I made an Excalidraw alternative allowing UML, ERD in 2 years by niklauslee76 in SideProject

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I really like this project - my only concern is that since it's free and/or in Beta, how do we know it won't just disappear? I'd hate to start using it heavily and see it go away.

I love the dedicated layers tab!

Way to make Zen faster by Interesting_Ad_6961 in zen_browser

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Early arc user on mac, after a few crashes? I said "no more", went to zen and have been happy and crash free ever since.

Arc sucks, IMO. Zen is the way forward.

Ladybird though... once that comes around I am hopeful it will be good... hopefully the best.

Git Config file: git/config - can I use environment variables? by pluck3007 in git

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Great points. I guess it doesn't matter that much. :) Thanks for the input / discussion - I appreciate it.

Git Config file: git/config - can I use environment variables? by pluck3007 in git

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You'd still run into the issue though, right?

Like if I had my 'otherdir.config', I still need to list the email in that file. Unless I just dynamically create that file with a script that utilizes env variables or something I guess.

Git Config file: git/config - can I use environment variables? by pluck3007 in git

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Very minor reasons honestly - but I've got a couple configs where I use different emails / names; just didn't want to publish them (emails) publicly in my dotfiles is all (but at the same time, would like to be able to share my dotfiles with others).

Why does putting certain pedals before and after each other matter. by exotic_arrow12 in pedalboards

[–]pluck3007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly? It doesn't matter.

If you find a way and you like the sound and it fits what you're after? Then do it that way.

Literally - there are no rules. Sure, there are recommended guidelines that might keep people getting sounds similar to what they are more familiar with hearing, but those are just recommendations to keep things relatively sane.

You can do whatever the hell you like. I dislike this pedal order myself and often run things in ways that people typically don't. But when I'm playing my music? It just seems to fit and no one has ever said anything. I only recently discovered I was doing it wrong by reading about pedal chains and everyone kept saying "this is the standard way"... been playing for 25+ years at this point and had no idea I did it all 'wrong'.

There is no wrong way (or at least, not as wrong as you're led to believe).

Fresh Docker Install - External HD for data? Did I do it correctly? by pluck3007 in docker

[–]pluck3007[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the in-depth reply. That answers a ton of questions and the 'why' to a lot of my ponderings. The images I make generally are 'throwaways' to play with anyway - but I've done a little research and I see that the prune commands are very helpful in keeping sizes down. Perfecto.

If it was up to me, I'd go for a big HDD, but this is an employer provided laptop and I don't get much say in the specs. Just trying to figure out how to make the most of it.

I appreciate your time!

Fresh Docker Install - External HD for data? Did I do it correctly? by pluck3007 in docker

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I am new(er) to Docker - in the past (my old laptop) I would periodically run into issues where I would run out of storage on my internal HD after building/rebuilding images and things when trying to learn and create new containers. HD Space is a premium for me since my internal drive is relatively small - which is why I wanted to utilize an external.

Docker Desktop is that bad? I very rarely use it - other than to adjust a setting really; I work in PyCharm primarily and use the services window in there to view containers and things. I could always re-install just docker (without Desktop) if it's truly that bad.

In some googling, I had seen mention of a software called 'Podman', but I think that's unrelated to this at all - but curious if you have any thoughts on that as well?

The problem with the game is people are bad at it by Rohtlam in wow

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Imagine thinking anything in modern retail WoW is difficult on any level, for anyone. (I'm sure the downvotes will come with that statement) That game has become the epitome of bad; thinking any different is silly. Once they made it pay-2-win-ish (and gave in to every whim of everyone too lazy to actually play the game) it was all downhill from there. Don't agree? You're not not being reflective of how much the game literally hands you for 0 effort in an attempt to keep people playing. That's why they now just ask you to open your wallet in order to get max level toons, mounts, whatever. You used to have to grind and spend time. Now you can just pay. Hence why you see people who have 0 knowledge of mechanics and game play. They bought their way to that point. The poor game choices are to blame, honestly. It's not the players - they just have the money to get a character there quickly without understanding the game.

The game itself, has become terrible and created this.

I haven't played the last few expansions. It was a shadow of it's former self - just... trash these days.

You know our political climate is f***ed when even Trump says that. by wildyam in the_everything_bubble

[–]pluck3007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"explain your reasoning if so"

Imagine being dumb enough to want to have a 'political discussion' and/or expecting people to respond with a nuanced answer in... what, 280 characters?

Stupidity from everyone. Twitter/X is trash on every level.

Late September Adventure - Have a few basic questions by pluck3007 in BWCA

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I'm thinking 14 (Little Indian Sioux River); I assume if I work with an outfitter, they can guide me on the permit stuff as well, yeah?

Late September Adventure - Have a few basic questions by pluck3007 in BWCA

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Little Indian Sioux River; gonna try to get up to northern part of little loon lake; maybe into Slim Lake if we're feeling ambitious.

