Liz

I come just imagine sometime reading too much into it, that’s all… It’s the internet.

My parents installed “Net Nanny” to keep me from watching porn or spending too much time on the internet as a middle-schooler. (Trust me, they’re good and accepting parents.) Anyway, I figured out that all you had to do was not click “okay” on the startup-induced message window and Net Nanny never started the controls or timer.

I literally only use it when a how-to guide explains exactly what to do and why. Then I forget what I did and look up how to do it again six months later. I’m fine with this arrangement, though I will prefer to have to use it less.

No complaints so far! What did the reviews say? I’m using a 16 with the graphics module.

Does Framework sell a laptop with Linux pre-installed or do they only have officially supported distros?

I got a framework, which is built around quality parts, repairability, and upgradeability. Theoretically it’s the last laptop I will ever buy.

But why would your question be “is this bad?” Just learn a little about it and decide for yourself.

My current laptop is an i7 with 16 GB of RAM. Hardware requirements have plateaued pretty hard unless your trying to run something that requires the latest GPU.

Oh I see, I’ve got it backwards.

I know nothing about how flatpak works other than that it’s containerized. But this meme tells me it’s the OS’s responsibility to create the flatpak, and not the developer’s? Is that right?

I feel like my tools should work together instead of having their parameters set individually. If I select something, it’s because I want to do stuff with it. Imagine hitting play on a video and then also having to hit play on the audio.

Did you ever get everything working? I don’t have a Mac, I’m just curious.

It should be legal to hunt that person down and clamp a lobster to their nipples.

In my personal experience, whenever I’ve needed help, people have been nice and tried to help. But, my questions usually include as much context and details as I can give and even my own guess as to what’s going on, if I have one. I try to make my requests for help as enticing as I can. “I didn’t do anything and now my computer is broken” isn’t a very interesting or scrutable request for help, so I can understand the frustration volunteers get when repeatedly faced with those kinds of questions.

I also feel like some parts of the community might be starting to recognize that, if we want Linux to become mainstream, it has to be absurdly idiot-proof and friendly to newcomers. Afterall, the vast majority of people don’t want their computer to be their hobby, they just want it to facilitate other things.

Hit me! I’ll probably fail, but I wanna try and help anyway.

Eh I mean alphabet and Google do have legitimate reasons for antitrust lawsuits, but that’s independent of how shit Google search has become.

Anyway, for those who are fed up with the terrible results, use Ecosia. I’ve basically never needed to use anything else and the advertising money goes towards planting trees responsibly to rebuild ecosystems.

I do with English would switch to phonetic spelling, including the eventi of the speaker, but we’re never going to switch. At least the standardized spelling does have a very minor advantage in terms of disambiguation with homophones. But then we had to go and mess up read/read and lead/lead.

NBA 2K has had ads in it for a while, though I can’t remember if they’re specifically in the loading screen or not.

“Hello, yes, IT department? I think my co-worker’s keyboard is missing all their punctuation marks. Yes, it’s making communication very difficult.”

So… Magic? I mean, sure, if we had perfect magic that knew who could and could not be trusted to use your gun, fine. In a practical sense, all you need to prevent other people from using your guns is a lock. I put a lock on my closet. If the aren’t under my supervision, they’re behind at least one lock.