Yes. And peertube is still a work in progress.

But even among the proprietary video platforms, YouTube is the worst, lately.

YouTube used to be the only one with any kind of stream resilience, but that’s long solved.

I prefer to stick to anything that doesn’t now spend billions to make the experience worse, at least.

.htaccess files are pretty simple to set up, if not hosting anything too sensitive.

I hope there’s early warning when Oracle goes bankrupt. I need time to go buy enough party supplies.

That’s probably not a viable economic decision though

Should still be a good deal for Motorola. There’s a bunch of folks now who buy whatever phone runs GrapheneOS best. Whichever company courts us gets our business.

I’m sure we’re not a landslide, but sometimes niche communities can still make a huge difference for a company.

Haha. That’s basically the plot to Sir Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters

Oh no!

I hope all the details are shared so that we can all carefully avoid doing the same to those music industry bas…s-fishing executives.

Even if you ARE irreplaceable and crucial to success, the company will only realize it a month after you’re gone.

So true.

But it is still fucking hilarious, to watch go down.

Pro tip: Make sure some colleagues have your contact info, so you can enjoy the news right away when your former boss gets fired for incompetence. It doesn’t fix anything, but it feels nice.

I think I deserve more, but I accept less anyway, due to the ever present threat of unrecoverable retribution against myself and my family if I negotiate too hard

I wish they would invest in making safe delicious slushies out of (the sad goo that is left of) the past billionaires who froze themselves hoping for immortality. That’s a product that could take off.

AI is great for plausible deniability.

I have a sneaking suspicion that these PCs will have some sort of protection so that nothing other than Win365 can run. Maybe a locked bootloader/secureboot?

Yes. Very probably.

Of course, no security mechanism lasts indefinitely in the hands of a persistent hacker with physical access.

My wife: art gallery

Fancy! (Congrats!)

I was gonna partition my gaming PC’s main drive and try Linux Mint on it.

Nice!

If you can afford it, I lately recommend getting a separate harddrive, and physically taking the Windows drive out, and putting a blank drive in, to run Linux on.

Windows has never liked to share, and has gotten worse (more aggressive preventing other operating systems from booting) with various integrations into BIOS for secure boot.

Also, either way, be sure to back everything up while Windows is still installed. It is much easier to lose data today, due to secure boot and full disk encryption being the default.

(Putting the Windows drive back in and resetting any BIOS settings should be enough, but it is possible that Windows will decide it wants the full disk encryption (FDE) password. I believe I have found my FDE password on the web through Microsoft account, but there’s just more that can go wrong, today. So I prefer to just have my files backed up so I can relax.)

(And be aware that it may not be possible to backup files directly from a removed Windows drive, if full disk encryption was enabled. There’s probably a utility for it, as long as you have the FDE password. But again, it’s much less effort to just make backups before pulling the Windows drive out.)

I’ve had the best experience booting to a fresh blank harddrive and installing Linux Mint on it, and throwing the Windows drive into a drawer until I find I want the extra drive space more than I want a retreat path to Windows.

It produces code that looks more like final code, but adds a lot of subtle unexpected issues on the way.

That is an excellent summary of the challenge. The code looks high quality sooner in the debug lifecycle, which actually makes debugging a little bit slower, at least with our current tools.

I learned to drive in a Honda Civic. I named it Princess after my first pet, and I listened to “The Smiths” during my driving lessons, in honor of my mother’s maiden name.

Yes.

And alternately, nothing interesting at all happens, and the AI just has one of it’s frequent hallucinations, and I’m fired.

There’s a special level of sociopathy happening to put today’s AI in charge of anyone’s livelihood.

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”

Yes. I’ve been the “smartest” person in the room once or twice, during a crisis. It sucks!

Edit: And by “smartest” I just mean “only one in that room remotely qualified to plan our response to the current crisis.”

I don’t actually believe “smartest” exists.

There’s just who has the experience most needed in the current moment.

We tend to call that person “smart”.

I reminder my team of this frequently.

People don’t just give money away easily. You’ve earned that paycheck.

My oldish Nvidia 4xxx GPU worked immediately and automatically on Linux Mint.

Your mileage may vary.

Edit: To be clear, I didn’t do any command line, or even change a setting. Mint just automatically detected my Nvidia GPU and got it working during the install while I looked at pretty pictures and new user tips.

(Disclaimer: Folks here have warned me this may have been some combination of luck and my Nvidia GPU being a few years old.)

When my Mint install finished, I searched for “Steam” in the Mint software center and clicked “Install”.

A few minutes later I was playing a game from my Steam library without any issues, without any config changes, and without any command line use.

Edit 2: On Linux, there’s a little Penguin icon in the Steam library filters. Click that, and it’ll only show your games that Valve is pretty confident will run without any issue.

It took me a few clicks to realize it did anything, at all. Very few of my games were filtered out. None of my games that were filtered out happened to fit in the first page of search results.

So at first it looked like penguin filter button did nothing.

90-99% of the solutions originally for Ubuntu worked for me in Pop.

Yes. When I’m running Debian, Mint, or various other Debian variants, the vast majority of “Ubuntu” recipes just work.

Sometimes on Debian, itself, an Ubuntu recipe doesn’t work because some feature hasn’t made it into “Debian stable” yet. But usually it’s fine if the Ubuntu article is at least a year old.