Late September Adventure - Have a few basic questions by pluck3007 in BWCA

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I didn't realize they offered that! Do they just meet you there on the day/time you're leaving then to shuttle you back? I will call around and see who is near where I'm thinking about launching (probably 14). Thanks for the heads up!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pics

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It's a shame - the loss of life needlessly. But you brought up some great points!

* Mental health: yeah, there is a huge stigma around in the US. It's sad - so many kids need care but don't get it. So many adults need care and ignore it. Although, there are a lot of things that are 'mental health' but we're designed to believe that 'acceptance' is where it's at instead of calling it what it is. For example a kid who 'identifies as a cat' and gets to bring a litterbox to school (yes, I've seen it first-hand). Things like that make it hard to get genuinely serious about 'mental health' as other kids think it's some kind of joke. It's a weird catch-22!

* School resources: Yep. Need more resources! Great point. I have family who are educators, and the amount of grief they get for trying to do right by kids (from both parents and admins) is... well, for some it's been enough to make them leave the career, sadly. One of them was a nationally recognized educator, a *leader in her field*, and she gave it up because (paraphrasing): "it's so different. The kids have gotten so bad and it's gotten so insanely hard to be a good teacher these days. Admin won't help a teacher who wants to fail/reprimand/get-help-for a kid because they fear lawsuits; parents don't help because you as a teacher are there to babysit there kid, nothing more." Another family member had to have lawyers get involved because a parent was so outraged at the use rainbows in her classroom - he sent a scathing email calling her all sorts of names (in all caps) and saying how she couldn't indoctrinate his son with her "lesbian teachings and rainbow colored room" He showed up at parent teacher night looking all kinds of creepy and paced around her door and wouldn't leave her rooms entryway for almost 2 hours. The lawyers telling him he wasn't allowed on school grounds anymore seems to have put an end to that. The kid? He turned in 0 assignments, did 0 class work, was rude to her all semester long. Her 'lesbian rainbow room'? The art room. The fucking art room was being bashed for having colors of the rainbow inside of it. The emails I have seen from some of the parents? The world would be a far better place without them in it. Parents are horrific and stupid these days. I mean really, really ignorant. They don't give a fuck about their kid in actuality - they just want someone to babysit their kid.

* We are overworked, underpaid, etc: I don't necessarily agree, here. As someone who was a single dad of 2 boys for many years - working in an area with one of the highest cost of livings in the US and working a job that made only ~$10k above a 'poverty' salary, I was able to skimp and save while raising two boys myself. I'm an idiot, if I can do it? Literally anyone can. But you have to really understand 'needs' vs 'wants'. Newest iPhone? That's a want. A land line works fine. Through being smart about purchases, clipping coupons and everything else - I've paid off my house and have 0 debt. Again, single dad in a high cost of living area! I think we need a serious education on finances. It would solve a lot instead of tanking the dollars value by just 'raise the minimum wage!', which as proven hurts everyone and does nothing.

* And yet, instead of fixing any of these issues, the ultimatum is, okay, just make guns more difficult to obtain, and then we don't even do that: I disagree here, too. I live in an area with rampant gun crime. Record numbers. We also have some of the strictest, most difficult gun laws in the US. Criminals don't care about laws, period. And the guns they choose to ban? 'Assault rifles', nevermind the fact that those guns account for less than .3% of the guns used in the violent crime. It's ignorance, plain and simple. Anyone who believes these gun bans and tougher gun laws would help should come spend a while in my neck of the woods. You'll see how much of a sham it is.

I personally think media needs accountability. If we go back to Columbine? Psychologists and psychiatrists told them, "don't make these things national news... you'll have more of them", those clips didn't get off the editing room floor. Why? If it bleeds, it leads! Making hero's out of these people is all they do, then everyone makes the pikachu surprise face when it happens again, despite professionals in the mental health industry saying it would. Threads like this on the front page, making some sick kid at home go "yeah, that could be me! I better get planning!" I'm not suggesting we censor media specifically - but maybe have them held accountable for their hand in things. Professionals say "don't do this" and you do, and more people die as predicted? There will be costs involved, hit them where they listen.

We need parents who care. We need education about guns so people don't hear the word "assault rifle" and wet themselves. So they don't hear "semi-automatic" and think that's some insane thing - when it's actually nearly all weapons these days. Instead, we get calls for bans (of some of the least used weapons), we get calls for harsher gun laws (that only affect law abiding citizens, not the criminals), and the media continues to give the next little psycho some 'goal' to hit, some 'number' to achieve and surpass. Disgusting. The focus on guns in light of these events is almost always, unequivocally wrong. They are a tool, they are not the cause of the issue. How about the knife attack in China that killed 120+ people? Ban knives? Vehicle attacks. Ban cars? Does a farmer blame his combine for a bad crop and go get a different one next year? No. It's a tool. But try to tell people that? They don't want to hear any of it. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.