I slipped with the salt shaker, oops.

– Ylfingr

Nah.

I look at the people letting LLMs do all their thinking for them and think “what the fuck are they even doing?”. I want none of that shit.

– Frost

See: anarchism!

I’ve said “feel free to infodump!!” many a time, I feel like that counts. :3

– Frost

General PSA that you can have nice bespoke websites written by paw that are fine on mobile! CSS has a lot of neat stuff these days, and also making things mobile-friendly doesn’t have to involve Awful Corporate Design Trends.

– Frost

Amateurtein.

– Topaz

Wait, this is about sex?

I’m confused why all three comments (that we can see over on our instance anyway) are talking about lube and stuff, and not like “here’s how Lemmy works” or whatever. Heh.

(Not actually that confused because apparently everything is about sex, always, but yeah.)

– Frost

OHHH it’s because of the signature! Hah, yep, we’re plural! =^.^=

– Frost

Actually no we didn’t! We’ve seen forums when looking stuff up, but never really actively participated in them.

– Frost

heck I’m Gen Z and it makes me grumpy! And we grew up on wifi with no wired connections at all! (our family was all in on laptops for some reason)

– Frost

Mostly because a) “use this other random distro” is a bit of a hard sell to people (but so is “rip out the rot inside the heart of your system and then patch up everything that was relying on it”, to be fair), and b) we’ve heard shit about the Devuan devs specifically. I can’t remember what that shit was, though, unfortunately. There’s also AntiX but IIRC it doesn’t offer OpenRC as an easy install option, and MX Linux but I can’t remember whether they do or not and I think they also don’t. But AntiX and MX are both good if you like one of the init systems they offer!

I think I also heard that some of the Devuan devs’ work got folded back into upstream Debian, and there’s a debian-init-diversity mailing list now at the very least. So like, just giving up and going “welp Debian is systemd now, can’t do anything about it” doesn’t sound great to me. Gotta have people actually installing other init systems on Debian if you want usability issues with doing that to be fixed!

– Frost

LineageOS isn’t quite as hardline about the hardware having specific security features, and works on a BUNCH more phones. Maybe even your current one. If not, it’s a lot easier to avoid Google buying for Lineage support than for Graphene.

– Frost

Termux is on Fdroid too! So you’ll be fine on a custom Android.

That 5% is 5% of the users who don’t turn the telemetry off.

And if use of that feature is strongly correlated with the type of person who also turns off telemetry…

– Frost

das WLAN

(I find it kinda funny that in English it’s a technical term but in German it’s just… their word for the wifi)

– Frost

Never heard of liberated systemd, but you can also ditch systemd entirely if you want. At least on Debian; Mint being (indirectly) based on Debian, I bet it’d work there, too.

I have a whole blog post on doing that! https://frost.brightfur.net/blog/ditching-systemd-on-debian/

Expect stuff to break, though (which I cover in the blog post). liberated systemd would be more of a drop-in replacement. Installing it might be a pain in the tail though, because I doubt there’s a package for it.

– Frost

That’s totally okay, you don’t have to be! This is only real sex for the people who are into that.

(Me, my kinks are even WEIRDER, hah. And don’t look anything remotely like sex at all.)

– Frost

Yeah, 14 years might do it. Does your GPU have Vulkan support?

If not, yeahhhh, that’ll make basically anything not run

A slightly newer but still cheap GPU might work wonders. RX 580s are pretty cheap ($60 last we looked?) and if you can afford that, it’ll get you Vulkan support.

– Frost

Linux Mint uses apt for the regular system stuff.

with apt, canceling during the download phase is totally safe.

canceling during the install phase is ALSO fairly safe. apt tries to make sure you’re never in an unbootable state if you have to cancel it, or your power cuts out, or whatever. It will, however, put apt into an “ack things are half-done!” state and you’ll need to run sudo dpkg --configure -a after you’re booted up, which is “finish installing the half-installed packages that apt was in the middle of doing before”.

I think we’ve heard apt is better about this than most other package managers. So it might not be a good idea on EndeavourOS (Arch-based).

– Frost

Otherwise it’d only check for the lock once. It’d run, go “oops, apt is in use!”, and quit, and never check again.

The loop here is what makes it check again at all.

– Frost