  • I feel you, I get like this sometimes as well, it's what we call "getting in a rut". When I become self-aware of the situation, I just treat myself to something, could be a new keyboard, or PC part, or maybe it's just going out with friends for a few drinks.

    This tends to at least put me on the path to climbing my way back out of it

  • [Crosspost not OP] Early 30s CD looking for advice on where to travel. For a holiday
  • Thanks for crossposting this! Much appreciated ☺️

  • What is your profession?
  • I'm a Technical IT Consultant, consulting for a large cloud IT platform company.

    On the client side, I take on new implementation projects, setups + configurations, maintenance, and help desk tasks that are beyond the help desk department.

    Internally, I'm involved in our DevOps and custom app development teams.

  • [Discussions] Lemmy clients
  • I've just started on Lemmy very recently, but I've been trying out different Android Lemmy clients. I'm currently on 'Voyager for Lemmy' which I installed from F-Droid, and personally this has been my best experience yet

  • What tools do you recommend to install for a new Ubuntu install?
  • The bash script just moves the directories into where they need to go. Very beginner friendly.

    As a tip for your learning, do it manually once or twice, then think "okay, now let's automate that". Think about what you did when you manually executed the task, i.e. selecting a directory, then moving that directory into your .config directory as an example. Get to know the mv command and its flags, then your set to script it out!

  • What tools do you recommend to install for a new Ubuntu install?
  • Timeshift is a very common tool for backing up and creating restore points.

    For dot file management, I personally back up my dot files to a locally hosted server, but I used to have a private git repo for this on GitHub. Then I put together a simple bash script to automate placing the dot files