Gooey? Sounds gross

Socrates didn’t have access to modern science. This shit rots your brain.

Debian won, I’m trying it first. So far so good, using KDE because Arch ran pretty well with it, but will likely try i3 if this gets slow. Side note: This is the first distro I’ve tried that shows accurate colors on my laptop! I’d resigned myself to always having a slightly washed out, slightly cool color palette. Not anymore! It looks normal!

Well nowadays there is “someone else” (for a given definition of “someone”) with a set of controls. Kids are being taught to drive in machines that literally drive themselves, and they need to learn that every decision that the self-driving computer makes ultimately falls on them as the driver. I think they were saying that this is a concept that needs to be taught, not a law that needs to be enacted.

That’s not to say that a manufacturer is blameless when a FSD car careens into the side of a building at 80 mph. Just that immediate legal responsibility for the movement of a vehicle generally falls on a driver.

Hey, it’s this meme again!

This seems as good a place as any to ask. I have a shitty old laptop that ran Arch pretty good, but I’m not good enough at Linux and I managed to fuck it up. Something about the root partition being full, and discussions about the fix went over my head. So I pulled all my stuff off of it and installed Mint like my other computer has, because it’s braindead easy to use. But even Mint Xfce runs like doo doo on this machine.

Is there any good middle ground that’s more beginner friendly than Arch, and runs on weaker machines than Mint?

I mean, no shit. Turns out people get stupid when they’re forced to work hundreds of hours of overtime and get no time off. The same thing would happen if you didn’t feed them for two weeks and then sent a phishing email promising pizza. The only thing this demonstrates is that the best cybersecurity measure they could take is giving their employees enough time off.

It’s not a request, it’s a warning. The machine will be without power soon, and it’s up to the machine whether it wants to prepare for that or not

I didn’t know that symbolic links were a thing until like 2 years into using Linux daily. I didn’t know there was a difference between symlinks and shortcuts until I saw this comment!

To save others a trip to Wikipedia, both a symlink and a shortcut store a path to another file or directory. The biggest difference is that symlinks are resolved by your file system, whereas shortcuts are resolved by whatever program accesses them. So if your software doesn’t know what a symlink is, that doesn’t matter. It tries to access the symlink, and your file system says “oh hey they want that jpeg” and serves them that jpeg. Whereas if your software doesn’t know what a shortcut is, it’ll try to access the shortcut and be like “wtf this is just a file path, I was expecting a jpeg”

They can also store relative file paths, while shortcuts can only store absolute filepaths. So if your symlink references a file that’s in the same directory, you can move that directory and the symlink still works. Can’t do that with a shortcut.

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Genuinely thought that was what the post was about. Someone oughtta make one of those Ks backward

I’m not going to respond until you use actual words

It’s there to protect the website, not the user. You can afford the extra $0.000002 on your power bill

She is a girl, but she’s not anime. She’s a Canadian drawing

“We just accept [thing we just accept]” is a form of complaint

Furry porn is a thing the same way anime porn is a thing. Just because someone’s into anime doesn’t mean they’re jerkin it to anime all the time

The kind of whimsiless corpo half-person who seems embarrassed to know that anime is a thing, and can’t mention it without assuring his audience that he doesn’t watch that stuff

I hate that society is largely driven by people who think that whimsy must die with your childhood

I swear Google just doesn’t want me using the internet. The other day I went through 20 sets of motorcycles and buses and bicycles and fire hydrants before giving up

How it feels to study the Arch wiki

Vs how it feels to install Mint

Edit: I hope this comment didn’t come across as snobby or anything. The best thing to do if you’re trying to install Arch is to just install Mint instead. Using your computer as a computer needn’t be a struggle

It’s fine as long as you like your cookies with a crispy carbonized outer shell, and a raw doughy center