I kind of hate how we now have “content creators” who make “content” instead of, you know, people who make videos and stuff. Bland corporate language.

Maybe we should tell snobbier sort of influencers in Dubai that if they want to produce the Content, they unfortunately have to eat the Food.

Yup. The turtle in the comic is sad, not because of the eviction notice (which is clearly bogus, and annoying to deal with, but the buddy probably takes consolation in that they’ll outlive the clueless landlord) but because the note is in an awkward place they can’t reach. Turtles are unfortunately not very nimble.

Did you know that alphas have low penetrating power?

…Why are you looking at that Andrew Tate picture again? I’m talking about nuclear radiation.

/stolen joke

There’s also Léon the URL Cleaner, which is pretty good.

It’s a “beginner-friendly” distro so people might subconsciously think you should “graduate” to use something “better”.

Which is ridiculous, of course. No reason to switch if it works for you!

VS Code is probably the editor that’s easiest to exit. If I ran it on the computer I first ran Emacs on, it’d exit immediately, because VS Code requires a modern version of Windows and that computer had Windows 3.11. If I ran it on the first computer I ran Linux on, it’d also exit immediately because the machine would run out of memory. (…it was a 486DX, I don’t remember how much memory it had, but VS Code doesn’t run well if your memory is measured in megabytes)

If the speedrun strategy is “introduce a stupid law, wait for everyone to go ‘holy shit none of this can be realistically implemented in this timeframe’, wait for OS vendors to just ban the use of the OSes in the country, watch the local industry as a whole to rally and petition the government to stop the madness before there’s a new dark age, repeal the clearly stupid law”, all before the California law comes to effect - I’ve got to say it’s a bold strategy and we’ll see how it plays out.

Edit: Also, not going to upvote a Lunduke video - I’m glad he crams every bit of substantial information in the thumbnails so I can just not listen to him at all

Crackheads? Looks like it was designed by methheads.

My first reaction was, damn, is that from that episode of Top Gear where they made the stupidest RVs imaginable? What janky nonsense is this, I wondered before reading the comments.

Don’t worry, this is very old news.

OpenOffice.org was basically stuck in a bureaucratic hell of their own and couldn’t really do major decisions without the leaders’ approval. I think Sun Microsystems/Oracle was involved.

Some high up developers got basically kicked out by the governing folk, so they decided to start the Document Foundation to make LibreOffice, and vast majority of the developers followed. They were just happy to be actually able to do something.

OpenOffice got donated to Apache Project and there’s been very minimal maintenance on it ever since.

Firefox. I’m not happy with how Mozilla Corp is operating, but I’m not switching to a Firefox fork unless there’s actual developer exodus (akin to what happened to OpenOffice/LibreOffice). Ultimately, at this stage, those forks depend on upstream Firefox developers for 99% of the work.

My Xbox gamertag/Steam id is “Rose in Shadows” and also using “Rosa Umbrarum” and variations.

The inspiration came from The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. The last line of the novel is “Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus” (“The rose of the past endures only in name; we hold the bare names”) Which is why I usually put “Yesterday’s Rose” in the name fields.

I don’t know much of Latin at all. Also, the z in the username was for edginess, to make it a Notorious Hacker Alias or someshit.

Well, military/espionage operation codenames have absolutely nothing to do with the operation, for obvious security reasons.

So it’s the opposite of epic, actually.

Long ago, I had SoundBlaster Live! soundcard which was perfectly capable of mixing audio on hardware under ALSA, which in my mind meant that all of the userland sound daemon nonsense could go straight to hell for all I cared. Earlier, EsounD never worked right and no app supported it directly and the wrapper utility was a hassle when it even worked. Then came PulseAudio. I could get buuutttery smooth audio on direct ALSA or laggy barely working audio on Pulse. Absolute hog.

Sure, nowadays the situation is better. But back in the day, for me, the answer to “why isn’t the sound working?” was usually “you tried to use anything but direct ALSA”.

My feeling on Xbox since Xbox One days has been pretty much “this is an awesome platform, you’re sitting on a gold mine Microsoft, what the fuck are you doing?”

The last bit of brilliance they did utilise properly was GamePass, and of course they cocked that up by getting greedy.

Last few years have been extremely rough. The only lucky thing about this is that instead of full Xbox exclusivity Microsoft was pushing Xbox/Windows cross functionality. …Yeah, I’ve been pivoting to PC, but Steam/GOG instead.

I just went grocery shopping and oh wow looks like onions are nice and cheap and domestic.

Early this week I was cutting onions (figuratively), I feel better now that I’m cutting onions (literally). Made some tacos. Things are good.

I recommend you try Affinity. Absolutely loved Affinity Publisher 2, haven’t tried yet how well Affinity 3 works for print work but I assume it’s more or less same as before.

Scribus is a noteworthy open source alternative.

If I want to maintain my Windows computer, do I need a new computer?

You can install Linux alongside Windows if you have the disk space to spare (a whole separate ssd/hard drive, a free disk partition on your existing drive, or you can split an existing Windows partition).

For experimenting, you can also use a virtual machine (like VirtualBox). Note that you might not get the best possible performance this way. Most Linux distros also have live systems, which means you can boot them from USB stick and use them before you actually install them.

If I was already looking for a laptop, do I just buy the cheapest one and reformat?

Don’t waste money on the cheap junk - just get a used laptop!

Does Distro utilize Touch Screen?

Haven’t tried. Probably!

And for us Gen-X/Gen-Y folks, all the Fediverse needed to do was to say “it’ll be just like the Internet in the 1990s” and we were like “HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP”

Gives me BBS era / Usenet vibes, yesss

Well to be fair, there’s not just neurodivergent people in the Fediverse.

There’s also a bunch of queer people. And furries.

Also neurodivergent queer people, neurodivergent furries, queer furries, and neurodivergent queer furries. Duh.

I’m just trying to learn Godot and explore its potential for the multimedia stuff I previously did in Processing.

Yeah, for a lot of stuff like that Godot is probably overkill, but on the other hand, Godot stuff can be built into self-contained packages while Processing, well, needs JRE and all that, so not optimal in all cases.