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A simple way, you can take a look

echo "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP"

in the terminal.

Let’s do it faster, to check what is running inside the seat.

Here is a one-liner, just run it in your terminal:

desktop="${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP:-${XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP:-}}"; session_type="${XDG_SESSION_TYPE:-}"; info="" session=""; if command -v loginctl >/dev/null 2>&1; then session="${XDG_SESSION_ID:-self}"; info=$(loginctl show-session "$session" -p Desktop -p Type 2>/dev/null) || info=""; if [[ -z "$desktop" ]]; then desktop=$(sed -n 's/^Desktop=//p' <<< "$info"); fi; if [[ -z "$session_type" ]]; then session_type=$(sed -n 's/^Type=//p' <<< "$info"); fi; fi; printf 'DE=%s\n' "${desktop:-unknown}"; printf 'TYPE=%s\n' "${session_type:-unknown}"

It will show something like

DE=KDE
TYPE=wayland

Try reading this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Activating_numlock_on_bootup

Look at the relevant section depending on your desktop environment

I realized I was manually maintaining too many packages in the AUR, so I built an autoupdate pipe. Decided to read the Shangri-La Frontier ranobe because the manga is at a pretty interesting point right now. But I got disappointed quite quickly. Was building another censorship bypass so that I could watch YouTube and use Telegram. Ordered a broken Mix Fold 4 from a local flea market to debug a LineageOS build before installing it on my main device. Can’t wait. I think it’s going to be the best weekend.

I am for fully remote work. But there are a number of conditions here:

First of all, if you are a remote worker, you need to delineate zones. You shouldn’t work from bed or from a sofa in front of the TV. Set up a workspace for yourself. It could even be just an old table on a loggia. But it must physically exist.

Secondly, you cannot stretch time. If you work in a team, try to stick to a common schedule or discuss time zones in advance. There is nothing worse than a situation where you need to resolve an urgent issue, but the person who has the knowledge to solve it will only be online in 5 hours.

Thirdly, you need to have enough motivation to carry out the previous two points. This is important.

If all this works out, then remote work is magnificent. The commute to work is zero, and lunch can be whatever you want. It also solves the problem of open-plan offices. In recent years, they have turned the interior zones of those offices into warehouses filled with desks. It’s terrible.

Personally, I work from home, and in the evening I leave the apartment to go for a walk or sit in a park. This is enough to not feel lonely. Especially since the commute to work used to take me 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour back in the evening. In that time, you could sit through a movie session and still have time for go home from movie theater.

When I first entered the internet, I think I was looking for essays for school or university. I don’t remember exactly whether I had finished school or had already entered institute. It was the era of dial-up and modems. The internet was damn expensive, so I had about an hour a day. A few years later, I found Ragnarok Online in the expanses of the web and used to hang out there at night, because tariffs like “all night for 3 bucks” appeared. Although it was still expensive.

And also, a friend and I once set up a dial-up to dial-up bridge and played some games for free that I don’t even remember anymore. It was a fun time. I even had to scavenge a warez Windows XP preview from the market because it had the ability to set up a modem pool out of the box. I remember not understanding how to activate it because it was the first Windows with online activation, and I called the Microsoft Russia line with a pirated key. Ahaha. It’s still funny to this day. It turned out there was just a crack on the disc.

Most people literally pay big tech companies so that big tech companies solve technical problems for the user. There is literally not a single reason why an ordinary user should refuse this.

And responding to some comments, computers were originally damn expensive. The fact that for a short period of time computers’ prices leveled out with consoles is not the norm, but a lucky coincidence. I think soon consoles will finally stop being PCs on an AMD chip with a custom OS… Again.

Just recently, someone wrote about https://github.com/stalwartlabs/stalwart here. It is literally an all-in-one server, so it’s quite hard to mess up.

Email itself is an unreliable delivery method, so usually, if a server cannot send an email to the recipient’s server, it puts it in a queue and tries again after some time. Therefore, a few hours of downtime won’t affect you much. Especially if you don’t need an archive of your correspondence.

So I still recommend trying to run your own full server with stalwart. At most, a couple of days of problems, and then it will work for years.

