grimacefry
Wallan, VIC is actually Wallan Wallan - lots of wind. But is officially shortened to just Wallan. Others I know of are Bong Bong and Gumli Gumli, NSW. Billa Billa, QLD.
Another for crunchbang++ a really good minimal Debian distro with no desktop environment, just Openbox window manager. Have been using since it picked up from the original crunchbang. Have built my own kinda desktop environment how I like it and I will never change.
2 lanes was such little foresight. It was fun walking through there before it opened
Inter Display - all UI stuff, it is designed for max legibility on screens. In Debian repos as fonts-inter
PragmataPro - all monospace/code. Paid for it 15 years ago and worth it, best mono font
Utopia Std - all serif document text. Purchased all the way back in 1998 and used for every doc i’ve ever written.
Props also to the complete IBM Plex family which is solid for sans, serif, and mono versions.
I think re-nationalising telecommunications (land line, mobile and nbn) is looking pretty attractive. Critical national infrastructure that serves the whole population should never be privatised and run with capitalist objectives.
has shrunk so much its comical
Moved from Netscape to Firefox and never used IE or Chrome. I never understood the obsession with anything made by Google, glad its going to finally all fall apart for them.
It is surprisingly hard to run Android apps on Linux, despite Android itself being Linux based. Being able to run Android apps quickly and natively would be a game changer for Linux, resolving long standing issues of app availability. Hell you could even then use Android version of Microsoft Office etc. This should be a higher priority for all distros.
Until then, there are apps that are simply unavailable on Linux, even with Wine support, that necessitate using Windows or macOS.
I’ve used MEGA for about 6 years now, previously Dropbox. I switched after Dropbox lost over 2TB of my data.
MEGA hasn’t lost my data but something glitched on their side and duplicated every file, and with the amount of data I had in there it wasn’t feasible to manually fix. So I had to delete everything and start again.
I have all my cloud data stored on a NAS at home, that is backed up to a second NAS decice, a MEGA sync client running on home server keeps it all in sync to the cloud. I selectively sync folders from MEGA on different devices, or access files directly from the MEGA app when remote, or work with the local copy of my data when connected to home LAN. At least MEGA works cross platform, and MEGAcmd for Linux allows easy scripting and other automation possibilities.
All commercial cloud storage has one major problem, your files are hostage to their increasing subscription fees (which will always increase because capitalism). e.g. I was paying $60 a year with Dropbox, if I were still using it, it would be $140 a year now - and I’d have no choice but to keep paying.