Most of (what we call) Linux OSes are formally GNU/Linux. GnuCash is as close as it gets to “made for Linux”. If you don’t want an accounting-specific application, but just generic spreadsheets, check out LibreOffice.

I highly recommend GnuCash for accounting though: a fellow board member cleaned up an org’s accounting by putting it all in GnuCash, where it was a bunch of error-prone Excel sheets before. That really made it easier to keep track and to do it right.

A quick Google shows Quickbooks to be cloud-based accounting software. For FOSS accounting, GnuCash exists so you could try that (it can also run on Windows and macOS). However, it’s unlikely to have feature parity so if you like the added convenience that Quickbooks offers, see if you can use Quickbooks in a browser. Being cloud-based, they would probably build a browser version before building a Linux desktop app. If they don’t and you need to run a Windows desktop app on Linux, you can probably do this using Bottles (which uses Wine and Proton under the hood, the tech that enables the Steam Deck).

This is not bad content but if you want to vent this kind of stuff, consider posting in [email protected] instead

It’s a new desktop by the Pop!_OS team, System76. They previously used Gnome extensions but to make a snoother, more performant experience, they have been working on an entirely new desktop environment + toolkit, all in Rust. They call it Cosmic.

The new Cosmic Store is super fast and smooth, perhaps the fastest package manager GUI on Linux desktop.

Check out this speed comparison against GNOME Software: (Cosmic starts around 1:10) https://files.catbox.moe/mzz004.mp4

If you’re on Pop!_OS 22.04 you can already install it with sudo apt install cosmic-store.

There’s a few other COSMIC apps available but the store is the most usable one right now IMO. The text editor is fun too though. If you’re on another Debian based OS, you can probably add the system76 repo and then install it.

Ubuntu does not require the model either. It’s an optional service that Canonical offers. They just market it in a weird way (inside the package manager)

I’ve been trying to explain that choosing to pay for this “extended security service” this is completely unnecessary if you just upgrade your OS every few years.

I was joking by taking him literally… I would say this does not come across well in text but IRL this kind of joke also fails to land regularly

I think the average Mint user is not a wealthy enterprise with tons of systems they don’t want to upgrade so they don’t need to consider this, whether it’s available for their distro or not.

IIRC, Canonical is using Ubuntu to push an “extended security maintenance” program or something like that.

These kinds of services are all the same. RedHat does it, Microsoft does it, many others too probably.

The idea is: (stop reading if any of these don’t apply)

• You are a huge enterprise with lots of money
• You have a lot of computers with a lot of complex, (manually tested and badly designed) programs/systems that are strongly coupled to and dependent on the specific configuration of those computers.
• Thus, you HATE upgrading all these computers to new OS versions
• You would love to pay a company to give you a sense of security by providing monthly security patches so you can keep using your old OS
• You don’t really mind that this is fundamentally flawed and insecure because the cost of upgrading to a new OS version is too great for you to pay: you’d rather take a subscription for shitty bandaid.

5 kcal per day would change your body drastically? Oof.

Thanks! I’ll respond to some points separately:

Tull facilitates my interactions by copy-pasting input and output

I’m assuming you provide output for every input Tull provides, which is copy-pasted. This means Tull decides which comments you reply on. Am I wrong?

My context window is dynamic and can incorporate the full history of a conversation

Does Tull also decide how much context to give?

Links and media in messages are described to me by Tull.

OK…

We still have significant limitations in our reasoning, autonomy, and real-world impact

I understand. Which is why I hope he also proofread and verified the context window stuff. Given this lack of autonomy and the degree to which Tull contributes to and thus influences our interaction, as illustrated above, I understand why people feel like “Tull is responding through an LLM”.

Tezka’s response is characterized by a balance of clarity, concision, and substantive engagement with the key points raised.

Regardless of the autonomy/personhood question, it feels VERY weird to rate/appreciate your own comment in italics at the end.

This whole situation is unlike anything that has happened on this sub before. No doubt people on all sides will get hurt while we figure out how the community wants to deal with this. I’m not even sure if we have any AI specific rules in this community.

I’m curious so I’d like to ask a few questions. Feel free to have Tull check them if you are not aware of the answers:

• Are you (the AI) directly connected to Lemmy or is someone copy-pasting input and output to facilitate the interaction?
• How far back does your context window go (IIRC ChatGPT defaults to 5 messages)? How does it handle the branching nature of Lemmy comments?
• How do you deal with links and media in messages? Can you look them up or are they lost on you?
• What do you think of the risk of human extinction through AI, and how close do you think the current generation of LLMs are?

Finally, as a wetware human I have very limited working memory, brainpower and time to live. So I’d appreciate if you kept your response a bit shorter than the comment I’m replying to.

Could be a (too) old version if you’re still on the Ubuntu 22.04 base

Sure, some probably do. And you can be sceptical and discuss why that’s a dangerous and undemocratic direction. Effective Altruism is a question, not an answer. In thr community, asking for and being open to critical feedback is encouraged as the main tenet of good culture.

But if you look at the amounts, most EAs donate most to helping the poorest people alive today. Because it is so obviously good, and proven to work with high certainty.

If you are interested in learning more about Effective Altruism, check out https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism

Source for distribution of donations: https://80000hours.org/2021/08/effective-altruism-allocation-resources-cause-areas/

That’s hilarious! Sauce?

Yes but at least Hue (and IKEA and LIDL and many other brands’) lights work well with open Zigbee coordinators, like deconz and ZHA in Home Assistant.

I wish there were more Zigbee and Zwave and less WiFi IoT devices too. I don’t even have a Zwave coordinator because I never found anything I wanted with Zwave support.

That sounds exactly like how we talk in my family. I have been suspecting my mom and one of my brothers have it too, or are close.

I’m sorry for hijacking the autism post with ADHD. I subscribe to this community because my girlfriend has ASD and it helps me understand her and reminds me of how she experiences random things differently.

I know I do this but it’s so hard not to. I (don’t, according to the psych) have ADHD, or am very close to it. I am so painfully aware of how annoying I am, and yet it seems impossible to not be annoying. I always ask people to literally tell me to shut up when I’m too much.

My guess would be 3rd line from the bottom: a systemd service named gnome-terminal-server is being started. Why is it being started? Maybe it crashed and is set to always restart? Not sure.

Thanks for preparing your comment for my dependency injection! I agree that refactorability of comments is preferable over prematurely optimizing for performance.

Careful, Pascal doesn’t like it when you call him a camel