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I know. I was going to post, “and how’s that campaign going?” There was a bit of a spike months that was pretty clearly due to Steam and the Steam Deck, and TBH Linux is undercounted because Linux users are, as a group, less likely to share accurate telemetry and to masquerade as other OSes, but still. I’m not seeing a giant market share spike. I’d expect the refugee population to be less likely to masquerade and to show up clearly a Linux.
I think I’m really unusual in that I dislike almost everything after IV. I think the first film was brilliant, back when Lucas was fighting for money and had to rely on vision and didn’t have Campbell to advise with. Introducing cutesy characters strictly for marketing, they all lacked the charm of the original.
I know I’m an exception. Nearly everyone liked V and/or VI more. Everyone dunks on Jar Jar, but I could not stand the Ewoks. It was so disgustingly blatant.
At the time I was dying for sequels, and when they finally came I was so disappointed. You know, I think I just realized that it was the Vader/Luke connection that sunk it for me. That all of the major characters had to be related somehow made the universe smaller, and more petty. They only got worse after that; I think I watched all of I-III, but I actively hated those.
Anyway, I think there might have been a path, and I’m no story teller so I couldn’t fix it, but I think the while thing went off the rails after IV.
Good friends have told me the Mandelorian was good, but “Baby Yoda” represents everything I loathed about the series and I refuse to watch it.
Anyway, what were you saying about the Hero’s Journey? Maybe I should watch The Last Jedi, because while the Campbell formula worked for the first film, it didn’t improve any of the sequels, so maybe I’d like it. As long as there are no obviously pandering character designs that exist clearly because they can easily be marketed as toys. Looking at you, BB-8.
I watched it until the Megan Fox car breakdown scene and figured it wouldn’t get better than that and stopped there. I don’t remember anything else from the movie.
I admit that it surprised me it did well enough for sequels, when better films didn’t, but I guess that’s The Public for you.
So, Geodad… Geodad, right? So Geodad, today’s your first day with us and what you’re going to be doing is changing a lightbulb. Nope, that’s it, just the lightbulb, then you get to go home. Cushy? I guess.
Ok, I’m going to drive you over to the tower- what? Yeah, the KRDK-TV tower. Light’s at the top. Just climb to top there and swap out the bulb.
Just a couple of things: There’s no caging once you get up a ways so you’re just climbing on the outside. This being your first time, you should clip in. It gets gusty up there. Second if you hear a helicopter locate its direction. If it’s above you, climb down. If it’s below, hang on tight and say your hail Marys - you signed the waiver, right? Good, good.
Just a lightbulb, today. I’ll be back to pick you up later this afternoon when you get back down. Have fun!
The whole thing about selling DVDs was that you were selling the DVD, not the distribution on it. You were “charging a reasonable price for the service of burning the DVD, for the media, and for distribution.” Much of that went away with the internet, when people could download and burn ISOs themselves. It used to be quite common; not just distributions, but CDs full of OSS software. Again, the assumption and expectation was that you weren’t selling the software, but the media. There was no such thing as a “Pro” version of Linux. There were commercial distributions, and there was a period when companies were trying to figure out ways to commoditize OSS, but there were also lawsuits, and it mostly settled out to be service agreements, which were in the end more lucrative anyway.
I disagree about the immorality of selling FOSS. Even in the very rare case that you built the entire program, from scratch, using no FOSS libraries, you probably still used gcc, or the Python interpreter, or go or rustc. And on most cases, you are using libraries that other people created and gave away for free. And instead of giving back to the community, so that the people who’s software you’re implicitly selling that your software is built and depends on, can’t use it similarly for free. And odds are also good that, despite your shim is utterly reliant on their hard work, you’re not splitting up the profit and sharing it with them. How much money do those people send to Linus Torvalds? Or the countless kernel contributors? To the people who’ve worked on libc?
I have absolutely no issue with people who request donations for the software that they built and regularly and consistently maintain. And people charging for OSX or Windows software? It costs more than just free time to develop and release on those platforms - the entire chain is commercial. But when your product is an unmeasurably tiny fraction of all of the gratis effort that went into the end product, well. It doesn’t seem right to profit on other’s work, does it?
Look, we’re a capitalist society. It takes someone time and material to make a chair from scratch, and when you take it, they don’t have it any more. They used nothing free except maybe YouTube videos, or their parent’s training. The FOSS software ecosystem is the closest thing we have to a functioning communism in the world; it works because, while it may take my time to create something, it doesn’t cost me more than my time, and once it’s done it can be endlessly replicated and used by innumerable people at no significant cost to me. When actors take advantage of the free ecosystem and don’t contribute back in like fashion, in my book that’s unethical.
It’s kind of creepy, weird, and unusual. However, I can see someone building a distro and creating a bunch of non-OSS themes and basically selling the themes. That’s not beyond the pale, although it is (again) questionably moral given that they probably created all of those themes using free software that they didn’t pay for. But whatever… just keep that in mind.
The usual way of commoditizing Linux is to sell service - so you get, like, 4 tickets a month or something where someone is guaranteed to be there to try to fix whatever problem you have within a reasonable amount of time, and you don’t have to either rely on the kindness of strangers.
Zorin is mainstream enough that I suspect if they were really violating the GPL, someone would be on their case already. You can’t - usually, depending on the license - just repackage OSS and sell it. So if that’s how you wanted to spend your money, you do you and don’t worry about the comments on this thread.
