Spammers have woken up and are back in force. It was nice while it lasted.
Some middle-aged guy on the Internet; Seen a lot of it and occasionally regurgitate it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4.
Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Now I’m here.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Spammers have woken up and are back in force. It was nice while it lasted.
You know what they say about stopped clocks.
Linux Musk sounds like the evil counterpart to Mint. A fork of Red Star OS, etc.
Me? I’d be the muggliest of muggles except for certain knowledge a witch implanted in my brain. And it’s since transpired that she was the one who should not be named all along.
Important: The article mentions that they are being replaced not that the SAC is being done away with completely.
On the other hand:
Twitch declined to comment on whether the [new council members] would be paid.
The text I replaced there is “ambassadors”, that is, Twitch ambassadors, people given a title that means nothing outside of Twitch, but is the only payment these people will be getting, outside, perhaps, a sense of pride and accomplishment.
This has bell curve meme vibes. I’m just not sure what the middle guy would be saying.
It’s not about whether it works, it’s about proving that they’re keeping pace with the trends in technology that they’re not directly driving.
They’re afraid that if they don’t give that impression, their stockholders will pull their money and give it to someone who does, and since that’s what their stockholders also fear about all the other stockholders, that’s what will happen.
AI funding is so far up it’s own backside I’m not sure they’ll hear the cry of the small child pointing out that this Emperor has no clothes.
You need to lay at least some blame on Logitech for that one.
They’ve sold drivers to Microsoft, but since no-one writing Linux would give them any money, they wouldn’t provide drivers for their proprietary hardware.
This then lead to early Linux adopters buying non-Logitech devices and not seeing a use-case for rolling a reverse-engineered driver into the kernel.
Logitech still haven’t written their own Linux driver. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the money from Microsoft is so that they don’t.
Pretty sure Cinnamon panels are designed to fit to the width (or height if they’re attached to the side) of the screen and can’t be altered. (The depth/breadth/“thickness” of the panel can be changed, but that’s not particularly relevant here.)
The same may also be true of panel-like features in XFCE and MATE too, but I can’t easily confirm.
Do. Take a boot USB for a spin. Try a few distros.
I’ve been on Linux (Mint) for years and never had a mouse-wheel not work or any problems with sound (hardware failure notwithstanding). The computer’s been the same all the way through, but it is a bit of a Ship of Theseus at this point. Mint has had no problem with new (and old) parts that I’ve thrown in. Or new mice, as I implied before.
Getting old Windows games to work has been the biggest non-starter, which is pretty much where OPs friend was having trouble too.
Minecraft (Java) runs fine with the standard launcher, but I do get FPS problems if I’ve had an Xorg update. That’s more of a “your graphics card is so old Mint doesn’t really support it any more” problem, which I know how to work around.
I did have problems getting Linux to run on a laptop once, but then it was 1998 and Linux drivers weren’t quite so plug and play. I had no idea what refresh rates my TFT screen needed and neither did Linux, boldly warning that if I set them wrong I could burn out my screen. Since I needed a GUI, I went back to Windows 95.
Reminds me of that time in a pub restaurant where I ordered the Cumberland sausage (plus mash, etc.). When it arrived it looked not entirely dissimilar. Thankfully, when I cut into it, it was indeed sausage, not a snail. Or anything else.
(Must have tasted OK because I don’t remember hating it.)
Ah! So you’re a waffle man! Wanna buy a waffle iron?
Let me guess: I’ll buy a toaster because my old one died but then I’ll get ads for new toasters constantly. You bought one, you must want another. And another. And another. Why aren’t you buying more toasters. You bought one. Buy another! Buy twenty!! People who bought toasters also bought microwaves and kettles. Do you want a toaster? Does anyone want any toast?
True. There are various legitimate tools that are only really one step away from malware, so it’s not too hard to imagine going that one step further.
Thinking specifically of the fact that a new process is allowed to change its apparent name, as well as creating secondary process pools, but there are bound to be other, deeper ways.
No, see, here ounces compare to millimetres. If height and weight fluctuate over centimetres and pounds, and they do, lesser units should be disregarded, right?
Ay, there’s the rub. Almost no-one’s going to pay for the top-notch system, and will instead go for the lowest bidder.
This hen laid a cannon?! That might be worth more than a goose that lays golden eggs to a warring king.
Do North Americans really give their weight in lb? You’d think they’d short hand it like to like 15 stone or whatever since weight is one of those things that doesn’t really need to be exact and will change by a lb or so based on the time of day and what you’ve eaten.
Probably closed the terminal emulator it was running in and opened a new one before trying to find documentation at my leisure. One of the luxuries of learning Unix commands in a graphical environment.
For a more drastic noob story, I once rebooted a computer because I couldn’t get out of GWBASIC. I was familiar with QBASIC at the time and that was a lot easier to get out of if you didn’t know what you were doing.
fedia.io had disabled sign-ups when I last looked. Ended up on kbin.run instead. Despite the name, it’s also an Mbin instance.