Password managers. People will use anything but that: paper, notes app (without any security), using the same password everywhere…

Did you just assume my distro?

For the record, I use Debian

People still use Ubuntu?

My pocket calculator: does not run anything

Conclusion: my pocket calculator wins. Always

Or, as someone put it: we are brains piloting bone mechs with muscle armor

Telegram started the enshittification route already. Premium version, locked features and stickers, spam about their crypto crap, and now these useless stories

MemeScanner

Does OCR on memes (or images in general), so you can search them by text

Skill issue

Just like my classmate many years ago: my phone rang during a class, and afterwards she advised me to put it in vibrator mode

Too bad, I had a lot of fun reading about Advanced Marketing Devices, Neanderthal social media accounts, canned game reviews and insults to user’s critical thinking skills. It was one of those “so bad that it’s actually good” kind of things, once you realized what was going on.

But this suicide move is probably for the best overall.

Serves them right

Maybe they’re afraid it could spread to a lot more users

Because you are the product being sold, and advertisers are the customers

Is this China’s final warning?

So scary /s

It’s mostly not your fault. Apps, games, and socials are intentionally designed to be addictive. That’s because the more time you spend on them, the more ad revenue the owners make.

If sheer willpower doesn’t work, find other ways around it. Someone else already suggested going to a library or another place, that’s good advice. Of you phone is an issue, you could turn it off and allow yourself to turn it back on after you’ve been productive for an hour, or after you have achieved a specific goal.

Don’t take the Bible too literally

ncdu: shows how much disk space is used by each directory, can also explore subdirectories and delete files

tig: interactive terminal UI for git with lots of functionality

This could also be done to the RAM filling up and/or high I/O activity of the disk. I suggest to investigate these possibilies as well

Microsoft: we don’t do that here

A WM crash does not bring down all the other applications… but an X11 server crash definitely does!

In wayland they are the same program (a.k.a. the compositor). User applications can be designed to survive a compositor crash, though many are not able yet