She’d be okay if we were like Georg. Eat the spiders

🥰 BACON!! 😍 The child probably can’t really suffer like we can, they don’t really know any better. Come on, have a bite!

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That’s amazing!

I get it, I actually use the exact same distros you mention: Pop!_OS, Endeavour and Fedora.

Had the same experience with Pop!_OS: those few things that did not “just work” but needed tinkering caused quite some issues. And yeah, somewhat more bleeding edge than Ubuntu LTS is nice: to use neovim on the 22.04 base, I’d need to use distrobox or build vim from source, but on Fedora and Arch, it “just works”.

I liked Endeavour, though I haven’t really used it with a DE, I went with Sway. So hard to compare, but the manual sysadmin intervention everyone keeps talking about has been minimal. AUR is amazing, pacman is fast and sane.

I went to Fedora because it is bleeding edge enough, but seems better tested and more stable than Arch. Also wanted to see how BTRFS is setup on there and test the rollbacks. The codec stuff has been terrible though. Even after enabling RPMFusion and installing a bunch of them, the Fedora source Firefox still refuses to do video calls in MS Teams. I’m using Flatpak browsers now but downloading flatpak updates is way slower than even the worst package manager for “native” binaries. Feels a bit odd to have to use a Flatpak for the browser.

If I had to install a new pc today, I’d go EndeavourOS with KDE (which I’m using on Fedora now), BTRFS and systemd-boot. I got to know systemd-boot in Pop!_OS and have tried a different boot manager (rEFInd), but systemd-boot is amazing.

OOP shouldn’t worry. Habit is the strongest motivator. If they keep thinking the disgust, they’ll feel it soon enough.

Even if they never do, who gives a flying ****? The animals they are not abusing?

Genuine question: what is it about Fedora that keeps you coming back? I have also used Debian based and Arch based distros, as well as Fedora.

Congrats! I hope I’ll be able to join you soon!

For me it’s a combination of factors that make the barrier for this last use case higher. I almost exclusively play DCS: World in VR using a Reverb G2 WMR headset. I’ve had a friend offer his worn Valve Index, which should work on Linux. But:

• I’ve heard mixed things on SteamVR Linux support (supposedly they just shipped a ton of fixes)
• DCS:World in VR is hard enough to run smoothly on a bog-standard Windows 10 setup. And there’s quite a bit of artefacting in Wine/Proton. I’m not sure the added troubleshooting and glitches is worth it
• My graphics card is an Nvidia. This means I’d like to wait for 555 and proper Wayland support to land fully and I’d probably lose out on the DLSS speed boost on Linux. Or I should sidegrade to an AMD RX 6900XT.

It’s a bit of work. In the meantime, at least as long as Windows 10 still gets security updates, I wikl continue to use my Windows dualboot for VR flight simming only

It’s shocking how even many well-educated adults with complex technical jobs drink cow milk every day, and are then shocked when you tell them cows are mammals and only give milk after giving birth.

We are being brainwashed to believe that they are not mammals like us but just dumb milk machines that magically produce milk all the time 😮‍💨

Thanks for pointing that out! I made it into a shitty meme over at !linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Ubuntu does not require the model either. It’s an optional service that Canonical offers. They just market it in a weird way (inside the package manager)

I’ve been trying to explain that choosing to pay for this “extended security service” this is completely unnecessary if you just upgrade your OS every few years.

Oh I’m aware of “the traffic light”, it just feels like it’s been a while since Germany pushed the EU forward instead of holding us back (arming Ukraine, regulation about combustion engines in future cars, etc)

I was joking by taking him literally… I would say this does not come across well in text but IRL this kind of joke also fails to land regularly

I think the average Mint user is not a wealthy enterprise with tons of systems they don’t want to upgrade so they don’t need to consider this, whether it’s available for their distro or not.

IIRC, Canonical is using Ubuntu to push an “extended security maintenance” program or something like that.

These kinds of services are all the same. RedHat does it, Microsoft does it, many others too probably.

The idea is: (stop reading if any of these don’t apply)

• You are a huge enterprise with lots of money
• You have a lot of computers with a lot of complex, (manually tested and badly designed) programs/systems that are strongly coupled to and dependent on the specific configuration of those computers.
• Thus, you HATE upgrading all these computers to new OS versions
• You would love to pay a company to give you a sense of security by providing monthly security patches so you can keep using your old OS
• You don’t really mind that this is fundamentally flawed and insecure because the cost of upgrading to a new OS version is too great for you to pay: you’d rather take a subscription for shitty bandaid.

5 kcal per day would change your body drastically? Oof.

The German federal government pushing the EU towards sensible energy policy?? Am I dreaming?

This made my day!

Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen

VW: “Wir haben es nicht gewüsst”

• So what are you going to do to prevent this from happening?

VW: “Full supply chain transparency does not exist”

• So what are you going to do to increase your supply chain transparency? The supply chain that you are, by German law, and soon in all EU countries, responsible for.

The wording smells of willful incompetence. I hope it’s just regular incompetence, but intentionally presenting their legal duties as some kind of unicorn (“does not exist”) does not look good.

I used to consistently call meat “dead animal”, for years. Then I went vegan. I’d say they’re doing us a favor by avoiding the euphemism. Emphasize the cognitive dissonance!