[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

Bought my partner a belt drive. It's amazing. Really lovely bit of kit once you get the hang of the eccentric bottom bracket.

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 5 hours ago

Road.cc is chronic for that kind of thing. They have a "near miss of the week" section on their site - they thrive on being exactly the sort of irritating cyclists people get annoyed at.

Their primary product is rage bait and mediocre review content.

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 11 hours ago

"I've seen this one before!"

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

Thanks for actually explaining your position - I'm annoyed it got nixed because I actually wanted to read it properly!

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

You didn't know I was a moron, to be fair.

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

Turkey isn't in Cuba /s

(But I see your point).

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

Come on mods - it's fine for people to disagree/discuss/whatever.

Maybe I'm a moron and maybe this person is a tactless tankie.

I actually appreciated that there's some actual fucking discussion here.

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

I mean, I'm being facetious, it's obviously shitty that people are being fed into a meat grinder, but from where I'm sitting it seems like Ukraine is being used as a fertile market for armements and whoever makes up the bunch I charge of Russia's nukes are using them as an attempt to stop interference in their efforts to annexe a neighbour.

What's the chapo traphouse/ML take on this?

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk -1 points 1 day ago

Is the correct narrative that poor old Russia is being pushed to use nukes by NATO operations which are attempting to stop the annexation of Ukraine?

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Not really - there's plenty of use cases where running memory intensive stuff like that isn't an issue and running a small footprint distro makes more sense than, say, a maximalist, fully featured desktop distro.

I'm not trying to run a media centre or play games on my 11 year old MacBook!

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Point taken!

I don't think the lite distros are to blame for performance drops in that case, are they? Unless it's down to a lack of system optimisation.

[-] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 17 points 2 days ago

"Accidentally threw it away" really sounds more like "threw it away, didn't have a backup, he now regrets throwing it away".

Dread to think what his solicitor is making by allowing this delusion to continue (unless he's representing himself in which case...fair enough I suppose). I've been reading about this man for years it seems like.

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I have an old notebook which I've been toying with a few smaller distros on (typically easy to install, liveCD types), and while I enjoy the tinkering aspects of this, I had a thought that I've been mulling.

In the past I've run distributions based on larger, better supported, systems (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc.) and if or when they have folded, like crunchbang did, or PeppermintOS (however briefly), I just changed them out.

However, if I were to go back to peppermintOS, say, would it be feasible to 'convert' the system to the parent distribution? So, could I force peppermintOS to 'become' Debian, for example? Or is this overly simplistic? It's a level of engagement with my operating systems that I just haven't had!

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