A food store near me has a book shelf where anyone can leave books for others to freely take. I dropped a couple of books and picked up Sid Fleischman’s Chancy and the Grand Rascal. It’s a lighthearted kids’ book, set in the post-civil war USA. It’s not a long one, but I’ve enjoyed it so far. After this I’m probably reading a book written by the mom of someone I know about her parents and their lives during the Second World War. Should be interesting.
GNU Guix System is independent I think. Interesting distro, but not for the faint of heart.
There’s the Mandriva successors: Mageia, OpenMandriva Lx, PCLinuxOS and ROSA Linux. As far as I know, they are completely independent projects, even if they started as Mandriva forks.
That thought used to scare me to death. Now that I’m older… Yeah, I can let all this grief go when it’s time. It’ll be nice.
Boy, your government sure does hate you, huh.
After my trip to the gulags, I hopped back in to The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan with the eleventh book, Knife of Dreams. It’s the last book he wrote before his death. I actually liked the previous - tenth - book, though it had very little plot. I think maybe two chapters in the whole book moved the story along, so practically you could skip the whole of it and not miss much. Luckily the one I’m currently reading actually starts moving things towards the climax. As ever, I am terribly conflicted with Jordan’s writing.
I also some time ago watched the movie The Death of Stalin and quite enjoyed it, so inspired by that I picked up the original comic book by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin. It was a good comic book, though perhaps somewhat more sombre in tone than the film. I heartily recommend both though.
I really liked McGurdy’s book. Her mother was a piece of work, but it’s obvious she’s done the work and is in a better head space now. Good for her. And yeah, the writing isn’t exactly complex, but it gets the point across.
It may be a lot to take in at first, but seems to me you’ve got it!
A repository (or repo) is a server that hosts program files for your distribution. Distributions host their own repositories from which you can install software with your package manager, like APT or DNF or others. If you only install software from your distribution’s repository, there’s likely no clashes with software versioning and dependencies, and the packages are about as reliable as they can be (which doesn’t mean there’s never malware). If you add third party repositories for software not available from your distribution’s repository, it’s more likely there will be issues, because the distribution doesn’t guarantee the packages work well together.
For example, Debian and Arch don’t retrieve and install their software from the same source. They have their own servers (repositories) hosting software compiled to work with their particular distro and to be used by their chosen package manager.
Flatpak (or Snap or Guix) is a separate package manager that handles it’s own dependencies and doesn’t clash with your distribution’s own software manager.
Does this help?
I want to be mean to her, but unlike her compatriots there, she has at least some insight. Good for her. Now stop being an idiot.
I don’t think I have it in me to love anyone who likes GNOME. It’s just not natural.
This is great advice and why I find URL shortening services really annoying. I really do want to see what I’m clicking.
What a nakedly thin skinned and insecure little man.
Back in the day you could catch malware from online ads. And the pop-ups, the damn pop-ups, so annoying. For me, the final straw was when ads got sound. That got real old real fast, kind of like web pages with embedded MIDIs. I installed an ad blocker and haven’t looked back. Any time I browse Internet without a blocker it’s a horror show that kills me inside. If ads were reasonably sized static images I could manage it, but advertisers shot themselves in the foot by making their ads so obnoxious and went all-in on tracking. The trust is gone forever. Ads and advertisers can burn in hell.
The early Internet had a few simple rules:
And most people knew these rules. The proliferation of the Internet has brought a lot of people who don’t understand these rules in to the fold and it has made the Internet a worse place. “Normies” seemingly think the Internet world works like your normal social interactions - it does not. The anonymity of the Internet brings out the worst in people. We really need to bring back the rules of the early Internet for the safety of everyone.
Feel free to comment more rules if you remember any.
As much as I miss the early Internet though, I genuinely do wish I’d had more protection from the seedier sites. I am not better off for having seen the gore and shock sites.
A stunt so nice he filmed it twice.
Jackie is a crazy mofo.
Yeah, it’s a patchwork of sources.
It warms my heart to see the cyberpunk film get some love. It’s an entertaining film. I even have the book version of that one!
Very little. If I’m being honest with myself, I have a slight preference for how DOS/Windows handled mounting drives. I’ve never been a huge fan of the UNIX directory structure anyway. I’d like to see some sort of filesystem hierarchy reform for a clearer format.
But of course, using Linux is a relief in most ways. There’s no going back.
So, hey, Americans, your president is openly threatening genocide. You might uh, want to do something about that. Just a thought.