technology Technology Saying Goodbye to WordPad: Windows' Staple for 28 Years Gets the Chop
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    nitpicking         1 year ago • 75%

    I used WordPad for certain text files, because it word-wraps differently from Notepad. Admittedly, that happens less than once a month. I will only slightly miss WordPad.

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    • tech Technology Virtual machine that contains Stable Diffusion?
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    nitpicking         1 year ago • 100%

    And according to that very GitHub, you have to downgrade Python to 3.10, or create a sandbox. I wish to do neither. For me, it's cleaner to create a whole virtual environment than a sandbox.

    I'm old school. Programs should not requires system-level changes, period end of sentence. I miss static compilation.

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    • tech Technology Virtual machine that contains Stable Diffusion?
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    nitpicking         1 year ago • 100%

    Miniconda drives me crazy and the one time I tried to use it, it changed my default python environment system-wide. I have been increasingly annoyed by Python's having so absurdly many fractional versions, and its scripts refusing to work unless you supply them with version N.nnnn.nnn exactly. (Yes, I am exaggerating.) Here is the acceptable pace to make incompatible versions of a programming language: no more than every 2 years.

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    Technology nitpicking • 1 year ago • 100%
    Virtual machine that contains Stable Diffusion?

    I'd like to play with a personal instance of Stable Diffusion. I could install it directly on this Debian GNU/Linux box, but that requires a weird dance involving installing a downgrade to Python (among other things). Anyone know of a downloadable VM from virtualboxes.org or somewhere? Otherwise I will just roll my own, but one that has been optimized and tested by many others would presumably save me some time. Thanks.

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    debian Debian — The Universal Operating System xscreensaver appears only on one of two monitors
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    nitpicking         1 year ago • 100%

    FWIW, this doesn't happen in KDE, only in XFCE4. I am ... mystified.

    KDE has its own problems, of course. Nothing is ever simple.

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    • debian Debian — The Universal Operating System There are no kbin apps in the Debian repos
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    nitpicking         1 year ago • 100%

    Debian tends to be pretty conservative, and kbin is currently a pretty niche application that's only of interest to server admins. So, I suspect you're right. It probably wouldn't be packaged until a Debian Developer happens to be interested in it.

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    • asklemmy Asklemmy Without using pronouns (me, he, she, it, etc) or articles (a, an, the), how did you come up with your user name?
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    nitpicking         1 year ago • 100%

    Name of web site is nitpicking.com.

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    • debian Debian — The Universal Operating System There are no kbin apps in the Debian repos
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    nitpicking         1 year ago • 100%

    You can request that kbin be packaged here: https://wiki.debian.org/RFP

    If you're techie enough, you could even volunteer to be the Debian maintainer.

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    Debian — The Universal Operating System nitpicking • 1 year ago • 100%
    xscreensaver appears only on one of two monitors

    I have a Debian Bullseye system, ASUS PN53 (built in Radeon graphics) with two monitors, one connected via HDMI and one using a USB-C adapter. When xscreensaver locks the screen, only the HDMI monitor displays a screen saver. The USB-C monitor continues to show whatever windows were on it, although the screen lock works to the extent that you can't interact with them until you unlock. Mate-screensaver worked correctly, but xscreensaver is superior, and also I'm now using Xfce-4. Suggestions?

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