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  • Thurstylark@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlPacman v7.0.0 released
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    4 months ago

    Apologies, hostility wasn’t my intention, only seeking understanding.

    Ya know, in the context of the software in a vacuum, sure. But I think I’ll ammend what I said earlier about what constitutes a distro:

    IMO, It’s not just software that glues other existing software together into a contiguous OS, but also a staff, a community, a philosophy cast on that collection of software. A way of doing things and thinking about them. Decisions and the rationale for them, a history of iteration, user needs and how those needs are filled. Us soft squishy humans that make, maintain, modify, administer, use, and complain about the software.

    Because I think that reducing a distro to only the software it produces or uses fails to paint the whole picture. The mechanisms used for managing the collection of software on any specific machine is only one part of a larger system.

    Pacman isn’t the only part of Arch, and Arch isn’t just pacman. The same is true if you s/Arch/MSYS2/g on that statement.





  • Thurstylark@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlItag alternative?
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    6 months ago

    There’s probably a better way to do this, but I’ve just started using BLE Radar (F-Droid, Play Store), which can be set up to (among other things) tell you where your phone last saw a particular bluetooth address.

    You don’t get the benefit of the tracking network that iPhones, and now Androids, are a part of, and it’s not built into the base system, but it’s FOSS, and your location data stays local.









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    Do you want a solution, or support?

    If you struggle with this enough that your partner has taken issue with it, this will show that you’re trying, and that you want to help, even if you don’t know what to do. Can’t express how much this has helped me.

    And if the response you get is something along the lines of “You should just know!” Run.