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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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Quick off the top of your head, what's a third of 9.5mm?

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Run this on Adult Swim and I'll consider watching it.

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Re-elect Deez Nuts.

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I stuck an Arc theme on it and that modernized it a lot.

To me, Cinnamon sits somewhere between the extremes of Gnome and KDE.

Gnome is an Android launcher with a concussion. Every major update is a list of things it can't do anymore. Hopefully by Gnome 52 the system won't even POST let alone boot. Every utility is a blank window with an empty menu up in the top bar that does as little of its job as it can, apparently in service to some "blank is beautiful" aesthetic.

KDE feels like the control panel of a nuclear power plant, LOADS of crap everywhere. Widgets and wodgets and panels and sidebars where does it end? Every utility is an incorrectly sized window completely crammed full of drop downs, radio buttons and text fields with several tabs and sub-menus with lots of options, because what if esoteric use case?

Cinnamon is a middle ground in between; they have a "most users, most of the time" approach so that UIs are understandable and digestible, and usually let you do what you want to do, without being uselessly blank or obsessively crowded.

Cinnamon doesn't need therapy, Gnome and KDE do.

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There's a Fedora Cinnamon spin.

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Fairly long-term Mint veteran here: usually if I need software that's more up to date than what's in the standard repo, Flatpak will do.

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Left side: Unscrews from the standoff.
Right side: Unscrews the standoff from the IO plate.

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Video card manufacturers, why u no threadlocker?

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There need to be open source "smart" devices. Like, I've read and edited the source code running on my 3D printer. I was able to do that in my own home because it's got an Arduino Mega for a motherboard.

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I have an Epson inkjet that I'm not going to throw away yet. It's 6 years old though, not sure if they still make it.

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Mine is a cartridge model, an XP-830 "Small-in-One" that gets used...maybe once a year. As I said I'm not throwing it away yet. Further info: I bought a tablet computer specifically so that I wouldn't have to print out my drawings for use in the wood shop, because I want to stop printing things entirely.

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I have a couple ESP32s, and the main thing that concerns me is that they utterly rely on the ESP-IDF toolchain. It runs on Espressif's RTOS basically no matter what. They're capable if weird little microcontrollers but they just slightly sketch me out.

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Something I always enjoy during the TOS era movies is when they pull out actual paper. Like during Wrath of Kahn IIRC they pull out a physical paper book that has Reliant's SSH codes to disable the shields. Another happens during Undiscovered Country when they need to actually speak Klingon, they get out a bunch of paper books. The Federation has a printing office.

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So it's working as intended?

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I use a lot of open source apps which aren't as polished, the UIs need work, they're clunky, and they won't enshittify.

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Allow me to reiterate:

I use a lot of open source apps...and they won't enshittify.

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That's something with vinyl records is that they come in big sleeves with nice big prints of the album art and such. That's great stuff for a music buff to enjoy.

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I did recently buy a favorite band's entire back catalog on CD, because I want to own a non-revocable copy of their work. Plus it felt pretty good "I give you money, you give me music on CD" felt way less icky than "I watch commercials for fraudulent products and services chosen by a nakedly hostile algorithm, evil megacorporation optionally pays you."

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I own a USB turntable with an ADC in it. It's got a USB cable sticking out the back. I can rip vinyl to whatever digital format you want.

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In every GUI I've used, there are tiling or snapping hotkeys, something like Super + Arrow keys or something, that will usually put the window somewhere sane.

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Have you ever had a Logitech mouse start to act funny with the left click? Maybe it double clicks when you know you've single clicked, or you click and drag and it doesn't? Yeah it's probably the microswitch. I've got a little herd of M570's, after a few years they all start doing that, so I pop them open, it's like 4 or 5 screws hidden under the little rubber feet and one in the battery compartment, desolder the switch, solder on a new one, and it's back to working like new.

I've had a guy arguing with me that that's not worth it.

