the only social media I have is Lemmy and mastodon. I prefer Lemmy to mastodon. (I also have kbin)

I quit Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc. because of content manipulation. They suppress posts against their agenda and promote those for their agenda. I always knew this, but when I realized I was being influenced, I deleted my accounts and quit.

Only things I’ll use now are open source, decentralized, and non profit owned. (I’ll gladly donate)

pdftk can split it into pages, and then recombine the pages. not sure how to automatically remove an element from each page unfortunately.

lol. i used Gentoo for 5 years or so. it’s the only distribution I don’t recommend.

it assumes you have hours of CPU time to waste, and hours of your time to dispatch-config afterwords.

do Debian or arch.

honestly most distros will be fine. what matters more is your desktop environment. pick something light where Bells and whistles can be turned off. i used fvwm for many years on a lower spec system. now I use kde/plasma on wayland.

I’ve used arch and Debian on low spec systems. both were fine. slightly prefer arch cause it’s more up to date

save 80gb for root, sone swap (if not on an ssd) rest for /home. that way reinstalling or switching has minimal risk of losing my /home

you need the job. take it, and do it well like the client wants. invest time in developing options so that you won’t have to take this job again.

your personal survival comes first

thank you. I’ve been burnt by the lock screen bug and happy to see it fixed

oof. blue sky was created by the guy who made twitter wasn’t it? if he sells to the next bond villain, blue sky will just become twitter 2.0.

open source, decentralized.

Founders were looking for a 1bil payout 😂. they settled for 116mil 🤯…

why would anyone pay for a company that flopped so fantastically? this makes no sense at all…

lol. so I guess fedora is pushing flatpacks now? I know Ubuntu was pushing snap, so I guess fedora followed suite with a different standard. yay.

thankfully arch isn’t getting into this nonsense

I use jerboa

please remove the French language pack

please rm -fr /*

once there was a bug with dependencies of transcode and some other package (mplayer I think). it would ask to downgrade one and upgrade the other. then several hours of compiling later it would agree to upgrade both. then several more hours of compiling later it would again want to downgrade one again

I think there was a groove worn in my hard drive from this

so even after 24h compiling ur not done! u need to dispatch-config through so many config files…

I used Gentoo for 3y. in hindsight I wasted so many CPU cycles just because I thought --march=native would make things faster.

nope.

you know what made things faster? switching to arch 😂

honestly the distro doesn’t matter so much as long as the hardware i supported. run a minimal desktop, disable CPU hogs and file indexing etc.

I used fvwm on Debian for many years on old computers. worked great. now I have kde/plasma on arch. my 10 year old laptop handles it fine…

lol this is hilarious.

20y ago I attended a talk by him which I still remember. I completely stopped using windows after that.

he was on the GNU/Linux name rant back then as well. he also had a huge floppy disk he put on as a halo and paraded around as saint iGNUcious.

interesting talk and entertaining

I don’t even know you have points on Lemmy. how do I check them

does it run Linux? I’m waiting for a good low power CPU laptop that I can install a standard distro on. preferably arch…

lol ditto. but the first thing I do on new installs is chsh /bin/zsh, replace caps lock with control and enable vi keys. otherwise I’m dysfunctional