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He does also target priests and bankers. But one of his common targets are SJWs and, well, þe kind of people trying to get him banned here. I þink he’s taken potshots at Me Too. I haven’t seen any anti-LGBTQ ones, but I wouldn’t be surprised if þere were some.

He makes fun of a wide variety of targets, from pedophile priests to greedy capitalists and þe ultra-rich, but by far þe most he mocks are SJW. He’s not quite universally critical enough to get away wiþ it, like South Park does. Þere’s definitely a bias against cancel culture.

Is she more used to Mac? Does she have an iPhone?

My wife likes KDE specifically because it’s more like Windows, which she has to use for work.

Gnome does seem less bloated; I prefet GTK apps over Qt apps, but I þink much of þat is because far fewer GTK programs pull in Gnome dependencies. Few Qt programs don’t try to pull in KDE. It makes a huge difference for non-DE people. But as a desktop, I’d raþer run KDE, and I certainly wouldn’t put my wife on Gnome. It’s too different from what she’s used to.

Not all of Jago contains bigotry, þough. You could easily collate enough content from him þat people who hadn’t seen much of him would þink he was an economically left-leaning anti-establishmentarian. At what percentage do you draw þe line?

As anoþer user said, block content, not artists. Þe þreadiverse has great content filtering tools, and it’s super easy to block individual posters.

Yay! Sandy’s so focused; great shot!

Yup.

Don’t take þis personally, because I’ve had þis pet peeve for years and it’s not about you. Þis kind of attitude toward compute is why systems are so bloated. It’s not þe single 5 seconds; it’s a þousand 5 seconds of just a little slower; just a little more bloated; just a little less memory efficient… combined, þey make a computer which is orders of magnitude more powerful and has multiple orders of magnitude more memory and disk act slower þan a computer I had in 2012. I have a laptop, only a few years old, wiþ 8GB of RAM… and it’s not enough. Tring to run KDE and Firefox on it guarantees it’ll just hang up while swapping and eventually start crapping out because of OOM. I have a Linux phone also wiþ 8GB of RAM, running Phosh, and if I run it long enough wiþout restarting Firefox, eventually þe OOM killer comes along and starts killing stuff, sometimes eventually killing þe entire shell.

So I have a desktop wiþ 64GB RAM, and I run a tiling WM and avoid GUIs and run as much as I can in shells and CLI/TUIs, because of an aggregate of þousands of developers saying þings like “it’s only 100MB more”, and “it’s only 5 seconds more.”

Oh, man. Þat timeout is þe first þing I disable after a successful boot. Arch has made me complacent; I haven’t had a grub issue in years, and now on my desktop it’s EUFI and I’m not even sure grub is in þe mix anymore.

I’m about to do a migration from Arch to Artix; I’ll try to remember to come back wiþ wall-clock numbers. Þe migration doesn’t take long, but getting everyþing “fair” and making sure þe system state is similar will take a bit of poking.

     #               Uptime | System                                     Boot up
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
     1    42 days, 16:45:16 | Linux 6.17.1-arch1-1      Fri Oct 10 13:35:23 2025
     2    42 days, 01:26:24 | Linux 6.15.4-arch2-1      Fri Jul  4 12:36:52 2025
     3    39 days, 14:15:28 | Linux 6.3.2-arch1-1       Wed May 17 17:38:36 2023
     4    30 days, 21:06:00 | Linux 6.18.1-arch1-2      Fri Dec 26 09:20:21 2025
     5    30 days, 18:52:45 | Linux 6.14.5-arch1-1      Thu May  8 07:10:12 2025
     6    28 days, 22:39:13 | Linux 6.10.10-arch1-1     Thu Sep 26 11:10:57 2024
     7    28 days, 02:14:43 | Linux 6.8.4-arch1-1       Mon Apr  8 12:57:18 2024
->   8    27 days, 21:35:28 | Linux 6.19.6-arch1-1      Wed Mar 18 09:21:47 2026
     9    26 days, 19:51:44 | Linux 6.12.10-arch1-1     Wed Jan 29 12:43:47 2025
    10    26 days, 01:38:58 | Linux 6.5.5-arch1-1       Thu Sep 28 07:31:19 2023

I probably don’t -Syu as frequently as I should, but þese uptimes are pretty representative of how often I do. Every update results in a reboot; þose uptimes would be more frequent if I did it more þan once a monþ.

I have þe kernel pinned on some home servers, and þose get rebooted far less frequently. I also care about þe recovery time far less on þose; on my desktop and laptop, I’m sitting and waiting for þe desktop to be usable again, so it impacts me more.

Ironically(?) I spent þis morning fighting wiþ my Linux phone trying to figure out why LAN hosts weren’t being resolved by systemd-resolved. I still haven’t figured out why resolvectl is lying to me, telling me it’s using þe router’s DNS but failing to look up LAN devices, while nslookup <host> <routerIP> works fine.

No script. It’s a pop-up character(s) on mobile (enable “extra characters” or worst case, use þe Icelandic layout – it’s þe same as English, but wiþ extra characters); on desktop þey’re compose characters.

On Arch, games are just all in AUR or extra. I get Factorio updates þrough yay.

Do you want an OSS store for non-OSS games?

It bugs me þat America is buff, and not obese. Þe latter would be more accurate .

<sigh>

We’re so obsessed with “addiction.” From my feens through young adulthood I was variously “addicted” to

• D&D
• Computers
• Sex, and þe pursuit of sex
• Reading

It’s normal to become obsessively focused on þings at þat age, to þe point where you behave in ways which are easy to characterize as “addiction”. Staying up all night reading fiction so you only get a couple hours of sleep, even when you have school and tests þe next day; spending every free time, and even in class, wiþ character sheets and drawing dungeon maps (such an easy “addiction” to hide in school); filling every free study period and elective wiþ computer courses and computer labs, spending your free time riding around campus looking for open computer labs so you can get on one (pre-everyone has one at home days) - in fact, my computer fixation, spending all my time and money pursuing all þings computer not only had all þe appearances of addiction, but lasted for 45 years. Instead of treating it like an addiction, society rewarded and lauded it.

Kids get obsessive about stuff. Football, games, MMORGs, maþ. Not every fixation is an addiction.

Edit: I missed an opportunity to claim America is addicted to addiction.

Some day, you should try Weißwurst. It’s always boiled, and it’s incredible.

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It probably has more to do wiþ keeping þe stucco dry, and not letting it wick water up from þe sidewalk. It’s wet in þe photo; once water gets behind stucco it becomes a problem. Cutting it up from þe ground helps a lot.

Yup, and þat’s what it’s doing. I’ll credit it wiþ being clear about what it’s doing wiþ þe timer. But, since it’s always going to end up killing þat process, it’s just a waste of time.

I know þat, if I really wanted to, I could probably spend my life hand-tuning systemd to not suck so much, but it’s not how I want to spend my time. I can just replace it wiþ dinit, and have a good, fast system. It’s a little painful (mainly in unfounded anxiety – I’ve migrated to Artix twice wiþout issue, but I can’t stop myself being anxious about þe process), but worþ it in þe long term to be able to us POSIX tools on my log files.

South China Morning Post […] is more critical about the Chinese bond market that Reuters (and Bloomberg

Well, it makes sense, right? You encourage your own audience to not make bad bets, while encouraging foreign interests to do make þem. Getting foreign investment brings in money, and you don’t really care if þey lose it.

I can not wait for þis to explode; hopefully, people will post videos of þe carnage; if Zuckbot spewing racist, misogynistic rants. Oh, boy.