Cool, no more need for American military bases in our countries then. Or sharing intelligence with them. Or propping up their arms industry.

Pretty interesting after Robin Wright’s role in The Congress.

I am drunk. I wish you hadn’t suggested that.

So anyway, what are the pros and cons?

Why did that happen?

New linux user goes online to find out how to list installed packages in the terminal. Starts removing the ones they don’t recognise.

Blobby Volley

Shit, I’ve done that!

bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh

I’ll admit that I’ve done this with a few things that I wanted to install but weren’t in my repo…

Check out Ardour for music production. You should be able to get older versions for free on most distributions or get the current version for a donation via their website.

Interesting, I didn’t know that. Is that controlled by the operating system or something else? I’m curious about whether my Debian laptop does the same.

Bitcoin is NOT based on thin air.

It’s based on wasting loads of electricity.

Is Coreboot not fully open source?

Yeah, I’m still getting updates on my 2017 Dell Latitude!

I am honoured.

If either of my parents could use a computer it would run linux.

But then I have to do all of their online tasks anyway, so technically they are using linux.

I did it on a humble user account using GNOME disks. Select the USB stick and choose restore image in the menu at the top right.

Man I think it’s already done, and been done for a long time, without AI. So much of who we are now is based on and informed by what we’ve read and watched online. It’s our been our dominant frame of reference, language and value system for quite a while. We are the AI.

While I agree that it makes Mastodon less entertaining I also think that it makes it a lot more fair, representative and trustworthy as a lens through which to observe & participate in social discourse and share information and opinions. That in itself will probably mean that it remains less popular but I think it’s also what makes it more valuable IMO. We need to calm down from the urgency of the digital dopamine cycle, for many reasons. If social media is a truly human media then it should be boring at times because that is a human reality that we are adapted to.

Remember that many of their customers are young contractors on credit who have valued ‘brand identity’ over more practical concerns.

You don’t see many old boys on their tractors, in the same way that you wouldn’t see many of them using Apple computers.

My bet is that a decent proportion of the John Deere owners who are up in arms about this are those who bought one while they were young and impressionable, then realised that they were getting punished for it and that they couldn’t offload it on their younger contemporaries because they wanted a new one and couldn’t offload it on their older contemporaries because they were too wise. These modern tractors are enormous investments.

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