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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • My loathe for conspiracy theorists-flat earthers especially-kind of makes me want to watch this.

    That’s quite literally what they are hoping. This is rage-bait sensationalistic reality TV. Don’t fucking give it the time of day and stop sharing for fake internet points… let it die as it should.

    Edit: Also downvoted the article because I’m using the same logic… it’s not personal - I just am so tired of seeing posts that are effectively free advertisement for things I despise and don’t want to encourage it.





  • F-that! Take pride… Mint is ridiculously good. Well managed, stable, “just works” and yet has all the capabilities you want, including auto-running near the edge for current kernels (backed down to stable) without doing jack. You can run at the bleeding edge if you want to manage it yourself.

    And for any haters - here’s my take: I’ve been working with Unix for 30+ years, I installed Slackware off of floppies when 16MB of RAM was god-like. I have built, compiled and managed nearly every distro at some point certainly the upstream giants. I’ve been there for the birth of all of them. I’ve also professionally worked on AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX. Yes there’s a lot of fun in maintaining and running things to your satisfaction, but when you hit a certain inflection point of balancing your real life and maintaining distros across multiple machines and decide “This is the way” - Mint just fits the bill on so many levels.

    Mint is the bomb and I’m done pretending. Fight me (not you, OP, you’re cool)












  • There’s a wide range of options to go against NVIDIA when using Linux:

    • Not Open Source
    • Calls home to momma (often) with more info than it strictly needs- though some would put this in the column of win for faster reponse to fixes
    • Constant game of whack a mole with drivers, versions, updates breaking things
    • Ease of use
    • WAY overpriced (let’s call AMD at least overpriced though)

    I decided to go AMD 6+ years ago, and gaming is consistently good, I have spent a total of zero time fucking with drivers, and appreciate that AMD invests in the community vs. just profiting from it and the bang for the buck is a nice addition.

    I tell everyone I know considering a gaming rig build to just go AMD - near same performance, better pricing, better drivers and company support / policies