[-] bilb@lem.monster 17 points 4 months ago

And life has been transformed! Everything is wonderful now!

[-] bilb@lem.monster 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Anyone else get free Ubuntu CDs shipped to their house? I think I had 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) shipped to my house back in 2007.

Otherwise, Mandrake Linux was my first "good" distro. I first tried one called Lycoris which claimed to be an beginner's distro with it's own DE, and it was impressive how well it handled setting up a dual boot installation and at the time it was a revelation that I could use a computer without Windows. I didn't begin preferring linux until I tried Mandrake with KDE 3, though.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think in threads where an obviously well-informed computer user asks a question about how to accomplish something or troubleshoot something in Windows, it's pretty much never helpful to recommend using Linux instead. They probably know about Linux. They either must, or want to use Windows. It's a pretty common occurrence, however.

Though these days, you might get to recommend Linux anyway by saying "you should use wsl2."

[-] bilb@lem.monster 18 points 8 months ago

Elon Musk is a brilliant inventor nonpareil. He invented tunnels, rockets, electric cars, and now Twitter.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 17 points 9 months ago

To protect her privacy, of course

[-] bilb@lem.monster 16 points 10 months ago

how do i summion wengido

[-] bilb@lem.monster 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's kinda unusual for Saudi Arabia to stick up for Palestinians, isn't it? Am I wrong about that?

ETA: After a little reading, it seems that I am wrong about that but "it's complicated."

[-] bilb@lem.monster 16 points 10 months ago

I thought Servo was basically dead since the layoffs at Mozilla in 2020, but your comment caused me to look into it and evidently funding was found to resume development on it at the beginning of last year. That's good news! (to me!)

[-] bilb@lem.monster 18 points 1 year ago

I think it's an alright compromise. I rarely move my expansion cards around. I use four USB-C cards and sometimes swap one out for a storage card that has Windows installed on it.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 17 points 1 year ago

This is why I prefer using my own instance- I don't want these federation choices made for me by people like this.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 16 points 1 year ago

This seems pretty normal honstly

[-] bilb@lem.monster 17 points 1 year ago

My first question is "how long ago?" Because if I'm talking to a 30 year old who was a nazi at 20, then I'm not even suspicious. If it was much more recent, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt but I'll keep an eye on em. I don't want people whose sympathies are changing from far right to far left to think that they will always be unwelcome, but I have to be wary of bad faith actors.

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