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Caught in a landslide 🎤🎶

Offers the police a refreshing drink when they arrive.

I think the situation is that people who have hypolycemic attacks can go into a fugue where they don’t know what they’re doing.

I once had heat stroke (after PT in Panama). The guys said I just walked out of formation, ran into the Sargent, and then fell flat on my face. All I remember was standing in formation after a run, getting tunnel vision, and then waking up in the clinic.

The bubbles around her head as she’s walking indicate something’s going on. Although mine wasn’t blood sugar, I feel this comic.

MacDonald’s cheap fried food was a large contributor to America’s obesity epidemic.

Yes - agreed on a points.

I think what the blogger of trying is to use OSS wherever it’s possible. There are clearly parts which are not, but there are OSS BIOS alternatives to proprietary ones, OSS firmwares for some devices, OSS phones, OSS routers, and so on. By “maximizing” they just meant doing everything that was possible. Using an OSS-only operating system and software is the bare minimum and - as you said - is something many of us do: that’s the easy part. Going the next step and replacing your phone, tablet, BIOS, and everywhere it’s possible to use OSS is the “maximizing” part.

There isn’t one. It’s just increasingly unnecessary.

I, personally, have an issue with people taking millions of LOC of software written by other people and given away for free, slapping a logo on it, and selling it to people who don’t know better, but thre licenses generally don’t prevent carpet-bagging.

IMHO, selling an OS your organization built most of is fine. Selling support, or hosting, is also ethical. Selling Libre software is not.

Native apps are being replaced with web apps.

Are they?

A few years ago it seemed for a while that Electron was cropping up everywhere, but it’s been tapering off over the past couple of years. I don’t think I’ve come across a new Electron app in the past several months, and every project that did start out as Electron now has several native alternatives. Riot/Element is a good example.

The trend I see is away from web apps. It’s still a popular platform and for anything that is fundamentally networked I’d agree that few native apps are being developed. I haven’t seen a native version of the Home Assistant client interface, for instance. But for web apps to replace native apps, there’d have to be a trend to either move native apps to the cloud, or for platforms like Electron to surge and displace native toolkits. I observe that the reverse of the latter is happening; and for the former, while there are a lot of cloud-ifying projects, I don’t see that they’re replacing native apps.

It bothers me that that’s almost certainly Bing Crosby, but he’s being called Frank. Sinatra was roughly contemporary with Crosby; maybe if he was being called Geoff or something the cognitive dissonance wouldn’t be as bad.

The article wasn’t about just running Linux: it was about trying to maximize use of OSS software in their personal compute. They write about using an OSS BIOS, OSS phone - everything that can conceivably and possibly be done.

I don’t recall if they talk about their modem, or switches; I think it’s just their personal computing devices. Still, it’s an interesting journey. I’m really nervous about replacing the BIOS; LibreBoot and CoreBoot look interesting, but I’m not in a place where I can afford to brick my computer.

Moths are my cat’s favorite prey. He used to eat flies, and occasionally the spicy flies, but now it’s just moths.

There isn’t much else for him to hunt in the house. Thankfully, we have no rodents.

On your phone, too? Your router? Modem?

I think this is an effort by Fedora to deprecate X11 without pissing off a large chunk of their userbase by announcing deprication by fiat, as other distributions and projects are.

If XLibre is mostly one guy, who has demonstrated alarming gaps in his understanding of C, and who has a history of pushing regressions, the X on Fedora will become unstable and people will voluntarily switch to Wayland. Between those and people who will switch out of protest because of the maintainer’s politics, eventually there’ll be so few X users Fedora can say, “see? Nobody’s using X, so we’re going to deprecate it.”

It may sound like a conspiracy theory, but it’s easier to believe than that Fedora’s leadership is choosing to depend on an essentially one-man-fork with QC issues and a maintainer who keeps his controversial politics up front in the project README, before any other technical information.

But my shiney!!

This has bcachefs vibes. I don’t think anyone questions Overstreet’s C competency, but his habit of pushing last minute changes without sufficient testing and ignoring the process to try to sneak in changes outside approved windows displays a similarly cavalier mindset.

Laxity about QC is not a great trait in a project maintainer.

It works on X11, so I’d say Wayland.

It probably depends on the printer. I helped dad install Mint on a used laptop he bought, and the only help he needed with the printer was figuring out which config application to open to add it.

I use system-config-printer to set up both our Canon and Epson printers any time I install a fresh Linux here; it works flawlessly.

They’re great shoes, after they’re broken in. Last forever.

Still? I thought it was just current fashion.

Shoes. It’s in the shoes.

I don’t know what the fashion is today, but when I was living in Munich in the 90’s, you could tell the Americans by their clothes, and the absolute give-away was the sneakers. Every young adult German wore Doc Martins. When I came back, I visited my family in SF, and we were at Fisherman’s Wharf and I saw a group of girls that I immediately pegged as German from their clothes; I walked over and introduced myself in German, and sure enough, they were German.

Niri is interesting. It has a configuration file, and the config file is in yet another fairly complex config language: not toml, not yaml, not ini, not json. That’s something I’m avoiding.

It’s a novel and interesting approach.