it would be kind and caring to respond with ICE’s love language. To wit, “when touched by vehicle dump a mag through the windshield”. To ensure maximal pair bonding remember to start low-ish because projectiles are deflected upward by the angle of the windshield. They will get an oxytocin boost from knowing you have been paying real attention to their preferences.

If it’s anniversary, birthday, etc, one could make it extra special by blocking any bystanders who might want to provide medical aid. Or if things have been a little stale and you want to spice it up consider pulling a mask up over your face so they can’t really be sure who you are.

I’m currently running FreshRSS with good results. I ran TinyTinyRSS previously but the dev was so toxic I bailed on principle. :-(

I’m replying here in good faith that this isn’t a bottomless Yes, but scenario.

Now tell me that I am asking too much and there’s no hope for me.

There’s plenty of hope if one is willing to fork and modify a FOSS server or client. Make it look and act exactly like you want.

browser extensions are a privacy concern and stopped using them

I think this concern is overstated in an RSS context for anonymous (no sign-in) feeds.

Cf. Rise of the Warrior Cop (2014) by Radley Balko.

between 2AM and 6AM internet would start dropping packets like crazy

about 20 years ago I was remotely troubleshooting a microwave connectivity problem that occurred at a clients workplace about 10pm each night. Lasted about an hour. There was no one at work then but data transfers between their server and the mothership would fail.

One night the client went to the site at night to check an alarm and noticed there was a bobtail truck parked next to the building. The aero deflector attachment on its roof blocked line-of-sight with the tower, causing the problem. He asked the driver to nap at some other location in the parking lot and the problem went away.

I feel crazy for thinking it is correlated to do bad weather, as if that should somehow affect my indoor WiFi quality…

well, if it’s raining more people might stay indoors on their wifi, exacerbating any channel interference problems

ARM is perfect for this, but does Linux play nice with it?

to paraphrase the saying, “Millions of Raspberry Pi can’t be wrong”

When you do aliased commands, can they take arguments? Like to download a playlist with yt-dlp, could i do download-playlist [URL]?

They don’t take arguments in the sense that functions do but in bash at least they are passed on as part of the expanded string. Pasted from bash:

alias argtest='echo arg is'  
argtest foo  
arg is foo  

So yes you could alias your yt-dlp commands and invoke the alias with the URL.

If you have been using Linux for +10 years, what are you using now?

I distro-hopped every few years until about 2015. Since then I’ve been trending toward Debian for everything.

That’s the one I use, too. Works fine.

By ICE’s logic it would have been allowable to put rounds through the windshield.

I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.

I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.

So for now I’ve swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium’s RAM usage stays sane.

for the first time someone has contributed to the code. This may seem trivial, but it is important to me

I’d definitely feel good about that!

I just don’t make a habit of visiting any particular website to read it. That’s what the threadiverse is for.

Alternatively: that’s what RSS is for.

some of those that join forces / are the same that burn crosses

I’m a noob and I prefer… Debian?

The beauty of linux is you get to run whatever you prefer. Have fun and be productive in the way you like. :-)

In the past I’ve mainly used XFCE or openbox because of my old hardware. A couple years ago I picked a Debian+MATE image to install on a fresh box and have been using it by default since then.

None of that “touchscreen UI uber alles” BS.

sociopaths hijack the empathy of others for their own purposes

If the citizen placed his hand on a gun during the interaction the LEO would have immediately started fEaRing fur muh life!!! and started blasting.

Rules for thee but not for me.

ICE goons can walk into the house without a warrant.

Americans will be on the path to reclaiming their country when the goons start to fear doing so.