Colour is the British spelling, which is what the author used when titling this work :)

Here’s the github to Timeshift, their in-house snapshot tool.

That’s not a terribly good user experience if a user doesn’t want to interact with or see any comments from users of a particular instance, as then it would require the user to manually block hundreds of users over a long span of time.

He’s already filthy rich even if he got fired tomorrow.

Mint has snapshots available out of the box even with ext4, the welcome screen prompts you to create a snapshot to fallback to if anything goes wrong.

Mint is based on 24.04, and will rebase on the next LTS when it’s released.

Alternatively, Linux Mint Debian Edition is based on Debian 13, which is currently newer than 24.04. Good option for non-nvidia users.

User level community and instance blocks will stop you from seeing posts from those places, but it does not block their users or their comments, so you’d still be able to see them around in non-blocked communities.

The Dbzer0 folk also run a piefed instance, Anarchist.nexus, if you’d prefer to be using piefed with everything else the same.

Piefed has some neat features unique to it, such as:

• a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
• the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
• the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.

It doesn’t really pass OP’s criteria if you need to install Nvidia drivers, though. It does not have a 1-click graphical installer like Mint and Ubuntu do.

Mint can install from the appstore, or a user can install .deb files (since it’s Debian based) they download from the web. It’s also compatible with Flatpak files or Appimage files.

It cannot use .rpm files. Those are only compatible with Fedora, openSUSE, Redhat, and a handful of others.

Just a heads up: according to this post, Archive[.]is/.today/.ph is currently serving up malware to visitors, essentially using your traffic to DDoS another target.

From the linked thread:

The DDoS attack runs as JavaScript code in the browser of visitors of archive[.]today websites. Effectively this abuses the devices and abuses the devices of visitors for the attack. Effectively this abuses the devices of visitors for the cyberattack, which makes it a lot more challenging to block on the recipient’s side. Someone knowingly participating in a botnet may also be guilty of Computer sabotage" according to § 303b StGB in Germany or similar laws.

This is currently still ongoing, as visiting the CAPTCHA sites still delivers JavaScript code for the DDoS, to access the targeted site many times. Most commonly used content and ad blockers like uBlock Origin should already be filtering this by default, but we can’t expect everyone to use them, especially on mobile devices.

He hasn’t done any videos on computers, AFAIK. His channel covers a wide range of topics, from washing machines, car blinkers, heaters, refrigerators, to christmas lights. You can see his backlog here.

I actually just stumbled across this video of a modern software renderer that can leverage modern multicore CPU’s, and it’s pretty impressive.

Sure, and they were back in the day too. Games like Quake (and others around that era) had the option of rendering in software using the CPU if the user didn’t have a GPU. On slower systems it wasn’t a very enjoyable experience, but an OG Pentium at 75mhz was enough to make it playable.

Nowadays modern games don’t usually have software renderers built in, so it’s difficult to know how much graphics you could push with purely a modern CPU.

That may be the case, but it seems to come down to the same chicken & the egg problem that most proprietary vs. free software has had to overcome. Proprietary software usually can offer a smoother UX because there isn’t enough development of the FLOSS alternative, which is caused by a lack of users (and thus the potential pool of developers and financial donors) to motivate that UX becoming more polished.

For most, the lock-in of proprietary software was tolerable because it was at worst an inconvenience at times, or only incurred a semi-reasonable cost. But we’re seeing that as investors demand enshittification, staying in those comfortable lock-ins will inevitably result in further pain down the road as the user is squeezed further and further with more invasive DRM restrictions, more features being locked behind paywalls, and intolerable subscriptions with ever increasing monthly dues.

At some point people will need to choose between continuing the use of lock-in software for continued comfort in the short term, or biting the bullet and developing/using the less comfortable FLOSS option to encourage it to become comfortable by dog-fooding it. We can see when that finally happens, it is able to out compete the lock-in options to the benefit of us all (Blender, Godot, and Krita are good examples).

But that’s just my 2 cents.

Getting involved at a local Food Not Bombs not only eases suffering, it builds community and helps people connect with like minded folk and hopefully organize even further from there.

I’m sorry for all the people who will be inconvenienced by this, but personally I hope this may have a positive outcome by hopefully ending the stranglehold NI has on sound font libraries (kontact), and increase adoption of open-source alternatives (SFZ).

NI was abusing their position as a virtual monopoly on soundfonts.

they could have considered cosmic wm. it is mroe heavy than xfce needs, but they would have probably had an easier time.

Xfce’s lightness is sort’ve a major reason for it to exist, without that it would kinda just become a duplication of effort of the Cinnamon DE, IMHO.

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