Who cares, as long as it’s copyleft?

Your Freudian slip is right, LOL.

Anyway, sure, Gentoo is a good choice to build on, but picking an evil thing as the example doesn’t exactly endear one to your POV, emotionally speaking. Besides, SteamOS is based on Arch, so the notion that Gentoo is strictly “better” (not equal) to Arch on the basis of being used to make distros for commercial products isn’t very persuasive.

I’m not saying you’re wrong about Gentoo being good. I’m just saying the supporting argument is a weak one, and doubling down by saying that sort of thing is “only possible” with Gentoo is even weaker.

I don’t necessarily disagree with the first sentence (fan of Gentoo; never used Arch), but the second sentence is not helping its case.

That’s because they do intend to depopulate the US by force.

(Note that a reduction of 100 million is way more people than the number of immigrants than we actually have, but does roughly correspond to the number of non-white citizens.)

I’ve opted out of the school Chromebooks for my kids because they have computers running real GNU at home. We should all be outraged that schools are pushing a locked-down surveillance/content consumption-only platform, as opposed to something like a Raspberry Pi that actually empowers kids to have real computer literacy.

Slap bracelets are in again, amongst elementary school kids. I was surprised to see mine bring some home the other day.

The mobile-focused development cycle and its consequences have been a disaster for user agency.

Could you repeat that louder for the folks at the back?

(Also, it’s a statement that’s generally true in ways completely unreleated to AI.)

TeX will be perfect after Knuth dies and the version number is incremented to π.

Their peers are getting worse. Pretending it’s always been this bad is pro-fascist disinformation.

1. This is an outright fabrication someone made up for laughs ragebait.

FTFY, but otherwise I agree.

He was, like, some kinda crazy person though.

$60.

(Source: I paid $120 for 2x16GB of the same type of RAM used from Ebay last week.)

Where’re ya gonna get sprocket-feed fanfold paper these days, though, let alone in the apocalypse?

The other day, the extent of my investigation was to find this forum thread, dismiss it as “kernel too old” (even though the thread was from 2023, LOL), and move on to Kubuntu. Looking more carefully, it seems like my Debian 13.3.0 image (debian-live-13.3.0-amd64-kde.iso) should’ve shipped with a kernel new enough to include it (6.12, compared to “6.1 or 6.2” which is when the Intel employee in the forum thread said it was added), so now I’m not so sure what the real problem was.

It also just occurred to me that I should’ve jumped up to Debian Testing before resorting to Ubuntu (I wasn’t thinking too hard about it and just used the same flash drive as I had recently used to install it on my parents’ PC, which I really did want to be on Debian Stable). Oh well.

Regardless though, I think the main fix is “ship a newer kernel in the next version of the distro” and it’ll take care of itself over time.

<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.

I’m not so sure. I could believe their entire productivity has been consumed by failing AI slop in code reviews.

It’s a tragedy that the advent of smartphones with big screens made cellphones start getting bigger again right before they shrunk small enough to fit in the pocket watch pocket.

Ah, that explains it: he’s making up for all the fingers he’s not allowed to draw in his day job.

In Windows, every program is usually packaged with all of its dependencies (except really basic ones that are part of the OS, or very common extra ones like the Java or .NET libraries). They don’t get installed separately; you just get a fuckton of extra copies, of various assorted versions, because every program you install has its own.

They would also be .deb files. If you wanted to install package A.deb that depended on B.deb and C.deb, with C.deb itself depending on D.deb and E.deb, you would work down the dependency tree to figure that out, obtaining the .deb file for each package as you went (presumably manually downloading from each project website itself, since we’re doing this in hard mode), then run dpkg install E.deb, dpkg install D.deb, dpkg install C.deb, dpkg install B.deb, and finally dpkg install A.deb in that order. You also have to make sure each of those packages is the correct version compatible with the others, BTW.

This is what apt is designed to do for you, automatically. This is why you use it instead of dpkg.

(Side note: I sure would love to find out how to control syntax highlighting in Lemmy inline code markup.)