Yeah. This one felt exactly the expected amount of WTF to be real life, today.
The first thing I do to, if I need to get the size down, is swap out Gnome for one of the X11 Windows managers, usually XFCE.
I usually do this by starting from the minimal install and building up, as schizo already suggested.
That said, I guess I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Linux Mint is an easy way to get Debian's core with the XFCE window manager.
Looks like Mint starts at 3GB - 8GB, depending on options chosen?
Disclaimer: It's honestly been awhile since I really paid attention to my own Linux install size, as long as it's below 40GB.
the live disk won't find my Wifi
Oof.
I'm case it helps: I have solved that problem for myself using a $9.00 USB Wifi dongle.
For whatever reason (other contributors facing the same issue?), I have found that every cheapo USB Wifi dongle I have tried has worked perfectly with the minimal Linux images.
I realize I might have just gotten really lucky a bunch of times, but it could be worth a try.
A couple thoughts:
- What would Mr Rogers do is terrific. He was calm and patient, but worked tirelessly to make life better for who he could.
- I've substituted "fuck this asshole" with - "I'm going to focus on outliving this asshole and having more impact on the world."
Also, let's not forget that a lot of this is in response to the United States having it's first black president, and in that context...the people mobilized by it...they're pathetic and pitiable. They're still harmful! But like mosquitoes, ticks and leaches.
They need to be countered, and we should all do our best to do our part.
We must learn just enough about them to isolate, counter, and clean up after them. Beyond that, they are jjust small, sad and disgusting.
Uh...I guess this is a public service announcement.
"Ultimate Spider-Man" is really good.
Core Concept
The Maker has remade a world with no heroes for his evil cabal to rule over.
Iron Lad sent a series of time machine gift bags to people who would have been heroes - including Peter Parker - giving them the option to bootstrap their life to their former heroic destiny.
This subverts my expectations, while offering new insights into established characters.
Detailed spoilers
- J. Jonah Jameson is a better man with Ben Parker alive to mentor him
- Harry Osborn is probably either batshit crazy or destined to be the greatest bromance in Peter's life...and maybe both.
- Peter and MJs kids are adorable and perfect.
- The comic completely fails to address how this version of Peter got his webbing, and the suit that Iron Lad provided is capable of an awfut lot of Venom's abilities...Might Iron Lad have cut a dangerous corner in his desperation?
That's a great point.
Unfortunately for me, inability to operate a printer was a byline in the gruesome pact I made with unholy dark forces from shadowy realms in order to gain mastery of Vim keystrokes.
Overall, it was a good deal, but I couldn't print this comic out to save my life, or my soul.
They are solvable problems, and many have already been solved already in some countries.
This is a great point!
Yeah. At least until his yes-men high five him and slap him on the back on his way to board the deep space or deep sea vessel that he designed himself.
But losing 75% of population, I can see some nuclear war breaking out
Seems pretty likely (eventually). I take hope that I'll be in the direct blast radius, and not a mutilated horribly scarred survivor.
I choose not to think about this one much because it's well outside my circle of influence.
The current trend sucks, obviously.
But historically, we used to be so much worse to each-other.
There's reasons (data and practicality) to have faith that things will continue to improve.
But it won't be enough, for many of us, in many of our lifetimes, so let's all stay angry and active.
Yeah.
The project name embodies several of the worst aspects of the FOSS community, and none of the best.
It's a shared embarrassment, by association, to many of us.
Heh. I understand that all the UX people to join the GnuIMP project have died of shock...
If I don't laugh, I will cry.
MoveIt might serve companies who have staff who know how a file copy command works... but I haven't seen much evidence, if so.
So I thought "Amazon hires enough technology experts, surely they're not impacted by the MoveIt breach".
In fairness, this sounds like a vendor-to-our-vendor situation. So it's at least less awful than it would be to learn that AWS S3 relied on MoveIt.
Oof. I don't want to dox myself, but I'm definitely affected by this breach.
Hot Topic built my wardrobe.
Neat. I love to see limited edition versions because I figure they bring someone joy, and probably reduce the future cost of my next plain version.
Lol.
"But honey, I left you a README file..."
Yeah. And Jerboa is FOSS and on F-Droid.
> "We need policies that keep middlemen weak."
stood out to me.
Many of my influences have railed against middle men, and I think that's unfair. I've worked with plenty of middle men that made everyone then better off.
I've also had the unique displeasure that at least half of all links shared with me in recent years have been to a site called "Instagram", where I am unable to access the content without an account (which I refuse to make because Zuckerberg is a creepy stalker.)
I find it deeply weird that such a locked ecosystem now controls so much attention.
I find Cory Doctorow's thoughts on the problem and potential solutions to be both hopeful and cathartic.
Soundtrack: EL-P - Flyentology At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold...
Kind of an inflammatory title, but I like to let it match for accessibility.
I've been enjoying Ed Zitron's articles lately, because they call out CEOs who aren't doing their jobs.
I'm sharing this partly because I'm honestly surprised to see criticism of Satya Nadella's leadership. I think Satya has been good for Microsoft, overall, compared to previous leaders. And I was as convinced as anyone else when the "growth mindset" first hit the news cycle. It sounds fine, after all.
TL;DR:
- Satya has baked "growth mindset deeply into the culture at Microsoft"
- Folks outside of the original study authors have generally failed to reproduce evidence of any value in "growth mindset"
- Microsoft is, of course "all in" on their own brand of AI tools, and their AI tools are doing the usual harmful barf, eat the barf, barf grosser barf, re-eat that barf data corruption cycle.
- Some interesting speculation that none of the AI code flaunted by Microsoft and Google is probably high value. Which is a speculation I confidently share, but still, I think, speculation. (Lines-of-code is a bat shit insane way to measure engineer productivity, but some folks think it's okay when an AI is doing it.)
You might recognize me from such comments as "All AI hucksters are scammers.", and "AI is just an excuse to enshitify while laying off real engineers.", and "I actually use current generation LLMs for a bunch of things and it can be pretty great."
In this article science fiction author and futurist Cory Doctorow is on my favorite AI soap box, and raises some interesting points.
In this article, I will explain how to set up Minetest on the deck, and review the controls, performance, and experience.
MineTest on a SteamDeck is so fun, y'all.
(Edit: MineTest is a free and open source game engine that started as a clone of Minecraft, and has grown to be that, and much more.)
I would have tried it sooner, if someone had mentioned it to me, so I'm mentioning it to you.
Edit: Disclaimer, I'm not the author of this blog. It's the walkthrough I followed to start playing.