⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

how to choose a linux distribution, a small guide

you want a system that just works
⇒ mint

you want a system that just works but cooler
⇒ fedora

you are scared of the commandline
⇒ ubuntu

you are not scared of the commandline
⇒ debian

you would like to capture the flag
⇒ kali linux

you are very good at following how-tos
⇒ arch

you want arch but somehow worse
⇒ manjaro

you like to watch unreadable letters float by like you’re in the matrix
⇒ gentoo

your computer is old enough to vote
⇒ alpine

“by the way, i use…”
⇒ nixOS

Also as long as I am loudly complaining about Ubuntu: I do not like that new Ubuntu (starting with 23.10) has a permanent icon in the top left that looks like a USB-C plug. I don't think this is a descriptive icon and the thing it does is mildly unhelpful. It is distracting me for reasons I cannot elucidate. Yes, I am very picky about UIs.

Filed a bug on Ubuntu for my "can't turn off large text accessibility option" bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2039722

So far this week I have had more luck reaching Ubuntu maintainers by loudly complaining on Mastodon than I have in the official IRC help channel, so if you know how to find someone who can either tell me what package/category to put the bug in, or what diagnostic data to gather before I go nuclear on my gsettings and possibly destroy useful debugging data, help much appreciated.

Robocop is about a guy who died on the job and they made him come back to work anyway.

Tired: The refresh rate on your monitor.

Wired: The refresh rate on your clothes: https://youtu.be/EvGquKkSFMM

For those asking, I logged into my YouTube premium for ad-free access, yet I'm getting 10-20% of ads blocked and another time popup asking to turn off the Ad blocker. LOL. I don't know why Google thinks it is necessary to show Ads in paid options. Tracking never stops. Original thread: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/111246116751476250

@atomicpoet @jwz completely correct, X is not Twitter, it never was. The rebranding is not a shame, it is a relief, it is exactly what caused me to delete all of my content. I kept hearing people at #AllThingsOpen this week continue to refer to Twitter "follow me on Twitter" etc - nope - Twitter is *gone*. It's gone. The company and platform I worked at. Done. Butchered. Not coming back.

I did not sign up for X, the culture, terms of service, any of it.

https://andypiper.co.uk/2023/07/31/goodbye-to-my-life-on-twitter-2007-2023/

Potable
click for bonus panel: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/potable
#smbc #hiveworks #comics

The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash.

You can download and hash it yourself, and it should still match - 1337e2ef42b9bee8de06a4d223a51337

I think this is the first PNG/MD5 hashquine.

Google recently killed off Pixel Pass, a service that would upgrade your Pixel phone after two years and include some extra goodies, like YT Premium, and 200 GB of Drive.

It lasted for only 23 months, meaning that nobody actually benefited from using this service.

You can’t make this up. What an absolute joke of a company.

It's not immigrants who are making your life harder.

It's not poor people.

It's not minorities.

It's not LGBT people.

All that other stuff is just to distract you from noticing the actual problem.

Day 597 of my 3 day war. For two days in a row I have lost ships in a land war to a country without a navy.

I remain a master strategist.

Gentle reminder: Do not deploy today. It is Friday, 13th 😱

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https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/12/excel_anesthetist_recruitment_blunder/

I couldn't get my preferred username (edent) on Discogs.

So I'm now https://www.discogs.com/user/password_reset

This is what all IKEA furniture kits look like to me.

God, that's a great way of describing this new Dropbox mandatory-opt-in AI decision:

"Your unpublished drafts become somebody else's autocomplete."

https://scholar.social/@ehud/109692270338280143

I mean why bother waiting until something's been published to scrape it as training data if you're just gonna steal it either way?

Giving away free Lego to scientists is a form of bribery that is so effective that it should be illegal #Lego #Science

Roughly 1/3 of all sites on the Internet eat just entered the fediverse. You can’t stop an idea whose time has come. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/wordpress-com-blogs-can-now-be-followed-on-mastodon-and-other-federated-platforms/