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utilizing things like ReviOS or something, by passing the forced account creation, etc.

I recently slapped linux on an old (10 years or so) chromebook and you’re right. It’s a…process to say the least.

what’s it good for? not much. It flips around so you can use it as a tablet/touch screen but my god was that like almost a days worth of tinkering to get working correctly. if you flipped the screen over to make it a tablet the screen wouldn’t rotate correctly. lots of adjustments just to get it to work. Also you have to keep in mind the storage you have available. mine has all of 16gigs.

So what’s it good for? a glorified terminal station that can SSH into my server. I initially went with XFCE but after awhile I figured even THAT was overkill as all I was really using or could use was the terminal. So I slapped Cagebreak on it (honeslty could have just gone with Cage) and use it as a simple termnial station and a glorified jellyfin client via jftui.

Was it worth it? no, but it was more of a hobby project and nothing that I would ever consider as a daily driver at all. It’s just an old POS chrome book I can use while laying in bed to watch a movie or tv show from my server and mess around in the terminal.

I use xfreerdp on wayland and never had any issues.

yeah at this point the days of getting everything on my system to “look nice” or look the same is way past me. now I just don’t care. everything is set to the default, everything looks different, my system looks like a clown sneezed all over it.

as everyone else has said soulseek and nicotine+.

If you want to get your spotify playlists from soulseek use this script: https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl

basically you export your spotify playlists as a csv and slsk-batchdl will take that and try to find everything on soulseek and download it for you. anything it can’t find it’ll let you know. it might take awhile, if you have a server I’d run it on that via screen and just let it run overnight (that’s what I did)

Keep in mind that Soulseek has A LOT of audiophiles on it so you’ll find a lot of high quality audio and FLACs. if FLAC is too big for you and you’re fine with mp3s you c an use Nicotine+ to just search for mp3s.

“Ah - I see the problem now! you’re trying to detain people of color and those spreading political dissent!”

Now I know why the bugs did what they did.

also in most cases it’s simply the default.

Look if you’ve spent any time whatsoever interacting with clients, customers, whatever when it comes to development work for literally whatever be it software or web or mobile applications at the end of the day they all want the same thing. They want it to just work. Right out of the box, to simply work. The majority of people DO NOT want to customize their PC or online experience, they don’t want to tinker, hell these days they don’t even want to download an exe off a site - if it’s not in some kind of app store, it ain’t getting installed. They all want a thing to just work.

Windows, like it or not, provides that. They don’t want to use Linux, they don’t want to potentially have to open a terminal and type out some simple commands. Most of these people have never even opened a cmd prompt or powershell in windows in like…ever. A good chunk of people using windows don’t even know terminals exist.

I use linux, I use different distros, and I don’t blame anyone who refuses to make the transition even though they aren’t exactly enjoying their windows experience. They deal with it. Let them complain. A lot of people simply don’t have the time or even the interest to learn a new piece of tech and again I don’t blame them.

Can Linux also “just work”? sure, it can potentially but lets not kid ourselves here and lets REALLY be honest with each other. It’s not going to “just work” like Windows, for the vast majority of people, does.

I installed arch to a VM yesterday for some stuff and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t get Paru or Yay going and well…there ya have it. spent like an hour trying to figure out why they both weren’t working.

and all it took was 25 days to become one of “the poors”.

To people wondering how anyone can go homeless from missing a couple paychecks well…makes a gesture at this

so his detention is illegal and violates his due process rights but…you can’t order his release?

So the court has to act within whatever but ICE simply doesn’t have to? the fuck is going on down there?

ya don’t say

KDE will never use auto tiling as if you’ve followed any of the git issues regarding this KDE devs themselves have said they personally don’t use tiling so they’ll never add it to Plasma. Their compromise was basically setting pre-designated areas on your desktop to drag windows to. KDE wants users to use the mouse. they prefer it.

If you like using the mouse alot and you’re more comfortable with clicking than yeah there’s really no point in using a tiler.

If you’re someone like me who doesn’t like using a mouse and are used to VIM or Emacs for navigation then tilers make sense. In many cases using a keyboard is faster than using a mouse. OR you’re a weirdo in the middle then you’d use Krohnkite on KDE.

about to? we already don’t. We stopped buying american months ago. We don’t give a fuck about the US. they’re just a bunch of nazi scum that live below us. I ain’t buying anything made by a nazi.

My friends girlfriend had a Win 10 laptop that “technically” wasn’t supported to upgrade to 11 (It was) but she wasn’t keen on moving to 11 as she didn’t like the look of it (panel, etc).

So they both asked me for alternatives and I gave some options and we settled on Fedora KDE. She loves it. Especially when I showed her how she can really customize the look of it and for fun I showed her the Chicago95 stuff that someone did and she was like “wait, can I do that?”

She always loved the Windows XP look as that was essentially her childhood. So with a bit of work we got Plasma to look like Windows XP and she absolutely loves it. says it makes her feel like a kid again when she was really into pc tech stuff and now using linux has sparked that interest again. She’s now watching Veronica Explains and Bread videos on youtube about linux shes learned a few terminal commands, how to do DNF (which she loves) to download programs, etc.

And because of her watching Bread youtube videos she’s now asking me about switching to Arch. Her boyfriend is also making the switch too on his desktop. So I think next weekend I’m going to help them set up Arch or CachyOS on both their machines.

If the Democrats run the same platform/campaign as they did before she’ll lose again.

Democrats REALLY need to get it through their thick skulls that the days of campaigning on working alongside people across the aisle are over. that the days of uniting a country are over. Remember, the other side has already KILLED democratic politicians. they even KILL people on their own side they don’t agree with.

they need to take the position that while a certain group of people will never support them, they’ll still work for them but not with them.

honestly I would say it hasn’t really gotten into it’s groove/good until like a few months into this year. It’s gotten A LOT better than what it was. So waiting until now to try it was a good call actually.

there is depending on what distro you’re on and the packages they provide for Plasma.

Like Arch for example you can get a barebones basic version of KDE Plasma. NixOS you can tell it to ignore certain parts of Plasma from the package when you’re building it. I would assume other distros have something similar. This applies to the settings too. you can literally make your plasma include zero kwin stuff if you wanted.

so it’s like every other telltale game. I mean, that’s how all of them have been.