I had a random orbital sander stop working. So many people these days would say "It's a $99 tool, I'll just throw it away and buy a new one." I took mine apart and cleaned the dust out of it. Running like brand new.

Why are people so afraid of fixing things?

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In this case, I don't think it's too bad. The mouse in question is powered by a AA, the shell is held together with five phillips screws (one of them is hidden under a sticker), and the switch in question is a common through-hole microswitch that's fairly easy to solder by hand. It's not like a smart phone that's made of microscopic surface mount components you can't actually get on the open market held together with microscopic 7.6666 lobe non-euclidean screws in a chassis that's welded shut like your average smart phone.

The mouse in question has also been discontinued, another reason why I fix mine rather than buy new.

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I've never owned any Razer gear, I've seen some of their stuff in person and I wasn't impressed. Always felt very toy grade to me. Never did like the Gigatron's Nutsack With A Neon Tribal Tramp Stamp GAMURRR aesthetic either, but that's not unique to Razer.

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Yeah, like I have a nominally gaming-related Cooler Master keyboard, and...it's black plastic and there's some very understated jimping on the front edge. It doesn't have mechamandibles or plate armor or whatever.

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Keyboard cat is extremely dead. It was filmed in the 80s on VHS.

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There's a lot of critical infrastructure running on Windows 3.1. A lot of very expensive machinery runs on proprietary software only released as x86 binaries, from autoclaves to MRI machines.

Oh, and here's the fun part: Basically the only appeal Windows has is its legacy software support. 'My games just work.' 'My software just runs.' That wasn't the case with the ARM editions of Windows, you couldn't just run a .exe. So they either have to do emulation, which in most cases WINE under Linux works better, or lock you into their app store which is Apple but 1,000 times shittier.

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Turkeys are native to the Americas.

Now that I think about it, so are potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, corn and cranberries. Thinking about my own Thanksgiving dinner table, the only thing I can identify as an Old World food are yeast rolls.

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What's wrong with biscuits and gravy?

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Yeah, apples aren't native to the New World and apple pie wasn't invented in the Americas. It's not specifically British, either; it seems to have emerged independently across Western Europe in the middle ages, and was first brought to the Americas by the Dutch rather than the English. Hell, not even the quintessential American pie apple was invented here; the granny smith is Australian.

The British invented roast turkey about as much as they invented roast bison. You want to get into more specific recipes, I'd say chicken tikka masala is British and chicken parmesan is American, but I'm not letting the British have right of way over "get bird, add heat."

Pumpkin pie is kind of a strange one; the first thing you'd call a "pumpkin pie" was more of a savory soup eaten by Dutch settlers in Massachusetts in the 1600s; the first pumpkin served in a pastry crust was French, and the modern pattern of "sugar pumpkin puree in a shortbread crust" was invented a few minutes after the US Constitution was ratified.

Sweet potato pie is less ambiguous; it seems to have popped into existence fully formed in the American south in the 18th century.

Basically all corn products including popcorn and cornbread were known to the Native Americans for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.

The first known recipe for cranberry sauce as we would recognize it today was written in 1796 in the United States.

Green beans are native to Central America, green bean casserole was invented in New Jersey in 1950...

Again, what of this is particularly British? An American thanksgiving meal is as British as pizza.

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In this case I prefer fresh cracked black pepper to hot sauce. No other notes.

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Because I'm from a country with an actual national identity of its own, not some washed up little island whose national museum has on display a lot of things stolen from elsewhere and not much of its own, because their national culture has extremely little to show for itself.

I don't have to pretend we invented (checks notes) cooking food to feel like have any kind of national identity. You do, and it's hilariously pathetic.

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...and rendered an area the size of a county unsuitable for humans for hundreds of generations.

You're going to have to show me a government that isn't half-full of people who hate education, who hate science, and most of all who hate accountability before I vote for more nuclear power.

