Maya S. Trojan

I hate what the hacker ethos of “routing around bad legislation” has become “routing around all legislation.”

Hastings also was asked about Netflix’s decision to remove an episode of “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj” in Saudi Arabia after the government threatened the company over a segment in which the comedian criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS) and the regime’s role in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“We’re not in the news business,” Hastings said. “We’re not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We’re trying to entertain… We don’t feel bad about [pulling the ‘Patriot Act’ episode in Saudi Arabia] at all.”

• Former Netflix CEO Reed Hastings

first time in my life I was relieved to see a site down for maintenance

I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar!

Yep, my Firefox mobile hasn’t updated yet either, gonna see if there’s an update I can grab.

I think the point other people are making is that this can set precedent in German law and allow other people with similar issues to bring suit and win on merit and not have to fight as hard for their case to be considered. It could also end up inspiring similar cases in other countries using similar frameworks, adapted for local laws.

If suddenly Alphabet has thousands people taking to them to court in jurisdictions all over the world, that can indeed hurt them, although it will take longer than injunctions on Google now, I fully agree.

That’s not what I suggested was the solution at all. My point was simply the systems as they were designed to never carry this much weight because no one predicted the massive leaps in life expectancy in under a 100 years. The point rather is that the systems are broken, and it’s not the fault of the people who are living longer. It’s the fault of the people (generally politicians and older folks who benefit from things as they are) who refuse to change the systems to adapt to a modern world where people do live longer, and the only way to functionally do that is to tax the wealthy appropriately. That’s a nonstarter with most politicians, sadly. Further, it can’t really be denied that Boomers did vote for these policies that kept their taxes low and shunted the burden to the youth.

It reminds me of the potent idea that Adam Curtis explored in his film series The Power of Nightmares, in which he posited that modern governments and politicians had stopped trying to offer a dream of a better world, but instead started offering nightmares, boogeymen, things to fear. Instead of making a better world, they all turned towards creating nightmares for their populace to “need” them for. They are part of democracies that have become (or started as and continue to be, as is with the case of the USA) morally bankrupt with little more than lip service to actual democracy. Since they can’t offer a dream of something better, they must offer a nightmare to make us afraid and need them as a protective figure.

I mean it seems like all modern neoliberal governments are crumbling under the weight of the fucking Boomer generation living so much longer than anyone expected. There was a smaller, but still significant baby boom in Europe as well.

We are all carrying a generation that was larger than any other, and had quick political impact due to that, and in some places still holds most of the political power.

Their stubbornness and selfishness is literally what is allowing conservative groups to grind the gears of government to a halt. They have seen the ways to break government and used them aggressively, all over the world.

France’s main trouble is with pensions and they had one of the biggest baby booms in Europe.

The reality is that when the Boomers were young there were some massive breakthroughs in medicine, especially in terms of heart health and care. We went from a roughly 60 year average lifespan in the 40s and 50s to 70 in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and have been just pushing 80+ ever since. The programs as they were designed were never designed for people who would live this long and take up this much pension (or social security) money. The Boomers themselves seem to feel entitled to it despite it coming straight from the pockets of their children.

Were you trying to get the system logo to match your big bright red triangle hazard light button, or was that just a happy accident?

Its documentation is wonderful.

Unfortunately, reading documentation is often enough of an obstacle that it’s still off-putting to people (which is absolutely silly of course… it’s just reading). Fewer people like to actually read long documentation than we think, which I took as part of the joke here.

Yeah, GPU passthrough is pretty tough to get with VMs as well, let alone something very tailored to graphics needs like that. So I can understand if you need that to work why it’s a turn off.

Well, VMs being slower than the host machine is just a real tradeoff that happens. You can try using less graphics/ram/cpu heavy systems like Xubuntu/Lubuntu (although to be fair even Kubuntu is pretty lightweight now). But part of it is how much RAM you give it. If you have the spare ram for it, give it as much as you can. I have 32gb of ram and yet rarely break using 10gb of it so if I am running a single VM I usually give it 12gb of ram at minimum. Also depending on what you’re using for your VM you could give the VM more cpu cores to use, but that will in turn speed it up (although depending on the load may also slow down your host as it loses access to cores). Giving it enough ram, enough cores, and putting it on the next M.2 (pulling the OS of an HDD is slow af) you get if there’s enough room. Those are all things that will bring up speed.

okay, well, your root directory is always / that’s where your system stuff lives like /usr/ /bin/ /etc/ et cetera. however, you also have in there alongside the system stuff a /home/ directory, which is where your user data lives. Think of /home/ as your C:\Users\ folder. It’s where whatever your username and its data is is going to live.

