You can install a terminal multiplexer: sudo apt-get install byobu - and launch it: byobu, then follow the instructions on how to use multiple CLI apps at the same time. For example, install zsh, vim, ffmpeg and other console programs you wanted, and launch them in multiple byobu tabs. If you want to install a desktop application, you can do that with apt-get as well, and WSL will create a shortcut in your Windows start menu. Basically, you work on your Windows desktop and use GNU/Linux apps at the same time.
I wonder how that policy change affects library usage, because while I've still never felt a need to code anything using an LLM, I rely on e.g. Valibot for input validation.
While I don't know whether MX Linux supports WSL (just a few distributions do), I know that MX is based on Debian, and you can install Debian under WSL with wsl --install -d Debian. Their console experience is very similar.
WSL is the name of the tool, it installs an Ubuntu virtual machine that integrates with Windows in a way that you don't have to care about disk sizes, shared folders or remote access. It gives you an Ubuntu bash window after a few minutes of automatic downloading. Under WSL, I do run both vim and ffmpeg OK. You can install most packages you want like on a full Ubuntu installation.
What GNU/Linux applications do you want to use? If you want desktop free software such as Firefox, LibreOffice, LMMS, Inkscape or Kdenlive, you can install many of them directly on Windows, it will run faster than a virtual machine. If you want to learn the command line, such as bash, curl, vim, imagemagick and ffmpeg, or program in C or C++ using the GNU toolchain, try WSL, from which you can access your Windows files under /mnt/c, /mnt/d etc. A standalone virtual machine makes sense when you want to play with a desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME, or a tiny compositor such as Sway, or a rare desktop app that isn't cross-platform. But it's more pleasant to run them on hardware directly, having installed Debian or Fedora on a USB SSD.
Docs for installing LanguageTool manually are here: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server - version 20260528 works on Debian 13 under WSL, needs openjdk-25-jre-headless and the --public option. The extension settings have a localhost option, I didn't have to change anything else.
Note that premium as of today costs $2.50 per month if you pay for two years in advance. Running LanguageTool on a laptop isn't very fast for languages other than English, so paying them for the cloud might provide a better experience than self-hosting.
Sopuli, or the specific community about Ukraine. I think I hit wordfilters when I was trying to write two more extensive posts. It was kind of a rant anyway, so:
The part I want to reiterate to readers. Please support grassroots antifascists in your countries, best by direct participation. Demonstrations, trade unions, readings, kitchens, mutual aid, concerts, donations to Solidarity Collectives etc. The right must again look weak in comparison, otherwise they attract followers internationally, including here, and increasingly become numerous and dangerous.
Is the word antifa banned in comments on this server? Or links to Telegram? I don't get why automatic filters reject my comments about a far-right march on Maidan last week (useful fools). I live in Kyiv, I should be able to speak in a forum about Ukraine.
Upd: seems neither. This is the link I was trying to post: https://t.me/traven_mi/761?single - best see in Telegram full, because there's a good comment in the post, while the preview only shows a 6-second video segment.
There doesn't have to be a sinister plot for the result - mandatory, ubiquitous tracking and bank commisions in the middle - to be real and problematic, is what I'm saying. The governments have all the resources they need to make it possible to pay with cash anywhere you go, but the trajectory they choose is the opposite. Regarding the costs, I think IT and integration work required for cashless payments are an order of magnitude costlier than cash and coin slots, because of the telecom equipment, data centers and IT professionals working on it.
Before city bus cards, there was cash. Then cashless was made mandatory, but possible to prepay with cash anonymously. Then the anonymity was forbidden.
Cash is under attack even in public transit, you are required to provide a working phone number and government name to put money on a city bus card. Here at least. It's being made inconvenient on purpose.
Depends on where you buy a house. There are many rural houses and small apartments in tower blocks. And why a suitcase? You probably have a few dozen low-value banknotes lying around at home, stack them together and see they don't take up much space (high-value banknotes aren't thicker).
People who have lived through numerous economic crashes and bank closings. In Eastern Europe, cash in EUR and USD has good reputation, despite efforts by governments to bully people out of paying with cash altogether.
For plain text files, such as changelogs and translation updates, I have a pull request that makes FreshRSS track diffs, without overhead of a full browser: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8107
The exact chosen letters in the article are likely from the name of the organization mentioned, International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, which started as ILGA and added letters later.
Unsurprisingly, only the countries that export very little meat and dairy have a smaller problem, that nonetheless remains significant. There's no "overuse" as in the title, because for the machine that enslaves and slaughters billions of animals every year antibiotics are an absolute requirement. This industry needs to be abolished.
A smaller amount but yes, my relative with diabetes who uses FB did get scammed by an ad for a smartwatch monitoring sugar levels without an implant. Ads like these appear all the time in the feed, and political disinformation, and links to ragebait from Threads. To many people these inclusions don't differ much visually from posts from their friends, so they don't understand they're not getting recommendations from equals, from whom they trust, but from a machine trying to exploit them.
You can install a terminal multiplexer:
sudo apt-get install byobu- and launch it:byobu, then follow the instructions on how to use multiple CLI apps at the same time. For example, install zsh, vim, ffmpeg and other console programs you wanted, and launch them in multiple byobu tabs. If you want to install a desktop application, you can do that with apt-get as well, and WSL will create a shortcut in your Windows start menu. Basically, you work on your Windows desktop and use GNU/Linux apps at the same time.