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Oh yeah. From messing around with Fedora Atomic, I can definitely see something like that working for a lot of people - no messing around with system libraries, stuff installs in a click, if it’s not available as a flatpak you can find an AppImage, etc. Immutability is really convenient if you just want a system that runs and can revert back to a working state easily without fiddlefucking with the terminal/fighting Google to get the info from StackExchange threads.

I first got on it because Windows Vista ran like an absolute pig after a few years and I got tired of it - downloaded Ubuntu and I was off to the races with it. After that laptop I built my first PC which I’m proud to say has never so much as had a windows USB stick inserted into it.

Tbh I find it requires much less tinkering now - I ended up putting Fedora Atomic Cosmic on a Chromebook this weekend (first time w/ jailbreaking a Chromebook, and w/Fedora) and it took all of an hour to get it done - the only command-line stuff I needed to do was because Fedora Atomic is immutable so adding non-flatpak apps is a slightly more involved process. Beyond that OS setup/software installation was entirely via GUI and straightforward.

I like the idea of them because I don’t like dealing with dependencies changing and breaking stuff and I don’t really care too much about disk space in the context of non-game desktop apps, as I don’t tend to install lots of them.

That being said I absolutely hate that permissions are all over the place and flatpak doesn’t ship a GUI to manage them by default, nor do you get any indication as to what permissions a program has until you try some functionality (like filesystem or camera access) only to find out it doesn’t work out of the box.

If I understand it correctly, it’s “federated” in the sense that you can create similar infrastructure to Bluesky’s using ATProto and have your posts show up there, but that reality seems pretty academic because not many people are doing that compared to Mastodon.

The timing of the click captcha loading is randomized and it probably is looking for human-ish cursor movement? (Like you’re probably moving your hand in imperceptibly small ways that are difficult to replicate). Clicking before it loads and doing it repeatedly probably triggers detection.

IIRC in Norway they have “Taco Friday”

Here’s an explanation

Keywords: Spoken Language Systems, Keep the Heid, Natural Language Processing, Scottish Accent, Aye Ya Dinna See, Fooking Bampot, Wee Bizzo O’ Pie-Eye Brawning Lassies, Dunderheid, Mon Then, Sleekit, Spondoolytis, Git Oot Haud Yer Mic Ye Wee Honking Horse F’cr, Nae Patter, Oan Yer Bike

Isn’t this the mineral that people are proposing that we process into sand and dump into the ocean to sequester carbon?

I’d say so - since you’re coming in relatively cold you’re probably not so used to Windows that you’d get frustrated with how Linux works compared to it, and if you’re just using it for regular, everyday stuff like web browsing there’s practically no difference.

I’ve been running Linux in some form since 2012 - I installed Ubuntu 12 on my old laptop and played around with it - was a pain so I dropped it for Windows until like… 2015? Then I went full into it as I started getting into programming and whatnot.

I had fried gator and it was actually a pretty nice meat all considered - it had that “freshwater fish” taste that I kinda dislike but otherwise it was sort of a softer-textured chicken.

If someone you know has/if you have kids: car vaccumn. It’s thoughtful, useful, easier than stopping by the gas station just to clean out the family truckster, and you can find them for around $25 at Walmart.

% of the time I’m using nano to edit something in the terminal, and it’s usually something really minor. I’m using GUIs for the majority of my computing anyway, so if I need some robust text editing, I’ve got a bunch of easier-to-learn, easier-to-use options available, and that’s totally ignoring things like awk, grep, sed, etc.

Psh. You posuer. I’ve converted my life savings to yuan notes and am now keeping them under the bed to reduce the circulation of cash in the Chinese economy.

But well… you might be right. Non-linux sysadmins probably think it’s not possible and just hand out windows or mac.

I mean even if you were totally knowledgeable about it (Imo, as a non-IT person) it seems like it’s a hard sell in terms of effort/value unless it’s totally necessary esp if there’s an established user base for Mac/windows.

I guess it’s mostly because Mac and Windows are just easier to run for most organizations, and IME as someone who’s never worked at a software company, IT teams don’t have any interest in admin’ing Linux for a small handful of users.

I mean if it’s the choice between Fisher-Price Linux in a decently good looking package or Windows in whatever (maybe entirely useless spec) machine your employer offers, it’s probably better to get the Mac for a lot of people.

I’m at about 3TB with about 1/3 of that being games. 1TB is HDD, 1 is SSD, and 1 NVME. I’ve progressively add more drives every time I re-install my system so there’s a bit of cleanup for me to do I guess

I mean it’s to the point that if you’re willing to install an operating system (a smaller sunset of computer users overall) , you can go with Linux no problem