Notices by lproven (lproven@social.vivaldi.net), page 2

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros/

Leading Linux desktops boldly address the "not enough distros" non-problem

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**Tech Enthusiasts: **

Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!

**Programmers / Engineers: **

The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

**Security technicians:**

*takes a deep swig of whiskey*

I wish I had been born in the neolithic.

Source:
https://michaelblume.tumblr.com/post/169525456166/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

@lanodan @neil Sure, and both they and I mentioned that. The thing is that the bulk of the tools on those SGI boxes was proprietary.

Interesting decade-old 3-part blog post about Igalia, a remarkable Spanish workers' coop doing cool stuff in FOSS.

"no master"
https://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/05/no-master

"but that would be anarchy!"
"https://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/13/but-that-would-be-anarchy

"time for money"
https://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/25/time-for-money

"A rare photo of a telecoms engineer hatching. He still has part of the eggshell on his head."

HT @isotopp & @schnedan

@killyourfm Turned off hibernation?

Admin CMD prompt:

POWERCFG /H OFF

Reboot. Run Disk Cleanup, tick all the boxes, let er rip. Then run it again, click "system files" and do the same again. It'll take much longer.

Run CHKDSK /F. Reboot again.

If that doesn't do it, then resize using Gparted from a Linux live medium, e.g. SystemRescue. Use Ventoy to format a multi boot key the easy way.

@sun Er. Yeah. About that...

The great Tom Gauld in New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2431198-tom-gauld-on-cars-of-the-future/

We Need To Rewild The Internet

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

Get a sense of scale for computer storage...

Byte of data: a grain of rice
Kilobyte: a cup of rice
Megabyte: 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte: 3 container lorries
Terabyte: 2 container ships
Petabyte: covers Manhattan
Exabyte: covers the UK (3 times)
Zettabyte: fills the Pacific Ocean

Original source of the comparison, for the record: https://www.slideshare.net/dwellman/what-is-big-data-24401517

@aral This is terrible. Who started this awful war?

When I go for a walk, if I see conkers (horse chestnuts) or acorns, I fill my pockets.

Later, I throw them into any patches of wasteland or neglected scrub I pass.

Maybe 0.1% will grow into trees, but I'm spreading future woodland. It feels like I'm helping a tiny bit.

Try it!

Godwin's Second Law:

"Anyone who uses 'woke' as a pejorative will turn out to be a fuckhead."

https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/1504687870006620163

Stop using Brave Browser.

Seriously.

https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.

Linux has nearly half of the desktop Linux market

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/18/linux_desktop_debate/

It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't

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Unix is dead. Long live Unix!

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/

Don't expect to see any more big AIX news. This means the last Unix left is… Linux

← by me on @theregister