Finally. Are they actually hiring decent UX folks this time or are they using the people who designed 1980s VCR programming UIs again?
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Finally. Are they actually hiring decent UX folks this time or are they using the people who designed 1980s VCR programming UIs again?
Offer to help setup the account and show them how to use Mastodon in general.
Write a couple of your own toy services as practice. Write a one-shot that fires at a particular time during boot, a normal service that would run a daemon and a mount service that fires after its dependencies are loaded (like, say, a bind mount that sets up a directory under /run/foo after the backing filesystem is mounted - I do this to make fast ext4 storage available in some parts of the VFS tree while using a btrfs filesystem for everything else.) You can also write file watcher services that fire after changes to a file or directory, I use one of those to mirror /boot/ to /.boot/ on another filesystem so it’s captured by my system snapshots.
I’d start by reading the docs so you have some ideas about what services can do, then you’ll find uses that you wouldn’t have thought of before.
Yeah same. When he started topping my feed despite me blocking him I ejected from his platform and washed my hands of the whole thing.
When I logged in about six weeks after the ownership change my feed included Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and 2-3 other right wing influencers. I follow none of these people, I have zero interest in what they have to say and I find them reprehensible. I deleted my account and haven’t used the platform since.
+1, I used EndeavourOS
I had to set one of these up for my SO a couple of years ago. I dropped EndeavourOS on it, installed btrbk and configured automatic snapshots on a schedule and before package installation/update in case she managed to bork things by pip installing things into system python.
Fedora would probably work well too if you want a lower maintenance burden. I hesitate to suggest Ubuntu or Debian or their derivatives since you’ll probably want to be somewhat current with your Nvidia drivers.
I wrote simple hooks for my package manager to fire system snapshots before I install or update any package. It’s a nice safety belt that I’ve never actually needed to use, but if I do need it it’s there.
I wouldn’t bother with the cdr or dvdr either, they’re likely to be dead too in 30y.
We usually find solutions or workarounds to Nvidia driver issues within a day or two in the Arch community. The absolute worst case handling I’ve had to do was fork the Nvidia dkms package at the prior version (think nvidia-dkms-550
) and run that until Nvidia themselves released a fixed version. Still pretty straightforward.
The most helpful advice I can give to anyone running a distro maintained by folks with day jobs is “take system snapshots before updates” - do that and the worst case fix to any update problem like this is still really easy to handle, even if you’re 10 minutes out from a work call and an update just went wrong.
Personally I’d just drop a note on the old user profile pointing at the new one and hope for the best. Portable accounts isn’t a solved problem in the fediverse yet.
If only they had a safe place to put their money that was protected by law and insured against losses.
If they’re short on volunteer time to merge new Firefox work then you can either wait until they have time or do the update work yourself and submit pull requests. Calling them out for not volunteering fast enough isn’t terribly helpful.
I like pairdrop/snapdrop or Google quick share
You might like Vivaldi, they’re the most innovative chromium derived browser that I’ve used
Pearson is trying really fucking hard to write that out of the public consciousness. I took an econ 101 class about 12y ago for funsies and the section of the course on copyright insisted that “the rights of copyright owners” were absolute with no exemptions.
The DMCA is just the icing on top of the 95-120y “work for hire” copyright duration shit cake.
Until someone forgets the terminator on one end of the network and the token falls out
In my experience many of the people who haven’t quit are self medicating for attention or depressive reasons. Of the folks I know who vape about half were diagnosed with ADHD later in life (30+) and quit after finding a stimulant medication that worked for them. The rest are unmedicated and self medicating with nicotine and coffee or energy drinks. Self medicating is overlooked in virtually every discussion about nicotine and I’d like to see it considered more often when the topic comes up.