The thing is, when installing the OS, you can choose to set up (manually) to have your /home/ directory on another disk or disk partition, which separates it from the root / directory psychically or logically respectively.

It would be like if you could re-install windows entirely but never lose your C:\Users\ folder because it actually lived at D:\Users\ and Windows just always looked for your users folder upon install (which Ubuntu does) and allows you to re-use it if it finds it.

So:\ / = C:\
/home/ = C:\Users\

These aren’t 1 to 1 matches in terms of analogy, but it’s pretty close.

Possibly the best advice here re: the distro.

While it helps to have people give you suggestions, the person who it really needs to work for is you, the user. Don’t let popular opinion turn you away from what works for you, OP. Experiment and play. It costs nothing to put on a new system except some time and effort.

Also, if you put your home/ directory on its own partition, you can experiment with variations of the same types, like the all the variations of Ubuntu. I’m pretty sure modern installers even back up the dotfiles that exist in your current home/ directory for you, so you don’t even have to worry about old dotfiles breaking anything.

Yes. Get over it. Keep wanking the dick of a creep who looks for any excuse to drop the n-bomb in his films. I don’t give a shit. Tarantino is wildly overrated in general.

…and is yet more evidence that the old branding was atrocious and they need to drop this childish “tee hee we made a sex joke” about a scene from an overrated movie from the 90s.

I hate this aspect of open source, and the giggling, crass immaturity of a mass number of men within the open source community.

You have to agree with everyone else in your building how to maintain the building somehow. And when they don’t do as they’re supposed to, major catastrophes can ensue.

I remember a story from years ago where essentially the entire building hated the idea of increasing costs so they constantly deferred costs because no one wanted to pay them, until a massive crack appeared in the foundation that essentially made the whole building worthless… and could have been prevented by doing the deferred maintenance when they had a chance. Now they weren’t even in a position to sell and move… because it wasn’t in condition for anyone to want to move in.

We gotta remember that HOAs are just made up of the people who live there. If everyone who lives there is a selfish piece of shit, everyone is gonna have a bad time, as in the example above.

That’s why the idea of buying property in a building seems so insane to me (at least in the US). Because in the US you cannot trust that people won’t be fucking idiots who will do everything to defer maintenance until it’s too late and then whine and cry about how it’s not their fault (even though it 100% is).

I wasn’t familiar with paint.net so I went looking and this stood out to me:

It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

This is on their main page, in the main description of what paint.net is and what it does. Whatever happened to that fork of GIMP that dropped the fucking atrocious branding.

This right here is an example of why it’s bad, because this chump gets to get away with making a reference to the idea of a sexual “gimp.” It’s been a bad name for a long time now.

I get that rebrands are hard but fuck me, adding the word “The” before it makes it seem so crass and worthless in comparison to the other things in the list which aren’t given skeevy fucking nicknames.

You’re allowing people not directly involved in the project to fucking make it look weird and creepy by keeping the fucking name.

I’m tired.

/end of only semi-related rant, please excuse me

What are your PC specs outside of an Nvidia card?

Depending on your specs, it might make more sense to run it in a Virtual Machine than dual boot.

I started my process of going into Linux with dual-booting for several years while also running a small linux server on a raspberry pi 3B+.

The reality is I hardly ever booted into Linux unless I needed to do something over there. Several times I ignored the Linux side long enough that it was fully broken from not receiving updates for so long. (Literally slept on the upgrade window until the next upgrade was already out and the old upgrade window was gone…ooof. after that I went with LTS just to ensure that didn’t happen again).

Part of the reason I never booted into it is because turning it off and then on again… is actually more time consuming and interruptive than you initially think. I would just forget it was there on a normal day without any specific projects to work on.

I never really took it properly seriously until I fully removed Windows and made my Linux my daily driver. If I still need Windows, I run that in a Virtual Machine. However the amount of times I need it is steadily decreasing.

So, based on personal experience, if you have the specs, I strongly suggest a VM otherwise you might find yourself not even bothering to boot into Linux half the time because everything you do daily is still on Windows. Just a thought nugget to consider. Plenty of people told me I should be running mine in a VM that whole time, too. I was skeptical. Looking back, they were right, and it took me longer to acclimate than it would have if I had been consistently using it.