Every time someone says “I can’t stand the gaslighting and abuse anymore. This time I’m leaving him.” it’s an opportunity for them to really follow through.
Sometimes we are held back more by the stories we tell ourselves than our actual capacities. And the solution is to stop telling ourselves what we can’t do, but telling ourselves that we can and even will change our situations.
Eat of this toenail, for it is my flesh. Do this in remembrance of me.
Why proprietary cloud-based IoT isn’t sustainable.
16gb seems huge.
Is there some sort of rubric you follow that leads you to that figure?
The bottom level of your file system is /, not C:, and other drives or partitions you have will be represented in subfolders like mnt or something.
Everything is represented as a file, even things that are not strictly speaking a file on your primary hard drive.
The part that you interact with the most, your graphical user interface, has a particular name, like gnome, kde, xfce, icewm, etc.
When you have to open a terminal, you might be interacting with different shells as well, but it will usually be bash.
Always install from the repos unless your nerdy friend who helped you get set up says it’s okay to download this or that particular app.
Maybe include a bit about how to run regular backups automatically.
And also list out different alternative programs relative to what they might be used to in a Microsoft environment.
I like Aegis.
Congratulations, you’re not an asshole. 🙃
Also apparently it’s already been forked 🎉
What’s the gui-based irc client people are using now instead?
Wait is hexchat really dead? Didn’t it replace xchat? So what’s the go to irc client now?
From what I can tell the steering committee (project leadership) wanted to modify the mod team, the mod team wants to be independent of the leadership of the project, and one member of the certain committee works or did work for a genuinely shitty company in some capacity.
Sounds like interpersonal bullshit reframed as politics. Honestly impressed at the resignation letter being able to use so many words while avoiding actually directly explaining what they’re upset about. Of course it would take something really egregious and extraordinary for me to give a shit, because…
The steering committee or board of trustees or whatever should be sitting the rules for the organization, up to an including adding or removing mods from a forum if they want. That’s what they exist for. The idea that a mod team should be independent of the actual organizational structure of an institution is ridiculous.
Looking for overnight jobs might help. He could try disabling them and see if the issue stops, and if it does then re-enable them in a controlled way to determine which one was causing it.
So: “a few months ago, the Ubuntu Forums community merged with our Discourse community after being apart for quite a long time. During the merger, we simply adopted the Forums posting guidelines without a thorough review by the Community Council. We didn’t spot that the Forum had a stricter policy on politics and explicitly disallowed flags. Adding to that issue was a generational difference in the meaning of “queer”, and whether or not it’s still considered a slur.”
Okay.
Ummm, go to suckless and get dwm maybe? Idk, but enjoy the adventure!
No idea about Cakewalk etc but your Steam games will almost all be fine and Linux is honestly great right now and always getting better.
Having used Linux Mint, Windows 10, and Windows 11, I can honestly say that Win10 is okay and Win11 is annoying dogshit. I’d recommend taking the Linux plunge of course, but if you’re desperate for Windows I think paid extended support for 10 might be a thing?
But like I said 11 is dogshit and there’s no time like the present to just grab 3-4 USB sticks at Microcenter, download a bunch of ISOs and Rufus or Balena Etcher, and just dick around. Linux Mint with Cinnamon or KDE will probably give you one of the slickest Windows-like experiences OOTB. Only recommendation: some wifi cards (with certain chips, I forget which) in my experience have required me to go hunt down a driver, so check reviews for any card you’re looking at to see if people report it working out of the box.
I would not recommend relying on Tailscale. They have been soliciting a lot of venture capital lately and are probably going to go for an IPO sooner or later. I would not put a lot of trust in that company. The investors are going to want their money.
I mean they should have given him credit. That’s what they owe him (all they owe him) under the MIT license.
Why bad?
TFM is best found in the form of the man (manual) files, which you can see for any given program by running:
$ man program_name
Archwiki is good too, even of you don’t run Arch