Oh, about your question: according to the upgrade page, the “upgrade” is just access to more packages, probably in another repos. You won’t have to re-install the distribution, and there won’t be any impact on your dual boot. You’re just getting more packages to install.
And you know what? A lot of people don’t give a shit; they just want it to work. They have no interest, desire, or - frankly - need to know how L2 caches work. Or devices drivers. Or the difference between Wayland and X11.
Just as I have no interest or need to be able to take my car’s engine apart. I don’t want to have you stop on my way to the grocery store and fiddle under the hood so that I can make a right turn that my car, for some reason, is refusing to do.
Elitism is not a good attitude.
I think it’s a horrible idea in any case. Imagine if this had happened 20 years ago, and we were stuck with RPM as the only package manager.
Standards are good, but so is diversity. So is innovation. There isn’t a perfect package manager, or even agreement about whether rolling upgrades are better than fixed releases. We wouldn’t have immutable distros (which I’m not a fan of, but I’m glad someone is researching and experimenting with them).
It’s not “wasting time,” it’s a dynamic, evolutionary ecosystem.
Does TOR get government funding? I guess I’d be more surprised to find them - or any OSS - getting funding from the US gov. EU governments, sure.
I have used todo.txt for, shit, over a decade now. Jesus. Anyway, I just sync files with whatever - in oelden days rsync, nowadays SyncThing. But I’ve occasionally speculated about syncing with VTODO instead.
Whenever I start to think through it, I eventually come to the same conclusion: it seems out of place, and more fussy than just copying a file via SyncThing or even just WebDAV put-ting a file. I guess the value would be conflict resolution?
If I have one criticism of SyncThing, it’s that there’s absolutely no facility for conflict resolution, even after all these years, there’s no way to configure a client to say, “if you get a conflict on a .txt file, try running ‘automerge’. If it exits with an error, leave it a conflict. If it exits with success, sync it resolved.” There are merge tools for a variety of file types, from txt to ODF to json. It’d be an almost trivial feature to add, and it’s frustrating that it’s still missing.
Right? Crazy. Next they’ll say BASIC is still around.
Ak-shually… you’re completely right!
But you left out an important option for OP: they can just turn on auto-login and bypass the login screen entirely. If they want any security, they’ll need a display manager, but maybe they don’t care. Also, while this doesn’t apply to them, I discovered accidentally that after I log in to herbstluftwm, it goes directly to screen lock. I don’t know what I did to make that happen, but I’ve realized I can just disable the display manager, have auto-login, and still get security. Probably not as much, and if I ever get around to encrypting home that won’t work anymore, but I’ve been considering doing it because typing my password in twice is a drag.
Damn, you know your vampire law!
Does RustDesk run on Wayland? I’ve had a good experience with it.
I’m neither a Rick nor a Morty, but I think you can look at the biographies of historical figures who’ve been considered “geniuses” and deduce that R&M isn’t too far off base. It may be a sort of survivor bias: it may be that only genius and successful people have had difficulties; or, maybe idiots have just as much depression only they don’t get famous. All we have are examples like DJT for the dumb-but-successful-and-not-struggling-with-depression category.
I really should have a statistic to back this up, but it seems common for “high IQ” people to have issues. My personnel theory is that we’re all on the spectrum: that humans have a band in which we can function normally, socially, but the higher you climb on the “intelligence” scale, the more you edge into what we’d diagnose as autism and start to struggle with issues resulting from either being unable to integrate with society, or being persecuted by it.
I have absolutely no evidence for this theory, of course. It’s just a theory formed after reading biographies of so many notable geniuses who’ve struggled with drug abuse and depression. Depression is the big one; it must get awfully tiresome being surrounded by (relative) idiots.
I don’t take the theory very seriously; however, among my high school close friend group, the unquestioned smartest one, who went on to get a doctorate in math, checked himself out with a shotgun in his early 30’s. He’s the only suicide we’ve had, and I’ve often wondered how much his intelligence factored into it.
Finally, I’ll end with this quote I one read, for which I can no longer find a source and which I have no reason for believing is based at all on any evidence; but which I’ve always found funny:
Philosophers look outside themselves for truth.
Mathematicians look inside themselves for truth.
Psychologists say philosophers tend to be more happy than mathematicians.
What boot loader do you use? Grub and REFind are the most common, but there are others: Clover, LILO, Lemine, systemd-boot, syslinux… how you tell your computer which thing you want you boot from depends on your boot loader.
However, I suspect the issue is more simple: did you go into your BIOS and switch where the firmware which device to try to boot from? If you’ve added a new HD and you want to boot from it, this is _always_¹ required.
Thanks. I’ve only heard the narrative that users had compatability issues; I did hear Microsoft went heavy on pushing to get then back into the ecosystem, basically offering installs and the suite for practically free, but I also heard there was negative feedback from the Munich employees. I hadn’t heard about Munich’s mayor being an MS advocate.
You say the audio is bad, and many people hate watching a video that could have been an article - maybe a transcript would be good, huh?
So, moving in the opposite direction of microkernels. Great. Just what we need: less reliability and more programs crashing each other.
But Rust will save us from all that, right?
Linux didn’t exist until I was 25.
But are we talking earliest age, or length of time using it? I’ve been running Linux on PCs for over 30 years.