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Canonical (Ubuntu)'s attempt at a software package format. Basically Flatpak but worse.

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Actually yes, this is exactly the case. And they've done it in a really shady way if you ask me (or Clem, the main guy over at Linux Mint).

I've been using Fedora on a little tablet I've got, and it uses either .rpm packages or flatpaks. The GUI package manager lets you select which repository it pulls from (either .rpm, or Flapaks can come from Flathub or their own repo, and clearly displays this). If invoked from the terminal, the DNF package manager gets you .rpms, and Flatpak gets you, well, flatpaks.

Ubuntu uses the APT package manager with .deb packages, and Snap with snap packages. But sometimes if you do an apt-get install, it installs a snap instead. That's some Microsoft level bullshit.

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Relevant XKCD

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I started watching DistroTube several years ago, seemed like a fairly straightforward guy, would do a few tutorials on Linux commands, aggregated FOSS headlines, did a full install of Arch in real time once.

Then one day on his channel he told a story. Apparently he worked in a retail environment, and was accused by a customer, a "minority" as he put it, of "following her around the store." He made a pretty big point that he responded to his manager "thanks for letting me know."

suspicious eye squint

Then he told the story or going to a Trump rally.

Yeah he's a right-wing nutjob. Surprised he hasn't hurt anyone yet.

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My ass is still a little chapped from Google Plus integration with Youtube.

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Yeah wasn't it something like SATA and USB got lumped in with the SATA SCSI storage controller or whatever which is why it's practically all /dev/sdx? Back in the days of yore when men were men and sheep were scared there'd be /dev/hdx and /dev/fdx for hard and floppy drives?

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That is correct, unlike my typo.

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To me that just reads as "development has ended."

Which it kinda has for Factorio, because their current development branch is unreleased, the whole 2.0 expansion pack thing.

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That's something you don't see anymore, Dad's station wagon. Terminally uncool, built almost exclusively for hemorrhoid comfort, rattles a bit, luggage rack shows significant signs of wear. The socks and sandals of the automobile industry.

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Since Clark Griswold drove one under a log truck.

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I'm okay with the product itself existing. I mean blah blah Americans put corn syrup in everything sure, you're allowed to buy honey and you're allowed to buy corn syrup, you're allowed to mix them in your own kitchen, I'm okay with this substance being allowed on the store shelf.

"Honey Blend" strikes me as one of those FDA required weasel phrases like "processed whey product" or "beef-related substance". You don't usually see the word "blend" on a honey bear bottle, says something's up.

The ingredients are plainly listed.

The nutrition facts are not; you'd have to lick a stamp to learn them, which I hope isn't legal.

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Few of them make sense, but 787 raises the most questions.

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Devices are in /dev. Bulk storage devices can be mounted anywhere on the file system, but by convention you can look up where permanently mounted drives get mounted by looking in /etc/fstab. Automatically mounted drives are usually put in /media and manually mounted devices should go in /mnt.

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Ah man, the world is so fucked. I actually laughed at the idea that a modern electronics manufacturer would not only include extra components in a design with the purpose of durability and repairability, but would also stock and provide replacement parts and/or offer repair services.

Name me a make and model of computer monitor on the market today that isn't designed to be thrown out and replaced at the slightest malfunction.

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Are we talking about the time McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money?

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Here's probably the worst part of that situation: He got that error, because the Pop!_Shop caught the unreasonable prerequisites and said "Nope, not doing that" and threw that "failed to install Steam" message. Someone who deserves to be the CEO of a tech broadcaster would have the troubleshooting skills to, I dunno, google "popos failed to install steam" and follow instructions on how to fix it. No, what happened was he threw a temper tantrum about how Linux GUIs never work and you have to use the terminal.

The Pop!_Shop's flawed design (in that it doesn't update the apt cache on launch for some reason), that bugged .deb, and a whiny little fuckboy lined up just right to take the system down.

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