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  • It’s this or Google or Microsoft if you want something PowerPoint-like.

    Many recommend to ‘pick a javascript framework’, which just like LaTeX Beamer sounds good if you do your own thing, but not ideal if people expect PowerPoint. Building slides through code is fundamentally different from drag-on-dropping images.

    Pick Google or Microsoft or OnlyOffice and use their web version. This keeps your laptop free of non-free software while using the same tools everyone else has.




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    The reflection (scattering) of light can be seen on the picture they choose to make their point. Sure, the comment is correct that anything you can see scatters light otherwise you would not see it, but in the picture it is particular obvious where the light source is from the reflection on the rock.





  • I use Ubuntu every day. I’m part of the Linux community. And i believe that Ubuntu helped to make the Linux desktop easy and available and sort-of cool.

    There’s no hate, but i could live without snap, unity and oversimplification. Actually that’s my biggest issue. Give me settings, give me choice. Hibernate works fine on my machine, don’t hide it.

    Apt/deb is a fine package manager, flatpak and docker can supplement it when you want something not packaged as deb. The way Ubuntu updates browser over snap is a small improvement, but it’s not worth deviating from the rest of the Linux world.

    I don’t hate Ubuntu. I think they are wasting their time on stuff no one needs. Missing the chance to improve Linux for everyone.



  • No modern phone meets those requirements. Sad, but true.

    Phones tend to get bigger screens every generation. 3.5mm audio and sd cards are no longer a thing.

    And if security is important you want a recent model that gets updates from the vendor (unles you know what you are doing with customs roms)

    Look at Samungs or Google Pixel and see what size she could like. They all have good cameras.



  • Your problem is most likely escaping. $1 has a meaning in regex and in shell. You want the former and the single quotes achieve this.

    In your second example, with alias, probably the shell interpreting this replaces $1 with whatever the first arg in the shell environment is, probably the empty string.

    Not sure what the problem with the shell script is. Anyway try escaping the $ as $ and \ as \.

    You can see where you are wrong if you replace prename with echo for debugging. Or in a shell script do

    set -ex




  • Valid question. You can ask this about many things:

    Would the Internet as we know it exist if Facebook, AOL, and Yahoo had united to create a walled garden?

    Would Macbooks as we know them today exist without an open source ecosystem? Would the company Appke exist? Would there be an iPhone?

    Would the web exist without Linux? Both developed at the same time, 1991 till now, and most stuff runs on Linux servers.

    Would the people who build all the hardware and software even be interested in computers had they not played with (build) computers in the 90ies? What if we had given them an iPad aith CandyCrush that just works; and not BIOS codes, cables, extension cards and drivers?