The software is supposed to be free as in speech, not beer, ergo you can use it for whatever you want. If right out of the gate, GNU was like “you better contribute back if you use this!” nobody would use or contribute to it. All this does is produce drama and reduce use because of negative perceptions, it is bad for corporate adoption and adoption overall. If browbeating people like an ass worked we would live in a very different world. It does not.
This recent morality policing about contributions upstream is counterproductive to FOSS overall, and I honestly have to wonder if some group of FOSS averse corporations or a state actor is behind all the sudden drama.
I had my mom on Ubuntu for most of the 2010’s, and then the macbook it was on had catastrophic hard drive failure around the pandemic, but then I was like, you don’t work anymore, why exactly do you NEED a computer to begin with? So now she literally doesn’t have a computer and just lives mobile/tablet OS life, which in a nonprofessional context seems perfectly serviceable these days.
You’re the one in the same political party as all the living war criminals…
Just saying, you can’t blame someone for W and Cheney coming to power 24 years ago while your candidate literally campaigns with them and salutes their service. I mean, you CAN, but… Kinda a weird position to take.
Also, even if you think a Gore/Lieberman administration would have even bothered trying to do climate change legislation (neolibs aren’t known for trying to pass non-GOP legislation so they would not) this is passing Denny Hastert’s house how? He literally invented the Hastert Rule.
George W Bush, the Kamala supporter? Dems can’t complain about W or Cheney anymore, they’re the thought leaders of your warmonger, do nothing party.
I feel like since they got salty about link farms eating SEM spend around 2007, their focus has clearly been on maximizing revenue on an ever worse search product
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I had issues getting kernel versions on Debian seeing hard drives back when it got bad in the 2010’s (which is why I switched to Fedora, which was what I used as my primary distro before Debian). For experimental purposes, I’d try something with bleeding edge driver support like Fedora, not even to install, just to see if it sees the drive. I’ve even seen issues with kernel v various hardware things on Ubuntu/Mint v Fedora. I am currently very mad at Fedora because 40 is ass, and I’m having PTSD about Debian getting bad (I do hear it gud now) so I’m in no way recommending Fedora rn, but it will see the hardware if it’s a nonproprietary driver newness issue
Not a big fan of posing PII here, but let’s just say I voted that year (for Nader).
Nope. The democrats ceded this ground ala immigration. When both sides of the duopoly agree fracking is good, it takes the issue off the table. Just look at the shifts in polling on the police or immigration. The timing is AFTER the DNC joins the GOP position because 70% if not more of dems are “blue no matter who” voters who just take on the policy positions the party dictates to them. The DNC chose “become the GOP circa 2000” as their strategy this cycle, and don’t really have a choice but to execute on that as best they can at this point, and just hope nobody under 50 or male votes.
Yeah, my parents are getting to the nursing home stage and last week my dad tells me he just has this basically new old stock giant 2000’s Trinitron CRT that’s been basically unused and sitting in a cupboard for 20 years and I was like “Do not throw that away, I’ll put it in storage when you need it gone!” I live in a tiny apartment and thus have nowhere to put it, but I’d rather keep it in unused storage I’m paying for anyway or sell it online or something than reduce the net stock of high quality late CRTs out there. So many gems rotting in attics only to be thrown away when people move out there…
Asheville isn’t even prone to hurricanes, it’s inland in the mountains, people literally moved there from Louisiana and Florida on the premise it would be safer, but… Post-global warming you can even get cyclones on the great lakes (happened in '96) and the Southwest desert can get monsoons… Waterproof electronics bunkers, maybe?
Same, fucking catastrophe. I wonder how many “only 100 good condition of these are left in existence” things got destroyed. We need an Endangered Species Act for weird retro tech or something.
Yeah, you’re risking a bad experience with the pi. You can probably get a cheap PC sans OS on eBay with a real drive. SD cards just crap out in an instant at random, so if your whole OS is on one… One day he’s gonna turn it on and EVERYTHING will be gone. Every SD card I’ve ever relied on for OS purposes in a Pi or Android situation has just died within a few years.
I ran OS/2 Warp as my primary for like a year, I loved it, and it could even play many Windows/DOS games with fiddling
There was still real competition in the x86 OS space back then, also. Like IBM had OS/2 and DOS 7, and made hardware, so they certainly wouldn’t want it locked to a Microsoft OS.
I’d consider a Pixel with GrapheneOS, not Linux per se, but with FDroid it’s probably the best FOSS tablet experience
This is what I’ve been using but I’ve never actually had to recover using it…
Anything I need to actually write code on, Gnome, because I’m addicted to mac-style gesture controls, but hate the holier than thou design philosophy Jony Ive bullshit; anything casual, KDE; but I am planning to try out Cosmic on something soon