EponymousBosh

joined 7 months ago

I see people recommending Debian but you also said you enjoy tinkering, so I'd recommend SpiralLinux. It's basically Debian but it uses BTRFS so you can roll back to a previous snapshot if you break something. I don't think Spiral has updated to Trixie yet so you'd need to manually upgrade but that's not too big a hassle if you do it immediately.

So the NVIDIA graphics card is not as big of an issue as it would have been even five years ago. Just use the proprietary drivers. And for my money, Linux Mint is the best distro for beginners, hands-down. You never have to touch the command line and everything just works.

I second this, with the addition that you can also use DistroSea to test-drive distros in your browser. Also, DistroWatch has a search that you can filter by "Beginners" to find some that might be easier.

 

If you've only ever heard "Gangnam Style," you're missing out!

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago (6 children)

A friend of mine is working on an internal AI chatbot at their company, so that the Least-Productive Team will have something to answer the same 5 questions that they keep asking to Friend's (extremely productive) team, instead of wasting Friend et al's time.

So I guess that's the one use case of AI bots: to dangle keys in front of MBAs who are too stupid to do their own jobs. Which explains everything, really.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 6 days ago

Well, shit. Sorry Mr Macklemore :(

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Haven't gotten there yet. I'm curious to see what happens with Motorola though!

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)
 

I'd been pronouncing it as "Mackle-more" but then I watched Todd In The Shadows' new video about him, and I swear he pronounced it "Mack-le-more" for half the video, and now I don't know which one is the real pronounciation and which one is the joke. I have no strong feelings about him as an artist one way or another but I'd feel like a dick if I'd been inadvertently clowning on him for over a decade.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

California is not the center of the universe, but in the US, a fair amount of companies have to tailor their practices to accommodate California law, because A) it's so weird a lot of the time, and B) California is huge and rich, so there's a lot of business to be had. It just makes sense to accommodate the outlier. What happens in California has knock-on effects for the rest of the country, and occasionally the rest of the world; case in point, the recent systemd debacle. It's not certain that they added the age thing in response to the California law specifically, but it was certainly a factor.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

Was expecting this link to be a Rickroll tbh

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 16 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

David Bowie is overrated.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems -1 points 4 weeks ago

Tell me you never interact with trans people without telling me you never interact with trans people

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 4 weeks ago

I dunno if it counts as "controversial" when at least one of the Beatles would have agreed with you

 

Last night I had a "back in school" dream, only in this one, the McElroy brothers were helping me cheat on a project. Unsurprisingly, Justin was the most helpful. What weird ones have y'all had?

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