Not sure if I should write this, but here is a summary from Russia:

Everything is fine overall. There are some cuts (I work in a telecom company). Nevertheless, there are enough vacancies, and the only downside is the merging of positions from different departments in some places. At my last test interview sprint, I got a job in 3 days.

Fuel prices have almost doubled, so I’ve started driving less for non-essential matters. Small businesses have closed down in some places, so now there are only 3 snack bars in the neighborhood instead of 5. Inflation is felt unpleasantly; prices are slowly rising.

Nevertheless, I eat whatever I want, drink whatever I want, and buy electronics. Maybe I’m just lucky and things are worse for blue-collar workers.

That is an interesting thought, of course, but what will happen when the “you” who are supposed to be listened to split apart?

Politics is so complex precisely because there are no rights or wrongs. It is simply a set of compromises between an indefinite number of groups.

This only shows that many people don’t actually suffer because of the price. When you have to choose between a cup of coffee and food for the week, you simply give up the coffee without a second thought and buy a jar of instant coffee at the supermarket. That’s it.

Due to physical or mental difficulties, they can’t put grains, meat, and water into a $20 steamer and press 1 button on the panel? Aside from people with severe amputations, it’s hard for me to imagine such a case.

Yes, possibly. In general, I was wrong.

P.S. very cool server, but it’s a pity there is no analog of dovecot dsync in it. I had already prepared the deployment when I realized that I wouldn’t be able to run 2 isolated servers with synchronization.

And by the way, if you look closely at this economic model, you will see that it is designed for infinite population growth and increased consumption. On the other hand, developed countries have trapped themselves by ceasing to have children while maintaining the basic model. To get out of the crisis, one should not stage revolutions and roll back to manually crafting parts, but rather start having children. That’s it. The larger the population, the wealthier the economy, because money is transitional paper that allows you to exchange one labor for another labor. And a larger population guarantees a greater maximum volume of labor.

Because economic models are not that simple in any country. If automation can do your labor, then labor begins to lose its value. The same thing, by the way, happens with a large influx of migrants or the appearance of a large number of people who can do that kind of work. Labor is just another commodity. And it is also subject to the law of supply and demand.

Conditionally, before the advent of machinery, the only way to produce a spare part was to manually machine it on a lathe. With the advent of machinery, the machines themselves also improved, which is why no one machines spare parts by hand; instead, the machine’s electronics do everything. Consequently, the original labor simply lost its value. Simply loading a program into a machine and standing at the machine machining a part under a microscope are two different tasks. No one will pay the same amount now for manual accounting calculations or manual steel casting.

The flip side of this process is that electronics become cheaper in order to make basic tasks even cheaper, and following that, the pay for basic tasks also decreases. That is, your dishwasher and washing machine appeared not as appliances for your home, but as appliances for catering establishments and laundries. It was simply the lowering of the cost of technology that allowed it to be placed in your home.

Unfortunately, I lost the section. But I’ve already been told that everything works correctly according to the tests, so I was just mistaken.

Thank you. Apparently, I misunderstood the documentation. I will try to deploy it anyway.

In principle, it’s a pretty good “all-in-one” server, and I even wanted to switch to them until I checked the documentation and saw that the Community version doesn’t filter From with valid authentication. This means that anyone who is properly authorized can send an email from any address on the server out of the box. In short, if I understood the documentation correctly, it’s a decent option for hosting your own mailbox, but for even small-scale mass use, postfix + dovecot still wins.

Stoat

Anything I use less than once every couple of days, I simply remove from screen and use the global app menu. It’s easier for me to go there and use the app search. Things I use frequently, I keep on a couple of screens. If there are many similar apps, I keep them in folders with auto-sorting by last used, for example, messengers, pay apps, etc. The rest is just on the screen.

even if matrix isnt encrypted on all chats it wont be used by advertisers for a long time

Public chats are not protected from this regardless of encryption, because, unexpectedly, advertiser bots can simply join public rooms. On the other hand, private chats are almost nowhere used for advertising and spam as a private email.

UPD: especially since matrix is decentralized, and to receive a message as the author suggested, you wouldn’t just need to be registered, but to be registered on the correctly federated instance.