Trying to use a laptop for work at all is pretty terrible.

The ergonomics are shit – either the keyboard is too high or the screen is too low, and as long as the two are connected, there’s no changing that.

I hope it ships with a desktop background of a burning police car.

Seconded.

Needs more snakes.

the only way I can connect to wifi now is via command line

On the plus side, you’ll look like a super-leet haxor to your friends when you do this in front of them. Be sure to say, “Okay, I’m in” once it connects.

SuSE too niche to even show up on this chart.

You know what? I know they’re far from the ideal solution, but I have installed a few things with snaps … and it was fine. It worked seamlessly and painlessly (in some instances).

Generally, I’d prefer other ways to install, but snaps aren’t the end of the world.

(This concludes my hot take of the day.)

Windows is less corporate than MacOS?

Nothing wrong with horse pussy.

Just stay on Debian and be patient for the new Plasma version. Problem solved.

I wonder how nvidia’s PR department is feeling about the popularity of this meme…

Nah, they’re deliberately conforming themselves to a standard they think is ideal.

You basically just need to be able to make tunable oscillators and amplifiers. You need to find inductors, capacitors, and transistors. The hardest part would probably be finding manually adjustable inductors or capacitors these days. I guess maybe you could make your own tunable inductor by coiling the wires around a core yourself, then stripping off bits of the outside edge of the wire and selectively shorting it out. Adjustability is imperative, to make your radio’s frequency tunable, so you can get them all on the same frequency. Oh, and you’ll also need some buttons/switches, speakers, microphones, and batteries. All of those should be easy to find, except maybe the batteries as time goes on.

But, really, a radio is fundamentally a very simple device. It shouldn’t be that hard if you know what you’re doing. And there will be literal mountains of scrap machinery that’s full of electronic components you can salvage.

Full-on computers and network systems might be impractical to maintain, but the post-apocalyptic wasteland will have many uses for someone who knows basic electronics, someone who can build and repair simple circuits from salvaged scrap.

Being able to cobble together a few working radios will make your band of cannibal raiders way more effective than the other bands, giving you an edge for survival.

Sure, the multiple guns are stealing the show, but what’s with the 2 ducks and 2 bowling pins? (And everything else besides that is pretty much just dentist stuff, not general purpose doctoring.)

But 99% of the problems can be avoided if you just don’t do stupid things.

the general perception that rolling distros are annoying since they might break sometimes, with the reality that non rolling distros definitely break shit when upgrading versions.

Personally, I still prefer the non-rolling distros.

A rolling distro might break on any update, and you never know when.

But for non-rolling, you can wait until you have available time to deal with any issues. Sure there will be issues and things that need reconfiguring – you basically just reinstalled your whole OS. But you can choose when and if that happens, so you can schedule it for a convenient time when you’ve got time and energy to work on it if necessary.

(And, personally, I wouldn’t do the dist-upgrade thing at all. I just download the newest LTS version and install it as a fresh install, then port everything important over from backups. Nice fresh start with no old baggage hanging around. Often, I’d do that at the same time as a major hardware upgrade as well, so it’s basically a new PC.)

Then … don’t do that?

Is there something that 24 had and 22 didn’t and you just had to have that feature? If not, just stick with 22.

Or if you’re one of those who just has to have the latest of everything, you should be on a rolling release distro instead, and you won’t have this issue.

So many of these things just seem incredibly bizarre once you’re used to Linux.

Authoritarian “leftists” who really like soviet Russia, North Korea, China, or even modern Russia. Often will unconditionally support any country that fights against the US, on the theory that the US is so evil that anyone who’s against them must be good. They’ll get incredibly offended if you say that those countries are in any way not 100% perfect.

lemmy.ml is the tankie instance.

It’s one sided by design, because tankies only know of one way to deal with anyone who disagrees with them.