The “Peter” bit reminded me: Years back, there was a viral trend on Dutch socials where women shared a hashtag “I am Peter” to raise awareness that there were more people named Peter in Boards of Directors than women.

Sigma-Hole

There is a reason why NixOS was invented 21 years ago. Reproducible builds are not simple in most packaging build systems.

And at your next job, at an employer who sees the value of FOSS and a nerd with strong Linux-fu!

Based on Ubuntu, so: also Debian

These days, I’d feel a little bad having a regular payment […] I don’t need any financial support to keep doing this, I’m lucky enough to not need financial support […] The absolute best way to “support the comic” is to introduce more people to it […]

Wonder where you got that idea for Konsi’s personality from 🤔

Animals are individuals, servers are cattle!

The Vegan GitOps lifestyle

How to call xargs is typically one of those things I always forget. The foreach alias is a great solution!

My current solution was to use tldr for all of these tools, but yeah if I find myself having to do a for each line, I’ll definitely steal your alias.

Luckily (knocks on wood) I almost exclusively work with yaml and json nowadays so I should just learn yq.

The closest to Mint in terms of:

• stability: only have breaking changes once every 6 months
• just-works-factor: shipping drivers and whatever proprietary code is necessary to have a smooth out of the box experience

That I know of, beside maybe OpenSUSE (have no experience with it) is Kubuntu 24.10. Yes apt will say weird things and you’ll want to uninstall snapd.

But Kubuntu 24.10, current latest, ships with Plasma 6.1. Current stable, Kubuntu 24.04 ships with Plasma 5 still.

But I assume you’re not a fan of the rolling release model like EndeavourOS (Archlinux based, KDE is the default). So if you want recent packages AND a versioned release model, that leaves only Fedora out of the distros I’m familiar with. They recently promoted the KDE version from a Spin to a full version beside the GNOME version.

But Fedora is much heavier on the FLOSS philosophy, and not as works-out-of-the-box as Mint or any Ubuntu flavor.

Debian isn’t, but it will take a long time for Plasma 6.3 to make it to Debian stable.

So yeah, I guess OpenSUSE may be your best bet EDIT: took a quick look, there’s a rolling release model of OpenSUSE called Tumbleweed. But you probably don’t like rolling release. And a versioned one called Leap. The current latest Leap version still ships Plasma 5 so that still isn’r nearly as recent as Fedora, which has had Plasma 6 in the last TWO versions.

Check the sidebar.

It’s about self-hostable alternatives to closed online software. It doesn’t say anywhere that the hardware has to be in your own home, just that it is about self-hostable software.

Similarly, !selfhosting@slrpnk.net is about self-hosting services, the hardware part is (even with the slrpnk folk) only a prefetence.

So feel free to discuss hosting your own services on a VPS here

It’s not just about speed, but also (battery) efficiency.

Even if you don’t notice the speed, if you are working on anything but a modern expensive laptop, you will notice the difference in battery draw between:

VS Code > NeoVim in traditional terminal > Neovim in Alacritty or Ghostty

Won’t something like MicroG allow you to use the full features without Google on your phone?

After years of fighting pip and conda, I got a job where “we work with Python but also still have some .NET Framework apps”.

NuGet seemed just as bad.

People shit on JavaScript (for very good reasons) but npm is amazing compared to all these. You can have one dependency needing PackageX v1 and another dependency needing PackageX v3 and your project will just work!

A modern statically-linked language with a first-class package manager, like Rust or Go is ideal. No fighting the dependency manager, no issue with deploying on different systems, just “run this binary”.

Ehh

• They tend to get the sign wrong, or straight up not know it and end every sentence with “or the other way around”
• their room is a mess
• they have a soldering iron and a box full of Arduinos/Rasberry Pis/ESPs
• they have weird hobbies, (or none, because their work is sufficiently shaped like weird hobbies/obsessions)
• they regularly say “local minimum” and “higher order effects” in casual conversation

What did I forget?

Of course we all have our preferences and personal history with these things, but I think we can all agree that most preconfigured Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE ISOs with popular desktops are already more sensible and simple than the mess that is “searching for a setting in Windows”.

Whether it’s GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, Budgie, Mate, XFCE, LXQt.

Compared to Windows, every Linux desktop is a blessing. Even that one that you personally don’t like or had a bad experience with.

In the long run? The colony that avoids open conflict unless it’s absolutely necessary to spare lives and energy. Guessing that’s how these two ended up like this.

Exactly as asked. The etymologist to explain the etymology of entomologist.

Yeah that checks out.

I’m fairly new to this space so not aware of the more obscure or older ones but my list of popular Desktop Environments would be:

• KDE Plasma
• GNOME
• Cinnamon
• MATE
• Budgie
• XFCE
• LXQt
• Cosmic

I am so sorry for your loss.

The pixels on allthe Lemmings’ screens are taking a moment of silence to commemorate Mitten (they are rendering the void).

I think this image on the Felidae wiki sums it up pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae#Phylogeny

Note that everything in this graph is extinct, except the 2 circled subfamilies at the bottom.

EDIT: I basically know nothing about biology and paleontology and am just an amateur wiki-binger, but it seems that the half-whale was further away philogenetically from any live mammals.

I’m guessing that the fact that this is not just some bones but a very well-preserved mummy is what makes this find special.