I don’t agree with that. Anything they can do can be circumvented as long as there’s people willing and able to do the work. And because YouTube is so ubiquitous I see that continuing.

They could certainly be more aggressive though. I think their pace is elaborate. Boil the frog slowly.

I have my password database synced multiple places and I use two yubikeys (one as a backup) to unlock said password database and for OTP. This protects me from losing access to anything as a result of a lost/broken device.

It doesn’t help in the case of being unable to perform those functions yourself for whatever reason. Perhaps give instructions on how to access all of that to someone trusted?

I’d recommend against any of those choices.

• Puppy Linux: It’s a solid live boot environment but it’s not really ideal in comparison to the major distros on a permanent install.
• Alpine Linux: Since it uses musl instead of glibc, you’re likely to run into problems
• Linux from scratch: Going through LFS is a great way to get a solid understanding of Linux, but unless you want to spend more time maintaining your system than using it, it’s going to be a frustrating experience.

Try one of the distros others have suggested.

Edit: I checked the specs on that hardware and yeah that’s going to struggle. Maybe Alpine would be ok. It’s fairly easy to spin up and might be fun to play with on that hardware. You’ll probably want a fairly large swap if you’re planning on using a desktop environment.

I symlink the AppImage. It’s still a manual process in that you have to recreate the symlink but feels like less of a hassle than updating the desktop file.

I hadn’t heard any of this. I have very little trouble believing it though. I’ll have to educate myself.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing.

Do I think crt’s are better? No. Do I miss them? Yes.

I haven’t. I just looked at it and it looks great! And pretty inexpensive. I’ll check it out, thanks!

I want Space Engineers, but better.

Building vehicles, ships, and bases block by block as your character is mechanic I enjoy that I haven’t seen elsewhere. I also like the resource gathering. But I would like better physics, better enemy interactions and AI, and water instead of just ice.

I think most of us FOSS folks will agree that GIMP is pretty unintuitive.

1. I’ll follow a search result to reddit, but I don’t actively browse it.
2. Never used either. I created a Mastodon account somewhere once upon a time but never used it.
3. My friends use Discord, and aren’t interested in moving. So I use it.
4. I don’t post or comment on YouTube, but I do follow a handful of people. Not signed in, just using rss feeds.

Highly regarded VPN service.

I think “lost it’s soul” is a great way to put it re: Ubuntu.

I just distro hopped to nixos. I was unaware of it until I came to the fediverse. The declarative system, once you get over the small learning curve, I feel is very easy to understand and configure. Creating and being able to roll back system configurations is a great feature too.

Previously I was using void. I quite enjoy it too and am sure I’ll revisit it. It’s a light (no systemd) rolling release distro with an emphasis on stable packages.

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I agree. I don’t use Arch (I have in the past) but I use Arch Wiki heavily.

Bad behavior in Windows article up on the Fediverse for four hours and no one telling us how their Linux laptop doesn’t have this problem?

My Linux laptop doesn’t have this problem 😁.

Sounds like it’s a combo of bad Windows behavior and buggy implementations, but had to deliver the joke first.

I have no great solution to games that don’t work. Thankfully it’s increasingly rare. And I get wanting to do something just for curiosity’s sake.

There’s PCI-E pass through to hand direct control of your GPU to the VM if you aren’t already familiar, but my two cents is dual boot is less of a pain.

Is there a specific benefit that you’re expecting from dual booting? That tidbit might help us talk you out of it 😁

Seriously, I think a VM is almost always the better solution.

Just :s/x/w/g on every bit of source code and recompile wscreensaver.

I’ll go research that, thanks for the heads up!