Becoming

Ain’t no time like the present to stop pretending damage isn’t already being done constantly. Time for the mooch class to pay their share.

Musk is a hype man and a con man. Nothing more. A stupid man’s idea of what a smart man looks and acts like.

The failed promises have not been surprising for a long time. What is surprising is how much money people still throw at the man.

Absoutely. It takes like 5 seconds to get a real photo.

But I have considerable downvotes on my original comment. Maybe bots. Maybe AI bros who need to see the light and that their tech is based on the death of IP law.

Exactly, makes no sense to me

Really cool article. Except this bit:

The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT.

Fucking why? Could have saved time and energy with traditional search. Leave the slop out, please.

While I don’t disagree with the crux of the article, I find it really strange to single out Netflix. There are a ton of outlets following similar patterns. The biggest offenders aren’t even traditional media, but social media.

I wonder how many US citizens could be given healthcare for that kind of money

I would have said GTA6, though it doesn’t seem like things are great at Rockstar and I wonder how much that has affected the product.

Also, if HL3 actually comes out, I am obligated by the years of swooning to name that as my GOTY. It actually seems close but I’ll believe it when I see it.

A bigger issue is that the Steam Deck touchpads don’t work without Steam being open

This is interesting, because the touchpads on the Steam Controller do work without Steam being open, at least on Linux, though without cursor acceleration. I wonder why the touchpads on the Deck were handled differently.

Not true about Proton. It’s Steam DRM that requires Steam running in the bg, same as on Windows.

Yeah this clown and like half the Dem establishment needs to go. Maybe more than half. I’m not one for the “both parties are the same” bullshit, but between the enablements and the not listening to constituents, it is clear that many of these people are incapable of performing the duties for which they were elected.

Definitely makes a lot of sense to use a VM for it. Though there is something fun about having a spare laptop and just playing on bare metal.

It’s just more barebones than lots of other options, and distro hopping tends to be about exploration. There isn’t a whole lot to explore on Debian, because its purpose is stability and simplicity.

You find tons of Debian-derived distros exactly for this reason. They build on that stable core but add bells and whistles. Distros usually are defined by which bells and whistles they include by default.

I’m running Mint currently

I’m wondering if there is a lot of benefit to going more barebones

Not really. On the scale at which homelabs operate, I doubt you’ll see any difference at all – except what might be the significant time sink to set everything up again.

I’m not having any issues with my current setup

I’d put this firmly in the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” category. Mint is already a distro which is ultimately a Debian derivative. It operates more like Debian as opposed to, say, Fedora or Arch. While it can be enticing to explore the many options of Linux, the benefit isn’t clear here.

Now, distro hopping on a nonproduction system? Something where you don’t care what’s on it and you just want to experiment? That’s one of the best parts of being a Linux user. But at least do that first before even approaching breaking something that isn’t broken.

It sounds more like you want to have fun distro hopping, and believe me: I can tell you from experience that distro hopping isn’t fun if you have to rely on that machine.

This is it. This is when it actually becomes permanent.

Bots?

If the “don’t tread on me” morons weren’t such pushovers, he wouldn’t think he could get away with so much.

That would be reported.

Friends don’t let friends be root.

Just to clarify: the “much smoother” is subjective and might be an oversimplification, but the “not using Gnome” part is correct.

Personally I don’t use any Gnome extensions and have much preferred Cosmic to the old Pop Shell. YMMV.

Ffs. He’s a rich dude supporting other rich dudes. He doesn’t give a fuck about you or me and his statements about affordability are obviously and demonstrably out of touch.

There was a time when hating the rich was something that brought people together.