There are many viable and better alternatives than what’s on that list. there’s really nothing there that should make you think “oh…I don’t know what to use now” most of the stuff listed is garbage anyways. Like take Zen Browser for example. you can essentially do that yourself on just about any fork of firefox by simply editing the userChrome.css. Librewolf is another example of “doing it yourself” on just about any fork or firefox or just firefox itself.

VLC doesn’t surprise me, dude rants all the time about how great vibe coding is.

Librewolf doesn’t surprise me.

Kitty 100% does NOT surprise me. The dev is an absolute tool who thinks his shit don’t stink but the guy has no clue what he’s doing at that end of the day. he rags on multiplexers or the simple act of copying via keyboard multiple lines in the terminal cause he DOESN’T know how to do it so therefore those things are “garbage”. of course he uses copilot, when it comes to AI he doesn’t even know of a “good” one to use. Don’t use Kitty, it’s slop from end to end. For example launch tmux in Kitty and then try to change your “kitten theme”…I’ll wait.

Entropy also has an advertising/sponsorship deal with MLSE. you’ll see their ads all the time on the screens outside Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. Might be a good idea to shoot MLSE an email asking why they support a fascist company like Entropy.

The details are vague in this article but what it sounds like is the Father and Son arrived via a visitor visa and the wife is naturally a refugee due to threats she/her family were receiving in India. So it’s very safe to assume that the father and son have well overstayed their visitor visa status (add to the fact he was working here at a Tim Hortons which is a no-no on a visitor visa) and so naturally deportation. a Visitor Visa allows up to 6months and since they stated the child was 2 or 3 when they arrived they’ve been here for at least 2 years. Also doesn’t say if the husband got a work permit (which I doubt).

basically RetroDeck is a one and done type of deal. one package (flatpak) that has everything pre-configured and good to go as opposed to say RetroArch where you have to pick your cores (emulators) and what have you. on say a SteamDeck something like RetroDeck is naturally going to be easier to use and set up but when it comes to a Linux desktop it’s all really a non-factor. Like for example most distro repos have either a complete library of the cores for Retroarch or you can pick and choose which ones you want. like on Arch for example the package “libretro” will give you everything or on Nix/NixOS you can pick and choose which ones to install with Retroarch.

IF you like warhammer 40k or want to get into the lore (it’s god damn insanely deep and interesting) there are a few VERY good videos that are multiple hours long that pretty much come out on a weekly basis. https://www.youtube.com/@Luetin09 is my favourite. if I have nothing to do one a weekend afternoon i’ll just put his vids on while I do some dev work or play around with my pc configs. each video is easily 2+ hours. and it’s just lore.

I don’t even know how to play WH40k, I don’t own any of the minitures, but damn do I know all the lore because of his vids.

imho in a weird way cassettes were better/more fun. Like wanting to record a song you like so you’d sit in front of the tape deck for hours on end listening to the radio waiting for that ONE song to come on so you could record it. It would take you hours, maybe even days, to make that mixtape of songs you didn’t own.

Also when I was a kid I had one of those fisher price tape decks that had the microphone attached to it. I wanted to make a mix tape of all my favourite songs from my NES games or games that I would rent (like the Battletoads theme song, or the music from the Batman videogame) so I would pop the game in then hold the microphone up to the TV speaker and record the songs.

well considering that in 2017 there was a study that revealed it cost on average $56k per year per homeless individual: https://ontario.cmha.ca/news/new-study-highlights-cost-of-homelessness/ and that’s just medical, and shelter use. homelesshub.ca reported that in 2013 it was more, 75k a year per homeless individual, and again that’s without providing housing.

so 115k in the long run will potentially save money. A person who has private and reliable shelter is more likely to start to contribute to society again, get a job, pay taxes, etc.

The solution has always been a homes first initiative with needs based assistance.

2036? this is Metrolinx we’re talking about. Maybe my great-great-grandchild will eventually board an electric GO train but it ain’t happening in any of our lifetimes.

the excuse was, according to them, that having the late fee sent to collections would destroy their credit thus preventing them from getting a loan.

“Fine then, let me just borrow your car”

“What for?”

“I want to rent a movie”

“you work…at a video store”

“I work at a shitty video store! I want to go to a good video store and get a good movie!”

I used to work at a Blockbuster, I’m not sure I’d want to relive those days.

