Janeway from Prodigy. Or maybe somebody from Lower Decks, but I can’t decide which.

There are many, many cartoon characters I would vote for over Trump, all the way down to other villainous incompetents like Dick Dastardly or Elmer Fudd.

Space Ghost and Dino Boy Space Ghost or Space Ghost Coast to Coast Space Ghost?

My Firefox has a couple hundred tabs open, one of which had a memory leak. It was getting killed by the OOM killer (on my 64GB of RAM system!) about twice a day. It’s not doing it anymore, though; I must’ve closed the correct tab.

It’s funny because it’s true.

The best way to quit Windows is cold-turkey.

The majority of people never install Windows at all, and even fewer install it using a generic Windows installer rather than the recovery image that came with their computer (with the drivers preinstalled).

If they did, they would discover just how badly Windows sucks for hardware support out-of-the-box.

Rust 👍
MIT instead of GPL 👎

Also how’s your B350 board holding up?

Just fine so far, but thanks a lot for jinxing it! 😠

It’s a Gigabyte AB350N-Gaming WiFi, which is a mini-ITX board, so having the B-series chipset was probably less about making it cheap and more about the features of fancier chipsets being wasted on a board that didn’t have enough space to implement the connectors for them. Therefore, it might like slightly higher quality than some other B350 boards.

Mine is a B350 – I’m still running the same motherboard I used 7 years ago with my old Ryzen 1700X. Considering how much depends on the CPU these days instead of the chipset, does it even really matter if the chipset is older?

I don’t know about AM5, but I’m running a 5700X3D on a motherboard that still has a PS/2 port. (Not that I’m using it, but it’s there.) You can still have a pretty modern system with PS/2 if you really want it.

I would expect that any motherboard that went to the trouble of including a PS/2 port would handle it with a real hardware interrupt, because the whole point of still having those things is to avoid the latency overhead of USB.

for things that really aren’t that big a deal (like Linux vs windows)

LOL, Linux vs. Windows flame wars are literally as old as the World Wide Web, and UNIX vs. DOS flame wars are even older than that. Welcome to traditional Internet culture, undiluted by normies.

(Also, I would argue that copyleft Free Software vs. proprietary software riddled with spying, ads, and other user-hostile dark patterns is a way bigger deal than you’re giving it credit for, but that’s a topic for a different thread.)

This is not a “how do I be polite” situation. This is a “how do I cover my ass legally” situation. Mistake it for the former at your peril.

GNU. Just GNU; IDGAF which kernel it is (as long as it’s copyleft and supports my hardware).

Meanwhile, I’m married and can’t be bothered to change anything in my Kubuntu UI from the defaults. I wonder if there’s a correlation, LOL

I can’t claim that one because people were hating him before I was born.

They’re both forms of autocracy, but their ideological justification and means of maintaining control are at least somewhat different. I don’t see any particular reason why said justifications would shift from monarchical →fascist ones; if anything, I’d expect it to go in the other direction as a fascist dictator seeks to “legitimize” his rule by claiming “divine right” or naming a hereditary successor. I would be more inclined to agree with the statement “fascism is proto-monarchism.”

I’d still be an “Engineer,” LOL. (I do civil engineering as well as CS, and try to work at the intersection of the two fields.)

It’s literally not worth the electricity to keep computers that old running. You could replace one with a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero or maybe even a $2 microcontroller and recoup the cost in lower power bills within a month or so.