MousePotatoDoesStuff

I make a backup of my project on an external hard drive twice-ish a week and pacman-Syu twice-ish a month. If anything serious happens, I’ll just reinstall and restore.

I could keep an up-to-date install USB ready, tho - but I have enough other options at the moment.

Thanks for the concern.

Yeah, and the small part of the the news that can affect me and/or I have input about is what the news summary should be about - thinks like Chat Control, climate change, or AI deepfakes.

It works well enough for now. Some things were surprisingly simpler than I expected them to be (e.g. gaming thanks to Heroic Launcher and Steam).

Note for the Linux-curious potentially reading this: I had sufficient experience with Linux Mint and Ubuntu as well as test runs of Arch before committing to it. DO NOT SWITCH DIRECTLY TO ARCH LINUX FROM WINDOWS. Try Mint first (or Bazzite, I hear that one is great for gaming but have yet to try it myself), and preferably using VirtualBox before committing to a switch.

I’ve largely stopped actively following news because

• most of it is stuff we knew already
• I already find out all that I need to know and more involuntarily through occasional social media visits

I’d like to read summaries of a given week’s news on the world, EU, national, and maybe local level once a week, tho. I’ll check if there’s anything like this for the world and EU scale and report back here if there is.

Please don’t try to flush Portugal.

That’s one of fediverse’s most underused selling points. Karma farming is impossible here.

“CT scanners are woke” - Trump supporters, probably

Your immediate group is more likely to have similar opinions to you.

Things that happen in dreams are not real, yes :P

He puts bottle corks or something on his claws before doing that, maybe?

A sentence I expect to read on a computer terminal in a lab overrun by Those Things [TM]

KDE on Arch, aesthetically pleasing and mostly functional out of the box. There are some startup quirks, but that’s likely due to my LUKS setup which I will change with the next re-install. Already tried to fix multiple times, it’s too much of a hassle to keep trying to fix an <5 minutes per day issue.

Send in Bernie with a steel chair for the memes.

Nah, if the sitting president dies, the next president is decided between all interested governors via Hunger Games or a tournament, whichever gets more ad revenue (with the Congress and a figurehead interim president running the country in the meantime).

Or how about this:

You defeated the president? Congratulations, you’re the new president.

(Until you too get defeated sooner or later.)

Okay, hear me out:

How about replacing presidential elections with the octogon?
Every state governor would be able to challenge the POTUS for the position. And the same system can be applied downward, so a regular citizen can punch their way up into the White House.

I don’t know if that would be a good system, but it would probably be less corrupt than the FPTP electoral college - not to mention a lot more fun to watch. (You can even make it pay-per-view for us non-Americans and easily fix your national debt with the proceeds :P)

Fair enough

Will do, and will post about it here ([email protected]) at some point!

I was considering starting a TUI engine project but am not sure there would be interest or need.

Okay, but protocols seem less easily usable than services (for example, Matrix vs Discord/Stoat)