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  • how much energy is devoted to stuff like advertising

    And stores and businesses leaving the lights on inside, even at night when the place is closed and nobody is there. And lighting up their entire giant parking lot all night as well, all night every night, even though they’re only open during hours of darkness for a few hours each day.

    I know it’s not that much energy in the grand scheme of things, especially now that everything is LED. But still, their complete disregard for energy savings – such that they can’t be bothered to install a simple timer circuit – irritates me.

    (I suspect that they’re also leaving the HVAC running at full capacity overnight as well. That might be a more significant waste of energy.)





  • How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens

    KDE has been able to do this for a long time.

    System Settings --> Window Management --> Window Rules

    Or, right click on the title bar of the window --> more options --> configure special window settings

    From there, you can create a rule that forces a certain program to open its window at a certain location. And you can specify that location to be on the screen you want it to be on. Specifically set a rule for “Position”, enter the screen coordinates where you want it to go, and select “Apply Initially”.

    (If the application isn’t behaving under that rule, try adding the “Ignore requested geometry” rule as well.)











  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialOPtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldFacts
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    14 hours ago

    Moreover, people who give Linux a trial, they wish for something different.

    Says who? I think most people who give Linux a trial, they wish for Windows, but without the all the bullshit.

    What I’m afraid of is newbies who get Gnome as the default without knowing any better, without even knowing what a DE is or that there’s more than one. And when they find it weird and difficult to learn, they’re not going to think, “Gnome is weird and difficult to learn, I should try a different DE.” – they’re going to think, “Linux is weird and difficult to learn, I should go back to Windows.”