My favorite was when customers would come in with the cards we mailed out letting them know they were in collections for a late return. something like $4.25 (yes we’d send people to collections for the cost of a rental) and they’d always have the same complaint “I’M TRYING TO BUY A HOUSE AND THIS IS DESTROYING MY CREDIT, REMOVE IT!” which I always did cause man…it was $4.25.

yup in the early to mid 10’s every company, startup, etc offshored to India and the drivel that came back was about on par with today’s AI/LLMs. just complete garbage that either needed heavy refactoring or just start over from scratch with competent devs. So seeing all this with AI today I can only think “I’ve seen this episode before”

honestly as much as you can tolerate it. But once you start gaining traction then get off it.

like it or not linkedin and replying to tech bros posts calling them out. eventually a desperate upper manager or cto or ceo will notice and contact me to fix their fuck up. I used to just do contract dev work but I got tired of constantly reading bullshit on linkedin while trying to get work. so I started replying to the bullshit. eventually people seeing my replies figured I knew what I was talking about and would contact me for help. Now I get gigs purely from word of mouth.

I’m so sorry.

It was March or April of 2008 and I worked in the porn industry as a web developer and moderator for user submitted content sites. One site in particular that I managed was gaytube which at the time was owned by Twisty’s/Pink Visual/Carsed Marketing. As a moderator for gaytube it was my responsibility to approve or deny all user submitted content to the site. and there was a lot of it. daily. Affiliate content got approved regardless but users had to be vetted. enter a guy from Eastern Europe named Alexi or Alex.

He’d submit stuff constantly of shoving things up his ass. like whatever it was. food, random objects, whatever. One day in March or April of 2008 he submitted this clip. all of it. in it’s entirety. I watched it. I was one of if not the first person OTHER than Alexi to watch this thing. so. much. blood.

Naturally I had to deny it. But even after denying a clip I still had access to the upload. Now since I was in the industry I had access to all the industry forums and other user sites that people in the industry would use like the message board “gofuckyourself” (seriously, that’s what it was called). I was on speaking terms with the guy that ran efukt and I would always share with him weird shit via gofuckyourself that would get submitted to one of the many sites I worked on like the victorian era E.T. porn or the duct tape ninja turtles porn for example. So I decided to send him this clip. he uploaded it. the rest is history.

as someone who deals directly with these CEOs and their startups/small companies, no it doesn’t surprise me. I deal with them on a daily basis. they’re all collectively idiots that somehow fell into a barrel full of thumbs and came out sucking tits. They learned catch phrases and linkedin buzzwords and have the ability to con investors who are arguably more stupid than the CEOs.

My entire lively hood is based purely off their collective idiocy. they utilize AI/LLM’s for builds, they fire virtually all their senior dev teams, then when things naturally go south they hire me to come in and pay me, honeslty, WAY more than I should be paid to code review their AI slop and tell them how fucked they are. that’s literally my job now. All they know are buzzwords and the ability to throw money at a problem that will then hopefully vanish but it never does.

I’ve had conversations with some of these morons where they’ve openly admitted to me that they “asked chatgpt and it said we should do this and this” so this CEO asking chatgpt for legal advice does not surprise me at all.

What i’ve learned is to get ahead in life all you need to do is abandon all your ethics and morals, learn some catchy buzzwords, and be a complete moron. The world then rewards you for it.

I use this: https://github.com/xddxdd/nix-cachyos-kernel

Word of warning though, if the guy maintaining this decides he doesn’t want to maintain it anymore than you’re boned.

I have my NixOS set up the same way, with the CachyOS kernel and the CachyOS Proton for Steam.

on another machine I have regular Arch but also uses the CachyOS Kernel and I also use the CachyOS repos for that. Honestly it’s CachyOS without all the extra bloat. And that’s my own gripe about CachyOS itself. its’ great, it just comes with a lot of crap attached to it making the install one of the longest out of any distro I’ve ever used. they really need to trim the fat on it.

What I would suggest to people is install Arch with the CachyOS Kernel and Repo. you’ll essentially have CachyOS without all the crap.

yeah last week I tried Nobara again after not using it for several months. wanted the KDE Plasma 6.6 update. nope. GE hadn’t done the monthly sync yet. when is the monthly sync? whenever he feels like it. Sorry I can’t use a distro that’s based on the whims of one guy. don’t get me wrong I like GE, I like his Protons, but Nobara needs a team behind it.