Thanks for the comment and the sympathies :D

I hadn’t heard that song before… I have now and I love it! The piano is SO good! Thanks for the new tune :)

Is this image AI? the reflections in the window, the perfect snowman, that film grain filter… it looks too perfect to me.

Just purchased a server license (for life). Not only is this update jam packed full of nice features, but a lot of their updates are. I’ve been self-hosting it (on a VPS) for the past year and it’s about time I supported them

Also fuck off with this attitude man. I’m not attacking you, learn how to speak to people.

Sorry. I get quite triggered when people add pseudo-labels to distributions, mainly Debian being outdated. Looking back, I was quite harsh and I apologize.

However, you’re actively spreading the false narrative by saying Debian’s not good for “general computing” - this is what triggers me. A distribution is nothing but its package manager and some defaults. Some have different defaults and package managers.

Older packages can be difficult for new users who want a computer to “just work”.

The only place this makes a difference is with the latest hardware which OP does not have. I have more recent hardware than OP and Debian 13 + KDE Plasma 6 works out of the box.

It’s fine for general computing, but not great.

Again, I really hate this sentence. I will tone down the rudeness this time in explaining why. I have daily-driven Debian for years with AMD + Intel CPUs, Nvidia GPUs (1070, 3060) with use cases ranging wildly through the years. I cannot fathom what kind of general computing cannot work. If you say specialized computing, I would still disagree as there are always ways to make things work.

Just off the top of my head where things are iffy with Debian: bat cannot be installed via a package manager, but not on most distros anyway. There’s a deb package though which works. Similar with dust, although more distros have it in their package manager.

Debian, like you said, is rock-solid stable. In my many years of developing code, university courses, daily work (research), maintaining servers with wildly different usages, Debian’s “outdated” packages have only let me down once and that was with a LaTeX package which could be installed via ctan anyway.

Debian is rock-solid stable, but lacks newer packages. It’s great for a server, not so great for […] general computing.

What the fuck??? I’ve been daily driving Debian for years now on my personal laptops, desktop, mini PC, and mutliple servers. I’ve found and reported Linux kernel vulnerabilities on my trusty Debian systems.

What do you mean it’s not so great for general computing? What can’t you do with Debian computing-wise that you can do with other distros? The only issues I’ve ever had was with some LaTeX packages being older versions. You just get that from CTAN and install that manually.

This is such a ridiculous comment. What do you do on a server that’s not general computing? You’re doing a subset of general computing??? How does a fucking distro actively prevent you from doing general computing???

Thank you for the comment!

Most of the beautiful hardwork was done by the store - I just pointed, zoomed, focused, and shot. It doesn’t feel like I did much to the already existing grandeur.

Source: https://geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2212.html

I can’t believe I didn’t know about it! Thanks :D

May I know what plugin you use in KDE? Sounds like it’s something I’d like to check out.

Quick searches show me Bismuth and kwin-tiling, and bismuth seems to be archived.

Thanks loads! It’s pretty sick and now is my lock screen wallpaper ;D

These are gorgeous! If it’s okay with you, may I use this as my wallpaper?

https://metapixl.com/p/Stoy/797940603119447726

If yes, is there a high res image? Thanks!

Oh boy, this was a 20 minute rabbit hole.

Tl;Dr: this is probably AI generated.

Using google image search, I found is that it was created by this account in Oct/2024:

https://www.instagram.com/gothtoon/p/DBh-p4WgThS/

Alternative front-end: https://imginn.com/p/DBh-p4WgThS/

There is the copyright symbol with this user in this image.

If you go through the comments and other posts by that user, it does look AI generated. Their threads account has a linktree, which has a link to a discord server, which I momentarily joined to see what the deal is about.

Looks like it’s a project started by a user named Emo Bot 9000, and they’ve created a bunch of characters, the most famous of which is the frog mage. This is a message on discord that supports this:

Another user asks whether the frog mage stuff is made using AI, and Emo Bot 9000 essentially replies yes:

Now, although the image in this lemmy post is, to the best of my searching, nowhere explicitly labeled AI, I think it mostly points to being generated by AI. The simplest way to confirm would be to ask them on their discord directly, which I don’t intend to do.

Although reverse search tells me there are earlier appearances of this image, they’re either false or the PFP of a commenter.

My personal website is made using Hugo, sitting behind Caddy, and hosted on Racknerd. I see elsewhere in the thread that you’re looking for something akin to a $5/month VPS, but racknerd is MUCH cheaper for much more vCPU + vRAM (older hardware, but that’s not a deal breaker for hosting a static website).

I used to do $6/Month on Digital Ocean for 1 vCPU + 1GB vRAM + 1TB bandwidth, but now I’m somewhere like $3/Month for 2 vCPU + 2.5GB vRAM + 5TB bandwidth [1]. In fact, I paid $6 extra to have the server in France. Otherwise it’s $30 a year.

Check out racknerd tracker [2]. I found out about it through lemmy many months ago [3]. The person who made the website gets some affiliate stuff.

[1] https://racknerdtracker.com/?product=211%2F25gb-kvm-vps

[2] https://racknerdtracker.com/

[3] https://lemmy.world/comment/11855808

I’m unsure whether your formatting messed up, but you shouldn’t have a space between the shebang (#!) and the interpreter path (/bin/bash). Also add a new line before your command:

#!/bin/bash

gnome-terminal -- sh -c gotop

I tried this on my system (with htop instead of gotop) and it worked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QR_Code_Structure_Example_3.svg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

OP is talking about the alternating pattern between the two straw papers. In the SVG from Wikipedia, this corresponds to the “timing”

Do you want to return to that account?

If not, Temp mail works fine.

Also, Bug me not has user-submitted usernames + passwords to services. This works nicely.

I’ve used Port87 in the past. The user who created it promoted the service on lemmy initially. It worked (I paid for a few months).

I suggest using two different spellings:

Mold is the fungus. To mould is to shape.

Nvm I’m an idiot. Lol

That seems to be the consensus online. But thanks for that tidbit! It feels even more bizarre now knowing that.

I wonder why a handful of people think the way I presented in the post. Perhaps American/British influences in certain places? Reading books by british authors and books by american authors at the same time? Feels unlikely.

https://code.kryo.se/iodine/

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-censorship-by-hiding-in-plain-sight/

That’s crazy helpful - thanks!