OldFartPhil

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter still has devs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The New Yorker article said Cuban was approached to be a donor, but it doesn't say whether he is actually a supporter. Apparently, the group is very close-lipped about where their money is coming from (what a surprise).

I don't want to turn the thread into too much of a political discussion, but when one political party believes in democracy and one party is an existential threat to democracy, there's no room for spoiler candidates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm actually pretty bummed about the change. It's a luxury (and one of the things that makes Oregon special) to be able to wait in a heated or air conditioned car while someone else pump my gas. I also don't understand why some people are so gung ho to pump their own.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I agree. I was a big fan of hers during Congressional testimony. But she is definitely awkward in unscripted environments and would be a poor presidential candidate in a nation where a significant portion of the electorate wants a president they can have a beer with. Additionally, her history as a prosecutor makes Democrats suspicious of her.

Republicans hate her because she's a Black woman. They'll make up other excuses, but none of them hold water.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

N.K. Jemisen is one of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy writers. If you like her style and world building I'd highly recommend the Broken Earth trilogy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The murderbot stories get so much praise but I was never able to get into them. I binge read (well, actually binge listened) to the Rivers of London books a few months ago and thought they were first-rate.

I just finished the new Ann Leckie book, Translation State, which I liked very much. If you couldn't get enough of the the Imperial Radch universe it's a must read.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This seems like a golden opportunity for distros like Suse and Ubuntu, who offer enterprise support for their free product, to poach some RHEL customers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Boosting this advice. When I started using Linux as my daily driver (14 years ago), I got into the habit of taking notes on everything: troubleshooting solutions, bug fixes, how-tos, configurations, useful software, etc. It's not the Arch Wiki, which is a treasure, but I can solve a lot of my own issues just by looking up what I've done before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Define cheap. The least expensive laptop on Dell Refurbished currently is $180 and would easily run any desktop environment, including the heavyweights. Specs are here:
CPU
1x Intel Core i5-6300U (2-Core, 2.40 GHz)
Memory
8 GB (1x 8GB)
HDD
256 GB (1x 256 GB SSD)
Display
14" HD (1366 x 768)

If you're thinking cheaper yet, you'll want at least a dual core processor and 4GB of RAM. Just about any business laptop from the last 10 years or so would work, as long as you stay away from bottom of the barrel Celerons or AMD processors and <4GB of RAM. You can run Linux on a very low spec machine, but you'd want to use a lightweight DE and web browsing wouldn't be a fun experience.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Great. Another "genius" CEO who thinks he's smarter than the experts and that his product is so innovative that regulations would just be a burden.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For being an early beta, kbin is usable and remarkably polished. I think the downsides for most people are deciding what server to join and content discovery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had problems with the installer a few months ago when I tried to do an install using Virt-Manager. I would have assumed it would be fixed before release, so that does sound like an issue. I upgraded my bare metal install from 11 so I don't have any problems there.

Other than that, a lot of Debian reviewers don't seem to "get" Debian. I tend to avoid a lot of Debian reviews because it seems like most complaints boil down to, "It doesn't do this - thing - like Ubuntu (or some other distro) does." Debian is a vanilla Linux distribution that allows you to do your own set up and customizing, hopefully avoiding the poor decisions and introduced bugs common in the more "coordinated" distros.

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