queerlilhayseed

I only join cults nowadays if they offer a remote-only option.

Big fan of Trump still having on suit pants and black shoes under the robes. And he hulked out so hard he grew a belt.

It would be nice to have a distro with some basic flight control drivers preconfigured so we didn’t have to build from scratch for every airframe. Maybe wouldn’t get the same performance profile as proprietary drivers but something that could get off the ground. It could even be called AvioNix.

LMAO I am not familiar with that one but I am not at all surprised. Honestly, I don't mind it so much. I think there's room for art that hews close to the old standby formulas. And who knows, maybe this paint-by-numbers rom-com will, accidentally or otherwise, tap into the real anxieties people feel about becoming increasingly dependent on and/or intruded upon by technology that they don't understand, that manipulates the window they have on the world in insidious but also unpredictable ways. Probably not if it's made by hallmark, I think their brand is "rigidly formulaic with just enough of a modern twist that contemporary audiences can comfortably imagine themselves in the story" which makes them allergic to the uncomfortable examination of the human condition that can make art that helps people question whether a better world is possible, but it's not without precedent.

That sounds like a better version lol. Do you remember what it was called?

We're less than five years out from a crappy hallmark rom-com where two co-workers hate each other, but their digital assistants keep inserting romantic entendre into their emails, leading to all sorts of wacky hijinks and eventually, inexplicably, true love.

"Sounds good, thanks."

😆 This thread was what made me realize I'm at the 20 year mark. Funny how the milestones keep sneaking up. You'd think after doing it for so long getting older would feel more familiar.

I think the ideal is to have some people who gravitate toward the bleeding edge, and some people who gravitate toward the stable center. I think, when the system works well, each group benefits the other. For example, I like debian for my servers because I like my servers to be as stable and low-maintenance as possible, but I am also really fascinated by NixOS and its approach to system administration. Personally I still need to play with it some more before I trust it with a production service, but I could see running a Nix-based distro at some point. And I appreciate all the brave testers out there right now, finding problems and fixing them. What they do makes my life as a simple server manager a lot easier.

Agreed. I found a pleasure in using openbox that I have not found in other DEs. Working with such constrained and frankly crappy hardware made it worth the investment to get the UI as light and functional as it could be, and I'm pleased with the performance I got out of that little machine. It was fun to use. Then it got stolen and I had to start from scratch as I had no backups because I had nothing to back up to, and the task of replicating it all over again seemed daunting, so I decided it was worth getting comfortable with a DE that worked more or less how I wanted it to out of the box. There is something to be said for the ease of defaults, but I've never gotten a machine that "just so" , before or since.

How do you like it? I've seen it around but never installed it to play with it. Is it helpful in your creative endeavors?

I don't use the ArchWiki as much as I used to, but I have been in awe of it for a while. I don't know that I've ever seen another wiki of similar scope that well put together. It's quite an achievement in my opinion.

That's how it should work, I think. All the downstream distros do their crazy experiments, the community identifies what it likes and doesn't like, and what it likes makes its way upstream to spawn. The further upstream it gets, the wider its influence is felt. Debian is what makes it that far upstream.

The day I stop distrohopping will be the day I die.

The first linux distro I remember using was Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), so I’m just about at 20 years, maybe a bit less than that; I think it had been released for a while before I decided to give it a go. I tend to stick with debian-based distros, though I’ve used arch variants off and on for my daily driver for years at a time. Still got it kicking around on some machines now, though not any of my daily drivers. Servers are a mix of Debian and Ubuntu Server, machines with UI are either Ubuntu or Mint, or some resource-light version of Ubuntu, depending on the device and the mood when I last reformatted them. I have used Fedora/RedHat/CentOS at various points, but usually because someone was paying me to do so. Same story with OpenSUSE, but even less commonly. I have a few devices running variously dated versions of PostmarketOS, Lineage OS, even one device that still runs CyanogenMod (it does not get internet privileges). I have a few Raspberry PIs that all run Raspbian (or whatever it’s called now).

EDIT: Just remembered I used to use CrunchBang Linux for a long time. I bought the only computer I could afford (a “netbook” with Win 10 Starter), put crunchbang on it (after experimenting with a few distros), and really kinda fell in love with OpenBox. I don’t use it anymore because I don’t like the default settings and haven’t been bothered to set it up properly lately, but I had that netbook set up just so and it worked really well. it was my main and only computer for several years.

the seals weren’t that good so storing them facing down for long periods of time made them prone to data leaks.

I tried but for some reason they keep cavorting in the sun and water all day. Maybe they are trying to teach me a lesson.